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Just a few ways to be profitably and pleasantly (if uselessly) employed, from Stanley Bing's book, "100 Bulls**t Jobs … and How to Get Them" (Harper Collins).
Diet doctor
Inspire fat people to buy books.

$$: On its lowest levels, which they call a nutritionist, it's still pretty good, well into the mid-$100,000 level, since very needy people with low self-esteem will flock to you and never leave. At the guru level (see Guru), the money is excellent, and if you have a successful book you are truly in fat city.

The upside: Money. Sex. Power.

The downside: Can never eat a Ring Ding without looking over your shoulder.

The dark side: Posthumous decline in your book sales, particularly if you die under fat circumstances.
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