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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.

A full-time ninja carries on ancient traditions

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

The motorbiking polio worker in Pakistan

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

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

The zero-gravity chaperone

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

Working at the penguin post office

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

42 countries operate research stations in Antarctica.

Hamburg’s swanfather: Keeping birds out of trouble since 1674

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

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