Ep 858 | It Should Be a Good Thing!?...
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Please radio network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher a lot of people looking |
| 0:06.9 | for gigs these days and if you are one of them you could work at the Antartic post office |
| 0:13.8 | it's Antartica post office if you're good at sorting mail selling postage stamps counting |
| 0:20.1 | penguins this job could be you it's the post office at Port LaCoroi also known as |
| 0:27.3 | the penguin post office it's a popular tourist destination and it's just off the west side |
| 0:34.1 | of the Antartic peninsula and gets about 18,000 visitors each season okay if you say so |
| 0:43.2 | the it's a base a post LaCoroi base a home to the post office it was established in 1944 |
| 0:53.6 | it's now managed by the UK Antartic Heritage Trust it operates the museum the gift shop |
| 1:01.1 | profit from the shop supports renovations of other historic sites in Antartica if you |
| 1:07.4 | look at their application pack it's operated just for a few months a year and accommodation |
| 1:15.6 | facilities are simple and minimal there's no doctor station at Port LaCoroi in the nearest |
| 1:21.2 | hospital is in Argentina they stock a good supply of emergency equipment and a biotics |
| 1:27.2 | painkillers in our staff are given first aid training we can also seek advice from the doctors |
| 1:32.4 | who work on the ships yeah you're thinking to help us out I don't know not today however |
| 1:39.5 | in a medical emergency I could take up to about seven days to evacuate you so you might |
| 1:45.5 | want to consider carefully your fitness for the role physical and mental ability to do the |
| 1:51.1 | job physical attributes to live in the polar environment physical ability to help rescue others short |
| 1:57.9 | notice personnel medical supplies will not be available yeah no kidding so anyway if you're looking |
| 2:05.6 | for the gig it's it's there and you can apply at the Antartic Trust website and take a look at |
| 2:14.4 | their application pack for Port LaCoroi base leader looks like you're going to be making about |
| 2:20.5 | eighteen a hundred bucks a month so if that's worth it then you're not going to see anybody and |
| 2:27.2 | live in the cold for I don't know for five maybe six months for eighteen hundred bucks a month |
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