May 24, 2009 8:45 PM

Winery Offers $10,000-A-Month Dream Job

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(CBS)  If your dream job includes drinking wine, eating good food and writing about it, then polish up your resume.

Murphy-Goode Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. is hiring a Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent, reports CBS13.com in Sacramento. The job pays $10,000 a month for six months - plus accommodations in a private home. Duties include drinking their wine , learning the craft and blogging about it, as well as working with their winemaker, David Ready, Jr. to create a new wine commemorating the job.

The Winery is looking for an applicant with familiarity with blogs, social media like Facebook, and YouTube.

You can apply online. Job seekers must complete an employment application and upload a one-minute video.

They are taking applications until June 5, and the job starts on August 1.

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by tiana00 May 6, 2009 7:20 PM EDT
I think this is a great opportunity it may be a lot of work but worth the exprience
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by jbar116 May 5, 2009 10:40 AM EDT
Typical reaction to the recession. Drink your way out!
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by bwlewis1964 May 4, 2009 10:54 AM EDT
Finally a job George Bush is qualified to do.
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by skip46 May 1, 2009 2:28 AM EDT
Does one need a college degree to fill this position.....lol
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by rsmik May 1, 2009 12:19 AM EDT
"The job pays $10,000 a month for six months - plus accommodations in a private home. Duties include drinking their wine , learning the craft and blogging about it, as well as working with their winemaker, David Ready, Jr. to create a new wine commemorating the job."


Nah, too much work.
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by novamba May 1, 2009 12:06 AM EDT
That is nothing. There are 535 jobs in Washington that pay much more than that, for doing less, and the gig is no less than two years long, plus, all the booze and parties that Pelosi's 100 are willing to front for you.
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by grabandgo April 30, 2009 9:02 PM EDT
We will all need that job when nobama is done taxing us
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by bspdyz April 30, 2009 8:12 PM EDT
what the world needs another wineo in 6 months . what we need is some 420 testers
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by Henri_Rochard April 30, 2009 6:36 PM EDT
My dream job is a professional brassiere fitter.
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by presjfk April 30, 2009 5:43 PM EDT
Well at least someone's mother will get their 35 year old out of their basement for 6 months...
Posted by tmittelstaed

LOL
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