Few years ago, Google paid a huge sum of money to a select group of its employees to figure out which shade of blue users liked best. It sounds like a frivolous job, but the investment paid off: Google has earned hundreds of millions in extra revenue from people clicking on perfectly-blue ads.

It’s a fact that the world we live in is changing… and those changes are resulting in new job opportunities… I’ve selected few weird ones to share with you:

Robotics Veterinarian

The line between biology and technology is blurring. In a not too far future, pet owners could be taking their furry friends to people who have more of an engineering background than a medical one.

Think of live animals who may have prosthetic limbs or implanted chips, or even animatronic animals… Basically, not so weird… Tamagotchi and electronic pets are already amongst us.

Artificial Organ Farmer

Artificial organs remove the hassle of looking for suitable donors — doctors could just grow the necessary liver or heart and get patients back on their feet.

Medical students will have greater incentive to learn about the relationship between biology and tech. They could be growing stem cells in a lab or printing out mechanical hearts with a 3D printer.

The big upside: There’d be virtually no chance of organ rejection; and not to mention the organ black market…

Synthetic Protein Designer

Global demand for meat, fish and other sources of protein is increasing (despite of our vegan friends), as countries like China grow in size and economic influence. According to the UN, worldwide meat consumption per capita doubled between 1961 and 2007, and is projected to double again by 2050. If meat is less available, affordable or pleasant to taste, what proteins will consumers be able to access by then?

Today, startups like Modern Meadow and Beyond Meat are developing alternatives to farm-raised meat through in vitro and meat-substitution technologies (like plant-base meat which matches meat texture). If the industry takes off, the demand for professionals who design them will increase as well.

Foley Artist

Probably one of the most common jobs on this list, a foley artist gets paid to make weird noises. More specifically, they create sound effects from things usually not related to what they’re supposed to be. From cut coconuts resembling galloping horses to large rocks as the giant steps of a dinosaur, these ingenious sound effects show that it takes a lot of creativity and resourcefulness to be a “foley” artist (named after the US film technician Jack Foley (1891–1967), the inventor of the process).

Urine Farmer 

Many animals use scent to track others down. Whether it’s friends, predator, or prey. A lot of times however, this scent is not pleasing… but needed. You’d be surprise to know that there is a huge demand within the hunting community for pure whitetail buck pee. At $93k to $303k per year per deer, the job of the urine farmer is more difficult than it sounds. If your harvest isn’t of a certain quality, well then, it stinks…

Body Advertiser

Marketing has always been about being unique and standing out within the crowd. This usually means an out-of-the-box commercial or a sharp website. However some companies have decided to take a step beyond and pay for advertisement space on people’s bodies using temporary tattoos. One website advertises on it’s home page that you can make $5000 just by “leasing” your forehead…

And of course… 3D Ceramic printer technician

Basically, 3D printing is not the future – it’s now! Ceramic 3D printing is gaining in popularity across various industries. Not only used for creating unusual decorative ceramic housewares, the technology has shown promise for medical, aerospace, and even defense applications.

You know nothing about ceramics? Well, you need to start somewhere… what about learning how to throw?