(Another) World’s Best Job: Tweet, Drink and Get Paid $10,000 a Month

So you didn’t wind up on the Final Short-List for the (First) Best Job in the World, sponsored by Tourism Queensland, which promises $100,000 for six months of blogging from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef?

No worries. Sonoma County’s Murphy-Goode Winery is offering an equally juicy job opportunity.

Mashable’s Jennifer Van Grove says: Imagine moving to the heart of Sonoma County, where every day you’ll come home to more than 450 wineries along the beautiful northern coast of California. Picture living rent free, learning the intricacies of making the perfect wine, and capturing and sharing the entire experience for your network of Twitter followers. Now imagine getting paid $10,000 a month to do it.

Listening?

It’s all true, wine tweeps –Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma County is offering a $10,000 per month for six months, rent-free job updating Twitter and Facebook with your passion-for-purple prose.

The job contest launches tomorrow via AReallyGoodeJob.com, when salivating job seekers can fill out an application and submit a one-minute video about their unique Social Media + Viticultural skills. Applications must be submitted before June 5, 2009.

The job description includes the following responsibilities, “Throughout the course of the job the successful applicant will learn about viticulture, winemaking, Sonoma County and Murphy-Goode wines. He or she will prepare and post dispatches on their experiences though social media tools such as Facebook, blogs, internet videos and Twitter as well as traditional media.”

Expect fierce competition. The Island Reef job (winner will be announced May 3) attracted thousands of video resumes, including one from ‘Osama’ that garnered nearly 154,000 views. He claimed a special talent for working in ’sandy areas.’

Guru’s Note: Island Reef rejects, don’t fret. While I adore Hayman Island (near Hamilton, where the Queensland job is based), the swarming wild cockatoos might make you a tad crazy.