Great Read: Tulsa World On Odd State Jobs

From The Tulsa World ~ Among the job titles of the state's 40,000 employees, there are plenty of predictable ones: accountant, director, executive secretary. Then there are the boll weevil trappers, a personal grooming specialist, a music therapist and several golf course greeters. There are also farm hands, an abstinence educator, an unclaimed property examiner and a cultural competency coordinator. A Tulsa World analysis of the state employee payroll for August 2007 shows a number of interesting, obscure state job titles. Among them are the 14 boll weevil trappers employed by the Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization. (Read the entire story here.)

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