The $60,000-a-Year Job Nobody Seems to Want

What? There's a $60K job going and nobody wants it? Yep! Soon as you fill your mug with coffee and squeeze a virtual megatreat onto your plate, I'll tell you about it. Great to see you today BTW!

Believe it or not, ‘chick sexer’ is a real job, and it pays quite handsomely. For over $60,000 a year, a chick sexer has to look at chicks’ backsides all day to determine if they are male or female.

The process, known as ‘vent sexing’ involves squeezing the faeces out of the chick and opening up the its anal vent, to check for a small ‘bump’ that indicates it is male. Understandably, the job doesn’t have many takers, and British poultry farmers are struggling to attract employees to fill the position.

Although it sounds easy, chick sexing is quite complicated and requires an incredible amount of skill. Workers are specially trained on how to spot ‘miniscule differences’ in the size and shape of a chick’s genitalia to ascertain whether it will grow up to be a rooster or a hen.

Ah, well, let me think about it. Hey...could be worse. You could be a goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs!

See ya, eh!

Bob