Quote:Strangest Jobs in the Travel Industry
Chasing monkeys, traipsing through sewers, or clamping down on sandwich-eaters. It's all in a day's work for our 10 favorite odd jobs in travel.
From July 2008
By Katrina Brown Hunt
If you've ever harbored dreams of breaking into the travel business but weren't sure how to find your niche, here's a tip: invest in a falcon.
We searched the globe for the most offbeat jobs in the travel industry, and strangely enough, falconers and their birds of prey are some of the biggest clutch players of the travel world. A falconer in Santa Barbara, for instance, keeps pesky seagulls from invading the Four Seasons' pool. Falconers are also working hard in Italy to keep pigeons from freckling monuments with their droppings. And at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, there's a robotic hawk to scare birds away from planes.
In fact, many offbeat travel-industry jobs involve keeping Mother Nature at bay. Zürich Airport takes its anti-bird agenda to a cutthroat level: the airport employs
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People with ingenuity, and even a little quirky passtime interest in something strange can turn it into cash.
On NPR aweek or so ago, they were talking about the future workforce in America. The opinion was that the next "age" involves entrepeneurship and hobbies / talents / interests. They said we no longer have a workforce that believes in going to college, getting a career in your degree field and sticking with it for fifty years as our parents and grandparents did. The benefits, retirement security and job security is no longer there, and the generations now entering the workforce recognize this.
There are some interesting "jobs" mentioned in the article above.
I'm sure we can think of other ideas to add here. Do you have an interest, hobby or talent that could be worth big bucks or know someone that does?
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