Could this be you? (Picture: Getty Images)

Work getting you down?

If the only joy you get from your job is the small comfort of knowing you’ll die one day, then maybe it’s time for a career change.

But even if you love what you do, there’s a vacancy going in China that makes your average dream job look like a six-hour layover on a flight to Guantanamo Bay.

These pandas need a nanny (Picture: AP)

The Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan province, China, is looking for a ‘Panda Caretaker’, who will be expected to share in the pandas’ ‘joys and sorrows’ for 200,000 yuan (around £19,000 a year).


According to China Daily, you have to be ‘at least 22 with some basic knowledge of Pandas’.



Well, they’re adorable, they eat bamboo, and according to this video they go down slides looking all cute and stuff.

However you may also need a basic knowledge of the Chinese language, or you might find the recruitment website a little confusing.