The general public is in love with Jennifer Lawrence these days and it’s not at all surprising! This witty, beautiful and energetic actress is something of a refreshment on a usually quite prude and boring Hollywood scene. She brings entertainment to award shows where she doesn’t mind tripping and falling when trying to go get her award. What you probably didn’t know about Lawrence is that she became a star with zero acting training! Here’s ten other unknown facts about JLaw that will blow your mind.

Candy Smuggler

The Oscar winner is known to love food so she smuggles food to award shows to keep her spirits up. Her favourite? Laffy Taffys

Above Average

Lawrence finished high school two years before her generation with a 3.9 GPA in order to pursue her acting career.

Nitro

Jennifer was known as Nitro in high school because of her high energy levels.

Monk Mascot

One of Lawrence’s first roles was in the movie Monk where she played the lion mascot.

Rejections

Before landing the role of Katniss in Hunger Games, Jennifer auditioned for three major roles as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Bella Swan in Twilight and Jules in Superbad.

Nobody conforms 100 percent to their social group. But a blanket view can cover the pack’s traits in broad strokes. The “rich people” blanket comes with odd beliefs and habits. From thinking that the poor are happier than them to smoking their cigarettes differently, the world of the wealthy is certainly not boring.

10-Rich Kids Are Higher-Risk For Drugs

 There is a misconception that addiction is a mark of the poor. Drugs and alcohol affect people from all backgrounds but affluent kids are more at risk. One might be forgiven for questioning this. What do they have to worry about? They have their ponies and large allowances. Outsiders often assume a rich kid popping Ecstacy is acting out of boredom. A 2017 study found that was not the case. The real reason is sad and has devastating consequences. For years, the researchers followed hundreds of students beginning with their high school years. Each pupil had wealthy parents with a high standing and their schools insisted on high achievements. As it turns out, the pressure was too much. Drugs and binge drinking became a coping mechanism. When they grew up and started their own lives, the pressure vanished but not the drug use. It became worse. By age 26, their addictions were three times higher than the national average.

9-They Are Less Giving

 In 2018, a group played for real money. They gathered at a London university and were divided into “higher status” and “lower status” players. This reflected how much money each person received at the game’s beginning.
The game had a simple goal. Each player donated money to a group kitty. They were free to decide how much. After a round or two, the money was split between everyone. A player’s wealth could grow either through chance or hard work. Those who earned their money proved to be the Scrooge McDucks of the group. They added the least.
Things were not as selfish as they appeared. The poor participants had less to lose. Adding more money to the kitty was also their way of encouraging the rich guys to do the same. This increased their chances for a bigger return. However, the big fish refused to bite. They had more to lose and those who earned their wealth had even less reason to just give it away.

8-They Waste Cigarettes

 In 2008, students in New Zealand collected evidence for a study. They looked a little strange while doing so. The group visited six neighborhoods in Wellington and picked up over 3,500 cigarette butts. While the environment thanks them, the real aim was to see whether income changes the way people smoke.
One type of cigarette showed the same thing, regardless of the suburb it came from. Rich and poor smoked roll-your-owns down to the same length. But cigarettes manufactured in factories or tailor-made for an elite customer betrayed the income of the smokers.
The remaining tobacco was scooped from the butts and measured. Poorer smokers, with less to spend, destroyed their cigarettes down to the butt. On the other hand, the wealthier suburbs discarded their cigarettes with 75 percent more unused tobacco.

7-They Are More Dishonest

The wealthy have special stalkers. These benign creepers are psychologists and they have been following the rich for decades. The reason? To see what privilege does to the human mind. The general view is that it grooms people to enjoy the benefits of dishonesty.
Researchers took their notebooks to a busy intersection. The four-way was governed by right-of-way. The team noted the model of the cars that cut off other drivers. Road hogs appeared from both sides of the social fence. But new, expensive vehicles were four times more likely to ignore the fact that it was not their turn to drive. The researchers then moved their gaggle to a crosswalk where pedestrians had the right-of-way. Every cheap or old car stopped. Half of the expensive cars ignored them. Technically, they broke a law. Drivers must stop for people who want to cross.
Elsewhere, the statistics are even starker. The wealthy cheat more on their spouses, their taxes and at games. They also have the moolah to buy stuff but are more likely to shoplift.

