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Creativity refers to the ability and tendency to generate alternatives, ideas, and possibilities useful for communicating, entertaining, and problem-solving. Some jobs are already known or popular in the creative industry, such as graphic artist and web developer. But some creative jobs are less known or less frequent. Here are these jobs:

Audio or Sound editor

Audio editors or sound editors assemble and select sounds for motion pictures, television programs, and video games.  Here,  you may use software such as Adobe Audition, Ableton Live, Audacity, ACID Pro, and other audio editing software.  You may work for radio and TV news, live sports games, and theatrical art studios. 

You’ll be expected to know audio software tools and post-production methods and meet deadlines. Also, you must know how to use audio mixer devices that are professional and sophisticated tools with a bunch of displays, switches, controls, and lights).

Education/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, broadcasting, or audiovisual technology

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Sound Design or Audio Production

• Understanding and skills in Audio editing software such as Adobe Audition, Ableton Live, Audacity, ACID Pro, and other audio editing software.

• Understanding of digital recording formats, music composition, music theory, and marketing music

Tasks:

• Create and compile soundtracks

• Control and edit sound through the multi-track audio editor

• Keep up with music trends from different genres.

• Edit music and sound effects according to company standards.

Salary: 530, 299 PHP per year (Philippines)

Salary Range: 389, 659 PHP to 657, 242 PHP per year.

Source: Salary Expert

Body Painter (human body painter)

Body painters or body painting artists are just like canvas artists but their painting medium is the human skin. Like a tattoo artist, you’ll turn a skin or whole human body into a masterpiece depicting abstract, techno, or nature themes. You won’t be using permanent ink but water-based and non-toxic paints.

Usually, you’ll work as a freelancer but at other times as a member of a creative group. The venues of your working environment include corporate events, fairs, and birthday parties.

Education/Qualifications:

• Degree in Fine arts or graphic design

• Skills and knowledge in different types of paint suited for the human body

Tasks: 

• Perform body painting sessions

• Make sure that the host is comfortable

• Take care of body painting equipment and paints and ensure they are organised and stored properly.

• Get appropriate payments from customers
   

Salary: It may range from a few hundred to thousands of dollars depending on location, skill, and work needed. 

Feng shui consultant/Feng Shui Interior Designer 

Feng shui pertains to the Chinese thought system of rules and laws that govern spatial arrangements. These arrangements can affect the flow of energy and luck. If you’re familiar with Chinese culture, you might have already encountered or heard of Feng shui. Now, a feng shui consultant is an expert on this. You’ll advise and recommend the proper positions of doors, windows, beds, stairs, and anything inside and outside a house or building. 

For example, you may inspect an interior and recommend to your customers to remove a bedroom facing the door since this is considered a Shar (Sha chi or Negative Energy). A Shar such as a bedroom opposite the doorway can bring negative energy or bad luck since it resembles the direction of carrying the dead out of the window. Another Shar is a house near or within the cemetery. Feng Shui experts consider cemeteries as places of Yin energy (Negative and Female energy) and recommend houses should be at least 5 miles away from burial sites. Being a Feng Shui expert can enhance your career prospects when you’re already in the related fields of architecture, interior and landscape design.

On the other hand, a positive feng shui brings Yang (Positive or Luck energy) or male energy. Examples of Yang include - a patterned rug on the floor, a clutter-free environment, and a naturally lighted room.

Usually, you’ll work as a consultant or as a part of a consulting company. Your clients could be a real estate companies, private persons, building, or residential owners. Being a consultant, you might not have a fixed salary structure, as this may depend on your expertise.

Your goal is to enhance your clients’ living space with harmonious arrangements of things in line with feng shui practices and principles.

Education/Qualification:
 

• Certification in Feng Shui from an accredited trade organisation.

• Program for Fengshui Architecture

• Program for Fengshui Interior Design & Landscape

• Feng Shui Online Courses

Note: For more feng shui training, visit these sites

Digitaldefynd.com

Masterhanzcua.com

More sources: Easy-fengshui.com

Duties:

• Check indoor and outdoor designs for compliance with feng shui practices.

