NOT A JOKE: Apply for the laziest summer job – ever! (video)
Jack Parow is searching for three lucky applicants who will have the best job in existence and get paid R10 000 for 10 days.
Applications are open for students and recent graduates in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town for the #LaziestSummerJob from December 1 to 10.
SA rapper icon Jack Parow created a social media storm this week with the launch of South Africa’s laziest job competition.
The successful applicants (one in Durban, one in Cape Town and the third in Johannesburg) will earn R10 000 for 10 days of chilling in a deck chair.
Literally.
Parow, who proclaims he has a ‘PhD in chilling during the day’, urges students and recent graduates seeking well-paid holiday employment to apply for SA’s laziest summer job, where languishing in the garden in a deck chair for 10 days is about the most strenuous requirement.
The search for three successful candidates was launched by Parow on behalf of a leading gardening, forestry and agricultural equipment supplier.
The lucky finalists will ease gently into the working world, earning a whopping R10 000 from December 1 to 10 for doing, basically, very little.
Job’s physical requirements:
• Set up a sunshade
• Set up a deck chair
• Apply fingers to keyboard of smart phone
• Use social media to broadcast cool new ‘career’, burning through 5GB of data loaded (free) onto the device.
The gardening supplier and Jack Parow have teamed up to promote how much free time you get when you use their brand new ‘hands-free’ robotic lawn mower.
To Parow, using technology to avoid working up a sweat while still getting the work done is “ultra-cool”.
In this job, your bank balance goes up while you sit down.
“Being lazy never felt so good,” he says.
“The company has revolutionised ‘working’ in the garden, allowing you to do other chores while it does all the mowing for you.
“Or, of course, you can get on with other fun stuff at the same time,” says Jacqui Cochran, marketing manager of the gardening supplier.
To apply for the vacancies, visit www.laziestsummerjob.co.za, submit a photo of yourself and a small write up stating why you should be chosen.
You need to be at least 18 years or older.
Entries close at midnight on November 1.
The gardening supplier will pick the top 10 from Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
These entrants will then be asked to submit videos.
Out of these, the top five finalists will be chosen from each region.
These videos will then be uploaded to the competition site and voting for contestants will begin.
Check out #Husqvarna #LaziestSummerJob on Twitter and other social media.
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