Hoop Dance Performer

This is a guest post by one of our blog readers Sarah Maccarelli Jordan. 

I'm a hoop dance performer, kids' hula hoop dance instructor, & I teach women all over the world how to start their own hula hoop dance classes for kids with my online course.

 

 

A hoop dancer performs with hula hoops all over the body (not just on the waist) and incorporates dance and hoop tricks. The hoop is used as a prop and at times a dance partner. Hoop dancers can use many hoops during a routine, not just one. 

 

 

Hoop dancers don't use the little hoops you find at toy shops, but instead use sturdier (and usually larger) hoops that are made for adults. In fact, I used to make my own hoops out of irrigation pipe! Some hoops even light up with amazing patterns (photos attached).

What is required to be a hoop dancer? Confidence and a patience and a desire to learn and perform/teach hoop skills. No special certificate or degree is required, although there are many Hoop Teacher training programs, such as http://www.teachkidstohoop.com, an online course to teach women how to start their own hula hoop dance classes for kids. 

 

 

So where does a hoop dancer perform? There are several niches for hoop dancers, including kids' party entertainment, such asbirthday parties, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, and other kid-friendly celebrations. For those over 21, you'll find hoopers at Casinos, night clubs, concerts and Raves.

The average kids' hooping instructor earns $100 to $165 per hour. Some performers make more depending if they are performing with fire or not. The most I've ever been paid for a gig (so far!) is $300 per hour in NJ. I do not use fire. 

Paper Towel Sniffer: Paper towel earns you?

Have you ever noticed that when you use a paper towel it is odourless before, during and after its use? Well, this is not by accident, this is something that is done on purpose by paper towel manufacturers.

This sounds like a made up thing but it is a reality that the paper towel is not odourless by default. So to make sure towels are odourless the only way for paper towel manufacturers are to employ paper towel sniffers who spend their entire day sniffing paper towels. By employing paper towel sniffers, manufacturers know if their products harbor any unusual or noticeable scents. Gabi Szekely is a professional paper towel sniffer and she enjoys her job. An extremely good sense of smell is a must for anyone interested in working in this extremely narrow field. There are very few jobs working as a paper towel sniffer. This is definitely a career with a limited number of openings. A paper towel sniffer does indeed sniff towels. In particular, a paper towel sniffer smells paper towels to make sure that they are not too smelly in any fashion. Those looking to become a paper towel sniffer better come armed with a strong sense of smell and a love of the paper towel. Some travel may be
necessary in the job. So if you see anyone in the toilets doing this, you know they are at work and probably earning money from it! You would think manufacturers would just impregnate the towels with something nice, a citrus smell maybe, but many times this is not the case and the paper towels don’t really smell that nice! Technically falling under the category of odour Judge, a paper towel sniffer can make $1,000 per week just by sniffing different scented paper towels. Not Bad!

The salary ranges from $19,000 to $52,000 a year, varying with experience and seniority. It’s $95 per hour in New Jersey.

So what exactly one should know before opting for this job? A person should have a strong sense of smell just like they need in food industry. No degree or certificate is required.

There are other odour eveluators who has to ensure that all those deodorants and antiperspirants are
operating properly to keep their customers funk-free and odour judges, who smell nasty morning breath or breath “insulted” with strong scents, like garlic or coffee. They rate it on scale of 1 to 10. Then after testing odour-reducing products like gum or mouthwash, they smell the breath again and assign it a new rating.

Paper towel sniffer might not be the career builder for anyone but if someone has a strong sense of smell and love to be on a relaxed job not so technical, this might be a job for them. It is also an important job for service industry like hotels. Someone has to do it! Right?

Dog Surfing Coach: Teaching surfing to Man's best friend

These days pets are not just for your fun and safety, they are part of the family in all means. If you like to surf, chances are your pet might also like to surf. He deserves the fun in the sun too.

In the water at Coronado Bay Resort & Spa in California's Dog Beach, one can spot Teevan McManus a local surfer and a dog owner teaching surf dogs how to catch a wave. He is a dog surfing coach.

The job is all for the active animal lovers among you. You take the money of the rich and the overpaid and you teach their canines how to balance on plastic in the middle of the ocean. Slightly odd, but it would certainly provide you a chance to be at beautiful locations, and a chance to work with man's best friend… on a surfboard.

"Dogs area better and fast learners than humans. Four legs versus two!” - Teevan McManus, a local surfer and dog surfing coach

Not just that there is one of the biggest events on the dog calendar happens in California, water-loving canines hit the surf at Huntingdon Beach for annual Surf City Surf Dog competition.

If you are a water sports lover, you would definitely love to surf and if you are a pet lover too, chances are you want him to enjoy what you enjoy, surfing. Dog surfing is very much doable and to your surprise there are dog surfers out there who can teach your dog how to water surf. 

Its by no means an easy job. Firstly you need to know surfing yourself and mostly you have to be pro surfer also you should be pet friendly so you can understand the pet you are teaching surfing to.

