Rooms with a view: Writer getting paid to live in hotels

After Zhang Yumo was officially hired as one of the first hotel critics in China, she immediately changed her well-located 50 sq m apartment into a 30 sq m one and sent her three cats to a friend.

The 27-year-old knows that she will have limited time to lie in her own bed in the future because most of the time she will sleep in fancy hotels, thanks to her new job.

Before she was chosen from the 7,000 people competing for the "best job in China" - benefits include sleeping in various hotels and earning 10,000 yuan a month - she was a fashion magazine editor. Before that, she was a television editor and a part-time jewelry designer. She is also a freelance photographer and a traveler who always spoils herself with a one-and-a-half-month vacation every year traveling all over the world.