Monday, January 26, 2009

The Best Job in the World, Island Caretaker

One of my top life ambitions involves creating home videos for internet contests. Over the past weekend, Jordie and I successfully completed an entry video which will most likely result in a future job.

Tourism Queensland of Australia has recently posted a job, available only through video applications. In 60 seconds or less, you must explain why you should be chosen for the position of blogger and outdoorsman.

The responsibilities of this job include:
• blogging weekly, with videos and photos
• traveling the islands of the great barrier reef, organized by Tourism Queensland
• occational interviews with the media
• sampling spas
• snorkeling
• feeding the fish
• cleaning the pool
• collecting the mail

Duration: 6 months (July 1 - Jan 1)
Return airfare will be provided.
Every video entry will be available to view on the website.
Apparently 200,000 entries were submitted in the first 24 hours after the job was posted.

Jordie and I failed to read the objectives of the video entry until after we created the video. Nonetheless, I’m pretty sure we’ve got the job. See for yourself.

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