It’s an attention-seeking gimmick, but it’s a good one. Australia’s Tourism Queensland is looking for a caretaker to live on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef. Job duties include fish feeding, snorkeling and blogging about your experience.
Pay? AU$150,000 for six months (about $100,000). Plus “return airfares from your nearest capital city (in your home country), accommodation and transport on Hamilton Island, travel insurance for the contract period, computer, internet, digital video and stills cameras access, plus travel to a number of the other Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.”
You can apply here. Applications are due by February 22.
As an Aussie, and having stayed at Hamilton Island I can vouch for its awesomeness. But alas, an actual job, no matter how awesome it may be, is just not something I want to apply for.
Time to get working on my own projects
Yeh im from the Sunshine Coast in Aus, which isnt too far from the Barrier reef. I have been to hamilton island several times, but this job has got huge coverage in AUS, on the BBC, and now in the USA. Millions of people to apply and 99% have no chance at all!!
But im sure i could live with just writing a blog and swimming with dangerous animals all day.. im not sure the americans or the brits could actually handle that.. they are a bit soft!
A little danger makes life more exciting! Not all Americans are soft
What makes you think that americans are a bit soft? Do you really know, or is that just an assumption your making?
piss off!
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Sounds like a good way to promote the islands. Nice for journalism or any students to take a semester off and chill
Aussies rule. Nuff’ said.
Do dreams come true?
Too good to be true?
If dreams are made into goals they become something achievable.
I am applying!
and this is newsworthy in tech because…???
Because it’s news.
Does “Blogging” ring any bells?
oh my god this is crazy
I think you effectively boosted their applications with this post!
That’s the coolest job application website I’ve seen.
I am applying !!
Hmmm – swimming in Australian waters right now is considered very hazardous. We’ve almost a shark attack a day for the last few weeks – really!
While this might sound like the ideal dream job I suspect boredom would soon settle in – there’s nothing to do there unless you’re a tourist – and for the length of time the job requires you to be on the island I reckon the tourism thing would soon wear off.
I have been to Aus twice on student exchange and tourism in Australia never wore off for me! this may be because I’m from a cold non-touristy place in the US though.
chris – its clear you are a tool.
m thxs
How do you “almost” have a shark attack? Do you know how many people are “actually ” attacked by sharks each year? You have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than being attacked by a shark.
Anyone who loves the ocean could not be bored with the Great Barrier Reef in their back yard.
I’m indonesian and still in Senior High School
Could I get that job… LoL
haha
They ask if you have a criminal record in the application. I thought that wasn’t a requirement anymore.
Absolutely … didn’t you know that Australia was still a British penal colony? Everyone here is a petty crim!
ITS agood idea and true dream but not for me but i also hope and pray to be one of them
hey Techcrunch editors, can you please delete duplicate comments? I am talking about chinese teacher’s promotional comments.
its for australians only, it says:
”We regret that applications cannot be accepted from overseas residents who do not meet Australian residency requirements at the time of application.”
see yourself: http://www.tq.c...0Barrier%20Reef
Anyone can apply – but you have to get a visa!
It’s crazy that 90% of the applicants are not Australian in that case …
http://www.isla...om/#/applicants
Applications are being accepted from all over the world. Anyone can apply.
We had a feature about that on our national news yesterday.
Apparently there are some gotchas: the island is where the most dangerous kinds of sharks and jellyfishes lives, among with a slug whose poison cause necrosis
Well, but I just guess you’re being well paid for that!
Damn you Arrington! Clogging our tubes…
The site has carked it – they should be using AWS or something.
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Reading that application has just made me sick. I’m stuck in this damn dreary office staring at a screen and someone, somewhere is going to get paid to do that? I wish I’d never seen that posting…
Ha! Sites down.
Hellz yeah.
super oferta
ar accepta cineva un moldovan pentru insulele hamilton
will they accept one moldovan guy for this work?????? he will make a good job!!!!!!!!!!!
hi my name is ingrid i am from germany that would
be a dreamjob for me,sense my father never had the
chance to go to australien,i would love to get that
job not only because of money,i apply even though
i may not have a chance.
They even have a short video advertising the position: http://en.seven...ob-in-the-World
According to who.is, why was this http://www.islandfreejob.com website just created on Jan 13, 2009 and owned by some guy from Vilnius in Lithuania, not Australia??
http://who.is/w...andfreejob.com/
Okay, my bad, I typed in islandfreejob.com instead of islandreefjob.com at who.is, okay you can start laughing now :-/
Thanks for the interesting news
ah im asking my bf to apply, he is american, i think he can be getting that job
May offer is valid?
Rescues Kim!
I thought that Kim is a specialty, and care manner person. I saw has many people to the point of view is subject to duty this work, but I thought that she is not such person. Perhaps some people is good at performing, movie also very fancy. But is this work’s core not that environmental protection ‘ care ‘ continues forever to develop like three goals? Now the great barrier reef ecology moves toward feebly day after day , we need to have a person who has sincerity to treasure it the to manage it, but is not throws the ticket to the human who is good at performing , like this we and the later generation descendants can forever appreciate guarantee the reef beautiful scene, also can avoid letting it move toward the historical noun the regret, DO you want yours and your descendants can appreciate guarantees the reef greatly? That throws the ticket to Kim! In all participants, only then she can accomplish, please throw a your sacred ticket to her! Thanks!
That was a very constructive comment, you must be proud of your contribution to the internet.
End sarcasm.
You are really working too hard on these boards, I nominate you to get this job as it would give all of us a break from your entrepreneurial spirit. I will apply as well of course…
Jon
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Doubling my money, one stock at a time
Stop spamming please… That comment is nothing related to tech or this topic so… If we come to China we will find you…