You want me to what? Unusual Jobs for Foreigners

We've been looking in our classifieds recently, and found a couple of rather unusual job offers available right now. This got us thinking about strange jobs for foreigners in general. There appears to be quite a bit of interest in dancers at the moment, so if you can teach any style of dancing, check out this ad, this one, or perhaps this one if you qualify.

If you can stand for long periods of time, why not be a doorman? Or if you enjoy speaking other languages, you're in luck, because there are plenty of jobs that require languages beyond English or Chinese. If you speak Norwegian or Croatian, you could try this ad for proofreading Sony cell phones, and if you speak German this ad might be right up your alley. Or if you have an Australian accent, check out this ad – apparently all you need to do is read aloud for an hour. Seems easy enough to us.

There are lots of stories of unusual jobs for expats in China too. This eChinacities article lists jobs such as a fake girlfriend or a foreign body guard, but what we find really interesting are the jobs readers wrote about in the comments. Did you know you could be paid to be a friend of a deceased man, a golf instructor, or an African bongo player? Sign us up. Strange jobs appear to be everywhere. Even Cracked.com has this article about China’s top 6 weird jobs in China – and expats made the list at number 6 (we got beat out by people hired to stand in lines and computer game players).

What's the weirdest job you've ever had in China? What's the oddest job you've ever heard of?

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