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I've heard of six of them before. I'm very slightly disappointed.
A friend of mine had a job as an earthworm feeder, and later as a tofu presser.
One of my brothers had a job as a deer carcass enumerator. He'd walk a grid in a state park and report on the location and condition of any dead deer he found.
There were professional mourners at my mother-in-law's funeral. Keening and ululation is the done thing at funerals in their culture, and I have to admit, the professionals really know how to make an uncanny racket.
I met a guy in a bar once whose job was to jerk off salmon. It was part of his work on his Ph.D. thesis, something to do with sperm motility and its relationship to various environmental conditions. But if you asked him what he did for a living, he'd say "I toss off fish."
I also once met a bull semen courier on a plane. I remarked on the fact that his carry-on luggage was a Dewar flask. Apparently there's a massively globalized market in high-grade bull spunk. He also explained the process of bovine electro-ejaculation. We drank a lot of whiskey. Weird flight.