by Tracy Lawrence

Attention Business Students! With finance jobs down the tube, odd jobs are receiving some more credibility—and an influx of job applicants. Disgruntled with your boss, freshly laid off, or just looking for extra dough? Check out these jobs, and see if your calling was just a little too odd to be listed on Monster.com.

Canopy Zip Guide

Resume Description: Alaska Canopy Adventures needs guides to lead zipline tours. Don’t understimate: testing required.

Why You Want It: Getting paid to dangle anywhere from 30 to 1500 ft above the ground? And you thought Wall Street was risky

Why You Don’t Want It: Bears, the cold, Bridges to Nowhere, bears.

Average Salary: $14/hour

Who’s Offering: Coolworks.com

Christmas Tree Farmer

Resume Description: With as little as 5 acres to support 500 trees, being a rancher never seemed so…jolly.

Why You Want It: For those of us with farms, it’s an easy way to make use of all that extra space we’ve been itching to crop.

Why You Don’t Want It: It takes 7-15 years to grow a tree to Christmas-authorized proportions.

Average Salary: You can fetch prices of $30 per tree in rural areas, and more near cities.

Who’s Offering: This is more of an entrepreneurial task—and Santa doesn’t do loans.

Feng Shui Restaurant

Resume Description: Forget Deloitte, it’s time to cater to spiritual health in the ancient Chinese art of living arrangements.

Why You Want It: All that study of chi and energy flow has to have a major ROK (Return on Karma).

Why You Don’t Want It: If your client has too much clutter or 90-degree angles in her house, you have a lot of work to do.

Average Salary: $44,000 a year, though some charge $500 per 100-square meters of space

Who’s Offering: Check out the Feng Shui Directory of Consultants and Schools

iPhone App Field Tester

Resume Description: The booming market of smartphones needs its guinea pigs.

Why You Want It: Really, how hard can this be?

Why You Don’t Want It: May not want to share this one at your next family party.

Average Salary: $12-$17/hour “depending on skill,” whatever that means.

Who’s Offering: Craigslist

Promotions: Internet Pranks

Resume Description: A web-based company seeks evil friend-on-friend pranks to promote its products and brand.

Why You Want It: The next time your friend wakes up with his hand steeped in warm water, you could claim “occupational hazard.”

Why You Don’t Want It: By the time you get your pink slip, you won’t have any friends left.

Average Salary: Pay-per-prank

Who’s Offering: Craigslist, under “etcetera jobs”

Roller Coaster Designer

Resume Description: Start from entry-level drafter to conceptual designer at one of 100 rollercoaster design firms.

Why You Want It: Perks include jumping to the front of the line for your ride. Everytime.

Why You Don’t Want It: Bearing responsibility for making all those wimps cry—it weighs heavily on the conscience.

Average Salary: $45,000-$80,000 a year

Who’s Offering: Arrow Dynamics