It is very much like teaching surfing to humans, except that you can not actually talk to these canines. Of course you will say things or do actions to make them understand what you are trying to do. Once you got all the equipments, you are ready to take the dog in water, but before you do that you need to find out if your dog is afraid of water or not. Since If you take him to water without giving him any clue, you might be in soup if the dog is not water friendly also you might scare him so much that you will have to keep him far from water in future. 

So what should you know for the job? Well obvious requirement is of course surfing. You should be a experienced surfer. Also you should be friendly to dogs, since you are teaching them, they should like you too. Just have fun in the water.

Bed-Warmer: Getting someone’s bed warm?

Don’t get any wrong ideas here but a hotel chain is employing human bed warmers to help guests get a good night's sleep.

If you like your bed warm and toasty right when you climb in, you could call on the service of a bed-warmer. Certain hotels actually have employees that wear special thermal suits and lay in the beds before you arrive. To most this probably sounds weird and creepy, but obviously some people must like it. In UK the walking electric blankets are dressed in special all-in-one sleeper suits and are sent to warm the beds of guests staying at the Holiday Inn before they get under the covers.

The bed-warmer is equipped with a thermometer to measure the bed's required temperature of 20°C (68F).

Dr. Chris Idzikowski, director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep. He said ''There's plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the  beginning of the night when body temperature starts to drop. The decline occurs partly because the blood vessels
of the hands, face and feet open up and release heat." The five minute free bed warming sessions were tried out in London. This is a job where if you are a little over weight, it might be a good thing and a plus and the best part is that "napping on the job is the job."

Families in the 1700s and 1800s relied on fire to heat their living spaces. Even so, cold drafts were a problem most winter nights. They used to put gadgets to warm the beds underneath or even on the bed.Human warmer is the latest trend in hotel business. And there are guests as well as the people around there who just loved this idea and opt for the service as well as for the job. The average salary for bed warmer job is $202,000. Average bed warmer salaries can vary greatly due to company, location, industry, experience and benefits.

Jane Bednall, spokesperson for Holiday Inn said: "People want to leave the cold outside and climb into a warm bed. The new Holiday Inn bed warmers service is a bit like having a giant hot water bottle in your bed. And of course they jump out before you jump in!"

There is no downside to this job as long as you are okay to get out in the cold weather after being warm in a comfy bed once it's ready for the guest. And to warm a bed for few minutes in ofcourse a bit silly custum is not that bad when the salary is in six figures. Winter is already there, what do you think of the job? Or may be you are better off warming your own bed.

Stand-In Bridesmaid: Making someone’s day!

Women actually get paid to be stand-in-bridesmaid for weddings to match up with
number of groomsmen, where the bride doesn’t know enough people.

In Christian wedding, brides have bridesmaid who are walking behind them with flowers, you might have noticed. Also the groom have groomsmen with him. Well generally those people are their friends or from the family. But sometimes when bride does not have enough friends or enough girls to stand in bridesmaids line, or even she has, friends just bailed out on last moment, then bride has
to look up to others who can help them out and be there for their wedding. Here when the need of stand-in bridesmaid job come in. The position is usually posted by brides hard-up for friends in their wedding party (or had friends lined-up, but they bailed) and now they need a few stand-ins to compete with the number of groomsmen. Requirements include someone who is attractive, personable and an amazing actress who is good at blending in.

There are some general requirements for the job though. A stand-in bridesmaid should be personable and can play the part. She should be looking a real friend of the bride, easy on eyes for guests seeking a little distraction during a long, sometimes boring ceremony. When a bride doesn't have enough girlfriends (or 'girlfriends' who bail on them), they can count on a Stand-In Bridesmaid. More and more Bridal companies have strongly considered making this an actual on-call business, one that could certainly make some money.

A bridesmaid is first and foremost someone who the bride wants to be a part of her wedding. Perhaps she is a sister, or a very close friend; her friendship and support of the marriage is meaningful. More than that, a bridesmaid serves a practical purpose. During the hectic time of planning a wedding, she is a confident, advice giver, doer of menial tasks, errand runner and more. A bride should have at least one bridesmaid who is reliable, cheerfully helpful, organized, and who lives close to the bride. These are the qualities someone might look in a stand-in-bridesmaid. A bridesmaid's duties might include:

• helping the bride shop for her dress and bridesmaids’ dresses.

• When asked, giving advice on decorations, favors, music, and more.

• Helping the maid of honor to plan a bridal shower, and, if appropriate, chipping in for the food, decorations, or venue.

• Helping to plan a bachelorette party.

• Helping the bride dress.

• Providing moral support at all times

• Telling others where the couple is registered and other details, such as when they will return from their honeymoon, where to send gifts.

• Being useful at the wedding reception. The couple may ask you to help direct guests to the guestbook, assist with a special moment, make sure that vendors have arrived, or do crisis management.

• Being social. Be sure to talk to as many guests as you can, making them feel warmly welcomed. If there's a dance floor, help get the party going!

A good bridesmaid also makes sure she is helpful rather than a hindrance. This means being where she needs to be. That might sound a lot for many but hey someone might just love to enjoy a wedding and get paid for it too. Who knows you might end up finding someone for yourself.