6-Rich Women Choose Older Men

In the past, wealth was skewed in men’s favor. For this reason, women chose providers and men placed more importance on attractive looks. Both preferred a younger partner. As women become richer, they bring their own financial security to the relationship. They no longer look to men as providers but how good-looking they are. Moreover, they want older men. This trend’s popularity even coined a name—the George Clooney Effect. This crushed the misconception that wealthy women act like men. In other words, prefer a toyboy as a partner. This female shift also changed how elite men like their women. According to a recent survey, they prefer even younger girls than before.

5-Their Old Age Is Longer And Healthier

 The best perk of wealth could be a longer life. Apart from seeing 100 years up close, the upper-class elderly also enjoy more years of being physically independent. Scientists stumbled upon this surprising fact when they compared the health of older adults in the US and England.
Both countries showed the same thing. After age 50, rich women could expect 33 more disability-free years and 31 for men. They could cook for themselves and get out of bed, things the poorest communities start struggling with nine years earlier.
There are islands where people grow old without a fat bank account. This proves that longevity is a complex cocktail of genes, attitude, diet, and exercise. The drastic difference noticed in the US-England survey added wealth as another definite factor. It reduces stress, which is one of the biggest problems for health. People with funds can also travel to hospitals and pay for treatments that maintain a good quality of life.

4-Wealthy Parents Cheat For Their Kids 

In 2019, the authorities closed down a scam. Before the feds got wind of the crime, times were profitable. Parents paid a stiff bribe to guarantee a place at elite universities for their children. Altogether, nearly $6.5 million were paid to the scammers. Two of the parents caught with their hand in the cookie jar were actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.
Moral psychologists were not surprised. The wealthy often live through their children’s achievements. Additionally, the rich are increasingly experiencing class angst. More people are gaining access to their exclusive world and seeing the lower-income kids swarm elite institutions is a bitter pill to swallow.
Many elites believe they are better than everyone else. They deserve the first slice of the pie. This entitlement drives their unethical choices, which is then justified in some way. In the bribery case, the parents used the excuse that they were “helping” their child.

3-Some Believe Poor People Are Happier

 People with higher incomes have a curious blind spot. Some think that lower-income individuals are actually happier. Anyone with an empty piggy bank knows the opposite is true. To be fair to the blind spot, it was pulled from a small survey. The 2007 questionnaire excluded men for some reason too. But the bottom line was that most of the wealthier women believed that the rest of the population experienced less stress. The reason? The top earners viewed themselves as busier. This is a very limited view of what causes stress. But the survey was backed (to a degree) by other social experiments. They suggested the rich sometimes prefer a rosy view of reality to feel less guilty about their privileges. The less moral outrage they feel, the less motivation there is to help others. This could explain why people with the financial clout to change the world do nothing.

2-They Pay Less Attention To Others

Most people tend to feel invisible around the rich and powerful. As it turns out, this feeling is not their imagination. The upper class has a habit of ignoring those around them. More specifically, anyone who is beneath them socially and financially.
In 2016, scientists lied through their teeth to volunteers. In two separate experiments, they were told that they were either testing new technology or playing a memory game. The fibbing was necessary. They could hardly tell the richer volunteers that they were being studied for this unusual trait.
One group wore smart-glasses that recorded everything they saw. While being under the impression of testing the device, each volunteer walked down a street. The affluent ones spend less time looking at passersby from lower classes. Higher-class participants also struggled with the memory game because they failed to pay attention to images showing faces.
The upper crust might not realize how often they do this. Humans pay attention to threats or potential threats. To the elite, the lower classes are not a danger nor rewarding. In other words, nothing interesting to look at.

1-They Overestimate Their Worth

 There is nothing wrong with having self-confidence. But people from affluent families might overestimate their abilities. Even worse, others believe them. The consequences only serve the perky rich person. They get ahead in job interviews despite that other people are equally capable. Those who fall for their confidence might also later realize that they hired the wrong person.
This was the conclusion of scientists who studied loan applications and job interviews. Both included tests where wealthier applicants thought they did great. They actually performed average. Those with lower incomes were more in tune with their own scores—but it failed to give them the edge.
As mentioned earlier, the elites’ confidence impressed the money-lenders and hiring agents. This is a problem. Such people offer better chances to others. If they fall for overconfidence in applicants who believe they rock, then this could explain why those with class and confidence issues fall behind, despite being as just as capable.

