An unemployed woman who spent a week waving a placard on Victoria Avenue asking for work has got a job.
Sharla May starts at the Wanganui Chronicle on Monday as an advertising sales rep.
It's a full-time job, one of four Sharla was offered after her week-long stint on Wanganui's main street holding up the sign with her experience and phone number, asking for work. She stood on the street for 90 minutes every morning for a week.
Yesterday she was back on the corner of Victoria Avenue with Taupo Quay as a human billboard, telling of her success and thanking people for their support.
Miss May, 31, said she chose the Chronicle job because she had never worked in sales before and it was something different. "It's a fresh start. It's a new year, I've made a new start moving to Wanganui from Te Kuiti and this is something different. I'm really going to enjoy it."