• Make onsite evaluations.

• Recommend changes if there are Shars identified.

Salary: In the Philippines, the fees depend on the size of the property and the consultant’s experience. A feng shui advisor may charge from a hundred to thousands of pesos per hour, per session or per property. In the USA, the range is from $591 to $1534 (Home Advisor)  

Fragrance chemist/Perfumer

If you love being around a room full of essential oils, analysing devices and other fragrant chemicals, this job is for you. You research and make fragrances for cleaning products, food, manufacturing, pesticide and perfume. You may get samples and concentrates such as lavender, rose, sandalwood, agar-agar, musk and other synthetic or natural scents. These fragrances can help mask the chemical smell of a product or add just add fragrance.

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.

• Degree in Cosmetic Science

• Training in Chemicals and Aromatics

• Strong sense of smell

Duties:

• Analyse chemical raw materials or additives 

• Evaluate finished products

• Knowledge of gas chromatography

• Perform chemical and physical tests

• Ensure the production process conforms to quality control and safety standards

Salary: 213, 048 PHP average salary per year 

Source: Economic Research Institute and Salaryexpert

Ethical Hacker

The term “Hacker” is often associated with malicious intent but, did you know you can be a hacker without landing in legal trouble? If you like to tinker ins and outs of software security or enter the IT security career, this job is for you. When you hack ethically, you test the software’s vulnerability to criminal hackers. You may work for banks, government agencies, software companies, and web development companies.

Educational/Training Background:

• Computer engineering

• Software engineering

• Bachelor's degree in information technology

Duties: 

• Help a software development company or organisation overcome security risks and prevent malicious hacking attacks. 

• Maintain strict confidentiality and secrecy of company credentials and accounts.

• Solve problems and have technical skills in networking and cybersecurity.

Salary: 475, 000 PHP average salary per year

Salary Range: 218, 400 PHP to 756, 000 PHP per year

Source: Salaryexplorer.com

Dating Consultant/Dating Coach

If attracting the opposite sex is as easy as learning the ABC, then most people have already their fiancés. Unfortunately, personalities are different, and not all have the skill or confidence to approach and attract a man or woman. As a dating consultant, you’ll help singles work out their strategies and guide them to find their soon-to-be boyfriend and girlfriend.

Education/Training Background:

Note: There’s another term related to dating consultants called Pick Up Artist (PUA) that are associated with narcissists and sociopaths according to some dating sites and articles.

Education: 

Experience in dating different people and possibly a background in Communication, Psychology, and Social Work. You may work as an independent consultant or a member of a dating consultancy service. 

Duties: 

• Provide tips and advice person to person or in seminar venues.

• Guide clients on their dating

• Manage dating accounts

• Prepare dates for clients

• Monitor relationship status

Salary: $32, 000 per year average annual salary per year (USA)

Source: Work.chron.com 

Herbalist 

Numerous medicines came from natural sources such as plants, animals, fungi, and microbes. But did you know herbs are one of the major sources of plant-based drugs? Herbs are medicinal plants are procured for their healing properties. Herbalists use plants for healing ailments. You won’t be a medical doctor in this field, though; you can be referred to as a medical herbalist. 

Education/Qualifications:

There’s no common certification program or educational degree for herbalists so you might earn your credentials by finishing: 

• Botany or plant science

• Evidence-based botanical research

• Nutrition

• Pharmacy and dispensing

You might join herbal trade organisations or get recognition from regulatory government agencies. 

Tasks:

• Make herbal products such as herbal tinctures, elixirs, bitters, and medicinal hone.

• Makes infusions, tea blends, herbal tinctures, herb-infused oils and vinegar

• Manages herbal shops

• Perform quality control on herbal-infused products

• If you’ve writing skills, you could write and publish herbal blogs and books.

Salary: 328, 241 PHP - Average Salary per Year

Salary Range: 243, 170 PHP to 404, 498 per year 

Source: Salaryexpert.com 

Disclaimer: The salary figures above constitute an estimate and may change because of the job market, and economic and technological trends.