--- title: Get Paid to Hang Out With Cats on a Beautiful Greek Island description: File this under dream jobs: you can now get paid to hang out with cats on the Greek island of Syros by the Aegean Sea. canonical: https://time.com/5362807/cat-greek-island/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-09T16:01:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:14.507Z og:title: How to Get Paid to Hang Out With 55 Cats on a Greek Island og:description: Talk about a dream job og:url: https://time.com/5362807/cat-greek-island/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cfcc3850579c980/69893766fb4eac20f4897543/cat-santuary-dream-job-greece.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Cats In Greece og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Get Paid to Hang Out With 55 Cats on a Greek Island twitter:description: Talk about a dream job twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cfcc3850579c980/69893766fb4eac20f4897543/cat-santuary-dream-job-greece.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How to Get Paid to Hang Out With 55 Cats on a Beautiful Greek Island > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Sylvain CORDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) GREECE - UNSPECIFIED: Cats on the roofs in Greece. (Photo by Sylvain CORDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)Sylvain CORDIER—Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 9, 2018 4:01 PM UTC If [hanging out with a bunch of cats](http://time.com/5049982/girl-interviews-cat/) on an island in the Aegean Sea sounds like your idea of paradise, look no further than this [very real dream job](http://time.com/4356811/find-dream-job/) listing. [God’s Little People Cat Rescue](https://www.facebook.com/pg/godslittlepeople/about/?ref=page%5Finternal), a cat sanctuary on the beautiful Greek island of Syros, is currently looking for someone to care for their charming and lovely 55 cats. As if hanging out with tons of cats in paradise wasn’t cool enough, the gig also comes with a fully paid for residence and private garden and a salary. The job is longterm and will require a minimum of six months and a volunteer period at the beginning — a minimal sacrifice when you consider that the job is basically paying you to play with cats while having a view of the ocean. Sounds like the start of a career that’s the cat’s meow. 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