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This Instituto Camões application form has a drop down field where you can list your occupation. The choices are somewhat eccentric:

Astrólogos. / Astrologers.
Parapsicólogos. / Parapsychologists.
Toureiros. / Bullfighters.
Outros artistas tauromáquicos. / Other bullfighting artists.

The neighbours in Spain might explain the last two but I am at a loss as to why astrologers and parapsychologists make the cut for what is quite a short list.

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Alexandra Lanes
Alexandra Lanes
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Oh, also circus performers. No IT apart from computer programmers (and, I suppose, typists)
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Adam
Adam
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I am reminded of my dealings with the Job Centre, telling them that I was looking for a job as a lexicographer, which was not in their system. IT is rather a worse omission though!

(the job centre had IT but it didn't have specific subdomains that I was actually looking for like "natural language processing" so it was all a bit of a pointless exercise)

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