One-of-a-kind jobs

Meet workers with some of the most unique jobs around the world and learn how they do what they do.

Kunoichi — female ninjas — have played a special role in the history of Japan, and exist to this day.

Musarat Durani risks backlash and dehydration in her mission to vaccinate children against polio.

Michelle Peters has completed over 5,000 parabolas on more than 200 flights as an educator with a commercial space company.

Kit Adams spent a summer working as the postmaster at Port Lockroy, a remote island off the coast of Antarctica.

Olaf Nieß holds one of the oldest civil servant jobs in Germany. His most important task? Taking care of Hamburg’s swans.

“It feels very light. It feels very freeing. It feels very zen”