Sales And Marketing Manager

I run Bastiat Stays, and I’m looking for a sales manager. I tried to put this off as much as I could, because I really hate looking for people. Kids nowadays think they’re doing a huge favor to the world by doing an honest day’s work.

I thought I’ll write a cookie-cutter recruitment ad and leave it at that. And then a great fraternity of lazies would form around me. It’s a pattern very familiar to me.

But I’m not looking for a work-from-home slacker or a work-life-balance slacker. This is not a job where you smoke marijuana in a treehouse in the high Himalayas at the end of the habitable world. Here there’s work to do.

I’m looking for a brilliant workaholic who knows it’s difficult to partition large, time-sensitive projects across multiple employees rather than entirely to employee preferences for long hours. In this increasingly hedonistic and promiscuous age, this is quite a tall order. But it would be better if you know the place a better before you come.

Are you a minimalist who asks, “What is the least I can do to keep my job?” I’ll sack you on the spot. Stay lazy. Stay lustful.

Stay gluttonous. For greater work-life balance here, you need to work more and not less. What would the work be like?

You’ll create listings on OTAs like Airbnb, Makemytrip, booking.com and Agoda. You’ll be a salesperson. You’ll convince insanely entitled vacation rental owners and customers to enter voluntary transactions for mutual benefit.

Yes, you'll handle our disgruntled customers when we're overbooked. You'll do a lot that isn't fun——handling employees who block Airbnb calendars, assist you, create invoices, negotiate with vacation rental owners, sync our calendars, send reservation lists. We’ve put on a lot of new business in the season, and you’ll help streamline the process.

But on the upside, you'll be working with the most inhospitable man who probably hosts more Airbnb guests than anybody in this country. And you'll learn how to generate passive income from vacation rentals. You'll learn how to build an entire town where nothing existed, without sweating.

And we pay very well. Send your CV across.