Assistant coach of a rugby side.
Easy job, one would imagine.
Clock in at a couple of trainings, drift into the background and, if anything goes wrong, point the finger at someone else.
Well, Scott McLeod can assure you it is nothing of the sort.
It is a full commitment which is forever changing and every week a different challenge awaits.
"When I’m at home you often get the comment ‘you are not really here’. But you put a lot of time into it. Both at work and at home," he said.
"You’re continually thinking about the athletes you are working with and what they have done and continually seeking ways they can improve.
"But it is a lot of fun. The best job in the world. It changes every day. So many challenges, so many great people to work with."
McLeod (44) said it had always been enjoyable and he was constantly learning his craft.
Hours tallied up and there were few days off during the season.
The former All Black midfield back arrived in Dunedin for the 2013 season. This was supposed to be the big season for the Highlanders as star signings arrived and playoff talk started before the first ball had been kicked.
We do not need to go over what happened — suffice to say playoff rugby never eventuated.
McLeod said he never lost faith during that opening season.
"Jamie Joseph was a good man, Roger Clark was a good man and there were plenty of good people around. I had been around rugby for a while, had played and coached the game and that can happen. What we had set up did not work out right.
"I got to know some awesome people and got accepted into town and I just felt so sad for them. We were not getting the results for them.
"A week is a short time in rugby and so is a campaign. We had to get through that and stick together.’’What came out of the review of that season was the side was probably short of a coach and also what the side stood for.
"There was probably too much to do for us. We needed someone else. We got some good feedback from the players ... what we had to do is put the structures in place and find out what we were about.
"We had to get aligned with our leaders and find people that wanted to be Highlanders and represent our Highlanders people."
Tony Brown came on board as attack coach and things improved as a new blueprint emerged.
The Highlanders quickly turned it around and made the playoffs for the first time in 12 years in 2014.
A year later they were champions.
"We learnt and we learnt really quickly ... in 2015, just the way we fought all the way to win. Just never gave in."
The side has some special players but it was all the players throughout the squad, who helped seal the title, he said.
McLeod said the win over the British and Irish Lions this year was another highlight.
"We brought in so many Highlanders players who had not been playing. A lot of them did not have a lot of experience. But they came in and played with a lot of confidence and belief to beat a side which has hundreds of international caps."
McLeod was head coach for that match with Brown overseas and he had the chance to take that job on fulltime with Brown departing.
But the All Blacks came calling and, in the end, the attraction of the national job was too good to turn down.
He will be in charge of defence with the All Blacks and has already spent some time with the national squad.
McLeod said defence was "organised chaos mixed in with aggression and attitude".
He did not spend a lot of time analysing the opposition every week — it was about working hard every day.He will join fulltime, replacing Wayne Smith, in October for the end-of-year tour. The family, wife Dana and four children, will relocate to Hamilton at the end of the year.
It would be hard to leave Dunedin and also the Highlanders, he said.
"It’s just the people down here. Just a combination of everything. The friends we’ve made — the kids are gutted we are going.
"I love the Highlanders. You want to do your best every day when we get to work.
"Do it for our region, for the past players, the current players. But we also have a lot of fun."