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You Can Do Cosplay Full Time

Cosplay is basically an eternal Halloween for adults. You dress up like your favorite character -- probably sinking way too much money and time into the costume -- then you go to a con and stand in line for sixteen hours while nobody gets your reference. It's a hard-knock life. And yet, you can make a living out of it: For some, cosplay is a lucrative job that brings in a six-figure income.

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As long as you don't mind the occasional asshole asking if you want to see their "Mjolnir."

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Celebrity Impressionists Can Actually Make Bank

Odds are that you look just a little bit like somebody famous, and this could earn you hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you thought "celebrity impressionist" was a sad joke career, well, maybe you're right. But they can't hear you over the sound of their wallets exploding. This is all thanks to the Screen Actors Guild: If you join SAG as a performance artist, you can apply for standard minimum payments, in addition to healthcare, legal representation, and other union benefits. Also, the weekly scale for SAG members is almost $3000. Better impressionists earn thousands for single appearances.

You don't even have to be dead on -- take the case of Thaddeus Kalinoski, just some regular Vegas dude who lost his job and got divorced, teetering on the edge of homelessness until his beard of despair and general air of depravity got some folks mistaking him for Zach Galifianakis.

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As seen here with a random tourist.

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People Make A Living Playing With Toys On YouTube

On YouTube, there are content creators who make seven-figure incomes just by filming themselves playing with kids' toys. You might think that's absurd: Where's the fun in watching someone else play with toys instead of doing it yourself? But then, isn't that we all said about Twitch? Isn't that what some of us still say about Twitch? Some of us just don't understand the goddamn world anymore, but that doesn't mean you can't forge a living out of the weird, regardless.

YouTuber "CookieSwirlC" is one of the mega-stars of the scene, and she makes a mint just uploading videos of herself playing with action figures. Her channel has almost four million subscribers and, in total, gets around seven million views daily. In YouTube ad dollars, that's around 10 grand per day, just for grabbing Troll dolls by the hair and wiggling them around a bit.

This isn't an adult thing, and it's not a "look at cute girls" thing: Evan is the nine-year-old proprietor of EvanTubeHD, and he makes a million-dollar salary just by opening toys and playing with them in front of a camera for the enjoyment of his four million subscribers. And to think, when you were a child, you mashed G.I. Joes together and made explosion noises for free. Like a sucker!

Nathan Kamal lives in Oregon and writes there. He co-founded Asymmetry Fiction for all your fiction needs. Madolyn Whitmer is a teacher by day and writer by night. She also has an affinity for horror films which you can hear all about over at the Monstersquadcast on empireorjedi.com.

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