Alice Hayes and Billy O’Connor are the owners of a cafe and three cottages on Great Blasket Island off the coast of Ireland.
Two weeks ago, the couple made a post on Facebook advertising two summer-long management positions.
The post said successful applicants would be required to live on the remote island without electricity or hot showers from the start of April to the end of October.
Initially, the entrepreneurs were concerned no one would apply, but the post soon went viral, and was covered by international news outlets and travel platforms such as Lonely Planet.
“We were concerned we would not find anyone willing to leave their job, pack their bags and move to a windswept island with no electricity or hot water in the middle of the Atlantic,” O’Connor said. But it turns out, the remote requirement seems to have been the biggest draw for applicants.
“I suppose people just want to disconnect from the rush of everyday life and get off the grid,” O’Connor said.
“We’ve had coverage in the most unlikeliest places,” Hayes said, speaking from his deserted island.
“We’ve had applications in languages we can’t even recognise.
“We’ve received applications from places like Iran, Argentina, Finland, Mexico, everywhere really,” she added.
Apart from unexpected locations, Hayes and O’Connor were also surprised at the personal stories they received in the process, including “a lovely application from a 79-year-old and 83-year-old couple”.
As of yesterday, the couple said they have responded to about 1,000 applicants, but don’t expect to be able to respond to every candidate.
Hoping to find people who “understand and appreciate the island’s rich literary heritage and history” — one cottage belonged to celebrated Irish author Peig Sayers — O’Connor said they hope to meet some finalists before making their decision.
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Bob… There was no pandemic in January 2020.
Or is it because people want to flee the fascist dictatorship of their corporate puppets mock of a “government” caused by the manufactured “plandemic”?
They probably make the same calculation than most (still) sane people (those who didn’t become complete vegetable masked zombies), the further from the beast (bill gates and his servants), the better it will be.
plus, no face diapers, no lockdown, no stupid ‘distancing’, no nazi police harassing you on a desert island…
The solution is not fleeing, the solution is resistance and taking down the cirminals behind the coup.
https://rforresistance.wordpress.com