Steve Lopez’s Column today featured a story about a Southern Californian woman who some twenty years ago went on vacation in the Cayman Islands and never returned. She didn’t disappear but instead turned her intended six-week vacation into a new life. Effectively, at 28, she reinvented herself finding a new address, a new occupation (real estate agent), a new friend circle and finally a new last name upon her marriage to one of her fellow ex-pats. As an aside, the whole journey was prompted by a bad break up – I am picturing in my head Kerry Bradshaw’s Mexi-coma. She claims no regrets and Mr. Lopez sounded jealous to say the least.
Recently, I learned of a job opening through the Queensland Tourism looking for a sort of island caretaker who would “slave away” in a three bedroom Great Barrier Reef side condo complete with an infinity pool for six months their sole responsibility being maintaining a weekly blog on the experience. The pay is $100,000! As of yesterday, the company had already received 200,000 applications and rest assured I will include my application in the pile before the deadline passes. This publicity stunt is being dubbed as “The Best Job in the World,” and as I have been trolling the internet for job postings, I have it on good authority that that is an accurate portrayal.
In light of both of these types of “jobs” I have silenced every irresponsible voice in my head and have decided to join a friend for a week- long vacation in Mexico next month. Yes, this will probably extend my unemployment but maybe I will have an epiphany like the woman from Steve Lopez’s column or at the very least be better prepared for being offered the island caretaker gig. Could you imagine?
1 comments:
Good luck on the $100K island job. I think you are qualified. But if that doesn't pan out, we should start looking for tix for the 1 week Mexico trip.
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