Jobs and job positions

There are a lot of abbreviations for top leadership positions that contain the words “Chief and Officer” in the title. It may be confusing to keep the players straight. It may help to explain that a corporate officer holds a management-level position, such as a President, Vice President, or General Manager. Other common positions include:

·         CEO – Chief Executive Officer – This person is the highest ranking corporate officer.  They are the head of management for an organization.  They report to the board of directors. They make high-level decisions about policy and strategy.  The people that report to the CEO include:  The CBDO (Chief Business Development Officer), CFO (Chief Financial Officer), COO (Chief Operating Officer), CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), CIO (Chief Information Officer), CCO (Chief Communications Officer), CLO (Chief Legal Officer), CTO (Chief Technology Officer), CRO (Chief Risk Officer), CCO (Chief Creative Officer), CCO (Chief Compliance Officer), CAE (Chief Audit Executive), CDO (Chief Diversity Officer), and CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).  Steve Jobs was an example of a top CEO.  To find out more about these other chief officer positions, click here.  Check out:  The Best Performing CEO’s in the World.

·         COO – Chief Operating Officer – This person is responsible for the day to day operations or an organization.  Not all companies have one.  In 2006 more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies did not have a COO.  This person may also be called the company’s President.  This person could be thought of as the second in command behind the Chairman or CEO.  An example of a top COO is:  Tim Cook was the COO for Apple before replacing Steve Jobs as CEO. Check out: List of Famous Chief Operating Officers.

·         CFO – Chief Financial Officer – This person manages the corporation’s financial risk.  They deal with data analysis, financial planning and record keeping.  Although they report to the CEO, they may also sit on the board of directors.  Peter Oppenheimer is Apple’s CFO.  Check out:  Bonus Babies . . . The Best Paid CFO’s.

·         CMO – Chief Marketing Officer – This person is the head of sales, product development and all things marketing-related.  The CMO can report to either the CEO or COO. Their job is to obtain growth through sales and marketing.  The CMO has become more commonly discussed in recent years.  Check out:  The Chief Marketing Officer . . . A new Boardroom Role.

·         CIO – Chief Information Officer – This person is the head of information technology.  They may report to the CEO, CFO or COO.  They must create strategic goals to increase information accessibility and manage integrated systems.  The CIO and CTO roles are often confused.  Check out:  What is the Difference Between CIO and CTO.

There may be other chief officers’ positions in other industries as well.  For example in hospitals there could be a CMO (Chief Medical Officer), a CNO (Chief Nursing Officer) and a CMIO (Chief Medical Informatics Officer).

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Crazy Jobs Around The World You Won’t Believe Actually Exist

As kids, we've always been asked this question and our mad-cap answers answers have made our parents smile. But little did they know that most of what we said were actually full-fledged professions (there's even a job where you have to sleep).

Here's a list of 21 such crazy jobs across the globe that you will not believe exist:

1. Professional Pusher

Japan is indeed a hardworking nation. It makes sure that all its people reach work on time and that's why Japan has employed people to push others onto trains so that nobody's late for work. I love this country!

2. Rental Boyfriend

In Tokyo, if you have the money, finding a boyfriend is as easy as it gets. I don't really know what all the boyfriend will do, but it sure sounds fun. I'll be shifting to Tokyo the day the Japanese come up with the concept of 'Rental Girlfriends'.

3. Professional Stand-In-Liner

As long as there are queues in the world, Narabiyas (Japanese for stand-in-liners) will never be out of fashion. These freelancers will happily wait in long queues for you as long as you pay them some money.

4. Professional Sleeper

My first reaction when I came across this job was... Wow! You actually get paid to... Sleep! Professional Sleepers doze off while scientists conduct research on sleep disorders. This has to be undoubtedly the most comfortable job on the planet.

5. Wedding Guest

This is a part-time job in Japan where people double up as wedding guests. Don't believe me? Here's an ad. Ask a Japanese friend to translate and you'll know. Apart from the money, they also get free food.

6. Vomit Cleaner

Some roller coasters dip, rise and turn at such crazy angles that your breakfast is bound to come out the wrong way. Amusement park owners knew this fact and thus this job came into being.

