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🦄 Tom’s Blog — The Five Strangest Jobs in the World

After Careers Day, I wanted to know: what are the strangest jobs in the world? I researched for a whole weekend. Here are my top five.
🌊 5. WATER SLIDE TESTER: You travel to water parks and go down the slides to check they are safe and fun. One tester went down more than a thousand slides in a year. The bad part? You are wet all day.
🐼 4. PANDA NANNY: In China, some people look after baby pandas. They feed them, play with them and clean up after them. It sounds like a dream, but the pandas bite, and you must wear a panda costume so the babies don’t get used to humans.
🍦 3. ICE CREAM TASTER: Yes, it’s real. Tasters try new flavours every day. They use a gold spoon, because metal can change the taste. They can’t eat spicy food or drink coffee, because it hurts their tongue.
😴 2. PROFESSIONAL SLEEPER: Scientists pay people to sleep in labs so they can study sleep. One hotel also paid a man to test its beds. He said it was harder than it sounds. I don’t believe him.
🗼 1. LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER: Most lighthouses are now automatic, so there are only a few keepers left. Sunbeam Bay has one of them! Ms Ada Price (great-great-granddaughter of the Ada Price on the statue) lives alone on Gull Rock. I’m going to interview her on the radio next week.