Chick Sexer: The $60K a Year Job Nobody Wants

[jimmy olsen]

Where's the Brain when you need him? 

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/careers/chick-sexer-60k-year-job-nobody-wants-n317481

Chick Sexer: The $60K a Year Job Nobody Wants

From Netflix's "binge-watching" tagger, to Tetley tea's "tea-taster" and Ben and Jerry's ice cream "flavor developer"; there's some fascinating and attractive jobs out there.

However, the British public is turning its nose up at a job that pays up to £40,000 ($61,300) a year that involves spending all day with fluffy baby animals. In recent years, the U.K. poultry farming sector has seen a shortage in the role of a "chick sexer"; a job that requires individuals to identify the gender of a newborn chick.

Once seen as a popular job in places like Japan, fewer people are showing an interest, with the U.K. only having a current total of 100 to 150 "chick sexers." The lack of trained workers is resulting in a shortage in chick exports, which could result in the UK losing valuable business. So why is there a lack of interest? There are two common techniques used to determine the gender of a day-old chick: "vent sexing" and "feather sexing."

Vent sexing requires inspecting the inside of a chick's (rear end), to identify the gender. "Feather sexing" however, is less intrusive and distinguishes whether a chick is a hen or rooster by the shape and length of its wings. Vent sexing requires a minimum of three years' training, so workers can develop a minimum speed of checking 700 chicks every hour (average), with a 98 percent accuracy rate.

In a job advertisement published on Gov.uk, a U.K. government website, employees would be paid £3 ($4.60) for every 100 chicks, and with an examination total of up to 1.5 million chicks per year.

[Valmy]

Where do I apply?  Does it require any certifications?

[jimmy olsen]

Where do I apply?  Does it require any certifications?

It requires a minimum of 3 years training to become a professional chick sexer.

[Valmy]

Where do I apply?  Does it require any certifications?

It requires a minimum of 3 years training to become a professional chick sexer.

Eh by the time I finish my training all the Chick Sexer positions will be filled.  That is how it always goes.

[Ed Anger]

Hey baby. Nice boots.wanna fuck?

[Ed Anger]

Oh, wrong chicks. Okay.

[The Larch]

They don't say that the job also involves sending all the male chicks to a gory death.

[Monoriu]

If it really is that important and not enough people are turning up, maybe they should raise the salary.

[Ideologue]

It requires a minimum of 3 years training to become a professional chick sexer.

See, the great thing about the 21st century is that I don't even know for sure if you're joking.

[jimmy olsen]

It requires a minimum of 3 years training to become a professional chick sexer.

See, the great thing about the 21st century is that I don't even know for sure if you're joking.

How about you read the article and you'll find out! 

[Ideologue]

Sorry, I missed that line.

Maybe they meant "three minutes."

Anyway, I feel like the speed/numbers they're asking for is unrealistic.  Maybe if a machine presents them to you in batches of twenty-five or something.

[Admiral Yi]

Like a chick rape rack?

[Ideologue]

Anyway, I'd much rather have a job as a sorter of human beings, deciding whether they get to live in cages or just get turned into food.  Surely that pays $60k?

[Grey Fox]

700 chicks a day at 3£ each?

Fuck that shit, do I look like a mexican strawberry picker?

[Admiral Yi]

700 chicks an hour.