Q. Why would anyone do this job? A. Free rides.

7. Deodorant Tester

You have a habit of poking your nose into other people's business. Well, these people poke their noses into other people's armpits to test the odour-fighting powers of deodorants. Now that's what you call a stinking job.

8. Water Slide Tester

All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy. Not in this case, because Jack's work involves a lot of playing in water. Water Slide Testers have to check all aspects of safety and make sure these rides are absolutely safe. There's always medical insurance for those who break a bone or two.

9. Paper Towel Sniffer

Paper towel manufacturers leave no stone unturned (loosely translated to leave no roll unsniffed) in ensuring that their rolls don't smell foul before, during and after use. How do they check for any unwanted smell after use? Gross!

10. Chicken Sexer

Sure, there are chics involved, but still there's nothing sexy about this job. A chicken sexer's job is to identify the gender of a baby chicken. That's about it.

11. Professional Cuddler

If you happen to be in Japan and are missing your girlfriend, just shell out some cash and you get to cuddle and sleep next to a Japanese woman. Just cuddle, mind you.

12. Pet Food Taster

Whoever came up with this job must be a true-blue animal lover or someone who likes to chew weird-tasting food. Do animals and humans have similar taste buds?

13. Professional Mourner

You'll need these mourners if nobody gave a damn about you when you were alive. It's sad that you won't be able to see them mourn for you because you'd be in the coffin.

14. Cuidacarro

You'll meet a cuidacarro when you park your car in Costa Rica. His job isn't as complicated as it sounds. All a cuidacarro does is watch your car when you are gone so that nobody steals it (unless he himself has taken a fancy to it).

15. Furniture Tester

As long as the furniture's not made of cactus, this job's pretty cool. You have to sit, wriggle and sleep on the furniture to asses its comfort. This job is so cool that it's weird.

16. Wrinkle Chaser

The name says it all. Wrinkle chasers make sure there are no creases on shoes when they are whisked out of the factory. Yeah, I said that right - shoes . How else do you think those high-heels look so classy?

21. Bicycle Fishers

Amsterdam is the most bicycle friendly capital city of the world. It's no surprise then that a lot of these two-wheelers end up in one of the canals, thus giving rise to another profession - the bicycle fisher. Each year Amsterdam fishes out around 14,000 rusty bikes from its waterways.

Strange Jobs

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The 10 weirdest jobs you've never heard of

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One of these weird jobs involves working with baby chickens all day. Source: Supplied

THINK your job is boring? Well, it probably is compared to some of these odd professions.

We've rounded up some of the weirdest and wackiest jobs out there.

Some are awesome, some are dangerous and some are just disgusting.

1. Pet Food Tester 

Yes, it's a thing, and yes it's totally gross.

But as the owner of pet food company Huds and Toke, Mark Gooley, says, "If you wouldn't put it in your mouth, don't you dare expect your dog to eat it."

Mr Gooley eats dog food for a living. He eats everything from doggie treats and chewy bones to liver mixture.

Mmmmm dog food. Source: Supplied

"I'm looking for palatability. I want it to be soft in the mouth and I want it to be an enjoyable experience for the dog," he told PerthNow.

"The dog might not be able to tell me 'that tastes terrible', so I have to taste it," he said.

And if it doesn't pass the taste test, it's back to the drawing board.

"I don't know how to explain it. It's like being a mad scientist. People look at me blankly and say, 'I just don't get it'. But I wouldn't do anything else."

Someone's gotta do it I guess.

2. Face Feeler

Ever wondered how shaving brands and beauty companies can claim their products give you the smoothest skin?

Well, one lucky person has verified it for them.

A face feeler tests how soft and smooth a person's skin is after using a product, to prove how well it works.

So all day, they just sidle up to beautiful test models and feel their faces.

Nice.

3. Gumologist

A lot of hard work goes into creating the perfect piece of chewy.

Just ask Jesse Kiefer, who works as a Gumologist for Cadbury Schweppes.

"A piece of gum weighs just one to seven grams, but it's packed with a lot of different technology," he told Fortune.

"It has to deliver a burst of flavour, a lot of sweetness, and a lot of tartness if it's a fruit gum. "Our team figures out how to combine all those.

"Some days, I don't blow any bubbles. Other days I have to blow a lot. It depends on what stage we are in the project."

