This 'Dream Job' Is Paying 25 People $1,000 Each To Watch Christmas Films

If you're a fan of all things festive, you won't want to miss this. One company is searching for 25 people to be paid to watch Christmas movies, eat festive food and even get presents for two weeks.

EduBirdie is a professional writing and academic platform that offers ghostwriting and proofreading. Its Christmas Moodcatcher position is part of a data collection project to measure Christmas mood, stress and motivation.

The job ad reads: "We are looking for exactly 25 people to share this Christmas and its aftertaste. We are looking for the real zealots of the Christmas mood."

EduBirdie chief of communications Avery Morgan told Newsweek: "In general, our team at EduBirdie believes that Christmas is a time of recharge and relaxation, an opportunity to enter the new year with renewed vigor. We wanted to give students the opportunity to stretch this feeling and enter the new academic semester with it. Christmas Moodcatchers is our way to keep that little Christmas motivation fire going."

Moodcatchers must be over 21 years old and absolutely love all things Christmas. The 25 chosen participants will be split into five groups of people—each with their own festive responsibility.

Home Aloners

These Moodcatchers will be required to spend their evenings watching Christmas movies, having to watch at least one Christmas movie every day for two weeks.

Movies include Love Actually, Klaus, A Christmas Carol, Deck the Halls and many more. All necessary video material and a set of snacks and drinks will be provided.

Cookie Guards

Every day, these lucky participants will be provided with a delicious festive dish. Meals may include but are not limited to honey-glazed ham, Yorkshire pudding, roast turkey, and creamy corn pudding.

Cookie Guards will be provided with one full Christmas meal each day, and a set of milk and cookies.

Heartgivers

This group will be required to listen to a festive playlist for at least an hour and a half every day for two weeks. Given a questionnaire on their mood on a regular basis they'll be asked if they still love "Jingle Bells" or if they'd rather move on to less festive tracks after consistent listening.

Grinch Hunters

The lucky Grinch hunters will receive a small personalized gift every day from EduBirdie . All they have to do is tell the team how they like the gifts and how it affects their Christmas mood.

Luck Elves

Considered the luckiest group on the list, these Moodcatchers will be required to do all of the above-mentioned tasks at once, measuring how their Christmas mood is affected when they're all brought together.

Each Moodcatcher will receive $1,000 for their time and simply have to fill in a form to be involved. EduBirdie asks applicants to be as specific as possible when it comes to why they want to be involved, with examples of how much they love the festive season.

"A full day after launching the position, we already have the first 1,500 applications, but we expect much more. This is not our first similar 'dream job' and our team knows how to work with such flows of data. We have begun processing applications and reading the lovely descriptions that we receive," said Morgan. "We still expect the largest flow of applicants for the weekend of December 17-18 and the week right before Christmas."

EduBirdie will announce their future Moodcatchers on December 26 and the experiment will last for two weeks after that.

The individual chosen has to follow the rules and terms and conditions of the role, and must be a resident of the United States, the United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Singapore, Japan or Mexico.

Moodcatchers also agree to provide feedback about the study of around 100 words and authorize that their comment can be used by EduBirdie for an unlimited amount of time.

You can read the full job ad and submit your application here.