1. Bruce Lee’s father was an opera singer for the Hong Kong Cantonese Opera. (10)

2. Bruce Lee’s birth story (11)

3. Bruce’s sister, Agnes, was the one who first started calling him “Little Dragon,” a nickname that stuck with him in Asia throughout his life. (13–14)

4. He never went into a swimming pool after a traumatic experience in his youth. (14)

5. Bruce Lee was a child actor in Hong Kong. (14–15)

6. Bruce Lee started on his journey of learning martial arts when he was thirteen, which is when he began learning Wing Chun from Yip Man. (19)

7. When he was seventeen years old, he won a boxing tournament put on by twelve Hong Kong schools even though he had no formal training in boxing. (29–30)

8. Bruce Lee emigrated to the United States right before he was eighteen so he could claim American citizenship before the option lapsed, which he was able to do because he was born in San Francisco. (31–32)

9. Bruce ended up moving in with family friends in Seattle, Washington. He enrolled in a vocational school so he could earn a high school diploma, which would make him eligible to attend the University of Washington. (36–40)

10. After a martial arts demonstration he put on, he started teaching martial arts to a select group of students who were interested in the form he practiced; a form they had never seen before. (42–49)

11. During the summer of 1961 (a few months after starting at the University of Washington), Bruce paid for a business license and officially opened a martial arts school called the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. He was only 20 years old. (51–52)

12. One reason for the change of Gung Fu to Kung Fu in America. (58)

13. He dated a girl named Amy Sanbo for three years and asked her to marry him multiple times, even though she kept rejecting him. The last time was in the summer of 1963, before he was to return to Hong Kong to visit his family. She said no and they went on their separate ways. (56–66)

14. He had a great sense of humor.

15. Bruce Lee became circumcised at the age of twenty-two while he was visiting Hong Kong because his father suddenly wanted Bruce to be circumcised. (69)

16. He didn’t have to sign up for the draft because he was deemed physically unacceptable by the army because of an undescended testicle. (70)

17. Bruce left school at the University of Washington and moved to Oakland in June 1964 so he could open up a martial arts institute with James Lee. (74)

18. Had a shotgun wedding to Linda Emery. (75–76)

19. Brandon Lee was born on February 1, 1965. (83)

20. How his first screen test in Hollywood came about. (83–86)

21. Charlie Chan was shelved, but the same producer offered Bruce the role of Kato in a new television series called The Green Hornet. (87)

22. He started to have severe back pain in the months before him and his family were to move to LA, and before the shooting of The Green Hornet. The back pain would be an on and off again issue for the rest of his life. (88–89)

23. The Green Hornet was the first time that Kung Fu had been seen in the West, besides in movie theaters in Chinatown districts. It should also be noted that Bruce had to slow down his fight movements because they became a blur while being filmed, and the show also used slow motion to play the fight scenes so they could capture the full effect of Bruce Lee’s skill. (90–93)

24. Bruce Lee and Dan Insonato coined the term and started the fighting philosophy, “Jeet Kune Do.” (96–100)

25. Many people considered Bruce Lee to have an anger issue. (mentioned throughout the book)

26. The famous actor Steve McQueen was one of Bruce Lee’s celebrity pupils. (100–101)

27. Stirling Silliphant, a famous screenwriter who was training under Bruce, helped Bruce get bit parts in television shows, and helped him snag his first acting gig in a feature length film in America; a small role in the film Marlowe. (110–113)

28. He had financial problems because of his spending. Though he was struggling to meet his mortgage payments on his new house, he decided to buy a new Porsche and went racing with Steve McQueen along Mullohand Drive. (114)

29. Linda had their second child, Shannon, on April 19th, 1969. (118)

30. In 1969, Bruce “damaged a sacral nerve and was experiencing a severe muscle spasm.” For weeks he was sidelined on his bed as the bills piled up and stress mounted on him. It would lead him to write his famous “My Definite Chief Aim.” (119–120)

31. He didn’t know he was becoming a star in Asia because of The Green Hornet. (124–131)

32. The Big Boss (132–137)

33. Fist of Fury was the film that started the association of nunchakas with Bruce Lee. The film’s success would also change Bruce Lee and the Hong Kong film industry. (138–146)

34. Bruce Lee wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Way of the Dragon. He also scouted the locations, cast it, chose the wardrobe, and choreographed the fight scenes. Essentially, he did almost everything for the film. (150)

35. Around the time of Way of the Dragon the Hong Kong press voted Bruce Lee “Worst-Dressed Actor of the Year” because he often liked to wear silk suits and other elaborate outfits. (156)

