The world's best job? No, thanks

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/sathnam_sanghera/article6180263.ece

Summary: Some time ago, I can actually remember reading this, there was a job opening being offered for what supposedly would be the worlds dream job. The idea was someone would get paid the ridiculous amount of 75.000 pounds for attending to an island. Basically feeding and swimming with turtles, picking up the islands post and living rent free in a three bedroom ocean front villa for six months. As a reaction to this offer some 35.000 people applied for the job. However the author of this article says he would not take the job even if they paid him so much money for it. The reason for this is, because it turns out this job is not such a dream job at all. There are a number of characteristics which make a job appealing to people. This job however has none of these characteristics working for it and therefore simply is not a dream job to anyone. Reading the article will explain to you why.

Oppinion: I could not agree more with the author of this acticle. Ofcourse it seemingly is anyones dream to have such a job, but in reality it probably isn't any fun at all. First of all you will be on this island all by yourself. Ofcourse there are people who are able to really enjoy this and just read books for six months. I, however, am not such a person and I do not think I would be able to handle this solitude for so long. Furthermore this job opening is just a PR stunt and in the jobspecifications it says you would have to give ongoing media interviews as well. Me, I am not up for this ever. I do not like being the centre of attention, and even more so, I do not like repeating myself a thousand times. Therefore I agree with the author and would not want the job. No wonder i have not applied for it.