Not all jobs need to stressful and require hectic and long hour shifts at the office, if you’re one of the lazybones just like the many of us here’s a list of 18 jobs that you can take up which are as interesting as your interests and are far away from stress. The bonus of working these profiles is the decent pay and the luxury of enjoying life.
1. Professional Cuddler
What better way to spend your day embracing people that need a good squeeze and get paid for it! Isn’t it a win win?
Average Rate: Up to $80 (£57) per day
2. Hotel Tester
Fancy staying in a luxurious hotel and testing out their facilities? Well, extend your professional services and get paid for it! All you’ll need to do is inspect each hotel with X-ray vision and write a detailed report at the end of your stay!
Average Rate: Up to $120 (£85) per day
3. Video Game Tester
If video games excite every bone in you then this is it! Be an ultimate professional video game tester and be paid to live your dream of playing video games all day long even those that haven’t reached the mainstream markets.
Average Rate: Up to $14 (£10) per hour
4. Breath Odour Evaluator
If you have a good sense of smell and don’t mind getting up close and personal with people, you can earn big bucks by smelling participants’ breaths. Companies that manufacture mints, chewing gum, toothpaste and mouthwashes hire freelancers to smell mouth odour and let them know if their products are working.
Average Rate: Up to $64,000 (£45,500) per year
5. Professional Binge Watcher
If Netflix and chill is your kind of thing then what better than spending the day binge watching and being paid for it!
Average Rate: Unknown
6. Translator
If you’re fluent in a second language and fancy working from home, you can get a gig translating documents. As long as your grammar is up to par, you can get paid to sit in your PJs all day and translate the text you’re given into another language.
Average Rate: $22 (£15.60) per hour
7. Beer Taster
Who doesn’t love drinking beer but now you can actually get paid to get drunk for a living by sampling different brews and rating your overall experience.
Average Rate: $142 (£100) per day
8. Ostrich Babysitter
If you find human company stressful and prefer working with animals this job is right up your alley. You can get paid some good money for watching over cute baby ostriches. Work and Destress! Doesn’t it sound perfect?
Average Rate: $20 (£14) per hour
9. Chocolate Taster
If you’re a chocoholic, you’re in luck! Eating chocolate for a living is actually a real job. The best part is that sugary treats are free, too!
Average Rate: $24,000 (£17,000) per year
10. Professional Apologiser
If you don’t mind saying sorry, you can do this for a living in Japan. Apologisers are hired for the sole reason to say sorry on behalf of someone else. Although it might be a bit ridiculous, you can get paid a lot for it!
Average Rate: $60,000 (£42,660) per year
11. Professional Sports Fan
Are you a sports fanatic that gets really invested in a game? If so, you can get paid to watch sports matches with other people to get them really into it so they can fully enjoy the experience.
Average Rate: Unknown