日本の変わったアルバイト (Nihon no Kawatta Arubaito) Japanese weird part time job

20th March – 弥生

Japan has a lot opportunity to do a part time job – アルバイト (Arubaito) or shorter way to call バイト (baito). Many work place does not require previous related experiences so it’s easy to get in. In those Baito opportunity, there are some unique and interesting Baito, which not many people have ever done.

Some of the common ones in Japan but not many in the other countries can be…

–Event staff job

For Japanese event staff, they normally do not require for the previous experience and there are heaps advertisements wanting to hire people for one-day events. the works can vary from security guard, ticket office, selling merchandise and helping the event holders and performers etc. Sometimes for the event staff job can be getting into the mascot costume and meeting people or dancing in front of audiences.

–Giving tissue paper out on the road

When you visit Japan, you might have realize that there are people handing free tissue paper out on the road. Those people are Baito people, and they get paid depending on the number of tissue paper they distributed. Those people are hired by the company who put the advertisement paper on the tissue paper. People are happy to get tissue paper and they will see the advertisement till they finish using the tissue paper, so it is considered as a good publicity effect. Nowadays, there are many sampling advertisements like free drinks, free eraser or free fan and so on.

On the other hand, there are very unique and rare Baito exist too:

-Just sleeping is a job

Space medicine experiment company hires people for the purpose of human body experiment, the effect of weightlessness. This Baito continues for around 20 days and they can get US1,800 ~ 3,000 dollars for the reward. But the thing is they have to keep the sleeping posture for 20 days… seems pretty hard!

-Listening staff

For this job, only thing you do is to listen to the customers via Skype. You can earn money depending on how many customers you talked.

In Japan these days, 代行サービス (Daikou-service), which is ding something on be half of somebody, is a hot topic:

-Joining wedding ceremony

To make the wedding ceremony more fabulous, brides and grooms get helps from Daikou service agency. By getting people and make them pretend to be their friends, the actual joining people think they are famous and have many friends! One wedding ceremony, you can earn around 50 dollars to 200 dollars.

-Going to cemetery to clean up the grave + pray on be half of the customer

Many people are busy working and have no time to visit their ancestor’s grave. In this case, this service would be perfect for them, stranger will clean up the grave and pray on be half of them! For this service, you might mearn 100 dollars per grave.

-レンタル彼氏/彼女 (Rentaru Kareshi / Kanojo)

This service is actually getting famous as many people secretly use it. In this Baito, you pretend to be the customer’s boyfriend or girlfriend. Some people use this service to show off their friends that they have got a boyfriend / girlfriend or even they just want friend to do something so rent a person. Many case you can earn 20 dollars per hour. However, the customers will choose which person to be their Rentaru Kareshi or Kanojo, so if nobody choose you, you won’t get paid!