Food Inspector

You inspect restaurants, food processing plants, and grocery stores to make sure the food supply doesn't make people sick. You've seen things in commercial kitchens that would make you never eat out again — and yet here you are, eating out anyway because you know which places passed. The restaurants that get nervous when you walk in are the ones you worry about most.

What you'll actually do

• 01Inspect restaurant kitchens and try not to visibly react to what you find behind the walk-in cooler
• 02Check food temperatures, storage practices, and hand-washing compliance (you'd be horrified)
• 03Write inspection reports with scores that restaurants either frame proudly or hide from customers
• 04Educate food workers on safe handling practices they'll follow until you leave
• 05Investigate foodborne illness outbreaks and trace them back to the source
• 06Make the call on whether to shut a place down — knowing it means people lose their jobs