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Golf Ball Diver 

高尔夫球潜水员

If you enjoy scuba diving and being outdoors, then you are a perfect candidate for this unusual job. Golf ball divers are responsible for collecting all the golf balls from the bottom of ponds on courses. Sounds easy and enjoyable! Well, the truth is that many ponds are not well taken care of, and you can find a lot of nasty mud, algae, and even snakes down there. Gross.

如果你喜欢潜水和户外活动，那么你就是这份不寻常工作的完美人选。高尔夫球潜水员负责收集球场池塘底部的高尔夫球。听起来轻松愉快，好吧，事实是，很多池塘都没有得到很好的看管，你可以在那里发现的多是肮脏的烂泥、藻类，甚至是蛇。好恶心。

Glenn Berger says he earns about $1.5 million a year retrieving golf balls from water hazards in golf courses around Florida. He dives for balls, collects them, cleans them and resells them to driving ranges for a buck a piece.

格伦·伯格说，他每年从佛罗里达州周围高尔夫球场的水塘中回收高尔夫球，收入约150万美元。他潜入水中寻找球，收集球，清洗球，然后以一美元一个的价格卖给练习场。

It’s not exactly easy money — 1.5 million golf balls is a lot of golf balls. Perhaps even an impossible amount: According to USA Today’s math, he’d need to collect almost 4,000 golf balls a day, seven days a week — or to collect, en masse, a year’s worth of water-hazard balls at 34 or more different golf courses.

这可不是一笔容易的钱——150万个高尔夫球是很多高尔夫球。甚至可能是一个不可能的数量：根据《今日美国》的数学计算，他需要一周7天每天收集近4000个高尔夫球，或者在34个或更多不同的高尔夫球场收集一年的落水的球。

Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t collect statistics on golf ball divers specifically, its website suggests divers might earn about $200 a day.

尽管劳工统计局并没有专门收集高尔夫球运动员的统计数据，但其网站显示，潜水员每天的收入可能在200美元左右。

With 260 work days in a year (that is, if you don’t take any vacation), that’s $52,000. But that’s a gross figure. As an independent contractor, you won’t receive benefits like health insurance, and you’ll be responsible for your own taxes.

一年有260个工作日（也就是说，如果你不休假的话），那就是52000美元。但这是一个粗略的数字。作为一个独立的承包人，你不会得到像健康保险这样的福利，而且你要自己交税。

gross  令人恶心的

water hazard 水坑障碍区

benefit 福利

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