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July 2010
Navy sea lion trainer
When Craig Swepston wants his athletes to perform, he reaches for a bucket of herring.
Craig Swepston
Location : San Diego, California
Age : 42
Years on job : 22

As a trainer with the Navy Marine Mammal Programme, Swepston prepares sea lions for military... |more|

April 2010
Zoo veterinarian
Pete Black works for the St Louis Zoo, where his primary responsibility is to perform routine exams and surgeries and provide preventative care to the zoo’s 5 000 animals.
Name: Pete Black
Location: St Louis, Missouri
Age: 29
Years on job: 2

The African redneck ostrich weighs... |more|

February 2010
Bladesmith
Burt Foster has made knives that can chop through a plank, shave hair off an arm and bend 90 degrees.
Name: Burt Foster
Location: Bristol, Virginia
Age: 37
Years on job: 8

Spurred by a childhood fascination with the outdoors and knives, he decided at... |more|

October 2009
This is my job
Molecular chef
Alex Stupak Years on the job: 4 Location: new york city Age: 29
Most chefs don’t have scientists on speed dial – but then again, most chefs aren’t Alex Stupak, who practices molecular gastronomy, or cooking with chemistry labworthy... |more|
July 2009
Blasting Specialist
"In terms of blasting technology, the use of electronic delay detonators is the invention of the century."
Blasting Specialist:Andre de Jager
Years on the job: 12
Location: Gauteng:
Age: 30

De Jager became involved in specialised blasting applications in... |more|

February 2009
VERTICAL GUN RANGE ENGINEER
When Chuck Cornelison gets ready for target practice, he loads his 3,7-metre gun and shoots projectiles in excess of 30 000 km/h.
But he’s not firing ordinary shells: The manager of Nasa’s Ballistic Range Complex is shooting tiny replicas of meteors and spacecraft from three guns to mimic how craters form and how... |more|
December 2008
Aerospace engineer
Trong Bui an aerospace engineer, who conducts flight research at Nasa’s Dryden Flight Research Centre.
> Trong Bui
> Edwards, California
> Years On The Job: 18
Trong Bui always wanted to be a fighter pilot, but when less-than-perfect vision kept him out of the cockpit, he... |more|
October 2008
Scoreboard operator
Christian Elias a Scoreboard Operator at the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park.
> Christian Elias
> Age: 36
> Years on the job: 18

Embedded in the 11,3 m-tall Green Monster at the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park – the highest outfi eld wall... |more|

September 2008
Inventor
Mario Salazar has built everything from hearing aids to Space Shuttle hardware...
But when he decided to create a line of furniture, he couldn’t find a tool that would make precisely angled cuts as quickly as he wanted. So the 44-year-old invented one: the ProMiter-100, which he... |more|
August 2008
Palaeontologist
Don Esker has wanted to work with fossils since he was four years old.
“My first polysyllabic word was dinosaur,” says the in situ curator of the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. To map a bone at the indoor dig – a 26 000-year-old sinkhole that contains... |more|
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