Top 10 Odd Jobs with Good Pay

Brewmaster

The brilliant people behind the beer you drink are called the brewmasters. That means they are in charge of product quality control, tasting beer to make sure the aroma, taste and color as well as other aspects of beer are in line with the company and safety policies. Brewmasters lead a team of brewers who are in charge of making their own recipes and making the best quality beer. For thing job you need to appreciate beer and have a good sense of smell and taste. Education degrees in this job is preferred by employers and some universities even offer a PhD in brewing biochemistry. A average starting salary will be around 30K and with hard work you can make up to 60K doing your favorite pastime of getting drunk. You can learn more at the brewer's association at beertown.org

Veterinarian

Most people who want to deal with animals and want a medical career with good pay leans towards a career as a Veterinarian. A vet provides medical services for anime while giving advice to pet owners about proper methods of caring for their pets. Being a vet demands that you possess a sharp sense to diagnose the symptoms of animals and effectively treat them so the disease do not spread to human beings. Vets can also be seen in labs doing research or in the cattle industry inspecting on the conditions of the animals there. Meat packing industry also gets its fair share of vets and vets do autopsies on animals to determine how or what diseases killed a animal. The starting salary in around 47K and within 10-15 years, you can be making 86K. The website for American Veterinary Medical Association is avma.org

Stunt Guy or Body Double

These people are hired by a film crew to fill in for scenes in movies that are dangerous or has a extreme chance for injury. This means a stunt person could be jumping out of cars, fall off buildings or do a green-screen fight scene in a movie or any other stress filled job. This job requires a lot of patience, timing and ingenuity and with experience, these skills will the honed, as well as your salary. Stunt people also tend to resemble the actors or actresses they are filling in for, so it makes it easier for the video editing guys to do their job while the other incompatible stunt people make up the stunt crew that assist the person filling in for the actor. The average starting salary sucks with only a 15K payout rate but with experience and connections, you can be making over 100K in 10 years (5 years can earn you 46K). You can visit screen actor's guild for more information, sag.org

Fisherman

Commercial fishing is a huge industry in America and in many countries worldwide and so is the demand for experienced fisherman. In this job, you will spend most of your day out there dragging mesh bags across the sea floors for clams, oysters or scallops or deploy traps to capture lobsters or crabs. The fishermen that stay on land deals with cleaning fish out and preparing them for restaurants or customers. The hours in this job are ridicules because of the enormous amount of work involved and the stress. You could be out in the sea for 2 to 14 days working around the clock for some good catch. Sleep is a commodity you rarely see here and most owners hire men for a specified amount of time or years. If you are in a crew, you pretty much have no privacy and you work together with others. All crew members are expected to take care of themselves, abide by safety rules and do their jobs even in adverse conditions. Even though it's a tough life, the payout is great. The starting salary is 30K to 60K that commensurate with experience. The owners of the boat can make anywhere from 100K to 200K per year depending on the how large your operations are and how good the catch is. Some of the most dangerous working conditions are involved with fishing but the fun and the pay is good in this field of work. A good movie to watch is the Perfect Storm. You can learn more about fishing at nationalfisherman.com or mfu-upm.com