Need a new career? This week's top offbeat job openings

5. Arch expert
Employer: ULTA
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Demonstrate and sell products by performing brow and facial waxing services. (For more information click here.)
Location: Lexington, Ky. (pop. 275,726, including Fayette; median family income $64,341) is not only the home of the University of Kentucky, but its population ranks 10th among the most college-educated in the country, with nearly 40 percent of residents having at least a bachelor’s degree.

6. Underground utility locater
Employer: ELM
Wages/salary: $12 to $18 an hour
Details: Use maps to locate underground utilities and work with utility mangers, crews, homeowners, and contractors in discussing utility location issues. Must walk up to five miles a day at least twice a week. (For more information click here.)
Location: Sioux City, Iowa (pop. 82,385; median family income $52,391) is the business hub of a tri-state area where Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota meet.

7. Pet stylist
Employer: Petco
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Perform basic grooming services, including brushing, bathing, and conditioning of animals. Follow owner’s instructions on breed standards when clipping, stripping, or trimming an animal’s coat. (For more information click here.)
Location: Park City, Utah (pop. 7,371; median family income $77,137) has gone from being a silver mining capital in the 1800s to a popular skiing destination that claims it has the “greatest snow on earth.” It was the site of Alpine skiing events during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

8. Driller
Employer: General BS Quarries, Inc.
Wages/salary: Not listed
Details: Drive truck-mounted drilling machines to bore large blast-holes to specified depths in open-pit quarry. (For more information click here.)
Location: Montrose, Pa. (pop. 1,547; median family income $46,607) is in Susquehanna county, where Joseph Smith, founder on the Church of Latter-Day Saints translated the Book of Mormon from a homestead.

9. Flavor/fragrance production assistant
Employer: Elite Personnel, Inc.
Wages/salary: $16 to $18 and hour
Details: Assist in the large-scale formulation of some of the world’s leading fragrances. (For more information click here.)
Location: Somerville, N.J. (pop. 12,682; median family income $60,422) is a center for medical, government, and business facilities in its area, which means its population nearly doubles during the day.

10. Salvage coordinator
Employer: Adams & Garth Staffing
Wages/salary: $9 per hour
Details: Supervise the day-to-day operations of the Salvage department for the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank network; assist in disposal of product not fit to be salvaged. (For more information click here.)
Location: Verona, Va. (pop. 3,638; median family income $36,263) is in the Shenandoah Valley, where Cyrus McCormick in 1831 invented the first reaper.

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