Strange Professions of the World

The Strangest, Most Dangerous, Forgotten and Unbelievable Jobs on Earth

von Mario Garcia

230 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some people make a living pushing commuters into overcrowded trains. Others spend their working day smelling armpits to test deodorants, diving into muddy ponds to recover golf balls, milking venomous snakes, hanging from cliffs in search of honey, cleaning places where people have died, repairing structures underwater or driving trucks across roads built on frozen lakes that will disappear when spring arrives.And that is only the beginning.ATLAS - Strange Professions of the World is a journey through some of the strangest, toughest, dirtiest, most dangerous and most fascinating jobs ever performed by human beings.This is not a simple collection of bizarre job lists. Every profession has a story, a reason for existing and a world built around it. Behind almost every job that now seems absurd lies a very real necessity: geography, poverty, technology, religion, tradition, industry, extreme environments or simply a society trying to solve a problem with the tools available at the time.Travel from the subway platforms of Japan to the cliffs of Nepal, the volcanoes of Indonesia, the freezing waters of Antarctica, the stormy fishing grounds of the Bering Sea and the underground tunnels hidden beneath major cities. Meet snake catchers, saturation divers, lighthouse keepers, volcano scientists, mine rescuers, wildlife rangers, professional mourners, sewage workers, pearl divers, crematorium operators and people whose entire working lives take place in environments most of us would never willingly enter.Then travel backwards in time.Discover human alarm clocks who walked through sleeping cities knocking on bedroom windows, rat catchers in Victorian London, child chimney sweeps, leech collectors, body snatchers supplying anatomy schools, galley workers, executioners, lamplighters, town criers and dozens of professions that were once completely normal before technology made them disappear.Finally, look toward the strange new world of work being created around us.Meet the invisible workers who moderate the worst corners of the Internet, people who label millions of images to train artificial intelligence, remote operators who help autonomous vehicles when machines become confused, robot technicians, AI auditors, drone pilots, space-debris engineers, brain-computer-interface specialists and professionals working in fields that barely existed a generation ago.Across more than a hundred extraordinary professions, this book explores not only what people do for a living, but why those jobs exist, how they were created and what they reveal about the societies that depend on them.Because perhaps the strangest lesson of all is this: There are no normal jobs. There are only jobs we have become used to.And one hundred years from now, someone may look back at the way we work today and ask exactly the same question: Were there really human beings who did that?

• ISBN: 9798173181954
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp