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Summer Jobs for Adults: Once you're out of school and you've picked a career, it's not so easy to try something new. Or is it? Would you be willing to pay someone if you could have your dream job, just for a week?

Maybe you'd like to be a horse trainer, a cheese-maker or a pastry chef. At VocationVacations.com, you can get a tryout in the job of your choice without risking unemployment.

For fees ranging between $500 and $5,000, this new company lets you "vacation in your future profession."

Instead of a seaside resort, you could spend your next vacation working shoulder-to-chocolaty-shoulder with pastry chefs at JaCiva's, a confectioner in Portland, Ore., where you'll find out if the sweet life is in mixing frosting and making truffles.

You might be corking wine at a vineyard, brewing beer, or managing a raceway. A new vocational vacation should be available soon for wannabe zookeepers. Who knew people would want to spend their vacations shoveling out an elephant cage?

"It seems many people want to explore careers involving alcohol or animals," says company founder Brian Kurth, who stresses that VocationVacations.com is not some sort of fantasy camp where adults pretend to be rock stars and pro athletes.

"I can't wait for the day that I set up vocational vacations for celebrities who want to try out a future as a pastry chef or a florist," he says. "We all have dreams."

The Worst Stinking Jobs: No matter what your age, it's only natural to complain about your job, regardless of the working conditions. But before you grouse about your boss's B.O., check out the worst stinking jobs, according to the editors of Popular Science.

Topping the recent list is Minneapolis gastroenterologist Michael Levitt, a specialist in intestinal gas, who determines potentially critical medical symptoms by the smell of what his research subjects expel with the help of two "flatulence judges."