Professional Fan: Screaming for living!

Cameron Hughes gets paid by teams all over country to rile up the crowd. Hughes sings, dances, screams and does just about anything to bring crowd to life.

How about being paid to be a sports FAN? Cameron Hughes has made a living out of being a professional fan at sporting events. He’s kind of like a mascot without the silly costume. Teams pay him to watch the game and get the crowd into it. And he gets paid very well in order to do so. In fact, he makes at least $2,000 per event and produced an annual income into the 6 figures last year due to the high demand. Cameron has attended over 1,000 games in 4 countries and been paid to attend each one of them. He's 40 years old. He paints his face in team colours, dresses in the clashing colors, screams and dances.

"You have no idea how hard it is to dance badly well, especially on concrete stairs."

Cameron Hughes,
Professional sports fan.

He's cheered for teams from the minor to the mighty: the Guelph (Ont.) Storm, Missouri Mavericks and Bakersfield (Calif.) Condors of minor league hockey; the Coyotes and Devils of the NHL; the Thunder, Cavaliers and Knicks of the NBA; the Dodgers and Blue Jays of Major League Baseball; and both sides in the gold-medal hockey game at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. To date he's been paid to attend 1,010 games in 36 states, five Canadian provinces and four countries. More than 10 million fans have seen his work. As a result a certain glamour and notoriety have come his way: travel, free gear, the affection of fans who love the games as much as he does. Last year he got a trip to Barbados to see if he could get a cricket crowd pumped up after tea.

One can get up to $2000 for one sports event. That’s good money which makes annual earning in six figures.

So what do you need to know before you can go for this job? Pretty simple! If you are a sports fan you will know a lot about that particular sport already if not then learn about the game as well as about the teams and players. Beside the knowledge of the sports you have to be a crowd puller, enthusiastic individual. And of course out spoken and open since all you have to do is do a silly dance in front of thousands of people, get them interested in game, get the attention of everyone around by screaming, occasional singing may be and other acts. Sounds like a pretty simple job but believe me it’s kind of tough to be a crowd puller. It’s a kind of personality and the energy you put into it to make a successful professional. You are doing your job but as incentives you will get a face time and lot of people will you know by face and name by the end of the game. And while you are enjoying your game to its fullest, you are actually paying at the same time. You can get up to $2000 for one sports event. That’s not so bad infect good money which makes your annual earning in six figures.So being a sports fan could pay you off if you opt for this job, what do you think?

Shark Tank Cleaner: Daring to work with Sharks!

Working with sharks may sound glamorous and exciting, but being a shark tank cleaner is anything but glamorous.

Cleaning a tank might not be the fun kind of a job but when you add the requirement like it has to be a shark tank, fun rolls in. In aquarium where life size fish tanks showcase the sharks and it is big revenue to the park, then the tank cleaner is a very important job. Especially the shark tanks because watching these deadly creatures sync with human like this could be a rare sight to the public and amazement as well. It’s a different issue that while it’s an amazing sight for visitors, it could

be nerve wrecking experience for the man who is cleaning that tank from inside, surrounded by not one but many sharks in close proximity. You might think why someone would do this job and risk his life, well it could be an adventure for few to share the space with sharks and being watched by many people and pose for them for the snaps. You could be even a hero for young kids who might get scared of even the name of the shark. Pete Williams, an aquarist at London’s Sea Life Aquarium, works with sea life whole day long and continuously smelling the fish. It’s a frightening thought being in an enclosed environment underwater with a presumptuously monstrous fish. An Aquarist’s role is not just diving with the sharks, he has to look after the displays, responsible of feeding the animal welfare and maintenance of the tanks. Responsibilities also include removing shark excrement, inspecting/repairing the filtration system, and of course cleaning the aquarium glass (from the inside) to keep it clear of algae. 

I do love getting into the tanks as part of the diving section of the aquarium. I love getting into the big shark display and the big ocean display with stingrays and the sea turtles. That’s probably one of the many highlights of the job!” 

                        Pete Williams, an aquarist

 So the person has to be good diver to start with, but that’s not all. Knowledge of shark species and behaviors is also required to keep you safe. It could be quite unnerving to swim with sharks initially since you never know how the sharks are going to react to a stranger in their territory, but with experience you can build the confidence around them as well you will go familiar with individual sharks and their behaviors soon. Certainly it is a job for brave hearts. Would you be swimming with sharks?

 

Potato Chip Inspector: The chip perfection...

Sounds like a yummy job, who doesn’t like to eat perfect crispy chips? But have you wondered how every chip in the bag is perfect in shape and color? 

There is a job called potato chip inspector where the person inspects each and every chips before it goes to packaging. They get rid of burned, broken or unappetizing specimens. Watching thousands of potato chips tumble down a conveyor belt might be monotonous, but it is a living for people out there and they pretty much enjoy their job. Chip inspector Myrtle Young worked for eight hours shift at Seyfert Food Inc., a potato chip plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Young scanned the conveyor belt in search of misshapen, broken or miscoloured chips. She even has a huge collection of chips which she thought were looked like something, some specific shape like she had one angry dog chip, a candle chip and a sleeping bird chip to her collection which she was very proud of.

