Is it a thing? 10 odd jobs where you can make good money

7. Porn monitors

Yes, they are people who get paid for watching porn. But hold on, it's not as vulgar or dreamy (depend on your angle) as you think.

The job requires people to monitor online information, filtered messages or videos with pornographic content from the Internet, watch porn videos or pictures every day.

Some police work as porn appraisers to assess confiscated CDs to determine the level of crime.

Some large Chinese network companies have confirmed that they have a special department or group of employees to check whether millions of online messages and videos are pornographic as China fights against porn as major part of crackdown on Internet abuse, offering annual salary of 20,000 yuan ($29,417).

For example, Baidu, China's largest search engine, has about 1,000 staff members responsible for online censorship.

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