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January 16, 2009, Friday
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ONE Greek woman promised to do all of Australia's laundry and pick up after the kangaroos. An Australian apparently had a tattoo advertising her love of the Great Barrier Reef etched on to her arm. And a few people just took off their clothes.
Desperate to snag what's being billed as the "Best Job in the World," thousands of people have submitted video applications to the tourism department of Australia's Queensland for their latest advertised vacancy - a A$150,000 (US$100,000) contract to relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for six months while writing a blog to promote the island.
"Oh boy," an overwhelmed Anthony Hayes, chief executive officer of Tourism Queensland, said yesterday. "What have we done?"
Response to the job has been mind-boggling, Hayes said, with more than a million unique visitors logging on to the Website that advertises the gig since it was posted on Monday.
The tourism department had to upgrade from its one original server to 10 to handle the volume of visitors to the Website, which crashed earlier in the week.
Yesterday, a team of 10 people - whom, Hayes noted, were starting to look "pretty nervous" - were sifting through the 2,000 video applications the department had already received, with tens of thousands more expected before the February 22 deadline.
In exchange for the plush salary, free accommodation in an oceanfront villa and airfare from the winner's home country, the employee will be required to perform such arduous tasks as strolling the island's white sand beaches, snorkeling its crystalline waters, and exploring other islands along the reef.
The job is part of a A$1.7 million campaign to publicize Queensland's tourism industry, and the employee will be required to post videos and photos on a weekly blog.
Desperate to snag what's being billed as the "Best Job in the World," thousands of people have submitted video applications to the tourism department of Australia's Queensland for their latest advertised vacancy - a A$150,000 (US$100,000) contract to relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for six months while writing a blog to promote the island.
"Oh boy," an overwhelmed Anthony Hayes, chief executive officer of Tourism Queensland, said yesterday. "What have we done?"
Response to the job has been mind-boggling, Hayes said, with more than a million unique visitors logging on to the Website that advertises the gig since it was posted on Monday.
The tourism department had to upgrade from its one original server to 10 to handle the volume of visitors to the Website, which crashed earlier in the week.
Yesterday, a team of 10 people - whom, Hayes noted, were starting to look "pretty nervous" - were sifting through the 2,000 video applications the department had already received, with tens of thousands more expected before the February 22 deadline.
In exchange for the plush salary, free accommodation in an oceanfront villa and airfare from the winner's home country, the employee will be required to perform such arduous tasks as strolling the island's white sand beaches, snorkeling its crystalline waters, and exploring other islands along the reef.
The job is part of a A$1.7 million campaign to publicize Queensland's tourism industry, and the employee will be required to post videos and photos on a weekly blog.
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