America Vs. India: Getting By On Your Looks.

Getting By On Your Looks America Vs. India

By Elizabeth Kilgore

It's an age old saying we have all heard it before, "you can't get by on your looks." Well, I'm here to tell you, you can. Not only can you, but the jobs get to be little ridiculous. I know what your thinking, " oh those dumb American's right? Well, America isn't the only place you can get by on your looks it turns out you can get by on your looks in India as well. When it comes to getting by on your looks alone which country takes it up that extra notch America or India?

Human Table (India) 

  Imagine being on vacation in India when someone stops you on the sidewalk and says hey your pretty.They then asked you to be a human table at a party. Lucky for us that's what happened to the girl in this photo and she blogged about it, making an interesting start to the America vs. India post series. What does a human table do you ask? Well, they just stand there looking pretty, sometimes they are able to move the table and walk around. They help serve food, drinks, take the empty containers and make conversation with party guest, and they make lots of money to do it. How much did she get paid, well she got paid 10,000 Rupees. Can you believe it 10,000 Rupees to just to stand there look pretty and pass out a drink or two?

Nightclub Promoter (America)

If you know what I club promoter doesn't worry your right but this is a different kind of club promoter. While living in California I was stopped a few times and asked to be a nightclub promoter. After finding out what California business people thought a girl club promoter was I learned to say no without asking details. So what is a female nightclub promoter? Here is the run down of some of her job descriptions. If you go to clubs you know that girls that there is this girl or group of girls that are always there, everyone knows her/them and she/they love to party. Maybe she flirted with you before but for some reason, she is hard to get (even if you get her one night, that's all you get.) Well, that girl is a nightclub promoter, her job details are to get people to come to the club and brings their friends, make the people at the club especially lonely guys, and groups of girls have a good time and feel welcome, and to never tell anyone that she is a nightclub promoter. How much does a club promoter make well it hard to say, base pay could be at maximum of 38,000 a year or higher for high-end clubs and she can work for more than one club at a time and normally she does. Not only does she get paid this much money but people are her money as well. For each person she brings to the club she gets a certain amount of money for each one. She also gets paid for how many people come back. At high-end clubs, she would get extra money if she can get rich people to start going to the club. Got drinks? She can also get pay for a number of expensive drinks she can get people to buy.

Greeter (India) 

How would feel about going to a wedding and seeing someone dressed like this greet you upon arrival? Well in India that could very well happen. I'm not sure how this got started but these women get paid if they are under contract they get 80,000 rupees a month, plus room and board. Not just any room they get their own flat, cell phone and sometimes transportation. Their job is to dress like a Dutch maid, Geisha, French maid, or well anything the host of the wedding wants and be the pretty girl who welcomes you in at the door. The girls who are contracted to do this also do other jobs that have to do with just standing there and looking pretty as well, but this paragraph is about greeters.

Stander (America)

I don't know what the name of this job is if there is even a name for it so I named it stander. This job actually has a lot of different names but the description is always the same. What does a stander do she is the girl at an event who just stands there with a smile, doing whatever she can to stand next to the person she is told to, or next to any famous person she can, and get in every photo with them, or get in as many photos at that event as possible. The pay at this job is shocking these smiling standing beauties get to pay $50,000 a year plus all travel and food cost paid, plus if they need it all college cost paid in full no matter what college they go to. Don't believe me just ask any Miss. Sprint Cup and they will confirm it for you because this is their job. They get paid to go around the country and stand in a race suit and smile.

I'm not sure if I answered the question of which country takes it up that extra notch for you, but you now know that you can, in fact, get by on your looks. Not only can you get by on your looks but you can also make a really good living at it. So if your pretty and lazy or pretty and not lazy, or pretty and need money for college, then there is some hope out there after all.