Gum chewing. For a living. It's a thing. Source: Supplied

Kiefer has to get the flavour just right, which isn't easy with some combos like strawberry and lime - which he says don't complement each other that well.

Kiefer started out as a chemical engineer and was working mainly with detergent and soaps.

"But with gum there's just so many flavours! I find the job very stimulating. I've had only one cavity since I started here."

4. Fountain Pen Doctor

Don't you just hate it when your fountain pen breaks? It's the worst.

Luckily there's a man whose sole job it is to fix fountain pens.

Richard Binder, 59, of Richard Binder Fountain Pens in Nashua, New Hampshire, has been "pen doctoring full-time" since leaving his software engineer job in 2002.

He receives broken pens from everywhere - Argentina, Japan, South Africa. He often has 600 pens waiting to be fixed at any one time.

"More than half of my work, really, is nib work," Binder told Fortune.

"The heart of a fountain pen is the nib, the point through which the ink flows. If the nib is no good, it doesn't matter how fancy the rest of it is, it's not a good pen. Nibs can be scratchy if they're worn or misaligned. People often want them adjusted for more or less ink flow, or customised for calligraphy.

"My gross income is less than when I was a software engineer, but I'm happier.

"I just got a handwritten thankyou from a gentleman in the Philippines. Basically I get my pleasure from making people happy with their pens."

What a nice guy.

5. Chicken Sexer

Don't worry. It sounds way worse than it actually is.

When chicks are born they all cuddle together in masses trying to stay warm.

But these cute young things need to be separated according to their sex.

It's a sad end for male chicks - most are sent off for culling because they're irrelevant for egg production.

But the female chicks are primed for their future careers as egg-layers.

Brutal, but true.

6. Waterslide Tester

This is my personal favourite.

Monday morning definitely seems a lot more enticing if you get to spend your working week slipping down water slides. Especially come summer.

A slightly different work setup than the boring old office. Source: Supplied

And water slides are usually placed in massive theme parks. Imagine getting to spend your lunch break on a rollercoaster, and eating a hot dog for lunch.

Working holiday, am I right?

7. Teddy Bear Repair Technician

Kids get really emotional about their toys. Remember when your favourite toy lost an arm, or suffered a similar life-threatening injury? It was devastating.

But now there's a special technician who can come to the rescue.

The Build-A-Bear Workshops have a Teddy Bear Repair Technician who is hired to repair those much-loved teddy bears and get them back to their cuddly, intact, lovable selves.

8. IMAX Screen Cleaner

Those giant cinema screens are total germ-bait. It's a business model just waiting to happen.

And Michael Quaranto, of Houston's 1570 Cinema Services, capitalised on it big time.

The airline pilot got together with his best mate, Andrew Brown, and on their 14 days off a month, they travel around the country and clean IMAX screens.

"Theatres that carry concessions often have Gummi bears or soda thrown at the screen. We also find spit wads," Quaranto told Fortune.

"The biggest problem is that they get dusty. The most dust we've ever seen was a quarter-inch thick.

"We usually have to empty the vacuum cleaner at least two or three times during the process. We're covered in dust by the end of the night".

So next time you go to the movies, make sure you take a good look at that super-clean screen.

9. Cup Keeper

This job takes babysitting to a whole new level.

The Stanley Cup is awarded to the championship team in the US/Canada's National Hockey League competition.

But there's only one cup, and each year's winning teams are engraved on it.

The famous Stanley Cup, awarded to the winner of the National Hockey League. Picture: AP Source: Supplied

Due to the trophy's huge price tag, it must be chaperoned at all times while it's away from its permanent home at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

A "Keeper of the Cup" is paid to accompany the trophy during its travels and make sure it doesn't go astray.

10. Snake Milker 

Snake venom is powerful stuff. It can be turned into drugs to treat all kinds of conditions, including a poisonous snake bite.

But some brave soul needs to collect that venom by hand. They gently expose the snake's fang and squeeze out the deadly juices.

"The only difference between me and any other company in the world that produces something is that the means of production here can kill you...and wants to," Alabama snake milker Ken Darnell told NPR. 

Rather you than me, Ken.

Would you want to work in any of these professions?