The dreamiest job ever?

‘Everyone has a ‘dream’ job that they fantasise about doing one day, maybe while they’re stacking shelves or sitting in an office crunching numbers. Usually they’re impossibly glamorous, well-paid ones: pilot, racing driver, popstar or PA to a Kardashian.

Not my idea of dreamy positions, because I’ve already got two of mine – one as a panellist on ITV’s lunchtime show Loose Women and the other as a columnist for best.

At least, I thought they were both right up there in my dream league – until I read that Hillarys, the curtains and blinds company, was looking to recruit a ‘sleep executive’.

In other words, they want to pay someone £100 a day... to sleep. It is literally the dream job to trump all dream jobs.

Anyone can apply, you just have to convince them you’re the ideal person. Quite how you do that I’m not sure. I mean, what can you say?

‘I’ve been sleeping every night since I was a baby so I’m well qualified’? Isn’t that everyone?

Anyway, if you get it, all you have to do is sleep with a monitor and report back to them for 15 nights and £1,500 is yours. Nice work, if you can get it.

Of course, it’s not really ‘work’, even if you are getting paid. But most dream jobs aren’t. In fact, I’d say, if you can get to a point where you can earn a living for doing something you really love, then it never feels like ‘work’. That could be anything – although there’s a big difference between loving your work and doing your dream job.

I still dream of one day being able to afford to have NO job, but that would entail winning the Lottery and, as I don’t do it, that dream’s not going to come true any time soon!