THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD

 

In 2009, Tourism Queensland launched a global search to find a caretaker for the Great Barrier Reef Islands, in Australia. A six months contract offering $150,000, rent-free luxury accommodation and the oportuynity to discover and report back to a world-wide audicence what the region had to offer.

34,000 people from all over the world applied for the job and all of them were interviewed via skype. Then, only 16 of them were chosen as the main candidates for the final interview. Finally, Ben Southall was chosen after a rigurous selection process.

Ben sent a video to get the job, which impressed everyone by riding an ostrich, kissing a giraffe and trekking through Africa. In fact, the year before Bem drove around Afica to raise money for charity. For 12 months, he had been organizing and taking part in sports events such as climbing mountains or running marathons. He had worked as a tour guide, written newspapers and magazine articles and he had already made a video blog telling his adventures in   Africa.

He did a lot of amazing things like surfing, diving into the sea with fish, flying on an aeroplane, etc. During his job, Ben jumped out of a boat into the sea and an Irukandji jellyfish stung him. He was so close to death, but luckily, a local doctor saved him.

Ben had to work 19 hours every day, so he couldn't have time for relaxing. When he finished the job, Ben had visited 90 different locations, made 60 blogs, 2000 photos, 47 video diaries, and more than 1500 tweets and made more than 450 media interviews. He also had more than 8.6 millions of visits in his website.