The potato chip has celebrating its 160th birthday this year and march 14 is national potato chip day in America .

A job as a Potato Chip Sorter falls under the broader career category of Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers. But the job doesn’t just include watching the chips going down, they need to take few more responsibilities as well. That includes discussing the inspected results with those who are responsible for the products and recommend necessary corrective actions. They have to inspect, test or measure materials, products and installations. Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications. Mark items with details such as grade or acceptance- rejection status.

Sounds like a lot isn’t it? Well some chip lovers love to do the job for the sake of being around potato chips around the day. There is no specific certificate or degree needed but still one has to carry some traits to become a chip inspector.

You should have a high school degree or higher and share these traits: 

• Trustworthy: You are known for your personal integrity and honesty. 

• Team Player: You're able to listen, communicate, and work with tons of different people. 

• Reliable: You can always be counted on to do a good job. 

Potato chip inspectors make 12 bucks an hour or $20,000 – $56,000 annually, but it takes a lot of skill to make sure they taste right. 

 So what do you think of this as a career? Of course not a career but a good job to earn if you are not so career oriented person. It could become monotonous after sometime but if you are happy to make every potato chip packet full of perfectly tasted and shaped chips, then you might want to stick to it for long.

Circus Psychologist: What's on their minds?

We usually think of psychologists as seeing clients, conducting research or teaching at universities. But psychologists also work in many unexpected places and on many unexpected topics like Circus!

Madeleine Hallé helps performers at Cirque du Soleil fly without fear. As senior performance psychologist, Hallé helps the company's 1,300-plus artists perform nearly impossible feats at about two dozen different shows around the world. She is helping performers cope with the stress of the job as well as recovery from injuries or exhaustion if needed.

Helping performers stay confident isn't just a matter of mental health it also reduces their chances of injury. What do you need for the job? Hallé earned a coaching-oriented master's degree in sport sciences, followed by a doctorate degree in sport psychology.

"It's a fantastic environment to work in, I'm really lucky to be able to work here."
-Madeleine Hallé

  Circus Psychologist  

What exactly they have to do on the job? One of the main responsibilities of a Circus Psychologist is helping trainees adjust to their new identities as performers. Performers come from the top ranks of gymnastics, diving, synchronized swimming and other sports, but once they walk through Cirque du Soleil's doors, they are seen as artists. It's a major transition, says Hallé. "Here everybody at the same level, even if they have Olympic medals," she says, explaining that former athletes can also have trouble becoming beginners again. Readjust to the anarchy of the creative process in another challenge. In comparison to the organized routine of an elite athlete working toward a gold medal, the process of creating a show is fluid and nonlinear. 


"They don't know how to cope with the fact that we go in one direction one day, and the day after it's the complete opposite ," says Hallé. Along with the other staff psychologist, Hallé spends her days working in small groups or one-on-one with performance on such issues as overcoming fear, recovering from fatigue or injury and coping with the pressure of preparing for a show. Performance have more mundane concerns, too. Drawn from around the world, they often miss their families, for example. Although Hallé is based at Cirque du Soleil's headquarters in Montreal, she can find herself in Macao, Tokyo or other far-flung destinations if there's trouble at one of the shows. She spends about a month on the road every year, helping staff and artists communicate better or overcome disputes about workload or other issues. 


Travel lovers will just go for it without giving it a second thought. So what do you think of this jobs? It is definitely a tough call.

Fall Foliage Spotter: Spot the colours

Ever wonder who decides when the fall foliage is at peak? Or what the difference is between 75 and 80 percent color? It is people like Steve Slayton, a county forester and foliage spotter.

Autumn brings changing colors to trees. Leaves change to various shades of yellow, orange, red and even purple. It may just be a chemical process of chlorophyll breaking down, but changing autumn leaves are a multimilliondollar business for tourism in many parts of the country, such as New England. Fall foliage viewing is a popular activity. Here's how to view fall foliage. The fall color season, Autumn usually runs from late September to mid-October.

"You have to know your area. Foliage varies not only because of climate, but from place to place and because of species variations. I was raised right here in Caledonia County, and I use familiar hillsides that I've been watching now for 36 years.” Steve Slayton says.

Fall foliage is determined by a number of factors, including shorter days, colder nights and the amount of moisture in the ground.

In United States of America, visitors spend some $400 million during the fleeting weeks of foliage in Autumn.

Vermont’s tourism department announced that Michael Snyder, commissioner of the Forests, Parks & Recreation department, had been named the state’s first official “Foliage Forecaster.” Vermont is likely the only state that could justify such a position. Leaf spotter as they are called; help monitor the state of the state's fall foliage. Twice weekly, he and the other spotters report what they see, which compiles the reports and relays the information to travelers who telephone the state's foliage hot line.

Fall foliage is always a hot topic for conversation in Vermont. And the spotters, many of whom have been doing the job for years, help take the guesswork out of foliage forecasts as they track the progression of color up in the hills and down in the valleys.

