No, this isn’t a joke. Someone actually earns a living watching paint dry. A man in the UK currently has the job and he spends his days painting sheets of cardboard to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watching for changes in color and texture.
Imagine being paid to watch TV all day! Well for one lucky employee this dream has become reality. Netflix has hired someone to watch all of their content before it is available to the public and their role is to review and assign each program its correct tag, which helps us viewers find exactly what we’re after, whether it’s a romantic crime movie based on classic literature or witty talking-animal TV show.
If you think the London Underground is bad, you should see the trains in Japan. ‘Oshiyas’ are hired to help cram as many people onto a train as possible by pushing them from the outside until the doors will close.如果你認爲倫敦地鐵不好，那你應該看看日本的火車。日本僱傭“Oshiyas”來幫助儘可能多的人擠上火車，方法就是在車門關上之前從外面把他們推到車上。
It is a tradition in South East Asia that a loud funeral will assist the dead as they travel to the afterlife, so professional mourners are hired to cry and weep loudly throughout the service.
The dog food tester’s job is to taste new dog food products, including bones, tinned meat, and biscuits. They do this to test for flavor and texture in comparison to rival dog food brands and human food. 狗糧品嚐師的工作是品嚐新的狗糧產品，包括骨頭、罐頭肉和餅乾。他們這樣做是爲了與狗糧的競爭品牌及人類食品進行比較，以檢測其風味和質地。
in comparison to是一個固定搭配，意思是“與...相比”，能表達相近含義的還有beside、at the side of。
#6 Odour Judge:
聞臭員
相信你看到這個職業的時候，一定會是一臉驚呆的表情。
對於這種辛苦的工作職責，英大隻想對他們說一句：辛苦了！
In order to test the effectiveness of new products, ‘odor judges’ are hired to smell volunteers’ breath, feet and armPits. They make sure their judgment is accurate, the members of staff have their sense of smell tested monthly. Let’s hope those products are doing the trick, for the judges’ sake!爲了測試新產品的有效性，“聞臭員”被聘請聞志願者的口氣、腳和腋窩。他們要確保自己的判斷是準確的，工作人員每月都會進行嗅覺測試。看在評委們的份上，讓我們希望這些產品起到了作用！
#7 Professional sleeper
專業試睡師
這年頭，吃狗糧、看電視都能成爲正經職業賺錢了，睡覺當然也可以！
試睡員應該也是所有宅男宅女，以及各種賴牀愛好者的夢想職業了。
A hotel in Finland hired a member of staff as a ‘professional sleeper’ to test the comfort of their beds. The individual sleeps in a different one of the hotel beds each night and writes a review about her satisfaction with each one.
If the fact that there’s an underwater hotel in Florida isn’t bizarre enough, to add on to that, they have a scuba diving pizza delivery man who supplies them with pizza by carrying them through the sea in a watertight case. What service.如果佛羅里達州有一家水下酒店還不夠奇怪，那除此之外，他們還有一名潛水披薩送貨員，他用防水的箱子帶着披薩穿過大海，爲顧客送去披薩。這是什麼服務？