36. Bruce heard that Kareem Abdul Jabbar was in Hong Kong, and he arranged some action scenes to be filmed with him for Game of Death even though there was no script yet for the movie. (159)

37. Enter the Dragon would be Bruce Lee’s only starring role in a film that was financed by a United States company.

38. All the issues on the set of Enter the Dragon. (171–181)

39. Bruce Lee ordered a gold Rolls Royce Corniche in anticipation of the success of Enter the Dragon, but he would die before the release of the film and the arrival of the car. (183)

40. The studio changed the title to Blood and Steel, which Bruce disputed, and then they changed it to Han’s Island. He threatened to never work for them again if they didn’t change it back. They eventually set it back to Enter the Dragon. (187)

41. On July 20th, 1973, Bruce Lee went unconscious while in the apartment of the actress Betty Ting Pei. She had given him a equagesic headache pill, which he took before taking a nap. She was the last person to see him while he was conscious. (192–193)

42. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington. His son, Brandon Lee, would be buried in the same cemetery after Brandon died in a tragic accident while filming The Crow.

43. A young Jackie Chan had a super brief cameo in Enter the Dragon. He played a guard who jumps into the frame and grabs Bruce from behind, and then Bruce promptly kills him.

We are certain that you get envious and your heart pinches every time you find on your feed a picture of any couple celebrating their x years of being together. It makes you question whether there is something wrong with you that none of your relationships last more than a couple of months. First of all, you have to stop blaming yourself right this minute. It takes effort and dedication from both the partners to keep a relationship going. Having said that, it isn’t rare that your partner decides to break up with you all of a sudden. You didn’t see that coming. You two are out together and they just blurt out. They opt to cut all ties with you and don’t even bother telling you why they feel separating from you is just what they need. You wrack your brain for days trying to understand what could have led them to make this move.
This article answers just that. One or more of these could be the explanation for your break up. It will also help you in understanding your current or future partner better. Without further ado, let’s check out the article now.
 

Egoist Partner

An egoist person can never make a good partner. If you are that self-centered, how are you ever going to want to know a person, their hobbies, likes, and dislikes? You can’t fall in love with someone without learning of and remembering every detail about them. Such people only date for want of a partner to show-off to their friends or family.

Emotionally Ghosted

You are supposed to be your partner’s pillar of strength during trying times. If you are too busy with your own life and never care to provide emotional support to your lover, they might have to seek out for it from someone else.

Love Language Hurdles

Different people follow different love languages. For some conferring gifts may be their way of showing affection while some may seek spending quality time together the appropriate way of expressing concern. There are individuals who like to pen down their feelings, then there are ones who emote their feelings through their acts and gestures. It is mandatory that you get what love languages your partner adopts.

Complaining Partner

We can bet any amount of money that everyone has problems in their lives, which they are persistently trying to battle with. When you are complaining about your life with your partner, you only add to their struggles in some way or the other. This is so because the moment they listen to an issue, their mind begins chalking out resolutions which are, most of the time, not feasible. So, it’s best that you solve them on your own.

Misunderstood Stress

What you may comprehend as your partner’s lack of interest in you might actually be their workload stress. During stress people do behave differently, are easily annoyed, or show an unwillingness to partake in any activity. You mustn’t overanalyze and make assumptions. Allowing them some space to deal with it would be the right move for a situation of that sort.

Misunderstood Stonewalling

Your dear one may have stonewalled you due to unforeseen cropping up of troubles in their family or for any other reason, which they may not be comfortable sharing with you. Do not pester them to reply to every text of yours or lose your cool if they choose to remain quiet.

Policing

Freedom, equality, liberty, and respect, are demanded by people of today’s age. No one can tolerate being told what to do, what to wear when to go out, or when to be back home. This is your life partner, not your slave that you impose restrictions on them and think they will take it with a smile. Being single would be hands down preferred by anyone over a controlling partner. You have to either accept their way of living or leave.

Totalitarian Love

By totalitarian love, we are referring to a partner who, after getting into a relationship, wants you and only you. They make it seem like they never even had a life before they found you. A lover who is too clingy and expects attention round the clock cannot be tolerated for too long. And why would anyone want to continue with such a person. Relationships don’t mean bearing one another.

Sexual Incompatibility

If your libido doesn’t match with that of your partner’s, you may be left feeling dissatisfied or irritated. Stress, fear of poor performance, non-acceptance of your looks could be a few reasons behind your abhorrence for physical intimacy.

