Originally Posted by truegem
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I would love to be one of those people who gets paid to travel around the world visiting spas-hotels-resorts and writing reviews on the service.
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On my honeymoon in Tahiti, we met the guy that writes the Frommers travel guide for Tahiti as he was leaving our hotel. We ended up bumping into him again at a popular restaurant, so we asked him to dine with us. He said his job is pretty nice but there is a budget that the travel books give him, so he doesn't actually stay in most of the hotels he reviews. He just goes to them and takes notes. Same with restaurants - he'll only really eat at a few each stay, and rely on other people's recommendations for others. Each day is a really long itinerary of stops, so he doesn't really get to "enjoy" each stop, just about an hour before he has to move on somewhere else. But he says he still enjoys it (he's also older, in his 60s, I presume, so at retirement age). It's not a full time job; he just goes whenever the book needs a new edition. (Cool thing is, he mentioned us and our dinner in his last edition!)
My dream job? A USPS mail clerk. Don't ask me why. If they paid six figures, I would so do that for the rest of my life.