8. Professional Golf Ball Divers



What if you could spend all of your workdayson golf courses—diving? When golfers hit a ball into a water trap, most of them look at the offending obstacle, say something nasty and settle in to launch another little white ball. Ok, so the water's neither clear like the Caribbean nor colorful like a coral wall off the Great Barrier Reef. It's a cold, nasty, dirty job, but someone's got to do it. For golf ball divers, a bad day of golf is a good day of work. Golf ball divers dive about four days a week and on an average day collect approximately 4,000 golf balls.
 
Also, golf ball divers have made up to $100,000 annually. Now I got your attention, right?

10. Professional Sorority Rushing Coach



If you want to succeed in life, then you'd better get into the right sorority. Make it your primary focus for the first few months of college, because that's when you have to impress girls three years older than yourself. Their opinions of your body, intellect, personality and values matter. Make the best impression with the help of professionals who coach young ladies through the process of rushing a sorority.
 
Naming themselves the Rushbiddies, they opened shop in 2009 after hearing about the rush misfortunes of their daughters' friends. About 50 mothers and their “chicks,” as the Biddies affectionately call them, attended one of their two-day workshops in April ($100 a couple), complete with mock rush party, wardrobe hints and paperwork prep.
 
There is a mound of it. The smart rushee, the Biddies advise, will have a résumé stressing community service, leadership, academics and teamwork, letters of recommendation from alumni of each chapter, preferably on the campus in question, and reference letters.
 
With the help of Ms. Foster and Ms. Grant, who wears a pink feather boa during workshops, Mrs. King asked alumni of about 10 chapters, several from UVA, to write her daughter's recommendations. To guide their plaudits, she sent them packets with a professional photograph, transcript and résumé. To thank them, she dropped off a bottle of rosé in their mailboxes.