The 9-5 grind can get pretty rough. Sometimes it seems like every day is the same. You wake up, shower, choke down breakfast, go to work for what feels like an eternity, come home, fall into bed and repeat until eternity. Or so it seems until you read about people taking vans and boats and trains all over the place for years at a time.
Point being, sometimes the crushing weight of daily life makes you wish you could just leave and never come back. Just sell all of your earthly possessions, end your apartment lease, and move to another country. Can you imagine the rush that you’d get from leaving all of your unnecessary gadgets and clothing behind and starting over?
And we aren’t just talking about a move to London, Madrid or even Reykjavik. Go further. How about becoming the caretaker for a whole island? That sounds pretty awesome, right? If only you could really do that. Well, you can. In Tasmania of all places.
Australia’s Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service is currently looking for someone to live on and take care of Maatsuyker Island, a tiny stretch of land located ten kilometers south of the Tasmanian coastline.
“If you are keen to escape the rat race and spend six months on a sometimes wet and often windswept island, watching the swells of the Southern Ocean, we might have just the gig for you,” says the Facebook post.
It might seem like it, but this job isn’t a vacation. They actually expect you to do some work while you are living on the island that is home to Australia’s southernmost lighthouse. Your job will include: basic maintenance of the buildings, grounds and the equipment therein. “Additionally, they are required to carry out daily weather observations for the Bureau of Meterology,” the post says.
For this aspect of the job, you will be trained beforehand and will even get paid a salary. They would prefer couples to apply so that in case one of you has a medical emergency, the other can call for help. Plus, it would get pretty boring (and weird) to only talk to yourself for six months.
Transportation to the island is by helicopter, so at the very least you get to complete your dream of taking a fancy helicopter ride. You better apply now though. The application process closes on January 30th.
