12 amazing jobs that don't even sound real

• Some of us just weren't meant for that 9 to 5 work life.
• Luckily, there are plenty of job titles that aren't the norm and will stay pay you.
• Ice-cream taster is a perfect position for anyone with a major sweet tooth.
• Ariel-wannabes can sign up to be a professional mermaid in real life. 
• If you're looking to switch career paths, then look no further to these unusual job titles.

To most of us, the phrase "fun job" sounds like a glaring oxymoron. After all, as my parents are so fond of saying, "If it was fun they wouldn't call it work." 

Even those of us who have built careers around what we love (like, say, writing) sometimes we crave a vacation to do little more than eat ice-cream and sleep for days at a time on our own private island. It sounds idyllic, impossible even – but all three of the recreational activities in the previous sentence (eating ice-cream, sleeping, living on a private island) are real jobs that exist. Seriously.

We have compiled some of the most unusual jobs in the world, jobs that sound too extraordinary, too entertaining, too outright pleasurable to even be real – and it will have you googling "how to quit my job to become a mermaid" in five seconds flat.

Ice-cream taster

Not only can you get paid to eat ice-cream, but you can make a decent living doing it. According to Forbes, "food scientists"– in other words, ice-cream tasters – can earn up to $56,000 a year.

Disney princess

Okay, so the pay isn't great: professional Disney princesses reportedly don't earn much more than $30,000 a year. But the perks include 50% off cruises, 40% off food, and free passes to the parks – not to mention dressing up and acting like a literal princess for a job.

Netflix tagger

Netflix hires part-time employees to watch TV shows and movies and "tag" them with genres. It's an elusive job to get – Netflix keeps the amount of taggers on their team small – but for those lucky enough to be selected, it's a dream. "This is absolutely the best job out there," tagger Josh Garrell told the Washington Post in 2015. We're not surprised.