Oddball Professions

Toll Booth Collector
Asof two years ago, these particular toll collectors (albeit the most senior ones) were earning annual salaries of $65,000 plus the nice benefits packages that accompany union jobs. But when the New Jersey Turnpike Authority threatened to privatize the workforce in 2011, employees were forced to either take a 25% pay cut or lose their jobs altogether. Now, the risky business of being a highway cashier brings in closer to $50,000 a year.


Fake Businessman
Caucasian men living in Asia, here's your chance to make an easy buck. As long as you can look the part of an executive, you can actually get well-paid to act as one -- and sometimes without even having a speaking role. It's not the TV or film business, but corporate China where, as reported in the Atlantic, white men are hired to in order to project an "image of connection -- that Chinese companies crave."

When courting foreign clients, Chinese businesses rent out fair-complected dudes who pretend to work for the company. For $1,000 a week (along with high-end accommodations and meals), they participate in "'White Guy in a Tie" events" and do everything from milling about and mingling to attending ribbon-cutting ceremonies to deliver speeches.




Crime Scene Cleaner
One of the few jobs in the universe that calls for a morbid curiosity and iron stomach as prerequisites, the crime scene cleaner is a grind of blood, guts, gore, and bodily waste. Assuming they've gone the legit route and not that of the crime syndicate cleaner (à la "The Wolf" in Pulp Fiction), these super janitors in Hazmat suits still make a cushy living that averages $50,400 but can go nearly as high as the six-figure mark.

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