Odd Summer Jobs

The make-believe world of Story Land depends on seasonal staff to keep things running. Some garden and clean. Others operate rides. And some get to wear ballgowns and rhinestones.

Karen Sutkus lays traps across the city, luring in mosquitos to test them for illnesses they could spread to humans.

Veteran entertainer John Davidson puts on a one-man show every weekend during the summer at Club Sandwich in Sandwich, New Hampshire.

Affectionately nicknamed the Bug Patrol, the aerial survey team goes up in a tiny airplane every summer to record damage in New Hampshire's forests.

Families, teenagers, and delivery drivers from Door Dash all hustle for ice cream in Manchester's West Side.

The boat, operated by Captain Bob Gibbons, siphons sewage from pleasure boats to keep Seacoast waters clean.