One-of-a-kind jobs

Lighthouse keepers, smell archivists and other jobs you did not know existed.

Every so often a job comes along that makes you stop scrolling. Someone to log the smells of Finland. A keeper for a lighthouse. A couple to run a lodge three days from the nearest road. These are those jobs. There are never many, they are rarely well paid, and they almost never come round twice — which is exactly why people have been forwarding them to each other from this site for sixteen years.