Today’s title might intrigue, mystify or confuse you. But fear not! All will be explained in this week’s Jobs That Might Seem Cool But Actually Kinda Suck!
The job: Professional TV Watcher
You might like this job if: You like watching TV. A lot of TV. Especially news or clip shows, as they’ll be the ones hiring you.
The good: You get paid to sit around and watch TV for hours at a time! Who said that turning your brain into mush would never be a marketable skill!
The bad: Ever wonder how I Love the (Decade)s or The Soup or The Daily Show or most any show that uses clips get just the right part? It’s by hiring a bunch of rubes to spend hours every day pouring over the minutiae of TV, making copious notes, getting timestamps, and so on. Imagine watching CSPAN for 10 hours straight…and staying awake. Not so fun now, is it?
Summary: The TV watcher is the second cousin of the video game tester: cool in theory, boring and tedious in practice. Watch TV on your own schedule; you might not get paid for it, but you’ll enjoy it a lot more.
Rating: Three busted videocassettes out of five.
