Remember The Best Job in the World? There was a flurry of interest about it a while back in the news and on Twitter -- an island in the Great Barrier Reef is looking for a caretaker, and put out a call for applicants.
Well, after receiving over 34,000 applications, they've narrowed the field down to a short list of 50. 11 of those 50 will get an interview -- but! There's also a vote for a Wild Card Applicant -- the person with the most votes will get an interview.
The cool news? One of those applicants is a local kid -- a very talented student from the University of Guelph. Don't believe me? Look at the video he created:
The kid is 20. And he's amazing, isn't he? Go vote for him, willya?
Postscript:
It's Rob writing the postscript -- Katherine said she had some problems getting the links in her post to work, that they didn't take you to the site or Mitchell's video, and she asked me to see if I could fix them.
Well, it turned out that she'd done everything correctly and the links worked just fine when I tried them. Internet gremlins, I guess.
But the funny thing was, and the reason for this postscript, when I watched his video I realized that I had been on that street* on that very day and had seen Mitchell and his friends!
I don't know if it was before, after or in-between takes, but I remember thinking "Wonder what they're out marching for? Australia or bust? What's that all about?" I had thought no more of it until seeing his video on the Best Job In The World site just now.
No matter, it's a way cool video and this dude seriously deserves your vote -- go follow the link and show him some love, people!
* I was at the New Age Health Food store on Wyndham in Guelph. It is absolutely the best place to shop for vitamins and supplements -- Vahid, the proprietor, is a great guy and extremely knowledgeable about the products he sells. His prices are also much better than other specialty stores or the mass market stores.
This Best Job in the World thing has passed me by. I really have no idea what it's all about.
Posted by: zydeco fish | March 06, 2009 at 02:43 PM
But, go vote for Mitchell anyway :-)
Posted by: katherine | March 06, 2009 at 02:45 PM