Thanks to Portfolio.com...we have the "Job of the Week"...this week's job... diving for white gold..aka golf balls! See excerpts below...or read the entire article...
Job title: Golf ball diver
Companies that hire them: Golf courses, golf resale companies.
How to find out about openings: Call golf courses in your area to see if they use divers.
How much you might earn: $30,000 to $100,000 a year, depending on how much time you’re in the water. Divers are typically paid eight or nine cents per ball and bring in between 2,500 and 5,000 balls a day.
Useful skills: Diving experience and scuba certification.
When most people think of professional divers, their minds travel to the seven seas and fill with images of Jacques Cousteau. But such exotic scenes have nothing to do with the kind of diving Dale Lahodik does. For the past 35 years, he has plumbed the murky, polluted water traps of the Professional Golf Association’s premier golf courses, collecting thousands of the 2.5 billion balls golfers lose each year.
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