landscape in a hot air balloon. Your duties w ill include
getting to know about aboriginal culture and eating
traditional bushfoods,
maybe including the famous
witchetty grubs - insect larvae.
Like the idea of 200 days of sunshine every
year? Job number two is a park ranger in tropical
Queensland. It’s a wonderful state with ancient
rainforests, the world’s
largest sand island and the
awesome Great Barrier Reef. Here your duties would
include protecting and promoting native plants and
animals, spectacular waterfalls, dinosaur fossils,
untouched beaches and indigenous culture. You’d get
paid to patrol the beaches of Lizard Island and live a
life most people can only dream about.
Another island job is as ‘w ildlife caretaker’ on
Kangaroo Island in South Australia.
If you love all
kinds of animals, this is the job for you. The advert
says you’ll be able to talk to wallabies (a kind of
small kangaroo), play with dolphins, cuddle koalas
and sunbathe with seals on the unspoiled beach at
Seal Bay. You would get about the island on foot, by
bicycle, kayak or boat, taking photos and leaving only
footprints. There
is one potential drawback, though.
You’d need to be pretty brave since you might come
face to face with great white sharks.
Maybe you are not quite so keen on the great
outdoors and your talents are more journalistic. If
you fancy feature writing, photography and making
videos, you can apply for the position of lifestyle
photojournalist for Time Out in Melbourne. You
would be required to photograph and write about the
city’s coolest cafes and musical events. But you’d also
cover tourist activities in the whole state of Victoria,
including surfing on the Great Ocean Road, skiing
at Mount Hotham or watching the little penguins at
Phillip Island.
Are you a foodie? Do you know about food, as well
as love eating it? If the answer’s yes, you can apply
for the role of ‘taste master’ in Western Australia.
Your job would be to
promote the best restaurants,
pubs, wineries and breweries. You’d also catch fresh
seafood off the beautiful coast and learn all about
making wine and beer.
Finally, a fantastic job in Sydney. We’ve all seen
those amazing firework displays in Sydney Harbour.
W ell, you could be one of the people making that
happen next year. New South Wales is looking for a
‘chief funster’, who would be based in Sydney while
travelling around the state and tweeting about the
coolest things going on.
This job would appeal to
someone interested in everything: sports, the arts,
entertainment, food. You’d also be involved in making
the Sydney Festival, Mardi Gras and Vivid Festival
as spectacular, and as fun,as possible. (Adapted from
learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org)
