Every year, Great Blasket Island (Co. Kerry in Ireland) is looking for 2 adventure-loving people to live for a year on this isolated island. The goal was simple: to settle there and fulfill a dream job: running the island’s café and accommodation. It’s a great job, but it’s also a demanding one: Great Blasket Island is an uninhabited island, welcoming only tourists to discover its exceptional landscapes.
We therefore need to find 2 people with a strong, courageous temperament who are not afraid of the sometimes difficult local conditions! The aim of the job will be to welcome tourists arriving by ferry in spring and summer, entertain them, advise them on the island’s must-sees, accommodate them at their request, and of course, serve them food and drink during their stay.
It’s a demanding job, but one that will soon be rewarded by the island’s incredible, fabulous setting.
Because Great Blasket Island is one of Ireland’s most beautiful islands! With its 5km², it boasts incredible wild landscapes, thousands of nesting seabirds, seals lounging on local beaches… not to mention sunsets and numerous hiking trails for walkers. In short: a real little wild paradise, between greenery and ocean, where the hand of man is almost non-existent. It’s like living at the end of the world, far from civilization… and yet not far from the small town of Dingle (just a few minutes by boat)!
The vacancy announcement will be published this week on Great Blasket Island’s official Twitter page. The job is scheduled to start in April and be completed in October 2021.
From now on, certain criteria will have to be met to get the job. In particular, respect for barrier gestures (Covid-19 obliges). In addition, going in pairs (with a friend, as a couple, or with a sibling) would be a plus among the evaluation criteria.
But be warned: this dream job is renewed every year and is a great success every time! Last year, the island received over 40,000 applications from both Irish and foreign applicants. A real buzz, which had quickly overtaken the people in charge of recruitment: Billy O’Connor and his partner Alice Hayes.
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