If you have been thinking “I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Wiernermobile Navigator” but never really thought that it could happen for you, know this: It might.
You can go here (warning: PDF) and find out if you have what it takes to be a Hotdogger.
Applicants should have a BA or BS, preferably in public relations, journalism, communications, advertising, or marketing, though applicants are not limited to these degrees.
(Featured image is “Oscar Mayer Wienermobile” by SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent). Used under a creative commons license.)
Cracked covered this. In the Comments section, a person responded that the driver of the Oscar Weiner mobile always had a college degree because it was a marketing position. You were supposed to get out a spread the word about Oscar Meyer. You just did so through a speciality designed car then from an office. So it is not necessarily strange to require somebody in marketing to have a college degree.Report
I’m trying to think of a single job that wouldn’t benefit from having a college degree holder do it instead of someone who doesn’t have formalized training in whatever the job would be.Report
Relief pitcher.Report
I’m guessing someone with a background in old-skool evangelism would also work well in the position. Maybe not quite a “Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, Oscar Meyer,” but close?Report
Mmm… Too easily countered with “Your baloney has a first name, its B S C A R…”
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Don’t you need to know the words to the song?
(which I’ve always thought should end
Cause Oscar Mayer has a way
With recombinant DNA
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I’ve often wondered how many of these things are out there. Because I’ll run across one maybe every year or two, which seems like a lot if there were only one.Report