Want to untangle Christmas tree lights? Walk a reindeer?

During the Christmas season, supply and demand rules.

At no other time of the year do so many part-time jobs pop up in so many variations.

A tour of such websites as simplyhired.com and jobmonkey.com, among others, turned up the following Christmas job openings.

In England, the groceries and general merchandise retailing giant Tesco launched the nation’s first-ever Christmas light untangling service. The job description:

Manage the Christmas Lights Untangling Stand, untangle customers’ Christmas lights quickly and efficiently, check for broken lights and bulbs, put a smile on customers’ faces. Tesco also was looking for a hand-holder at an ice skating rink.

Elsewhere in the UK, a person was needed to become a human hot water bottle, requiring a special hygienic sleep-suit. Also, a professional tea taster was needed to consume 300 cups of tea a day, and a garden center was on the lookout for a reindeer walker.

Back in the U.S., Harbor Farm Wreaths in Maine was seeking somebody to move boxed wreaths into shipping containers, fill wreath decorators’ stations with decorating materials, haul in racks of wreaths for decoration, place wired tags on the wreaths, then haul in poles of brush and ask around if anyone needed help.

In Arizona, Christmas at the Princess Hotel and Resort in North Scottsdale was hiring conductors for its train depot cars. The advertisement: Come work where you will choo-choo through the holiday! Join our friendly, festive team of hospitable holiday helpers!

Meanwhile, in California, San Diego Party Lights was looking around for Christmas light installers to join one of the state’s largest lights installation businesses.

Applicants were to have experience with ladders, no fear of heights, possess excellent customer service, and be comfortable taking directions. Anyone who was not reliable, or did not want to work hard was told not to apply.