Unusual jobs you can apply for from tea taster to professional sleeper

Everyone has their eyes set on a dream job but maybe there are some unusual options that many haven't even considered.

Certain job advertisement s often stand out more than others as they offer positions that are very much out of the ordinary, with job descriptions that people could normally only dream of.

Everyone is aware of the every day jobs from teaching, being a doctor or an office worker, or something more hands on like a construction worker. But what if you want a job which is a bit more unheard of?

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From tea tasting, to being a professional sleeper, there is a job to fit everyone out there so we've taken a look at some of the quirkiest roles recently in the job market.

Professional sleeper

Space agency NASA often posts job ads looking for people to be paid to sleep. As the science geniuses prepare for travel to Mars, NASA like to study the effects on the human body of lying still for a long time.

In the past, volunteers have been offered £12,000 to catch Zs for 70 days

A Finnish hotel also has offers for a similar role as they employ a full-time professional sleeper who sleeps in a different room each night and critiques the comfort of beds to improve the guests' experience.

Tea taster

Back in October, tea giants Tetley Tea were on the lookout for two individuals to fill new roles at their company as "Graduate Tea Buyers."

The unique role involved tasting up to 300 different teas per day, learning skills and partaking in training to become a tea master, travelling the world to build everlasting relationships with suppliers and tea growers and predicting the next tea trends.

The Graduate Tea Buyers also had the opportunity to travel the world to visit tea growing regions so that they can expand their knowledge in the hot drink world.

Netflix watcher

A job getting paid to sit in bed and watch Netflix all day was advertised recently.

Luxury bed company, Bespoke firm Crafted Beds, were offering applicants a salary of £24,000 to help ensure that customers are getting the best quality for ultimate comfort.

The lucky successful applicant would get to test a new high-quality mattress each week to provide weekly written report on how good the mattress they have been testing is.

Canine science assistant

You could be be responsible for giving guide dog puppies the very best start in life and setting them up to become a successful guide dog.

Guide Dogs UK were looking for a canine science assistant with a tempting salary of £23,173 to help care for puppies day in day out.

Helen Whiteside, Chief Scientific Officer at Guide Dogs, said: "As well as providing other services to enhance the lives of people with sight loss, Guide Dogs breeds and trains more than 1,000 dogs every year.

"This important role will be centred around the wellbeing of our puppies: getting to know them, interacting, and engaging with them as they grow up into happy, healthy guide dogs. We’re excited to see the applications and look forward to offering this dream position to a lucky candidate with exceptional research experience."

Christmas market visitor

Premier Inn were looking for people to test Christmas markets in the run up to the festive season.

If you love a bit of outdoor shopping and sipping mulled wine then this would be the job for you.

The hotel giants were on the hunt for five new staff to become Christmas Market Testers, covering travel costs, hotel stays and even providing spending money.

Successful candidates were expected to test out Christmas markets in locations in the UK, Ireland and Germany.

Chief Listening Officer

This job sounds like it could be someone just providing a listening ear but it's actually very different as the role involves being responsible for ‘listening in’ to conversations on social media about a particular brand or company.

The information is then fed back to the relevant organisation, helping it to improve its business strategies and marketing campaigns.

As social media grows in popularity, companies are increasingly looking to take on chief listening officers to gather and analyse the data available, with the applicants normally needing to have a degree in communication marketing or similar.

Salaries can range between £25,000 to £60,000.

Sewer flusher

While not the most glamourous sounding of jobs, being a sewer flusher does come with a reasonable salary and doesn't require any certain qualifications.

You would be playing a vital role in keeping the country’s sewer systems flowing as sewer flushers work to clear blockages caused when congealed layers of cooking fat, oils and non-biodegradable waste build-up in pipes.

The job expects you to be ok carrying out physical work in cramped, claustrophobic and smelly conditions, with salaries starting at £19,000 and rising to £30,000 with experience.

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