If you're interested in a fast-paced job, love the idea of making boatloads of money, and think you'd be an awesome salesperson, add this high-paying position to your career list. Commodities traders (also called brokers) work for financial firms buying and selling things like oil, grain, metals, and sugar. Keep in mind that these transactions take place on computers—no one's actually showing up with barrels of corn or hunks of silver. As a trader, you'll need to watch market prices carefully and make decisions with confidence. It also helps to have a friendly, outgoing personality since you may meet with clients to offer investment advice. Commodities traders, who must pass a special exam to get licensed, earn a base salary that they’re guaranteed each year. But they also earn extra money through commissions: If their customers' investments do well, they get to keep a cut for themselves. This work is specialized, meaning that not many brokers are commodities experts (as opposed to stocks and bonds, which lots of people trade online without professional help). That means this job may offer security, since folks are always going to need someone to tell them things like whether wheat, coffee, or cocoa is the "hot commodity" to trade this week.