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.

“Leasing the body” are the other words for the job that people have to use some parts of their body in work. Body leasing job is quite diverse, from working as face to hair models, living models or models for body painting artists.

“Face models” at makeup classes are not required to be beautiful but they must be eye-catching, have neutral skin that is not allergic to cosmetics.

This is a pretty simple job that attracts a lot of young girls. Models have to sit still for students to practice makeup. They are paid VND35,000-60,000 ($1.5-$3) per hour.

Many young people want to learn makeup job, but the cost for a make-up course is quite expensive so doing this job can help them earn extra money and learn make-up for free.

In the same way, many young people earn money as hair models. Remuneration for each hair sample fluctuates from VND350,000 to VND700,000 ($15-30). However, this job is prone to occupational accidents such as skin allergies to cosmetics or chemicals used for hair.

Body painting - drawing on the human body is a quite sensitive job and it requires models to sacrifice for art. Body painting models have to face the pressures and prejudices of society.

A model for body painting must have nice body, the patience and love beauty. Depending on the difficulty of each painting, the time for drawing can last up to 5-6 hours. Models can earn VND200,000 ($10) an hour.

Not really popular as body painting, but serving as a living mannequin has been known in Vietnam recently. The task of these young people is standing behind the glass door, wearing the latest designs and smiling when people pass through the door. Each "shift" lasts for two hours and the living mannequin is paid VND1.5 to VND1.7 million a month.

The living mannequins are not completely motionless behind the glass door. They can use the phone, chat with "colleagues" and change their posture while performing.

Reading books and newspapers is a special job. Most people who do this job are those who love books. The subjects of this service are the elderly or children. Some work individually and some join reading clubs for the elderly, the blind and kids.

This job requires very strict conditions: patience, having love for reading, communication skills and a good voice, said Le Quang, a student of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities – chairman of a reading club in Hanoi.

However, the benefits from this job are a lot. In addition to VND35,000-50,000/hour, the readers can learn a lot of knowledge from books and  experience from the elderly have “friends” to share the love of books.

Delivering food at night is a new occupation, but it is very hot now. This job does not require a lot of capital, just skills in cooking and then advertising the services on the internet.

Searching the keyword "food shipping at night" on Google, one will get dozens of results with attractive advertisements like “You are hungry at night? Don’t need to go anywhere, just pick up the phone. We will ship food for you from 10pm to 4am in Hanoi."

These addresses introduce different menus, accompanied by fascinating illustrative photos. The prices are reasonable, for example: VND 30,000 for fried rice, sticky rice with pork ribs and sweet sour tamarind sauce, which are accompanied with junk food and soft drinks...

In addition to the pay for food, customers have to pay a delivery fee from VND30,000 to VND50,000.

However, this is quite a dangerous and tiring job because people have to work at night and they can face many kinds of evils and robbery.

Song Ngu