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TV watcher
There's a solid market for this gig. Fast-typing fingers can earn you a starting salary of $25,000 to caption TV shows for the hearing impaired as you watch them. Production assistants for clip shows like "Talk Soup" spend their days flipping channels in search of potential segments to pass along to producers, earning a few hundred a week. At Nielson,
a team of media researchers stay glued to the tube, 8 hours a day,...
more Photo by: thinkstock
TV watcher
There's a solid market for this gig. Fast-typing fingers can earn you a starting salary of $25,000 to caption TV shows for the hearing impaired as you watch them. Production assistants for clip shows like "Talk Soup" spend their days flipping channels in search of potential segments to pass along to producers, earning a few hundred a week. At Nielson,
a team of media researchers stay glued to the tube, 8 hours a day, $10 an hour, watching out for any product placements across networks.
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