While ‘sleeping on the job’ would certainly get you fired in most companies, a firm in China offers potential candidates 100,000 yuan or US$ 14,500 annual salary for doing it. Yes, you read that right. You would get paid to sleep.
If you are interested, the company that you would be working for is a dietary supplement producer based in Shanghai, China. What you will do is consume their product, go to sleep, and write feedback about your experience.
Do you always find yourself sleeping on the job? Professional sleep tester might be the perfect career for you!
One of the downsides is you would be put in various sleep schedules. So, if you are someone with a well-tuned body clock, this job is not for you. Another thing, you would basically be a human guinea pig with a very favorable task.
From US$14,500 to 300,000 a year, not only is it an easy job, but also a high-paying one, too.
If all the mentioned downsides do not sound bad to you at all and you get successfully hired, you will be paid by the company US$14,500 for the whole year. Not bad for doing something you really love. Entry requirements for the job are really not very high; you just need to really love sleeping.
“For example, many programmers sleep late and wake up late and their sleeping patterns are chaotic. As a sleep tester, the workers need to mimic a programmer’s schedule and deduce the sleep quality derived, before suggesting ways to improve it,” a spokesman told Beijing Morning Post.
Though it may sound too good to be true or too weird to be real, a career adviser said that sleep testers are more common than we think. In America alone, a sleep tester can earn as much as US$300,000 a year. It is actually a very important industry in the sleep-deprived country with 30% of their population battling insomnia. Meanwhile in China, healthcare needs have risen significantly with sleep deprivation also an issue being underlooked.
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