{"id":4454,"date":"2019-10-14T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T07:26:16","slug":"5-offbeat-job-career-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/5-offbeat-job-career-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"Offbeat jobs you won\u2019t mind doing for the rest of your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Do you shake your head from left to right whenever your parents mention <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.univariety.com\/blog\/lethal-trends-in-engineering-that-are-killing-careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engineering<\/a> or medicine? Do the letters MBA or LLB not really spark excitement in you? Then maybe the conventional career paths are not right for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">What you need is a dose of something different, unusual, fun and exciting. Something offbeat. We\u2019re giving you a run-down of 5 career paths that are exactly that. And they\u2019re growing in demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Read on and give these a serious thought.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>5 Off-the-beat Career Paths You Must Know About<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b> Voiceover Artists<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">An on-screen character is incomplete without the flavour in his\/her voice, which is created by the talent of a voice-over artist. You can lend your voice to television serials, advertisements, commercial films, audiobooks, e-learning material, radio spots and jingles, and other forms of media content. Does it sound like an interesting career path for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Focus on<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Language proficiency \u2013 To master the language you would like to give voiceovers in. More languages = more opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Performance and characterization \u2013 To dramatize and add depth to the character.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Voice control \u2013 Understand the pitch, volume and degrees of tonality of your voice, and how they can be altered to suit the role.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Reading \u2013 To confidently and quickly read run-on sentences. This comes handy when you\u2019re giving voice overs for audiobooks or corporate documentaries that have dozens of text-heavy pages.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b> Bloggers<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Creating a blog<\/a> isn\u2019t just about self-expression. It\u2019s about streamlining your passion and adapting it to the online, knowledge-sharing sphere. And the subject depends solely on what gets your interest levels kicking, whether it\u2019s travel, food, fashion, lifestyle, technology, cars, bikes or literature. Your blog can be on absolutely anything you love!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">If you consider words as your weapon, blogging can be an ideal career path for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Focus on<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Content writing \u2013 To create blogs that are not just pieces of information, but impactful and engaging content that offers value to readers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Leveraging the power of social media \u2013 To generate buzz, create conversations with your audience and stay connected with your readers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Digital Marketing &#8211; To increase the visibility of your blog to your target audience.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Photography\/Videography \u2013 To extend the nature of your content. Images and videos are known to be widely accepted and effective formats of content.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Game Designers<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">The gaming industry is here to stay, and if you want your video game craze to be a part of it, then consider being a video game designer as your career path. Your job role can include responsibilities like crafting the concept and plot of a game, all the way up to designing the user interface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Focus on<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Creativity \u2013 To invent new storylines for games in unique and interactive manners.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Software skills \u2013 To be skilled in computer-generated imaging and development of graphics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Industry-awareness \u2013 To stay updated with what\u2019s trending in the gaming industry, and understand what sells to different audiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b> Flavourist<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Food-lovers, this one\u2019s especially for you! Become a flavourist and you will be equipped with all there is to know about tastes, balance, flavour formulas and little details about the infinite world of flavouring. Once you\u2019ve accumulated the required knowledge with the right degree, you will be able to conduct research, recreate flavours and even create new ones! If you&#8217;ve got the palate of connoisseur, flavourist can be an ideal career path for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Focus on<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Deepening your love for research \u2013 To be able to conduct experiments involving the creation of flavour formulas. Be prepared to spend your work hours in a laboratory as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Sense of taste and smell \u2013 To understand which components will match.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Ethical Hackers<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">By becoming an ethical hacker, you are in a way becoming the protector of a digital system. It would be your responsibility to try and counter the security of a system and find gaps in the application or software. By fixing these gaps, the system will be able to strengthen its wall of security so that other hackers with ulterior motives (basically the villains who want to steal or manipulate information) can be kept out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Focus on:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Analytical and critical thinking \u2013 To identify loopholes in the system, and be one step ahead of external hackers who can pose a threat to the system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Communication skills \u2013 To be able to interact well with managers of the system so that the areas that need improvement can be communicated to them effectively, and then corrected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Attention to detail \u2013 To ensure that every little aspect of the system\u2019s security combines to form a tightly bound wall because defending the system lies in your hands.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Virtual Internship Program<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">With the outbreak of COVID-19 and lockdown across the country, we hope you&#8217;re home and safe! 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Spend your time wisely to make sure you have a bright future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/products.univariety.com\/product\/virtual-internship-program\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Try our Virtual Internship Program today!<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you shake your head from left to right whenever your parents mention engineering or medicine? Do the letters MBA or LLB not really spark excitement in you? Then maybe the conventional career paths are not right for you. What you need is a dose of something different, unusual, fun and exciting. Something offbeat. 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