To avoid confusion, foliage spotters are requested to use specific termsin their reports. They talk about the stages as: early, mid-, near-peak, peak, past-peak and isolated color. Each stage usually refers to a specific elevation rather than a whole area.

It’s a seasonal job only in fall season. It’s for the person who loves to be out there in the nature. Although his job is very important since the official fall season would start based on the information he would provide. Visitors spend some $400 million during the fleeting weeks of foliage each fall.

Japaneese Girl Thighs Painting Become Viral

 A few months ago there was a viral on the internet pictures about a Japanese woman who had started using her legs for advertising. This art used by that woman was a brilliant innovation and came to be known as “Use of steel in your thighs”. From the past few days, the photos of the design are getting viral from a social networking site Reddit.com .

Like other students in the classroom, when they get bored, they start moving their hands on the plain paper to describe anything which suits their mind and situation at that time, but they make on the pictures for the time pass , but she does not use the notebook or paper , she makes the photos on her thighs which not only looks real, but also are attractive and looks like a graphic work.

Recently, her art pieces are uploaded on the Internet. She is getting job offers from many companies all over the world as a full time job.

The job seems to be related to artwork, but is similar to  a technical work. Though the design is purely your mind game, whatever your mind find the best, illustrates as a picture on the thighs.
No one can ever imagine that making your own legs a museum and selling the art piece on your body can give you an employment with lots of companies in queue to hire you as a designer.
Great work with full enjoyment and more than satisfactory pay.

You can Contact Jody Steel Here

Crime Scene Cleaner- One of the dirtiest Jobs!!!

As the police and fire agencies are the crucial agencies after any accident or deaths, similarly crime scene cleaners perform a very important task in the accident location.


Crime scene cleanup is the niche market in the cleaning industry and it involves cleaning of dangerous materials. It is called as CTS Decon –crime and trauma scene decontamination.

This may contain the chemically contaminated scene of any laboratory or anthrax exposure site. This also includes the biological contaminated scene of violent death ( suicide or accidental ). Crime scene cleaner does the restoration work by making the things back to normal.

In the family where any accident takes place, they don’t move out from their home. The cleaners are arranged to gather all the buzzards as any tissue, blood cells are considered the beginning of infection. If you have a thumbnail size spot on the carpet, there is a large probability that there will be a patch of about 2 feet beneath the carpet, that will be a major cause of infections.


The companies training the crime scene cleaners give them the thorough knowledge on what to look at the crime scene spot and how to handle the waste products at the crime location. It's not just to clean the spot, the goal of the crime scene cleaner is to entirely check the location and remove all the biohazards like infected body, skull, bones, contaminated body or damaged parts of the body. It is a very tactful job.


Every crime scene cleaner at least accept these three characters in them: a sympathetic nature , a strong stomach and the ability to emotionally detach from his workplace.


Crime scene cleaners charge up to 600$ per hour for their cleaning service and sometimes more depending on the stuff they are about to clean. It is the dirtiest job in the world but someone has to do.


It can cause emotional disorders also, therefore not meant for the emotional and heart disease people.

Professional Sleeper: Snooze for a living!

If you are one of those people who struggle to rise in the morning and could quite happily lay
in bed all day then you might want to look into a career as a professional sleeper.

Professional sleepers are lucky enough to get paid for sleeping as part of sleep research projects.
These projects help scientists and doctors figure out the mysteries behind numerous sleep disorders. There is lot said and read about sleeping.

Pat Phillips from Boston, Massachusetts is a professional sleeper. Pat is paid to participate in sleep research projects at area hospitals.

The salary for professional sleepers is $15,000 annually but can vary due to company, location and experience.

The benefits and the disorders of sleeping also its effect on body and mind, so how the doctors and researchers know all about it? Obviously they have to actually do the practical on someone who is sleeping. That’s how the professional sleeper job generated. Since it is a very important requirement for the researchers, they pay the sleeper well. Typically, professional sleepers participate in university studies on sleep or dreams, but other snoozers make sure beds are comfortable. Also, in a 2009 art show at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, women were paid to catch sleep as part of a “living art” exhibition. Not just doctors, but the students who are doing some researches on brain activity or dreams would also need professional sleeper. A professional sleeper will have a bunch of cords, wires, and research equipment put on them while they are sleeping. The students watch the brains activity and take notes on it while the person is sleeping.

An average salary for a professional sleeper could be around $15,000 per annum per it varies greatly due to company, location, industry and experience of the individual. Some places they received $10 an hour to sleep.

The job’s requirement is very simple; you get a very good sleep. And you can have a sound sleep in the middle of the hullabaloo of people and don’t mind having wires and tapes put all over you. What could go easier than just sleeping to earn your living?

Flavourist: Create an Aroma!

A flavorist, also known as flavour chemist, is someone who uses chemistry to engineer artificial and natural flavours. Flavourist needs to know what’s in a naturally occurring flavour before they can decide how to recreate it in the lab.

Large flavoring companies such as International Flavors & Fragrances, Givaudan, and Firmenich; smaller companies like Aromatech and Flavor & Fragrance Specialties; and the flavor divisions
of large food and beverage companies like Cadbury Schweppes and Kraft doneed the flavourist to make sure the flavour of their products are favourite among the masses. And for that purpose they higher Flavourists.

