Apparently no one wants this $267k job with 3 months of vacation

Kenny has not even had a single applicant the last four months.

Besides the already impressive yearly salary, the job also promises no weekend and evening workload.

‘Auckland has the biggest medical school and most kids who go to medical school come from wealthy families in the Auckland area, ‘ Dr Kenny said.

This problem affects not only him, but other rural practices: According to the CEO of a support network for Global Positioning System, most rural positions are filled by worldwide med graduates who stay only a short time, with vacancies taking up to three years to fill; Kenny himself was recruited from the United Kingdom, but stuck around for 30 years.

“It’s a huge problem to find replacements or find locums”, he said. “My practice has exploded in the past year and the more patients you list, the more money you get”, the doctor told the Herald.

While owning a practice can increase a doctor’s income, many doctors prefer not to own a practice because of the extra work it involves.

“The idea is to introduce people early, they get roots in a community and that makes it much more attractive for them to work there long term”.

“Just because I earn lots of money doesn’t mean I want to work my butt off”.

Other doctors working at the group practice commute from other North Island towns. Kenny’s typical day does sound like a grind.

He worked between 8.30am and 6pm without a lunch break.

Dr Alan Kenny, who owns and runs Tokoroa Family Health in Tokoroa, two-and-a-half hours drive south of Auckland, in New Zealand, turned to advertising the position online after he was unsuccessful with medical recruitment firms, reported the NZ Herald.

£190,000 a year, a quarter of which you can spend away from your desk doing whatever the hell you want and not to mention living in one of the most idyllic countries in the world, New Zealand – so why has no one taken the job?

“If it’s hard enough to get doctors to work alongside me, it’s going to be a devil of a job to get doctors to replace me”.

A survey from the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners in 2015 found 37 percent of rural practices had a vacancy in 2014, compared to 42 percent of urban practices, but rural practice positions took longer to fill.