No Intimacy

There are two types of intimacy – physical and emotional, both equally important to keep a relationship alive. Every person has certain needs which can be met by none other than the person they are dating. It could be just a desire for being physically intimate or a longing for someone close to talk to about how their day went. If you come home late every night being too exhausted to even eat or show no interest in talking to your partner, don’t blame them if they leave you for someone more engaging.

Carry-over of Past Trauma

There is a big difference between learning from your past mistakes and carrying-over your past experiences. It is unfortunate that many times people fail to make a distinction between the two. If your previous partner had been sleeping with your BFF behind your back or lying to you throughout, it doesn’t mean that your current one must be doing the same. Every person is different. Learn to let go of your suspicions else your love and relationship will suffer.

Mental Health

Your love life is sure to be impacted if you suffer from any kind of mental illness. For a relationship to stay strong, mental health is much more needed than physical fitness. Your brain has a bearing on your actions, reactions, temperament, and self-control. The biggest problem is that many people don’t even realize they have a mental health issue and require medical aid.

Different Point in Life’s Blueprint

It could happen that one partner might have become financially stable and all set to tie the knot, while the other one might still have many aspirations to achieve. This can stagnate the relationship and draw the two people apart. You both have to talk and work it out if ending up being committed to each other is what you want at the end of the day.

Substance Abuse

Bad habits of any sort are a major turn off. Hence, it’s advisable that you nib them in the bud. Your control over your mind and your partner’s addiction to you are directly related. Your substance abuse might be causing harm not just to you, but also to your surroundings and those around you. You can never grab the eyeballs of your crush by chain-smoking or collapsing after being heavily drunk.

Empty Promises

Failing to show up on a dinner date is nothing to freak out over. But it is a bad sign if you do it more often than it can be understandable. And, if possible let them know beforehand that you might be late or might not be able to make it. You have to respect and value their time.

Fading Sexual Attraction

During the initial phase of your relationship, you put in a lot of effort to ensure that you appear attractive and irresistible to your partner. Even your conversations with them are flirtatious and fun-filled. However, as it progresses, you tend to become more relaxed and unveil your lazy, boring, and not-so-appealing side. This could lead their attention to drift to somebody else. Don’t complain later that it wasn’t in your hands.

Lack of Proper Communication

Active communication with your partner is one of the necessities for maintaining your closeness to them. You could talk about how your day went, discuss your future plans, and the like. Taking even half an hour out of your hectic day and having a light, but meaningful conversation with them over a cup of hot chocolate can do wonders for your relationship, as well as for your state of mind.

Insecurity

Insecurity can be endured to a certain degree, but not beyond that. If you are insecure, you unknowingly give signals to your partner that you do not have full faith in them and you fear they may dump you for someone better. If they want to leave you, they will do it anyway. However, you being insecure will plainly give them a reason why you can’t be their ideal partner.

Craving for Commitment

If your beloved one isn’t prepared for commitment, then your constant nagging will only compel them to call it quits with you. Give them time and space to get to know you and figure out if and how they want to take it further with you. Your desperateness can make them lose interest in you while your indifference will make you all the more desired.

Cheating

Cheating is the reason for the crushing of most of the relationships. This is so because it is the hardest to condone. Cheating shatters a person’s trust and reliance in you and without these no relationship can survive. They gave you their heart and you broke it. You have no right to ask for forgiveness.

Incompatible Priorities

The problem of clashing priorities is faced by every couple out there. It has nothing to do with how crazy they are for each other or what phase of relationship they are in. Did you not see your parents fighting? It’s all right and totally normal. Your partner might be putting you first, but you might accord your career the highest priority. This is nothing to argue over. A tad bit of maturity is all that’s needed to tackle such issue.

Forever Suspicious

Trust is the building block for any relationship. You can’t expect your partner to be calm and easy-going if you are constantly keeping a watch on every activity of theirs or wanting to check their phone every other day. If you know they love you then trust them with all your heart and mind. Even if you are certain of being two-timed, accost them and ask directly instead of becoming a part-time detective.

Religious Differences

Your religion and cultural background do have an influence on your personality and the way you look at and approach situations. If you and your partner follow different religions, your beliefs are bound to be distinct and, at times, could be contradictory leading to heated arguments. This shouldn’t be a major problem if you both make genuine attempts to understand the other one and be ready to compromise.

