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六種令人意想不到的職業 可以爲你帶來鉅額財富

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Unsurprisingly this year's ranking of the UK's richest 1,000 people by the Sunday Times continues to be dominated by financiers, hedge funders and property tycoons.

不出意料,在《星期日泰晤士報》列出的全英最富有的1000人榜單中,占主導地位的仍然是金融行業、對衝基金以及房地產大亨。

Yet delve a bit deeper and the list reveals some less obvious ways to become one of the super-rich.

但是仔細研究這一榜單,我們會發現,通過不走尋常路也能成爲一個超級富豪。

We look at six of the career choices which you wouldn't typically bet on to bring in the big bucks.

下文爲你介紹了六種職業選擇,你絕想不到它們也能給你帶來鉅額的財富

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1.雞蛋養殖

"The egg market is big" - that's how egg producer Noble Foods put it.

“雞蛋市場非常巨大”--雞蛋生產商Noble Foods這樣評價道。

In the UK, we eat a staggering 30 million eggs every day and as chairman of Noble Foods, Peter Dean has amassed a 212 million pounds fortune from the family egg business, putting him at 534 on the list.

在英國,人們每天竟然要吃掉3000萬個雞蛋,而作爲Noble Foods公司的董事長,皮特·迪安從家族雞蛋生意中累計了2.12億英鎊的財富,使他排在了本榜單的第534位。

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2.寵物食物

Never underestimate how much people love their pets. Most owners think of their animals as members of the family and are willing to spend big to prove it, making it a lucrative industry.

絕不要低估人們到底有多愛他們的寵物。大多數的主人都把他們的寵物當作是家庭的一份子、並且樂意在它們身上投入大量資金,這就形成了一個賺錢的行業。

British husband and wife duo Tony and Christina Quinn - listed at number 446 with a 255 million pounds joint fortune - set up their business catering to pampered pets after emigrating to Australia.

託尼·奎因和克里斯蒂娜·奎因這對英國夫妻(以2.55億英鎊的共同財產排在本榜單的第446位)在移居澳大利亞後,開始了製作寵物食物的生意。

The pair sold the business in 2015 for AU$410 million - the equivalent of 250m pounds today.

2015年他們以4.1億澳元的價格出售了該企業,相當於目前的2.5億英鎊。

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3.鬆脆餅

Thomas Warburton and his wife Ellen opened a grocery shop in 1870. When sales fell in 1870, Ellen switched to baking bread, with her loaves becoming an instant success.

1870年,湯姆森·沃伯頓和妻子艾倫開了一家雜貨店。而在銷售業績不佳之後,艾倫轉而開始烤麪包--而她的麪包立刻就獲得了成功。

The firm now sells 500m pounds a year's worth of bread, crumpets, fruit loaf, muffins, tea cakes and wraps. It claims over a quarter of all bakery products eaten in the UK are produced by them.

現在該公司每年要賣出價值5億英鎊的麪包、鬆脆餅、水果麪包、鬆餅、茶點和點心包裝盒。據稱,在英國人吃的烘焙製品中,超過四分之一都是由他們生產。

Their enduring popularity has made them plenty of dough - putting the Warburton family at 225 on the list with a 545 million pounds fortune.

經久不衰的名聲使得他們非常富有--沃伯頓家族以5.45億英鎊資產名列榜單第225位。

六種令人意想不到的職業 可以爲你帶來鉅額財富

4.香皂

Everyone needs to wash. Soap brand Imperial Leather has helped power Anthony Green, former chairman of household products firm PZ Cussons, and the Zochonis family, descendants of company owner George Zochonis, to 170th on the list with a 541m pounds fortune.

每個人都需要洗手洗澡。香皂品牌“帝王肌膚”使得安東尼·格林(家用產品公司PZ Cussons的前董事長)和Zochonis家族(公司所有者George Zochonis的後裔)以5.41億英鎊資產名列榜單第170位。

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5.包裝

Boxes of juice may seem a pretty everyday item now. But back in the 1950s, sterile and watertight containers were seen as a novel alternative to glass bottles.

果汁盒現在可能只被當做一個漂亮的東西,沒什麼稀罕。但是在上世紀50年代,無菌和水密封的器具被認爲將是玻璃的替代品。

Tetra Pak founder Ruben Rausing came up with the idea after watching his wife make sausages by tying up the ends, and wondering if a similar system would work for milk, according to the New York Times.

據《紐約時報》報道,利樂包創始人魯本·勞辛在看到妻子怎麼做香腸之後產生了這個點子,並設想是否可以用類似的方法來包裝牛奶。

Last year the firm sold 188 billion Tetra Pak packages.

去年該公司賣出了1880億個利樂包。

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6.市場交易員

Starting out as a market trader isn't an obvious route to wealth, yet at least one person on the list started out this way.

從市場交易員做起可能並不是一條那麼明顯的致富之路,但是榜單上至少有一個人做到了。

Former market trader Chris Dawson founded the Range discount stores which he describes as "the working man's John Lewis". Together with his wife Sarah Dawson, he's now worth 1.9bn pounds and ranked 67th on the list.

克里斯·達沃森曾是一名市場交易員,他創立了打折商店Range,並稱其是“工薪階級的約翰-路易斯”。現在,他和妻子沙拉·達沃森一起以19億英鎊資產名列榜單的第67位。