Where is the best place to work in October? Is it the Sears Tower? Or maybe it is Empire State Building? Maybe. If you like boring office jobs and hate Halloween.

But, if you are looking for something more exciting, then there are a lot of other interesting jobs available only in the fall. Why not leave the office for a bit, pack up your geek office toys and take a seasonal job at a haunted corn maze? Think about it: you get to be outside and you get to work those alligators out, and you probably have unlimited apple cider privileges.

Sweet!

Not that you should go out and plop your desk in the middle of a corn maze and get down to business. No, first consider your options.

You can be:

1) A corn-maze engineer who helps farmers to design their mazes via satellite imaging and GPS. Technological advances make it possible for farmers to make those really complicated designs in their old corn. This is the twenty-first century and farmers no longer just head into the field with a hand-sketch of what maze they want to create.

2) Another option is that you could stand in the maze, doused in fake blood, holding a chain saw, and wait for a giggling bunch of tweens to come by. Zombie, mad scientist, Frankenstein, witch…the career possibilities in this arena are only as limited as your imagination.

3) Or you could be a corn-maze bouncer of sorts whose job it is to go find the teenagers who are making out in dark corners of the maze and scare them away.

4) Or you could maybe drive a tractor for hay rides if you have a clean driving record. This job involves lots of parent contact, however, so be advised that you may have to listen to lots of high-maintenance moms telling you how to drive. Annoying!

5) Or you could take tickets, tell stories, clean up the maze, serve cider, or do any of the other many helpful jobs that are needed in corn mazes across the country.

Think about it. If you want a job that is different, interesting, a great way to meet new people (and also to scare the bloody hell out of them), then a corn maze is for you. Sure, it may not have long-term career possibilities, but maybe a month or two of fun is worth boxing up your executive portfolios, cuff links, and your geek office toys. So, head on down to your local corn maze and talk to the boss. Great scaring and yummy cider await you there!