Professional Scream Artist Makes a Living by Screaming in Movies and TV Shows
Ashley Peldon is a professional scream artist who spends hours screaming into high-fidelity microphones to record various types of screams for movies and TV shows. Have you ever wondered how Hollywood stars manage to get online screaming just perfect? It’s not an easy thing to pull off if you think about it, and the reality […]
Professional Baby Namer Charges Clients Up to $10,000 Per Name
Taylor A. Humphrey, a 33-year-old woman from New York, works as a professional baby name, charging people thousands of dollars for helping them pick out the perfect names for their offspring. It’s hard to believe that someone could make a living helping expecting parents select a suitable name for their child, but Taylor A. Humphrey […]
Man Who Works 12 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week Praised as Model Employee by Company
A Chinese man who won the praise of his employer by working 12-hour shifts basically 30 days a month recently sparked controversy in his home country. On February 18, pictures of a framed billboard depicting the “model employee” of a company in Zhengzhou, Henan went viral on Chinese social media, sparking a heated debate. The […]
Young Woman Finds Success Working as an “Auntie” Fashion Model
Liang Xiaoqing is China’s most popular “auntie” fashion model, a niche segment aimed at marketing fashion products to middle-aged and elderly women. Although Liang Xiaoning is only 29-years-old, you’d probably think she was well in her 40s, maybe even her 50s, if you looked at any of her professional modeling photos. She has been working […]
Man Makes Up to $215 a Day Waiting in Line on Behalf of Other People
A 31-year-old man from the UK works as an “expert waiter” in his spare time, spending hours in long queues on behalf of rich people too busy to do it themselves. For the last three years, Freddie Beckitt, a historical fiction writer from Fulham, in the United Kingdom, has been supplementing his monthly revenue by […]
China’s Haunted House Testers Get Paid by the Minute
Chinese real-estate agencies are paying so-called “haunted house testers” to spend at least 24 hours in ‘stigmatized’ properties in order to convince potential buyers that they are completely safe. Real-estate properties where “unnatural deaths” have occurred are really tough to sell, especially in markets where superstition and the belief in supernatural phenomena are strong. Japan, […]
The Jumping Mailmen of Lake Geneva
Every year, athletic youths in Wisconsin’s Woworth County try out for a unique summer job – mail jumping. They need to prove that they can jump off of a moving boat onto a private dock, deliver the mail and then jump back on the boat before it has passed by. The residents of Lake Geneva […]
This Elite English College Trains the World’s Most Expensive Nannies
For over 120 years England’s Norland College has been known as the most prestigious nanny-training school in the world, with graduates landing jobs with wealthy families and earning upwards of $100,000 per year. Founded in the late 1800s by Emily Ward, who realized that there was no official childcare training at the time, Norland College […]
Covid Sufferer Allegedly Denied Leave, Goes to Work With Oxygen Support
A bank employee in India, who was recovering from the coronavirus disease wreaking havoc through his country, was allegedly denied leave and forced to come in to work while hooked up to an oxygen tank. Arvind Kumar works as a manager at a Bokaro branch of Punjab National Bank, in the state of Jharkhand, recently […]
91-Year-Old Active Police Officer Has No Plans to Retire Anytime Soon
At 91 years of age, LC “Buckshot” Smith may just be the world’s oldest serving police officer, but he says he has no plans to retire just yet. Buckshot doesn’t move around as fast as he used to, but that hasn’t been stopping him from patrolling the street of his home town, Camden, in Arkansas, […]
Human Alarm Makes a Living by Helping People Fight Procrastination
Xiao Zhu, a young “online supervisor” from Xinyang, China, specializes in helping people combat procrastination by texting and calling them to make sure they fulfill their daily tasks. With so many distractions literally just a click or finger swipe away, it’s no wonder that procrastination is considered a modern-day “plague” that keeps many of us […]
Company Allegedly Uses Smart Seat Cushions to Monitor Office Workers
Chinese social media has been in uproar over reports of a technology company that allegedly used smart cushions to secretly monitor the activity of its office staff. An employee of Hebo Technology, a high-tech company based in Zhejiang Province, recently took to social media to expose a practice that he considered illegal and immoral. The […]
Cleaner Drinks Water Out of Toilet to Demonstrate How Clean It Is
Footage of a young cleaning woman who appears to be drinking water straight out of a toilet has sparked a heated debate on Chinese social media this week. The caretaker of a fertilizer company located in Shandong province, China has put herself at the center of controversy after a video showing her drinking water out […]
Company Gifts Employees 4,116 New Cars as Bonus for Surpassing Profit Targets
A Chinese steel production company recently made international news headlines for offering 4,116 of its employees brand new cars as bonus for surpassing profit targets for the fifth consecutive year. On October 1st, Jiangxi West Dajiu Iron & Steel Corporation organized an epic event to celebrate its success and reward employees for contributing to its […]
5th Grade Dropout Works as a Doctor for Four Years Before Being Exposed as a Fraud
At just 23-years-old, Dr. Veeragandham Teja had already worked in 16 private hospitals, conducted several medical camps and had volunteered with Bengaluru police and local migrant workers during the pandemic. Not a bad record for any doctor, let alone a 5th grade dropout with no medical education and little training… Veeragandham Teja had been working […]