I used to get paid to drink booze
For a while I lived with someone who worked for a major brewer (their slogan is Making Beer Great) and I was literally paid to drink.

She would give me a hundred quid, a notebook and a thermal probe and send me out to some of her clients' pubs. I simply had to order a pint of ale, check it was poured into the correct branded glass, make sure the head was right, point the thermometer at it (as surreptitously as possible) and if I wanted to, drink it whislt noting down my findings. I'd them mooch off to the next establishment on the list and repeat the process.

By the end of an evening mystery shopping the quality of my notes was suffering somewhat.....
(penrose your dog's got tits, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:14, 5 replies)

Oh... My... God.
Why on earth did you stop doing it? As far as I'm concerned the job you describe is the absolute zenith of any sane career trajectory.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:51, closed)

Stop the QOTW
we have a winner.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:08, closed)

Sadly she moved out...

I think it might have been because I suggested she got a second job for Victoria's Secret.
(penrose your dog's got tits, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:10, closed)

Back in the day
knew a chap who worked in quality control for the local brewer. Good news: he was paid to drink beer for a living*; bad news: it was Whitbread.

* Not supposed to happen during tasting, but apparently...
(AgeingGeek Father of Two, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 17:42, closed)

A guy a know did that for Guinness in his student days.
Not sure thats a good thing though...

I do know that he does not drink it anymore so that must say something.
(Beaverman Opulence, I has it., Fri 10 Sep 2010, 18:16, closed)