Qualifications:

·         Pour drinks in Japan’s gentlemen’s clubs

·         Lavish fake adoring attention on men with

  spittle gathering at the edges of their mouths

·         Accept huge tips

·         Allow some innocent squeezes of the buttocks

·         Ignore a slight breast pass

·         Dress in glamorous gowns

·         Squeak when Squoken to

·         Earn $100,000 per year – up to $300,000

We’re not talking Applebee’s here, we’re talking plush bars, dark woods, high end leather, expensive wines and alcohol.

In a 2009 survey of 1,154 high school girls, by the Culture Studies Institute in Tokyo, hostessing ranked No. 12 out of the 40 most popular professions, ahead of public servant (18) and nurse (22).

We’re looking for a similar survey in the United States of about a 1000 workers in any industry, but only found that in the new government.