8 Reading
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What are just the most unusual jobs you’ve ever heard of?
You Do What for a Living?
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Perhaps a doctor, a teacher, or a firefighter? You probably didn’t consider becoming a dog masseuse, a greeting card writing, or a snow
Researcher (a person who collects ice crystals in snow to analyze the effect of pollution on an area of snowfall). Yet thousands of people around the world earn a living performing unusual jobs that most people have never even heard of.
Take Lily Martinez, for example. She has a job that girls around the world would dream about doing—if they only knew about it! Martinez is a doll fashion designer. She remembers, ”As a girl, I would design one-of-a-kind outfits for my dolls.”Her work is very similar to the work of regular fashion designers. She analyzes fashion trends, chooses fabrics, draws sketches, and keeps a close eye on the runways of Paris and New York. Only she does all this to create clothing for 11 ½-nich (29-centimeter) dolls!