Lindsay Mahon, working at FONA for 11 years, completed her Society of Flavor Chemists Certification. She enjoys creating dessert flavors for chewing gum. In order to create an indulgent profile that tastes like the real dessert and captures the expectation of mouth feel, she has to rely on materials like pyrazines, lactones, and aldehydes. An appropriate balance of each is crucial to a well-rounded flavor that consumers prefer.

 

 

I realized that the creativity that is involved in flavour creation was something I enjoyed and could see myself doing it forever.
-Lindsay Mahon, Flavourist.

The tools and materials used by flavorists are almost the same as that used by perfumers with the exception that flavorists seek to mimic or modify gustation properties of various food products rather than creating just abstract smells. As well, they have to make sure the materials and chemicals that a flavorist utilizes for flavor creation must be safe for human consumption.

A trainee may get $50,000 a year, but a professional flavourist could make from
$200,000 to $250,000 a year.

Processes used in the food industry to provide safe products often affect the quality of the flavor of the food. To the detriment of the manufacturer, these technologies remove most of the naturally occurring flavors. To remedy the flavor loss, the food processing industry created the flavor industry. The chemists that tackled the demand of the food processing industry became known as flavorists, and, thus, the flavor industry was born.

To become a flavorist you should have a background in chemistry and a keen sense of taste and smell. The professionals works with chemicals to recognize and reproduce flavors for perfume, candy, and food manufacturers. Flavorists must work with aromas found in nature and then try to replicate them in a lab.


Educational requirements for the profession known as flavorist are varied. Flavorists may have had little or no formal education up to PhDs obtained in subjects such as Biochemistry and Chemistry. Because, however, the training of a flavorist is mostly done on-the-job and specifically at a flavor company known as a flavor house, this training is similar to the apprentice system. Being a flavorist requires creativity, in addition to an above-average sense of taste and smell. Flavorists have a good memory for scents. Motivation, patience and a willingness to experiment are also important.


Flavorists rely on the work of researchers who have analyzed about 80 to 90 percent of the components in most flavors. Armed with this information, flavorists determine which components are important to an overall flavor profile. They try to duplicate the original aroma. Worldwide, the flavor industry generates $18 billion a year in
revenue. Not bad! •

Music Critic: Music to your ear money to your pocket

Besides getting sent free CD's to review, music critics get backstage access and free concert tickets, often getting the opportunity to interview high profile musicians and performers, too.

Mark Swed has been chief music critic of the Los Angeles Times since 1996. He has also covered music for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and 7 Days, has also written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, BBC Music and many other national and international publications.

The music critic may earn $150 for a CD review or between $100 and $500 for a feature article. An average salary for music journalists is $45,000 yearly.

So what do you need to become one? Music critics combine music studies with journalism. Many of them have earned a master's degree in a music-related field, such as music theory or musical performance, or in journalism. The music critic's goal is to describe the purpose and feeling of a particular piece of music as well as a technical breakdown of the composition. Some music critics focus on classical music, while others limits themselves to film scores. Many music critics, regardless of genre, can relate to the musicians they write about; they themselves are often musicians and/or composers. So if you love listening to music or it's your passion, you might like the job since music critic spend a great deal of time listening to music and then evaluating its quality for the purposes of informing and influencing consumers. In fact, the opinion of a reputable music critic can persuade or dissuade a consumer in his decision to purchase music.

Mark Swed has contributed liner notes for recording, program notes for concerts, and catalog essay for MOCA. Swed has received awards in criticism from the Los Angeles Music Center, ASCAP, the American Music Center.

Being a music critic can be an exciting job. Like any career in the entertainment or journalism industry, it takes clout and a keen sense of the latest and upcoming trends to be really successful. So if you are serious this career then do these few things :

• Entrench yourself in the local music scene. 

• Decide if you are going to focus on a certain genre of music. 

• Having a base knowledge and feel for many varieties of music will help you plan on writing for a magazine or newspaper.

•  Attend as many local, unknown artist performances as you can. 

• Talk to be band and get to know a little about their style of music. 

• Pitch your articles and yourself to newspaper and magazines.
  
  
  You are all set to try your hand or ear in Music.

Carnival Barker:A fun way to earn your living!

You might have seen a guy in any carnival or fairs, who is screaming and cracking jokes to get the attention of the visitors. He is actually doing his job, and he gets paid for that. He is called Carnival barker

 A Carnival barker is a person who uses voice and words to attract patrons to buy tickets for entertainment venues ranging from booths in carnivals to strip joints. Carnies, as they are called, might promise more than the show actually delivers in order to bring in a crowd. In fact, barkers have reputations for being hustlers who specialize in parting customers from their money. A barker may conduct a brief free show, introducing performers and describing acts to be given at the feature performance. Professional barkers dislike the term and refer to themselves as "talkers."

 

 

 

 

 For this job all you need is a very good voice, the ability to learn a carnival language and to be happy to work up to 18 hours per day. The pay for this job is around $250 per week.

