AWW: Getting Paid To Cuddle Pandas Is A Legit Job And Where Do We Apply

The perfect job doesn’t exi—

Oh wait a second, it looks like “professional panda cuddler” is a thing. Maybe there is a God.

Why did this never come up in any of the career info we were given leaving school? I might have been walking down a completely different career path, had I known about this sooner. “Panda cuddling” sounds like a dream job and on closer inspection, it legitimately is that good.

SWEET FUR BABIES!! All day, every day.

The Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan region requires zookeepers to dress up in panda suits and cuddle the pandas in the enclosure. Another day, another dollar.

It’s a key part of the ‘reintroduction program’ to reduce the amount of human interactions with the pandas, so that the cubs can cope when they’re released into protected wildlife.

It’s cuddling for a cause.

To land the gig as a “professional panda cuddler” you need to firstly, be in China, and secondly, be a trained zookeeper. So it may take some life changes and dedication to get there, but it looks so worth it.

The pandas are waiting.

Here’s a video of the job in action. It’s titled:

“Keeper wears panda costume to interact with cubs to protect them from human attachment”

This is pretty much all you need to know. SIGN US UP.

Now if you’re facing the tough reality that this will probably never be you, please enjoy this Panda livestream.

It’s probably as close as most of us will get to being a pro Panda cuddler and it doesn’t hurt to dream.

Header via The Telegraph.