Best Job in The World!

[Murpheeee]

Chocolate Taster Wanted


LONDON (Reuters) - Calling all chocoholics. One of Britain's most exclusive grocery stores needs a new chocolate taster -- and will pay 35,000 pounds ($54,400) a year for the successful candidate.

Fortnum & Mason in London's Piccadilly -- one of the capital's most prestigious addresses -- is looking for a chocolate buyer to travel the world, taste as much chocolate as possible and select only the best for its discerning customers.

Friday's Daily Telegraph newspaper said the Fortnum's personnel director Cathy O'Neill has already been bombarded with applications after she advertised the post as the "best job in the world."

But not all of those interested have the right qualifications.

"We only advertised it Sunday," O'Neill told the Telegraph. "But already we have we have had loads of people writing in saying they have absolutely no experience, or they work in the metal industry or something, but they love chocolate."

 

[vi edit]

I always thought that a photography for playboy would be in the top three jobs ever.

Don't know what the other two would be. Maybe a professional beer tester, and a reviewer for a car site like edmunds.

 

[tcsenter]

Yep, to be a chocolate taster for a fine candy maker you have to have more credentials than just 'loving chocolate'. Usually this is an area for food technologists with a degree in food science or related field, and of course they must be chocolate "enthusiasts", not merely that they love chocolate.

I was thinking the guy who is the caretaker of Jay Leno's automobile collection probably has the best job in the world.

 

[iamme]

Best job in the world = pro athlete. You only work for like 10 years and then your set for life. (Often times your kids and their kids are set for life as well).

 

[Freejack2]

Enh, I'm married so being a photographer for playboy isn't my thing.
Can't stand the taste of beer.
A reviewer for edmunds might be fun but you probably don't travel too much and while test driving the latest Ferrari is going to be fun, I doubt testing the latest whale sized suv is all that much fun.
Now the chocolate taster job, that could very well be. After all you get to travel the word and you get to taste chocolates of the world. On top of all that the job pays $54.4k a year! If I thought I had a chance in hell I'd apply, though they'd probably more want me to work in their IT department if they had one than taste chocolates for them.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Do you have any idea how much weight you'd gain!?

nik

 

[wiredspider]

Aren't they like wine tasters? Put it in their mouth, taste, and spit?(don't make fun of this!!)

 

[DeafeningSilence]

I saw this on the news this morning.

$10 says a woman gets the job....