The world´s best job could be closer than you think

Source: CCTV.com | 05-12-2009 09:46

By Paul Bignell

As you slog to work this week, spare a thought for Tommy Lynch, Helen Moores and Leigh McCarron. And then dismiss them from your mind. Like Ben Southall, who last week was awarded "the best job in the world" on an Australian island, they need little of your sympathy. And like him, they are being paid handsomely to do "jobs" that barely qualify as what the majority of us would call work.

Charity worker Ben Southall telephones  his parents on Hamilton Island in the  Whitsunday Islands, after being awarded  the job of caretaker of an Australian  tropical island. The charity worker  won "the best job in the world" as  caretaker of a tropical island on  Australia's Great Barrier Reef after  an unprecedented global search.