In what must be the greatest coup of any job-seeker ever, British charity worker Ben Southall has nabbed what really must be the best ever job.
34 year old Southall, who previously worked as a charity fundraiser, is now under the employ of the Australian tourism authorities. His role? To live for six months on the dazzling Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for a six-figure salary. That’s it.
In a bid to boost tourism to the Queensland location, the Australian tourism authorities launched the campaign to find candidates for the best job in the world, and were inundated with 34,000 applications, unsurprisingly. Tourism Queensland spokesman Anthony Hayes said that the recruitment campaign itself had generated unheard of free publicity:
“The answer when things are going tough is you can complain about it or you can be more creative and more aggressive and try and get more people to come.
“The whole idea of this promotion is to find the perfect person to help us sell Queensland but to tell the rest of the world we really are open for business.”
Southall’s duties on the island are simple. He must feed the fish, keep the pool clean, and write a daily blog about the island’s attraction to tourists. Apart from that, the next six months are simply about enjoying himself.
The last thing that comes to mind when thinking about public sector jobs is relaxing on a beautiful island, but once again, myths have been busted. The public and charity sectors are riddled with surprisingly cool jobs. Want to care for pandas for a living? Travel the world? Preserve the oceans for dolphins? Oraganise international events? These are all things that come with ethical jobs, so get searching on JuicyJobs.biz.