This could be a good summer job for students. The job offers good pay, travel, and excitement. Long hours--often an 18-hour shift--are standard, and strong vocal cords are a must. It's also necessary to learn carnival language. A barker is a carny, a customer is a mark, a booth or concession is a joint, cheap prizes are slum.

In carnival lingo, a barker is a carny, a customer is a mark, a booth is a joint and cheap prizes are slum.

  Traveling carnivals used to be more common before than they are today as small towns had less entertainment and fewer attractions for people to enjoy. Barkers were part of the overall carnival experience. People who attended carnivals would be enticed to pay their entry fees by a barker.

Traditionally, barkers were unskilled laborers who had good voices and good people skills. A barker might also be a con artist. Even so, some barkers successfully moved into show business, including comedian and actor Jackie Gleason, television personality Ed McMahon and Col Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager.

Being a barker still has attractions for those who want to travel. The life of a barker can be challenging though as the carny must know how to deal with not only customers, but other eccentric carnies as well. So is it your cup of tea?

 

Fantasy Broker: Got Fantasy Get it Real!

Just the way its sounds! Fantasy Broker's job is to make sure the client gets whatever they want at the time. It's kind of like making every dream come true for them.

A clerk wants to be a stand-up comedian for one night. A Businessman wants to drive a freight train across a western State. A psychiatrist wants 20 dates on 20 weekends with 20 girls from 20 different countries. How do they do it? They see a fantasy broker whose business is making dreams come true. Originally pioneered in Chicago by an advertising executive, fantasy firms in several cities in America now do a booming business, charging from $150 to thousands to turn dreams in reality. So a fantasy broker will make dreams come true, whatever is in his hand of course. He/she will be like a genie but with logic and on practical side.

Whatever the client asks for - a day performing live with a circus, a sky-diving adventure in the Himalayas,  a jail visit with Paris Hilton - Fantasy Broker will make it happen for his client. Now of course don't get any wrong ideas, the job of a Fantasy Broker could be as small and as simple as making arrangements for two in a famous restaurant at the busy hour, or arrange the picnic for the family on a rainy day. Well there are people who would not want to make any effort for such personal and small events in their life, they would rather pay for it and get it done. Or they are simply too busy to do it on their own but still want to that to happened. That's where the requirement of Fantasy Broker's comes. Those simple events might earn those couples of hundred dollars while a more elaborate fantasy can cost clients thousands. It all depends on how many hours it takes to arrange the details, plus the cost of insurance (on riskier fantasies), flights, food, celebrity, appointments, or whatever is involved. 

It's helpful to have some law background or know someone with law, so you know if a person's request is legal or not.

Fantasy Fulfillment Institute in Washington, D.C., did $2500 worth of business as a result of an ad that read: You can do anything you want... drive a formula race car, ride a camel down Pennsylvania Avenue at 3 P.M., live in a ghost town, float down the Potomac on a magnificent barge with one hundred slaves, or kiss a buffalo. 

So what do you need for this job? More and more connections and resources since you will need to make all sorts of arrangements quickly and knowing someone in the field (whatever the fields happens to be - airlines, performers, sports) makes that much easier. It's also helpful to have some law background, so you know if a person's request is legal or not.

Be a professional couch potato

Watching TV whole day was never so useful before. This new Generation can actually be couch potato professionally and yes can earn too.

Watching TV and giving viewer ratings is not only an entertaining job, but it also pays. Sitting and watching TV all day could be the easiest job ever.

Yes, this is a job where you get paid to watch television. Television shows like "The Daily Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" have these positions where people get entertaining or important TV clips to be used throughout the show.

What exactly you make while watching TV? You could be paid up to $12 an hour to do so. This "too good to be true" job is required by certain television productions including late night talk show, news satire programs and other productions that focus on using clips and quotes from the world of television for comedic purposes. Even companies that keep track of the rating for every single television show hire professional couch potatoes to ruin their eyes for money.

The average salary for professional TV watcher jobs is $53,000. Average professional TV watcher salaries can vary greatly due to company, locations, industry, experience and benefits.

Okay so sounds like you just have to sit around whole day that means you don't any specific qualifications to become a TV watcher. Of course! All this job needs a television-obsessed intern to sit around and watch TV to find newsworthy clips for social commentary. The jobs require a good eye and the ability to sit. The schedule is flexible but requires a minimum of 15 hours a week. However, there's a lot more work involved than just passively watching your favorite show. Pro TV watchers usually scan through different shows and news clips, and find the right clips that can be used on a television show or news program. "Close attention to details" is one of the necessary skills, along with being familiar with the technology of TIVO and DVD players.

Some of the qualities are required in a person though. Along with being detail oriented, he/she should be able to sit long time and have patience to watch many shows at one stretch. He/She must love watching TV and should be able to rate the programs.

What do you think of it? Many of us must be jumping off their couch to read this because the best time pass activity will just pay them off if they join. Besides no one will have complaints in home regarding to many hours of TV watching. So you could be a couch potato officially and respectfully.