Vulnerability Stalemate

You must be wondering what this vulnerability stalemate is. It occurs when neither of you want to be the first one to apologize or to admit that you are hurt by your partner’s act. You do it out of fear of coming across as vulnerable or emotionally weak. Couples also expect from each other that their partner should be able to read their minds and act accordingly. This just complicates things, making them difficult to sort out. Expressing your needs and desires and being open can relieve both of you of all the stress and unwanted drama.

Abuse

Abuse of any kind and to any extent must not be tolerated at any cost. If your relationship ended because of your partner being verbally or physically abusive, you should thank your stars and be happy you are no longer with that person. You are supposed to be at peace with your lover and not scared or traumatized. And, if you were the one inflicting abuse on your ex, you seriously need to change if you don’t want to die single.
It must be clear to you by now why your ex ended it with you. However, this doesn’t mean you should start regretting your decisions. You cannot go back in time and change anything. Just keep these in mind next time you fall in love with someone.


 by inspiredot

A job is something all of us have to do to get by. Those at the top tell other people what to do. Everyone else has to obey in order to take care of pesky things like rent and food. Not everyone is cut out for all the positions out there, though most of us try to do our best with the one we have.

Then there are the weird jobs that you’ve never heard of. In fact, you probably wouldn’t know where to begin if you got one of them. Nevertheless, all of them exist and are consistently looking for applicants—if you know where to look. These aren’t run-of-the-mill, nine-to-five affairs. Instead, they require specific sets of skills that you can only obtain once you get them.

10- Professional Sleeper

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“I wish I could be paid for sleeping” is something most of us have thought at some point in our lives, mostly right after we have to wake up to go to work. It makes sense, too, as sleeping is amazing. But what if we were to tell you that you could actually get paid to sleep? In some cases, you’ll earn a lot (depending on where you sleep).
A professional sleeper is a serious occupation and provides services that are required in many modern industries. Although it’s not your typical full-time job, you could earn a sizable income if you land the right gigs.
From researchers (who regularly need sleep testers for various experiments) to mattress brands that need sleepers to test their products and artists who require sleeping subjects, professional sleeping could be a lucrative career if you advertise yourself well enough.

9- Parabolic Expert

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When you train to be an astronaut, one of the first things you have to learn is how to maneuver yourself in a gravity-free environment. Although it may not sound like a big deal, you’d be surprised how difficult it is.
Inherently, our bodies are trained to only work in gravity. It takes a long time just to get used to a gravity-free environment, let alone be able to engage in day-to-day functions in it.
The people who impart that training are known as parabolic experts, one of the most coveted and highly skilled occupations in the going-into-space industry. In fact, only nine people in the world are qualified to do it.
First, they must become excellent at free-falling in an aircraft (aka a vomit comet in casual NASA lingo). This is the only way to simulate a microgravity environment on Earth for training potential astronauts to go on missions. It’s not their job to actually go into space, even though they’re a crucial part of nearly every space mission.

8- Professional Mourner

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The death of a loved one can be difficult to deal with, and everyone copes in his own way. Some people mourn for days before getting their lives back to normal. Others shut themselves away until they can be around people again.
Still others take it one step further and get professional mourners to do their grieving. Although it may sound weird to the rest of us, these mourners are dedicated professionals in quite a few parts of the world.
Professional mourning has been a thing for thousands of years in many regions, including Africa, China, and ancient Egypt. However, China is mostly where it’s still big business.
The job consists of showing up to the funeral and staging a believable session of mourning—complete with physically breaking down and wailing. This may sound alien to the rest of us, but it’s completely normal in Chinese culture. These pros can also earn quite a bit depending on how good they are.

7- White Hat Hackers

With almost everything from traffic to government databases to supply line inventories of big corporations now operating through the Internet, hacking is an increasingly serious threat for almost everyone. This is especially true of hackers in countries where the Internet isn’t regulated much.
As a result, there’s an equally high demand for good hackers who know the basics of getting into networks without being detected. They expose vulnerabilities in high-value targets like government databases.
Known as white hat hackers (as opposed to the regular black hat hackers), these individuals are hired by corporations and governments around the world to do their best to get into the employers’ networks. If you’re really good at it, you may earn a fortune for doing a contract job, with a chance to be hired by your client at the end of it.
The best part?
Absolutely no one will ask how you got those skills in the first place as long as you’ve never used them to do actual harm. To qualify, you simply need to get really good at hacking. Just make sure you don’t practice on live targets, as that is illegal.

