Posted on 01/23/2021 3:32:12 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
If your ideal workday is sitting around, eating candy, and judging (whose isn't???), well, I have great news for you! This is an actual job that exists, you can get paid serious cash to do it, and more than one person will get the honor! It's all thanks to Candy Funhouse.
The company is hiring part-time and full-time "Candyologists," AKA Candy and Chocolate Taste Testers to help the company try out and narrow down which candies will be a part of the first-ever Candy Funhouse branded candy line. The line will feature 10 candies, but they'll first need to be narrowed down from hundreds of options. That's where you come in!
If you want the job, you should have "enthusiasm and eagerness to try confectionery products," and "consider aspects of taste, texture, and quality." You'll then have to write a brief, two-sentence description for each product tested. Basically, you have to really love candy and be willing to be a little judgy about it. DONE. Oh, and applicants who have an interest in candy, pop culture, and media will be given preference. Even better!!
Best of all this job PAYS. Like, pays WELL. The full-time position will net you $30 an hour, according to the Indeed listing, though you'll have to go to work in person, in Mississauga, ON, Canada. However, the part-time position requires 15 hours a week that can be done from home and you'll still earn $26 an hour. Two people will have the opportunity to be full-time employees, while they're choosing eight people to take the role part-time, according to a press release.
You have until February 15, 2021, to apply and you can find the full-time job listing here and the part-time job listing here. Applicants have to have a high school diploma and be a citizen of the U.S. or Canada to apply. You can see more application instructions on each job posting. GOOD LUCK!
$30/hr won’t even come close to covering the dentist and insulin costs. Forget it.
Candy...guilty or not?
I worked in a candy factory, Niagara Chocolates in Cheektowaga, N.Y. Believe me, it gets old fast. The chocolate smell penetrates your whole system. One month and I was done with chocolate lol.
LOL! Fez. *HEART*
I hate candy.
Except xlnt Belgian chocolate purchased in Belgium. They bleep up exports.
If candy makers want to give me a ticket to Brussels and a room in a 5-star hotel, I’ll play.
I don't like sweets. I don't like ice cream or candy. Do they only want people who like sweets?
Let me know when they have a remote, stay at home opening.
Worked in industrial food for years. It was over a year before I could face chocolate and eggnog again.
Only if they supply me with gallons of insulin.
I was a buyer for a candy manufacturer. You get sick and tired of candy damned fast. I was a sweet tooth when I started there. By the time I left I could not stand sweets. I will still occasionally eat good chocolate, but 30 years later I am still over candy.
I buy a big dark chocolate bar at Lidl once a week. It takes me a week to get through it, a little square or two per day.
(It wasn’t like that when I was a kid :-)
https://cnchocolates.com/collections/bars/products/dark-chocolate-bittersweet-crunch-bar
Good chocolate.
The passable stuff you can get at most grocery stores are limited to Godiva or Lindt.
Never in a million years.
I love Lindt - but I’ll check out your link.
Can you “specialize” in chocolates?
We always have decent chocolate in the house. The other stuff? Fuggeddaboudit! :)
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