If You’re Bored And You Know It, Go Job-hunting!

You don’t like your job. Every day, you wake up wishing you’re brave enough to just get up and leave, and become one of the thousands prowling for employment - stable, sustainable, or otherwise. There are many posts you would rather occupy than be a secretary. If it makes you feel better, there are worse things than being a secretary; but if you think Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs has the last say on career options that sucks vacuum cleaners, think again.

Below are some career options that would make a secretarial post seem like choice picking.

1. Snake Milker
There are snake wranglers, snake charmers, and then there are snake milkers. Who knew snakes had milk glands? The world owes a lot to snake milkers, though. They juice the venom out of snakes so anti-venom could be produced. But surely, this is one job you sure don’t need kick-ass suits and engravable cufflinks for!

2. Ostrich Babysitter
Some would find this not much different from babysitting. All you have to do is sit in a field teeming with on them to make sure they do not peck each other to death, or somehow get themselves stolen. The advantage of this job is that you get to sit down, set up an easel and get some painting downand do practically nothing all day. The downside is that ostriches sure are no babies, and they have aggressive behavior down to a science.

3. Fortune Cookie Writer
There’s work for journalism and linguistics major, it seems, and this work is more exciting and less time-consuming than writing for newspapers or reading the 12 o’clock news for a local radio station. Ever wondered who wrote those fortunes in English? Apparently, take-out Chinese meal is not just full of monosodium glutamate, it also overflows with witty advice, lovingly dispensed by a BA-holding fortune cookie writer.

4. Whiskey Ambassador
If curing liver problems or alcoholism is a chore, so is eventually damaging your liver and becoming an alcoholic. As whiskey ambassador, you would be in charge of selecting only the finest of whiskeys and then teaching clients the right way to sniff them, taste them, and appreciate their attributes.

5. Personal Shopper
Believe it or not, some people find shopping tedious. So, they hire someone else to look out for cool groomsmen gifts for them, or buy engraved Zippo lighters to later hand out as corporate giveaways. However, it’s dubious if putting in “highly skilled shopper with a sharp eye for bargain” on your resume actually increases your value as a potential employee.

Undoubtedly, being someone’s underling is not the worst that could happen to you after college. You could be out there writing fortune cookies or singlehandedly encouraging liver damage.