Just read these and more in the Popular Science Magazine. As this is a family site could not post the next job listed. Let's just say it was um, very unusual. I could not have made these jobs up if I was asked to. Sure would like to know what they are paid for this "work".
Now let's hear the comments.

. FLATUS ODOR JUDGE

Odor judges are common in the research labs of mouthwash companies, where the halitosis-inflicted blow great gusts of breath in their faces to test product efficacy. But Minneapolis gastroenterologist Michael Levitt recently took the job to another level—or, rather, to the other end. Levitt paid two brave souls to indulge repeatedly in the odors of other people's farts. (Levitt refuses to divulge the remuneration, but it would seem safe to characterize it thusly: Not enough.) Sixteen healthy subjects volunteered to eat pinto beans and insert small plastic collection tubes into their anuses (worst-job runners-up, to be sure). After each "episode of flatulence," Levitt syringed the gas into a discrete container, rigorously maintaining fart integrity. The odor judges then sat down with at least 100 samples, opened the caps one at a time, and inhaled robustly. As their faces writhed in agony, they rated just how noxious the smell was. The samples were also chemically analyzed, and—eureka!—Levitt determined definitively the most malodorous component of the human flatus: hydrogen sulfide.

Levitt defends his work against the reflexively dismissive by noting that doctors have never studied flatulence and that smell is a potentially critical medical symptom: "The odors of feces and intestinal gas and breath could all be important markers of gastrointestinal health," he says. Hydrogen sulfide, for instance, is an extremely toxic gas to mammals, potentially playing a role in ulcerative colitis, among other diseases. And so Levitt has dedicated his career to the study of the myriad fragrances produced by the human gut and imprudently ignored by the medical establishment.

2. DYSENTERY STOOL-SAMPLE ANALYZER

In the early '80s, Virginia Tech profs Tracy Wilkins and David Lyerly studied the diarrhea-causing microbe Clostridium difficile in sample after sample after sample of loose stool from the disease's victims. They became such crack dysentery docs that they launched a company, Techlab, dedicated to making stool-analysis kits. Today, Techlab employs 40 people, 19 of whom spend their working hours opening sloppy stool canisters and analyzing their contents in order to test the effectiveness of the company's kits. You'd have to have a pretty good sense of humor, right? Well, fortunately, they do. The Techlab Web site sells T-shirts with cartoons on the front (two flies hover over two blobs of dung; one says to the other, "Pardon me, is this stool taken?&quot and the company motto on the back: "Techlab: #1 in the #2 Business!"

 

Takes all kinds. I am thinking about getting in on that beer tester job!

 

"2. DYSENTERY STOOL-SAMPLE ANALYZER" :

nasty.......60 hrs a week dont seem to bad anymore

 

There is a fellow in the Church I attended when living in Southern California that was employed by a deoderant manufacturer.
His job was to sniff subjects arm pits after the subject was placed in different sweat inducing activities.

Im not knocking him, we all have to make a living. :

Rich

 

Reminds me of a poem I read one time......

Hey Porta-Can Man,

Maybe you can't weld,
and maybe you can't fit,
but when it comes to cleaning outhouses,
You sure know your.....!

Maybe he would have been a good candidate for the job.....


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Edited by Originator......now YOU can finish the rhyme in the comfort of your own home....

 

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Takes all kinds. I am thinking about getting in on that beer tester job!
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Let me know where you find this job... I'll totally relocate!