Have you seen the ad or heard people talking about the dream job for the Tourist Department at Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia on Hamilton Island.

To apply for the job you need only create an interesting video with yourself in it, and talk about how you would be the best candidate for the job, dropping knowledge about the area or the Great Barrier Reef while you’re at it.   Like the type of sharks you’d most likely find – the white tip or the black tip  - and the fact that their population is dwindling due to over-fishing.

But really, what do you say that makes you stand out enough that they would pick you?  What do you do in your video? Does professional work on the video make a difference?  Do you have to be a model?

You obviously need to like photography, like to travel, and like to write about your travels.  You need to like water, know how to swim, like to dive or have a want to dive.   There is some flying involved with some drop offs and or pickups with the aerial postal service.

What the heck could be better than spending 6 months in a resort location where you have tons of activities to do, and all you have to do is blog about what you’re doing once a week?  Oh wait, the fact that you’re being paid around 100k USD? Yeah that’s right, you can take the vacation of a lifetime and all you have to do is write , take pictures, shoot some video.  Don’t most people do this already when they are on vacation?  I know I do.

I can picture me now on the sandy beaches camera in hand…

But seriously, I think the question really is, isn’t the tourism department is most likely looking for a hot person?  You know if its a chick she has to be a super model or a bond girl…

Ursula Andress (James Bond)

“Oh wow, I found a sea shell…”

and if its a guy, its what every woman would want, Bond…James Bond..

Daniel Craig is Bond, James Bond

Cause seriously, when I think about marketing a destination vacation, from a marketing perspective you want beautiful people.  But the problem is, the people that write beautiful prose (or even great blogs) are not always beautiful people.

Can you see this guy as the face of Queensland Tourism?

Stephen King

Stephen King’s newest book: Save the Great Barrier Reef, or Die…..

Sure he could write an insane blog about all the things he saw(and I do mean insane), and I’m sure he could do it justice.  Not only that he could add a little blood, guts, and mystery to it to kick it up a notch.  But you really need two people to do this job.  One to be eye candy,  and one who can actually write more than two syllable phrases.

So I propose that they double the offer.  Let me (Average Joe, veteran blogger) go out there with whomever wins and be the guy behind the camera and the writing.  Let me take pictures of someone walking on the beach, and edit out things said like “ooooh a sea shell, I wonder if anything lived in this…”  or “Ooooooh  Navy Seals”.

And replace it with.  “As I walked along the pristine sandy beach devoid of any person in the waning daylight, I noticed a sea shell freshly washed upon the shore, its occupant long since passed. ”

And let me fly a couple of the sea planes, since yeah, I’m a private pilot too.

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Overheard on Fox News this morning while driving into work.

The mayor of a male-heavy mining town in Australia created uproar among local women over the weekend by inviting “beauty-disadvantaged” women to join the population of lonely men.

Mayor John Molony found himself under attack Monday over comments he made to a local newspaper that read: “May I suggest if there are five blokes to every girl, we should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa.”

The mayor added that many women who already live in the remote Queensland state town seem quite happy.

“Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face,” he continued. “Whether it is recollection of something previous or anticipation for the next evening, there is a degree of happiness.”

Here’s the thing, the commentators talked about this as well – their first real comment was “Who should be more offended, the men because they are being told to lower their standards or the women?”

Tell you what, how about stop taking everythnig so damn seriously, everyone is offended now a days and has “feeeelings”.  Who cares, just suck it up and deal with it.   I think women who are lets just say are not the greatest looking should actually like the ideat that the could go to a place where the men would compete for their attention.  The ad should read:

“Women, did you fall out of the ugly tree, and hit a few branches on the way down, and then were beaten with the ugly stick when you landed? Then COME ON DOWN.  We’ve got a group of guys who don’t give a crap how fugly you are, in fact we guarantee that someone here will love you in this town.”

Seriously, don’t you think everyone needs someone to love them and this allows people whore are unfortunate looking to have a chance?