The Sting of Employment

Unemployment is the pits, but employment can be a pain, too. You want proof? Here’s proof. The winner of the “Best Job in the World” competition to explore an island off the Great Barrier Reef and write a blog about it for $120,000 was unceremoniously greeted by a island native:

Trouble struck paradise this week when a British man who has the
“Best Job in the World” as the caretaker of a tropical Australian
island was stung by a potentially lethal jellyfish.

Ben
Southall — who won a contest to blog for six months about life on
Australia’s Hamilton Island to promote tourism — wrote Tuesday that he
was lucky to have survived his brush with the extremely venomous Irukandji jellyfish.





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