It is definitely not a job where you could expect a lot or a big pay back, but it is something which you could do when you are in phase of just doing nothing and waiting for your career to pick up or maybe you are not finding the right job and you are taking a break. It is a best bet to students and women. You can meet many out there who incorporated TV show in their life so much that it's difficult to find out they are discussing is real or reel situation.

Trim Cow Hooves for a Living?

Just like horse shoes, cows need some hoof maintenance too. These fine animals can have poor milk production, lameness, and decreased fertility if not properly groomed. Try to imagine giving a cow a pedicure.

The quality of floors, in terms of shape, hardness, friction and hygiene is of great importance for the health of cow feet and legs which in turn affects the milk production. So no matter how weird it may sound to you, someone has to trim cows hooves and there are people who are actually willing to do that. Generally people who have a farm house or a dairy need to take good care of their cows. And trimming cow hooves is not all that easy. It’s a serious job.

All of the animal's weight is carried by four hooves. So, their very life and happiness depends on hoof care.

Caleb Spencer, 23, who trims cow’s hooves for living, enjoys doing what he does. He comes home with cow dung and dirt all over his cloths and some- times gets a kick or two in his ribs while doing the job but he still think it’s an important job to do.

I love cows, and I'm really surprised at the number of the people who raise cattle who don't know what trimmers should and shouldn't do. -Caleb Spencer.

He began his career at 19 by creating his own yearlong apprentice program with the Hoof Trimmers Association and working with the professionals. He left his Franklin, Ind., home for a travel trailer that took him around the country, including Utah, where he and a six-man crew trimmed 1,600 cows in nine days. Depending on the breeding, some dairy cattle have a better hoof than others, so some need trimming more than others. Another consideration is the type of feed that the animal receives. Some feeds promote faster growth than others. Some feeds promote firmer hooves than others. There is a big difference! Even horses and dogs get their hooves trimmed for the same reason.

So what a cow hooves’ trimmer need to know before getting into this job? Just like any other job near animals, he or she should have knowledge of animal behaviors’ especially cattle’s. Any degree or certificate would be a plus. Hoof trimming should be supervised or taught by a veterinarian or professional hoof trimmer until you become accomplished at the skill. What the trimmers earn in general depends on the herd, i.e. size, location, what condition the cows are in etc. could be anything between $10 to $70 per cow. There are even companies with cow hooves trimmers who provide this service to farm house owners. This job could sound like a layman’s work for some while people who are doing it can only tell how difficult hooves trimming could get. It’s definitely a personal choice though.

The Body as BILLBOARD

Painting logos or etching tattoos on face or skin are the best ways to become live ads for companies. Some even go extremes and get permanent tattoos.

A human billboard is someone who applies and advertisement on his her body. Most commonly, this means holding or wearing a sign of some sort, but also may include wearing advertising as clothing or in some cases, having advertising tattooed on the body.

 

 

 

 

 

I had seen champion boxer Bernard Hopkins enter the ring with a temporary tattoo ad for GoldenPalace.com and thought, ‘If he could do that, then maybe I could do the real thing, Since I wasn’t a champion boxer like he was, I would have to make it a real tattoo ad.
-Billy, Boxer and Body Advertiser

You could earn anywhere from $100 to $5000 based on the size and importance of the tattoo. Billy ht Human Billboard­ – an amateur boxer out of Alaska who is having his dream of being fighter, pays the bills by selling spots on his body for permanent tattoos featuring the logos of corporate sponsors. This new advertising trend is taking Japan by storm. ‘Body advertising’ involves attaching an advert in the form of a sticker or transfer onto different parts of the body to attract attention to the product. Wearers are paid to wearing the adverts, with companies realizing that for those who use social networking sites, the novelty value of drawing attention to yourself or parts of your body through stickers is highly attractive. With adverts on faces or thighs, body advertising has become a talking point in Japan. Ms. Gardner, 50, had shaved her head for an advertising campaign by air New Zealand, which had hired her to display a temporary tattoo with a message “Need A Change? Head down to New Zealand. www.airnewzealand.com.” Ms. Gardner was among 30 of what the airline calls “cranial billboards.” For shaving their heads and displaying the ad copy for two weeks, they either receive a round-trip ticket to New Zealand (worth about $1,200) or $777 in cash. Not a bad deal. Tattoo-related advertising stunts go back to at least 2001, when Golden Palace, an online gambling site, paid the middle-weight boxer Bernard Hopkins to wear a temporary tattoo with its Web Address during a televised bout. Now because of social networking this method of advertising has become more effective than ever before.

FeelUnique.com pay to apply tattoos with the company’s Web address on eyelids and then wink at strangers.

One of the Women registered at Wit has 4,900 friends on Facebook, and on average each member has 330 friends. There’s even one women registered who has 8,000 followers on Twitter. Ads can easily become viral if their friends share those photos. Actually, 20 members put an ad of a futsal stadium for a day, which lead 20 new customers to the stadium. Still it might not be the idea of earning money for everyone but there will be some of you who would say it’s not a big deal if they are getting good money for it. So would you shave your head or get a tattoo on your forehead for that extra cash?