Australia lures bored Britons with odd jobs

LONDON - An Australian state has launched a campaign to recruit British workers fed up with boring or stressful jobs at home, a media report said Tuesday.

And it has revealed some of its more exciting, life-changing and downright odd positions.

So if you’ve always harboured an ambition to become a tuna toss judge, now’s the time to fire off your CV to the Tunarama Festival near Adelaide, reports Daily Express.

“Life seems to be dealing workers a rough hand at the moment and not even the recent sunny weather has managed to cheer up the brits,” said South Australia’s British agent Bill Muirhead.

“This is about showing people that South Australia offers more exciting work and travel options than anywhere else in the world.”

He said the working holiday visa campaign was aimed at those aged 18 to 30 who wanted to mix travel with work in jobs such as a green-keeper on a grassless golf course and a kangaroo poo harvester.

“You can take the usual trail, do the usual jobs - or go for something that you can’t get anywhere in the world and have the sort of experience you’ll be telling your grandkids about,” he said.

A survey by the South Australian government found that workers in the electronics industry were most unhappy with their lot, followed by admin, retail and call centre workers.

And it also found the most disgruntled British workers were in Wrexham and Coventry.