5 strange jobs that could exist by 2030

A couple years ago, Google paid a select group of its employees huge sums of money to figure out which shade of blue users liked best. It sounds like a frivolous job, but the investment paid off: Google has earned hundreds of millions in extra revenue from people clicking on perfectly-blue ads.

Ayah Bdeir thinks that's the world we live in now, one in which odd-seeming jobs keep the world turning.

Bdeir is the CEO of the home-invention company littlebits, a TED senior fellow, and an alum of MIT's Media Lab. She believes that 65% of jobs for the class of 2030 don't even exist yet, so students need to learn a variety of skills to stay adaptable.

Here are five of the jobs Bdeir thinks could explode in the next 15 years.