A Snake Milker is a person who takes the venom out of snakes. Snake Milkers do not only take the venom out of snakes but they also take the venom out of other reptiles as well. They take a glass jar, next they take a cloth lid and put it on top of the glass jar. They have to maintain the equipment they use as well. The venom is used for as a anti-venom and medical research. They also need to know how to handle the snakes so they do not get out of hand. Snake milking is a highly specialized and niche career category within the zoology industry. Most snake milkers work in a laboratory setting extracting venom for use in medical research or treatments. Job responsibilities for snake milkers. The venom can be worth a lot. It can be sold for more than two thousand dollars

The salary for a snake milker is thirty thousand dollars. It is not much, for what you risk your life, fingers, and an arm. They make two thousand five hundred dollars a month. The job itself does not have a growth rate but every zoologist job is expected to go up four percent. Which you need a degree for which is in Environmental Chemistry. You could go for two years or four years. A college you could go to get that is the University of Georgia. 

A typical work day for a snake milker is they go to the place were they keep the snakes and other reptiles and they see what needs to be done with the snake or reptile. When they take the venom out of the snake the snake creates venom which would be like if we created saliva. If you cut off the glands it cannot make new venom and then eventually the snake will die. The way snake milking is related to stem is it uses science for testing the venom and seeing if it can be used for a anti-venom and for medical research.

A snake milker who works in the field will find employment at a serpentarium. This is a type of lab that houses and researches snakes and other related venomous reptiles. The lab itself may also have other duties such as conservation, breeding, research, rehabilitation and veterinarian services. The snake milker may have more than one responsibility with the lab. Some of these specialist labs will be at zoos, some will be at universities and some will be small, independent facilities offering services on a contract basis. This is a small and opening area with little actual data. They do know that they spend their time tending to snakes, extracting the venom and freeze-drying it for sale to researchers, hospitals, animal charities and anybody else who might have a legal and genuine requirement for the snake venom.