Hey Pandas, What’s A Job You Didnt Even Know Existed Until You Met Someone Who Did It?

It's a job I actually got. The position I applied for was "laboratory technician. Must be familiar with aseptic techniques." The job that I got was "enucleator." Fancy title for takes eyes and corneas out of dead people. I worked for The EyeBank on Wall Street. Not to be confused with actual I-banking. There is also a skin bank and a bone bank. The eyes were used for scleral patches and research. The corneas were used for transplant.

I work on film and TV sets, and people are most often surprised to find out that there is a person whose sole job is to make sure the images recorded by the camera are in focus. They imagine that the camera person does that themselves. In fact, focus puller is one of the hardest, most highly specialised skills there is on set.

Rodeo clown. Born and raised on the east coast, so I never knew it was a thing, until I met several at the restaurant I worked at. He was missing an eye and a whole group was sitting around talking about their injuries. I was floored. I really was. I knew there were rodeo clowns, but I never knew what kind of actual job it was. I thought it was more to entertain the the crowd between rides, no, their job is to distract the animal so they can retrieve the rider. Hence their injuries. They literally have to psyche out a 500lbs slab of pissed off, sentient muscle. Soooo much respect.

My friend told me once that he needed to go home earlier because the next day he would need to wake up earlier to deliver food to the Zoo. I said "What!?". He said like hay, gras and others. He grows food for Zoo animals. Mostly greens.
I never stopped to think where Zoo food came from.
Imagine how much food he would need to deliver for the Elephants, Giraffes and others.

Ignition Specialist. Plan and light fires ahead of wildfires to stop them. Works amazingly well but can be a disaster without training and experience. They also carry out prescribed burns to reduce fuel loads.

One of the most surprising jobs I learned about was a professional pet food taster — someone who tests the flavor and texture of dog and cat food to ensure quality. It blew my mind because I never imagined it was an actual career. It reminded me of meeting a qurantajweedteacher.com for the first time too — I hadn’t realized how specialized and important that role was until I saw the skill and dedication it required.

An environmental scientist I met one in grade 3 and I knew then that it’s what my goal is to become I can’t wait 💚✌️

I once met a chicken sexer. It sounds simple, but the astonishing part is the speed and precision. They can process over 1,000 chicks per hour with 98% accuracy, spending less than half a second on each. It's a skill that takes years to master because the differences are so subtle. In fact, cognitive psychologists are studying them to understand how they train and develop such rapid visual perception, with potential applications for military threat detection. Mind-blowing.

Tourism Professor? Where was this option when I was in school?

I worked in a hotel for a litlte while, and I knew we had a lot of long-term workers in the area. Got to talking with a guy who said he was part of a crew that go around painting Walmart stores. It is a full-on, well-paying job. That day I learned something new.

Snake Milker:
Not for the light-hearted. The job of a snake milker is to collect the venom of poisonous snakes in jars for use in anti-venoms and other medication. Thank god someone’s brave enough!

When I was a teen, I greatly admired my beautiful soon to be Aunt. She was marrying my uncle, who was the studio manager of a fashion photography studio in New York. She met him at work because she was a Fashion Stylist. I became fascinated with this job title, and went on to become one in later years. I had no idea regarding the studio aspect of this position...until my uncle invited me to come to the studio to meet the inimitable fashion model named Twiggy!

We have a Promotions Manager at our company. This person's sole job is to source and order all of the branded promotional products that have our parent company's logo on it. They attend trade shows and work with world wide vendors to assure that the company logo only goes on the highest quality products. Basically, they get paid to shop for a living and are gifted more PR packages than a TikTok influencer could ever dream of.

a professional sleeper, one of my friends are one

Plant Broker. Do you need a specific plant (or a ton of a specific plant), and need help finding them? A plant broker will help (for a commission, of course). It seems like a pretty fun job, as one aspect is you have to visit all The nurseries/growers/etc. you possibly can, in order to know these things

Used to work for Dept of Work and Pensions in the UK. We had a book of job titles and their requirements. One that surprised me was chicken s e x e r.

Steel stress-tester. I guess technically it would be under the title of physicist, but I was reading the autobiography of my favourite scientist (Dr Karl) who said his first job out of uni was at the local steelworks where he had to check the tensile strength of steel (and then grade it). That was the only thing he did all day.

Right, so I'm dumb, and you're welcome to call me out for being dumb here. Sonographers. You get paid to put cold goop (occasionally warm goop if you're nice) on someone and then squish them with a plastic thing and take pictures whilst doing it? ... yes, I'm absolutely simplifying this. Seriously, I am genuinely impressed at how much sonographers can tell by just a bit of gel and a look. I'd be interested in doing it myself if I wasn't so awful at science.