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The job of a food reviewer: occupational 'hazards'
Food reviewers have opportunities to eat delicious food, earn high income, and earn the respect of restaurant owners.
Young people earns millions of dong a month from food reviews
Eating and reviewing food is a new career in Vietnam. Active and prestigious food reviewers can earn tens of millions of dong a month.
The professional ethics of food reviewers
Many food reviewers praise dishes and restaurants lavishly in their posts on social media even though they never try the products of the restaurants.
Odd jobs: tapping durian, smelling jackfruit, massaging coconut flowers
Not many people can take these jobs, so those who assess the quality of fruits just by touching or smelling can earn millions of dong a day. Their service quality is better than any modern machine.
Farmers earn billions of dong a year from raising worms
Worms are bringing revenue of billions of dong a year to farmers.
Unusual job: 'Peeling' tree trunks to collect wine
Planting trees is not only for fruit or wood but also for wine.
The man who has been ‘beautifying’ corpses for 30 years
Working as a cadaver carer for many years, Kim said he sometimes becomes tired and exhausted. But he has never considered giving the job up because he feels sorry for the dead, who are washed and made up for the last time in their lives.
Families find hornet hives and grow bee pupae
In recent years, many households in the central province of Nghe An have ventured into the forest to capture hundreds of nests to use in the garden.
Odd job: green mussel harvesting
Green mussels are available all year round, but people in Tran Van Thoi district (Ca Mau province), meet in groups when the wind blows south, as that is the best time to forage for mussels.
Man spends half year to make titanium coats, sells for VND25 million
Many unusual products exist in Vietnam: acid-resistant coats made of titanium; paper made from elephant dung; and jewelry made of snake bones.
Odd jobs in HCM City: ripping up jeans for money
Only one man does this unique job – ripping up jeans to create new models. For tens of years, the job has brought him high income as well as an interesting life.
Odd job: raising bugs in forests
A Hau Giang man is raising snakes in glass tanks while families in Thanh Hoa are raising rep canh kien do (Laccifer lacca Kerr), or bugs. Both jobs are highly profitable.
Vietnam's odd jobs: smelling jackfruit for a living, cooking salt
Jackfruit 'smellers' help merchants find delicious jackfruit to collect, and salt cooks help turn raw unclean grains of salt into white clean salt. These are a few of the interesting jobs in Vietnam few people know about.
Unusual jobs of young people in Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge – “Leasing the body,” delivering food at night, reading books ... are the jobs that some young people in Hanoi and HCM City do during their free times.
