Hi Product Hunt! Try something before you read on. Set a timer for two minutes and write down every job you can name. Now look at the list. It is probably close to the whole menu you have ever chosen your work from. It is also, almost exactly, the menu every "jobs AI will replace" article is drawn from: writers, coders, translators, support agents. The world's list is much longer. The post office at Port Lockroy in Antarctica lists monitoring penguins among its duties. NASA has people who sniff every item before it goes into a spacecraft. On Everest, a team called the Icefall Doctors fixes ladders through the icefall all season. Wind turbine technicians abseil down the blades to repair them. Surprising Jobs Quiz is my attempt to put that longer list in your pocket. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES FOR YOU You open it on the train. The question describes someone's working day: they dive into golf course ponds, or they tap a wheel of cheese with a hammer and listen. You pick the job from three names. The moment you get it is usually the moment you say "wait, that's a real job?" Then you read the story behind it, including how people actually get into it. You guess the job, not the trivia. Most questions describe the work and ask you to name the job, so the surprise lands at the answer, not in the question. A bigger map of what work can be. Many of these jobs run on a trained nose, steady hands, or simply being there in person. Some ask for less than you would think: one confectioner's taster post had no formal requirements, and major diamond labs train graders on the job. It is a quiz, not a job board, but I hope you finish a stage with an idea you did not have before. Every job is real. Actually real. Each one is checked against a public source: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, UNESCO heritage records, NASA, and local reporting. Viral one-week "dream job" stunts and old legends are not used as answers. Five questions a stage, stored in the app, playable offline, in 17 languages including Hindi, Arabic, Korean and Japanese. Free with ads. No subscription. No account. WHY I THINK THIS MATTERS Most of the AI-and-jobs conversation quietly assumes that "work" means the jobs everyone already knows. For those jobs, the worry is fair and worth taking seriously. But it leaves out a long tail of work that almost nobody mentions, and a lot of that work depends on senses, hands and places. I will be honest about what I do not know. I cannot promise any job in this app is safe from AI, and I would be suspicious of anyone who does. What I want is smaller: if you are worried about your work, I want your list of possible jobs to be longer than it was this morning. Two questions for you: 1. What is the most surprising real job you have come across? If I can verify it with a public source, I will write it into a future stage. 2. Is the AI-and-jobs debate too focused on the jobs we already know, or am I overstating it? Thanks for taking a look. I will be here all day reading every comment.

Surprising Jobs Quiz

Guess the job from what they do. Every one is real.

Guess the job from what they do. Every one is real.