You get paid to do what? Five Australians share what it’s like to have a weird job

‘If it’s liquid, we end up diving in it,’ says Malcolm Venturoni, the managing director and joint partner of Professional Diving Services Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

Choosing a career is no simple task. If you’re lucky, a job can align well with your values; but then there are the usual trade-offs between pay and work-life balance and considerations about how work shapes our lives and identities.

There are many ways to earn a crust beyond the humdrum of a nine-to-five office role – including jobs you might not know even existed. Here, five Australians share the unusual ways they have made a living.