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Being employed can certainly make anyone happy as a viral video of a parcel delivery driver's reaction while opening his first paycheck shows.

Cuban migrant Yoel Diaz's joy, as he waved the paycheck in the video taken by his wife, represents the fulfillment of the American Dream, and a full refrigerator.

"Water, water, water, five, ten eggs, water," Diaz of Phoenix, Arizona, USA told CBS News of the usual content of their fridge when he was starting work at UPS in late October.

"This is my first hourly paycheck that I feel every hour counted," Diaz said in the video. "I can't compare that emotion with anything. Because I never had that in my country," CBS News quoted the former computer science teacher earning $12 a month in his country as saying.

Diaz's salary is not shown in the video, but his face and words hinted at a very good wage. An even better job is being offered by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The mayor himself announced the job vacancy that he described as very demanding.

It requires drive, determination, and killer instinct, Adams said, according to CBS News. The job also demands "stamina and stagecraft," high motivation, bloodthirstiness, "swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor and a general aura of badassery."

A background in urban planning, project management, or government work would also help those who would clinch the position that pays $14,000 a month, the poster on the vacancy in the mayor's showed.

Whoever gets the $170,000-a-year position of director of rodent mitigation has to get rid of rats infesting NYC. The successful job applicant will definitely have his hands full with the 71 percent increase in rat sightings in the city that never sleeps since 2020.