Are these Asia's most peculiar professions?

Crocodile wrangler, skeleton caretaker and fish surgeon are just some of the weird job titles

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  Thai crocodile wrangler, nicknamed Mr Max, 30, puts his head inside a crocodile's head at the Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo, outside Bangkok, Thailand. Max's work day is hands on with crocodiles, and involves putting his head inside the opened bone-crushing jaw of the crocodile for the benefit of visitors attending the daily crocodile shows. It is a dangerous job he has been doing for over ten years. Diego Azubel / EPA

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  Fish cosmetic surgeon Eugene Ng poses for a photograph with highly prized Arowana fish in his shop, Ark Aquatics, in Singapore. Known as Dr Ark to his customers, the fish specialist has been in the industry for two decades and operates exclusively on Arowana fish which are among the world's most expensive aquarium fish. Much of his fish surgery work is cosmetic, procedures like eye lifts, to enhance their beauty for their owners, costing anywhere from 30-160 euros. Arowana fish are status symbols, a luxury prestige possession among many Asian businessmen of Chinese descendancy, and can cost up to tens of thousands of Singapore dollars. Wallace Woon / EPA

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  Indian snake catcher, Mohammed Saleem, catches a king cobra snake at a house in Bhopal, India. A snake catcher for the last 30 years, he has caught thousands of different snakes including cobras, Russell's vipers, pythons, and red snakes transporting and releasing most into jungle areas far away from residential sites. He also runs a public education program about snakes to eradicate superstitions and myths associated with them. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA

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  Indonesian living statue artist, Sadam Firman, 38, in his role as an independence hero silver statue, checks his make-up in the touristy old town center of Jakarta, Indonesia. Sadam has been working as a statue artist since 2014, a full-time 12-hours-a-day job in the historic suburb, formerly known as the bustling Queen of the East commercial center in the Dutch colonial days. When tourists are plentiful he may earn about 30 euros per day to support his two children. Bagus Indahono / EPA

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  Cambodian genocide museum caretaker Kheng Sreyphirom, 36, dusts a skull of a victim who died during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, on display at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison), in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Sreyphirom has worked caring for what is left of the victims, dusting bones and skulls and arranging photos and what scant mementos remain at the former school building that was taken over by the Khmer Rouge and turned into the S-21 prison from 1975 to 1979. The site now a genocide museum. It is estimated 17,000 prisoners went through the prison and only a couple of hundred survived. Mak Remissa / EPA

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  Thai man Boonlue Kajadroka, 39, at work as he drives his broom shop on wheels, that is a tricycle loaded with brooms, dusters and other cleaning implements, looking for customers through the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, 03 May 2018. Boonlue who comes from the rural Surin province, has been selling brooms for 15 years, earning about 13 euros per day. Diego Azubel / EPA

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  Indian typewriter repair experts Parshotam Sharma (L) and Bharat Bhushan Dutt (R) repair typewriters at a shop in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, 15 April 2018. While an archaic technology for most of the world, in India there is a good business to be had by some experts who still maintain the clacking metal beasts of the pre-computer age. In Jammu, typewriters made after 1969 are serviced while those too decrepit for repair are harvested for their parts. Jaipal Singh / EPA

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  A member a Chinese traditional molten iron performance team throws molten iron against a cold stone city wall to create sparks like fireworks, commonly known as 'Da Shu Hua' in Nuanquan Town, rural Zhangjiakou city, Hebei province, China, 28 February 2018. The performers have trained for more than three years to conduct the spectacular traditional performances named Nuanquan fire tree golden flower that they say date back more than 300 years, started when there was a smelt plant in the town. The performers were blacksmiths, and one still is, experienced in handling the dangerously hot melted iron that reaches a temperature of 1600 degrees Celsius. The men wear goggles, homemade gloves and sheep fur lined jackets as safety wear. Roman Pilipey / EPA

Across Asia, billions of people head to work as the sun rises. Some of these occupations do not fall into the category of mainstream careers, instead they are deemed by some to be peculiar professions.

A specialised cosmetic fish surgeon in Singapore, an Indonesian living statue artist and crocodile wranglers in Thailand are among them. In China there are artists who throw hot molten iron to create spectacular light performances. In India you might find snake catchers and typewriter repairmen.

And at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia, Kheng Sreyphirom has a caretaking job like no other. She dusts the skulls and cares for what remains of victims who died at the hands of the Khmer rouge.