If our current jobs don't work out....
Getting paid to drink
Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:14pm EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Found: drinking companions to join elderly gentleman for a friendly beer at his local pub.
Mike Hammond was bombarded with offers after advertising in his village post office for someone to accompany his 88-year-old father Jack on visits to a southern England pub from a nursing home.
He offered the lucky winner 7 pounds ($14) an hour plus expenses and, after sifting through the applicants, decided on a job-share. Drinking duties are to be divided between a retired doctor and a former military man.
"Dad's now going to be going down to the pub several times a week -- three with his new friends and twice with me," Mike Hammond told The Times on Thursday. "I want to give him some of his old life back."
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2487835120080424?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Paid to Drink