The Atlantic has published a fascinating set of in...  ...military, service workers you see every day, and occupations you've never heard of. They include a woman who w...

Redditors who drive for a living outdid themselves...  ...quo;t much, but who could resist showing off your occupation by posting about it? This is the interior of a TV...

Payscale surveyed over two million workers about t...  ...ng the world a worse place must rationalize their occupations thoroughly. You don’t see categories for di...

(Photo: Ross Huggett)Redditor CharlieSnow poses this question and the good people of reddit show up with some preposterous and/or awesome jobs.The dangerously named DrWhoIsOverRated says:My brother in law is a profession...

My only worry is that I'm massively overqualified for this job. The management at Clark's Trading Post may suspect that I'll expect to be promoted into wolfman management or try to get a better paying wolfman position wi...

(Photo: Iain Cameron)The American Cheese Society calls the position "Content Manager." But dig into the job description and you'll see that the organization wants a librarian:EDUCATIONFour-year accredited Bachelor’...

U.S.News & World Report gives us a list of the...  ...efit in the end. Even some of the people in these occupations agree. Here's a sampling:Consulting software engi...

What do you say to make conversations with strangers? Columnist LZ Granderson writes about the one question that only Americans ask first when they meet someone new (and it's true, wh...

Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (a fantastic blog,...  ...cellent article about 7 micro-documentaries about occupations and crafts that are fast becoming obsolete. From...

Mike Rowe, the host of the TV show "Dirty Jobs" is a surprisingly eloquent guy. In this TED talk in December 2008, he talked about people with dirty jobs, questioning one's assumptions, the nature of hard work,...