This cat sitter job pays £65 per hour and requires that you play classical music for them

by faith_plus_one

25 comments
  1. Great work if you can get it. Alas, I am only classically trained on my drum kit. Not sure the Catto would like that aha.

  2. Cats are lactose intolerant. I hope the fresh milk reflects that

  3. For £65 an hour I will learn the violin and play myself

  4. Are we all just ignoring the monthly Harrods trip for toys..?

  5. Oh, how I wish I had someone who spoils me like a far too wealthy person does a cat.

  6. Can you imagine the absolute shit storm you’d get launched at you if anything happens to that cat?

  7. Note that the actual job title is

    > Cat Sitter / Personal Assistant

    I wonder how much of the job is cat sitting, and how much is being a personal assistant?

    I would suggest that the personal assistant is likely to be the main part, and is likely to be very demanding.

    But for £65 an hour…

    £65 x 37.5 hours x 46 weeks = £112,125

    £45 x 37.5 hours x 46 weeks = £77,625

    (Why 46 weeks and not 52? Because 52 weeks minus 22 days holidays minus 8 bank holidays = 46 weeks. Play around with the calculations as you see fit)

  8. I really want to see a picture of this cat. Obviously I know it’s fake, but a picture of the fake cat then.

  9. So, reading the application, that an 1 hour per day, morning and evening, plus 2 hours playing classical music. Say 15 hours per week. At £65/hour that is £1,040 per week, 52 weeks of the year, so that £55k. To look after a cat.

    Better money than a lot of other jobs, plus it’s part time.

    Has to check the date to see if this is 1st April

  10. Full time position of trying to get the cat to play with you, but just being ignored instead. And here I am paying for the same situation, like a mug!

  11. I had a British Shorthair (from a rescue). He was the most beautiful cat I’ve ever seen. I loved him like a baby. He also had the worst digestive issues I’ve ever seen (which is probably why he was given to the rescue shelter). Cost us thousands in vet bills and specialist food from Germany. Explosive diarrhoea several times a week.

    So if this cat is anything like my baba, £65 an hour to maintain litter box cleanliness sounds about right…

  12. _Monthly_ trip to _Harrod’s_ to buy new toys?? Meanwhile my cat’s perfectly happy with a screwed up piece of paper 😂 Sometimes I’m glad I’m not rich. Sure, I’m riddled with mental illness, but I’d say I’m more in touch with reality than these people

  13. “Willing to take 2 full time candidates”

    Is the “cat” actually a lion?

  14. I don’t think they are looking for a classical musician who happens to want a cat-sitting job. Who also happens to be Pet First Aid certified.

    If I were to guess, it’s one of the millions of “ghost jobs” that companies and organisations create every year, for the sole purpose collecting information. Information about people looking for jobs. Information on the type of people willing to apply for work at various levels of compensation at a specific location, etc.

    The job doesn’t actually exist. It’s just there to collect data. Its a perhaps extreme example of the phenomenon, but no less insidious than the hundreds of thousands of jobs for accountants, IT professionals, sales people, and engineers that don’t actually exist, but are used to collect information and a pool of potential candidates.

  15. NGL this is the sort of rich people shit we should encourage. Fuck musk hoarding wealth or zuck landlording Hawaii.

    this is cash back into the economy on fucking mega whimsy. Providing jobs because sir snugglesworth needs afternoon tea and caviar. 

  16. Oh my god…I was sat on the train behind someone who went for this job interview, on Wednesday last week. He got off at Farringdon! He was talking about the job on a video call, apparently the owner is an old Russian man.

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