What are the most interesting jobs your guests have had?

[Stephanie]

Hello everyone, 

Hosting means welcoming all kinds of people with different ideas, cultures, and professions. Some of those professions can be really obscure and intriguing, giving you a lot to talk about!

From an operator on an oil platform, to a lion keeper in a nature reserve, to a restorer of aircraft!

Share the most interesting jobs your guests have had!

Thanks 

Stephanie

OCM

[Carol840]

An illustrative artist who came to join a team of scientists on a vessel that is touring the oceans. They are doing research on  the impact of plastics in the ocean. 

[Ellen33]

Professional aquarel painter

Professional road cyclist

Rockabilly singer.

Famous violin player. I could have slapped myself not listening to her rehersal. Turned out she is world class. 

Musical star

Sports dietitian for famous football team

Professional ballet dancer

[Wendy814]

I've had lots of guests who visited while participating in their various hobbies or passions. The most unusual was in town for a roller-derby competition! I had no idea anyone still "did" roller-derby. Another was for a recumbent bike race... I'd never heard of that type of bike. I've had baseball players, rowers, long distance bikers and eclipse chasers! So far as occupations, a police detective from Australia was a favorite guest, as is a recurring wildlife biologist who looks for the Northern Spotted Owl at night (he's a day sleeper!). I've met many young people who have gone into various environmental occupations which has given me hope for the future of our planet, and in the youth who have inherited it. Most recently I had a mathematician from Rome who works for an international gaming and lottery company. Not a very common profession, nor anyone I ever would have met had it not been for Airbnb. It's why I love being a host.

[Monica366]

I had a wide variety of guests this summer from 13 nationalities but the prize for an unusual profession had to be the Exorcist! Seriously! 

[Michelle1408]

NASA engineer who was in the command room as they landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. He stayed at my property since NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is down the street. 

[Jim-And-Elona-At-Two-Fro0]

A climate scientist from the Netherlands. And a wildlife biologist from Malaysia whose life work is to save the wild Malaysian tigers. Two years after her stay I read an article that said the tiger population was increasing for the first time in 100 years. And a radar specialist who worked in Area 51 back in the day. 

[Beth44]

So many and two stand out. A German guest who worked for the United Nations in Rome who worked on worldwide food security and his wife was a yoga teacher. They joined us for happy hour and we talked well into the dark night. Then there was a young Irish lad who was a "fender beater" of sorts. He traveled all over the world (France, Tennesee, Australia, where he happened into the trade) removing dents from cars destroyed by hail storms. What stories... returning cars to their glory and keeping the world fed!