Birth with a DJ and vacation at someone else’s expense: the strangest services of the suburbs

"Give me a beat to fight!"

The biggest news is the birth DJ. The artist under the pseudonym DJ Padre offers to meet contractions under techno and house. The assortment includes tech house, progressive house, deep house, organic house and downtempo. Popsu DJ absolutely does not play. The conditions are simple: the minimum order is two hours, the maximum set duration is up to 12 hours. The musician comes with his own equipment. The cost of the service starts from 30 thousand rubles, but for an expanded format - for example, six hours of work - will have to pay from 50 thousand. “Give your favorite holiday! You give a bat for childbirth! the ad calls.

Obstetricians are philosophical about the trend. Doctor Lyubov Erofeeva reminded that the hospital is an institution with strict sanitary rules, and if you invite a DJ, it is better to let him work from another room, and the music sounds quiet. A psychologist Tatiana Muzhitskaya added: in childbirth helps any way that future parents sincerely believe.

Funny, but some suburban maternity hospitals have already bypassed the DJ in the race for the non-standard. In Balashikha, for example, women give birth under Rammstein and "King and Jester" - and this is free, as part of a regular service. And in the Pushkin perinatal center, the birth boxes were equipped with a voice assistant “Alice”: even Mozart, even heavy rock – on request.

A vacation you're not going on

Another service that is gaining momentum is “vacation instead of customer”. The scheme is simple: the customer chooses the place, route, timing and budget, and the contractor goes instead. Keeps an online report, takes pictures, shares impressions. After returning – an oral story or a written review.

The service is designed for those who have the money but don’t have the time – or those who want to check the itinerary before their own trip. Essentially, it’s a legalized imitation of vacation: you pay someone else to spend your vacation budget and send you a report.

It is not clear to ordinary mortals who would like to use such a service. But there are people like that. “Social media has created a demand for demonstrations.” A person who cannot or does not want to go, but wants to look like a traveler, orders a trip and publishes other people's photos as his own, says blogger Anna Balashova. This is already a border zone between service and deception, but there is a demand for this, especially in an environment where status is measured by geolocations. And plus people agree to the substitution when it is awkward not to accept the gift. Someone gives a loved one a vacation, but he can not go. Imitation becomes a compromise: like a gift is made, and the money is spent, and there is a report. A kind of “valentine” from the world of services.

Teeth of ancient sharks and smile of "friend"

In the Sergiev-Posad district paleontological excursions are gaining popularity. Participants go in search of fossils – teeth of ancient sharks, shells of shells, fragments of skeletons. It’s not exactly a “service” in the usual sense, but rather a hybrid of tourism and hobbies. But the demand is stable: people are willing to pay for the opportunity to touch the geological history of the Moscow region.

In Balashikha, a man offers to make a company for 3 thousand rubles per hour: go to the bath, for a walk or to the movies. In Saltykovka, a “girlfriend for an hour” takes a modest $ 1,000 for a soulful conversation. The main clients are business women and mothers with many children, who find it easier to pay for listening than to go to a psychologist. Balashikha hotel for animals decided to play on the feelings of the owners who leave their pets. Those who miss wool on a business trip or on vacation, hotel staff record tracks with purring, send photos and video reports. The formats to choose from are “sleeping stream from the windowsill” or “video call from the bowl”. The price is about 500 rubles per session.

What official statistics say

Against the background of all this, the official list of "unusual vacancies" The city looks almost conservative. The Ministry of Social Development of the region named the rare professions that employers are looking for: a text editor for training neural networks (including for GigaChat), a shore sailor, a choirmaster, a blacksmith and a vivarist.

We'll decipher it for those who don't know. A vivarizer is an employee who cares for laboratory animals in a vivarium. Coastal sailor – work on ships or coastal facilities. An editor for neural networks is a specialist who writes and tags texts to teach language models like GigaChat.

Separately, it is worth mentioning the vacancy of a tea taster in the Moscow region with a salary of up to 100 thousand rubles. The employer was looking for a specialist for quality control of tea raw materials, organoleptic studies and reporting.

As strange as it may seem, the service market responds to demand and demand becomes more and more fragmented. Someone needs a DJ for delivery. Someone is going on vacation instead of him. Some are blacksmiths or vivars. Whether it's strange or not is a matter of taste. The main thing is that someone is willing to pay for each of these oddities.