{"id":182496,"date":"2015-08-29T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/29\/this-is-the-best-job-ever\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T00:20:00","slug":"this-is-the-best-job-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/29\/this-is-the-best-job-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Best Job Ever!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>If you love cats, and you’ve considered running away to join the circus, then the fact that a Cat Circus Looking for a Tour Assistant<\/a> is like \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 catnip:<\/p>\n

Has your dream always been to run away with a cat circus? Then here’s the job for you! Samantha Martin and the Acro-Cats are looking for a tour assistant to travel cross-country with a troupe of trained cats (plus a groundhog, a chicken and a few rats) as they purr-form at venues in cities across the United States.<\/span>

<\/span>Job Requirements:<\/span>

<\/span>1. Animal care experience – Daily, weekly and monthly cat care duties – including but not limited to general and advanced cleaning and care\/welfare of animals and their living environment.<\/span>

<\/span>2. Out-going personality, a keen sense of humor, the ability to roll with the punches, a flexible schedule, a high comfort level engaging with crowds of cat lovers, open to new experiences, lots of fun and craziness. We travel in a tour bus and share RV\/hotel rooms.<\/span>

<\/span>3. Physically fit – able to lift and transport up to 50 lbs of show props and animal carriers from tour bus to stage and back.<\/span>

<\/span>4. Theater experience a plus – purr-form front and back of house duties, stage management, operate the light and sound, and help on stage with animals and prop placement.<\/span>

<\/span>5. Work with volunteers – wrangle and train volunteers who help with the shows.<\/span>

<\/span>Pay varies by show and includes per diem. No cat allergies. MUST LOVE CATS!<\/span>
Serious applicants only. This job is a LOT of work and time on the road, but also the opportunity of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW, it appears that this is on the level, as you can see at their web site<\/a>, which puts the lie to that old cliche “As difficult as herding cats.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you love cats, and you’ve considered running away to join the circus, then the fact that a Cat Circus Looking for a Tour Assistant is like \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 catnip: Has your dream always been to run away with a cat circus? Then here’s the job for you! Samantha Martin and the Acro-Cats are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1065,1132,995,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-entertainment","category-pets","category-theater","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}