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Netflix looking for 'tagger' to watch content

gold2040gold2040 Posts: 3,049
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/feature/a582537/netflix-tagger-job-explained-how-you-can-be-paid-to-watch-movies-all-day.html

Seems like a dream in heaven right?
Core skills and qualities of this role will include:
- Movie and TV content expert
- Great organizational skills
- Tenacious about follow-through and follow-up on a project
- Detail-oriented

Preferred technical skills:
- Experience with Content or Asset Management Systems
- Excel

Background:
- 1-2 years website/media/new media company experience
- Movie or TV editorial experience a plus

http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php?id=NFX01466

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  • JasonJason Posts: 76,557
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    gold2040 wrote: »
    Seems like a dream in heaven right?

    Absolutely, although you do seem to need to be strangely over qualified for a job that involves sitting around watching television all day :)

    Although it's not a patch on the "best job in the world" that was advertised in 2009
    They want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast.

    No formal qualifications are needed but candidates must be willing to swim, snorkel, dive and sail.

    In return, the successful applicant will receive a salary of A$150,000 ($103,000, £70,000) for six months and get to live rent-free in a three-bedroom villa, complete with pool.
    The new recruit will work for just 12 hours a month. Duties include feeding some of the hundreds of species of fish and collecting the island's mail.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7823812.stm
  • Trsvis_BickleTrsvis_Bickle Posts: 9,202
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    I wonder if they ever advertise for people to tag all the internet porn there is out there? After all, some poor sod must be responsible for putting it all into the correct categories, right?
  • JasonJason Posts: 76,557
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    Trsvis_Bickle wrote: »
    I wonder if they ever advertise for people to tag all the internet porn there is out there? After all, some poor sod must be responsible for putting it all into the correct categories, right?

    All you have to do with that is to start with "Girlfriend caught .. " and then just a two or three word explanation as to what she's actually doing. Job done :)
  • dee123dee123 Posts: 46,265
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    On a related note :o Now there is a Netflix for Lego!

    http://io9.com/there-is-now-a-netflix-for-legos-1599239087
  • TakaeTakae Posts: 13,555
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    Sounds horrible.

    One aspect of my job is watch certain films, and it can be seriously dull. Most are the ones most wouldn't pay to see. Not surprising as most are awful or worse, boring. You can't switch it off, either.

    Well, I can't. I download a digital copy directly from a sales rep or distributor's password-locked site, and my computer tracks my process of watching the film. I sometimes read DS, a book or just work on draft agreements with a few glances at a crappy film playing on my computer. This is usually enough to give me what I need to get by. I love films, but I truly loathe this part of the job because I don't have a say in what I watch.

    For a job like that, you'll end up using the shortest route possible, e.g. skimming a film or whatnot with the much-beloved fast-forward button, just to pick up enough details to get away with it.
  • AneechikAneechik Posts: 20,208
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    It sounds extremely dull.
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