6- Iceberg Movers

Potable drinking water is already on the brink of running out for the whole world. We may not hear much about it because the crisis isn’t as dire in the loudest parts of the world yet.
Many countries are now looking to Earth’s natural ice reserves for help. They are devising plans to haul entire icebergs from the South Pole to their shores to harvest water. The job is given to iceberg moving companies, where you can apply to work if you’re up for it.
Iceberg moving may sound impossible—like mountain relocation or beach stealing. However, many Middle Eastern countries are already grappling with serious water scarcity issues, so they’re willing to give it a shot.
Some iceberg towing companies are already on their way to get the first icebergs to some of those countries. Middle Eastern governments are also hoping that huge floating icebergs off the shores of their countries may serve as tourist attractions, too.

5- Futurist

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Many current jobs have never existed before, including that of a futurist. If it sounds like someone who sits around all day and makes predictions like a fortune-teller, it absolutely is—except that the predictions have to be backed by data.
It is one of the more accessible jobs on this list (though not for scientific fields). In fact, anyone can apply to be a futurist as many New Age firms are starting to see the importance of the position.
A futurist’s role is to study current data and make reasonable predictions about future trends based on that information. A government may employ a futurist to predict social changes in order to estimate taxes in the future. An advertising firm may try to find out what kind of messaging consumers are likely to respond to 20 years from now.
Depending on your field, a job as a futurist can be as awesome as it sounds or just entail data crunching all day like your old job.

4- Food Stylist

Over the years, food advertising has come a long way. If you’ve ever seen a food ad and thought “wow, that looks good,” it’s not because that’s how it’s supposed to look. Instead, a highly specialized type of professional called a food stylist made the food look good for the camera.
If “food stylist” sounds like a joke, we assure you that it’s absolutely not. You can go to your local employment listings website and find a posting for one of these right now.
The job is not easy to do, either. Apparently, styling food is an art form that you master after years of persistent practice, which also involves know-how of photography and videography.
If you do get your foot in the door and become a food stylist for a local firm, you may work your way up and someday get to style food for the big brands. Needless to say, that pays quite well.

3- LEGO Master Builder

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LEGO bricks transcend age, sex, borders, and race. No matter who you are or what you do, a LEGO set is all you need to push aside everything else and spend the next four hours trying to build something that you’ll give up on anyway. And that’s okay. A big part of the company’s success is being able to engage the inherent builder in all of us, even if we’re not that good at the job.
That doesn’t mean that everyone’s bad at it. We all had that one kid in class who could build intricate structures out of LEGO sets and simply mesmerize us. If you were one of those kids and have always wanted to do this for a living, you can get paid tons of money for it.
Known as LEGO master builders, these guys are employed by the LEGO Group to create those huge structures built of LEGO bricks that occasionally go viral on the Internet. If playing with LEGO pieces has been your dream all along, you could definitely give this a shot. However, you’d have to be really good at it to even stand a chance.

2- Shark Tank Cleaner

Most people visiting a shark tank (not the TV show) have a great time, maybe have a snack or two, and then return home. However, the curious ones look at the whole setup and think, “I wonder who cleans that?”
There’s no way to keep the artificially created ecosystem healthy without someone actually going into the tank and manually cleaning it. In fact, there are shark tank cleaners tasked with doing exactly that.
The job is dangerous because the sharks are always in the aquarium. You can’t just make an expensive secondary tank to house the animals until the cleaning is done.
However, the cleaning isn’t what makes this a badass job. It’s getting used to being around sharks that are already angry at all humans for keeping them in captivity. The cleaners have to learn shark behavior and be good at diving—as well as knowing when to get out—to even be considered for the role. They spend around 30–40 hours in the tank per week as a part of their job.

1- Odor Judge

Smell is an important sense, which is apparent by how many products rely on it to make sales. From soaps to deodorants to candles, how a product smells is as much a part of its commercial success as its appearance. So, who is in charge of making sure that things smell the way they should?
You guessed it (presumably from the title of this entry). Odor judges determine the best smell for a particular product. Obviously, they have to go through plenty of bad odors, like those from armpits, to come up with a deodorant to counter the smell.
It may sound like a horrible job, but it’s also a crucial one. They also deal with issues like whether a particular type of seafood is contaminated by a nearby oil spill. Of course, you must have a keen sense of smell to qualify for this job, and it may end up paying quite well if you work at a large organization.


By Listverse.com