Showing posts with label Job. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Job. Show all posts
Looking for a job after university? First, get off the sofa
How to find a job in china?
The best way to find a job in China is by using personal contacts who work for a company in China that might need someone with your skills. If you aren’t blessed with such guanxi(connection), then the easiest way to find a job is via Internet.
Clearance diver
If you’re looking for something different to the normal 9-5 office job then few careers could claim to be as different or unique as a mine clearance diver.
Stunt performer
Life as a stunt performer is an extremely exciting and varied career. Stunt performers predominately work in the film and television industry.
Get paid to travel the world as a tour guide
How would you like an all expenses paid trip around the globe? Visiting foreign lands, meeting interesting people and exploring new places? Sounds too good to be true? Well, believe it or not, thousands of people are quite happily getting paid to do this every year by working as a tour guide or escort. Guiding is an interesting job in a growing segment of the travel industry.
Ice road trucker
Anyone who calls themselves a true couch potato will readily admit to watching episode after episode of Channel 5’s successful – and ludicrously addictive, for some reason – documentary-drama ‘Ice Road Truckers’.
Film extra
If you’ve ever been to watch a television show being recorded, you’ll have seen what goes on behind the glamorous facade – lots of people dressed in black, running around, muttering into the kind of face microphones singers wear these days, while gently but firmly keeping you, the audience, in your place.
Hot air balloon pilot
You climb into the basket and open the metal canister above you: out pours propane gas, fast, filling the balloon, allowing it to take its customary shape. Then, slowly and methodically, the sand bags are released and the necessary safety measures adhered to, and within a minute the ground crew are reduced to the size of ants; the green landscape a patch-work of greens and yellows sown together by forests, motorways and what can only be buildings…
Let's work in the French Alps
If you love the great outdoors, love French food and generally like to be active with action, adrenaline sports on your doorstep then a move to the French Alps could be just what you’re looking for. There are enough interesting jobs on offer, both during the summer and winter season, that you could find yourself busy in the mountains all year round. The majority of the work focuses on the bustling tourist industry.
kibbutz
Ever wondered what life’s like in the Middle East? Why not try working for a kibbutz in Israel? A kibbutz is a community where its members work in exchange for free food and lodgings. You will also receive a small wage but mainly people choose to work on a kibbutz to get the chance to live and work with interesting volunteers from all around the world.
5 jobs underwater
Life should be fun and interesting, if you get up in the morning thinking ‘I’m dreading work today’ then maybe it’s time to broaden your horizons and see what other opportunities are out there. Have you ever thought about working underwater? It’s definitely not your normal 9-5 job but there are lots of people making a good living from working underwater, here are some ideas of fun jobs to inspire you.
Slush-pile reader
Every year, thousands of aspiring writers send off their beloved manuscripts to publishing houses all over the world. Whilst many come from reputable agents with a track-record for providing work by professional (or at least competent) writers, an enormous number of books covering every genre possible (as well as inventing a few – often to a disastrous effect) are also sent from writing enthusiasts.
Become a Commericial Wig-Maker
Few jobs seem as inaccessible and mysterious as that of the professional wig-maker. Yet, strange as the job may sound, it is actually an important and central part of many industries, and every year many people train to become a wig maker – a job which also entails making beards and toupees, and requires a degree of technical knowledge that is usually learned through a combination of formal learning and on-the-job-training.
Love sharks?
Ichthyology, according to Wikipedia, is the branch of zoology that concentrates its focus on studying fishes of various types. And, while some devote their entire careers to researching the feeding, reproductive, and migratory habits of the smaller fish, a chosen daring few decide to specialize on the never-less-than-fascinating field of sharks.
Master thatcher
At the forefront of conserving buildings of heritage for generations to come, thatching is an extremely important job that is carried out by small dedicated number of craftsmen around the country.
Tour guide
Wait, before you go any further – and certainly before you start imagining boring lectures being given by countless generations of less than dynamic tour guides – you need to know this: we’re not talking about the ordinary run-of-the-mill tour guides here, oh no.
Wildlife cameraman
Few jobs offer the immense personal freedom and outrageous opportunities to travel than that of being a wildlife cameraman.
