People are sometimes asked about their dream job. A funny response is:
“My dream job is getting paid to sleep.”
“My dream job would be getting paid to sleep” was cited on Twitter on April 15, 2009. “Getting paid to sleep.. That’s my dream job!” was cited on Twitter on April 10, 2011.
Twitter
Yorrike
@Yorrike
My dream job would be getting paid to sleep.
8:09 AM - 15 Apr 2008
Twitter
Sincerely, Adi
@SincerelyAdilee
My dream job would be getting paid to sleep (kidding really). I don’t want to go to work. LOL
9:02 AM - 19 Feb 2009
Twitter
Callam Bond
@CallamBond
Getting paid to sleep.. That’s my dream job!
8:48 AM - 10 Aug 2011
Twitter
Ade Synthia Kezia
@adesynn
Getting paid to sleep.. That’s my dream job!
8:55 AM - 10 Aug 2011
Bekasi Selatan, West Java
Funny Status
Facebook Photography, Bad Dreams, & Funny Statuses
October 14, 2011
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. Getting paid to sleep…That’s my dream job.
Funny Status
Getting paid to sleep…That’s my dream job.
July 26, 2012
reddit—Shower Thoughts
Being paid to sleep would be my dream job.
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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