近期，英国南极遗产信托基金会正在进行一项特别的招聘活动，该基金会正在寻找5名具有冒险精神的员工，他们将有机会前往世界最南端的南极洲邮局，开展为期5个月的工作。
The United Kingdom (UK) Antarctic Heritage Trust is looking to hire five people — a base leader, a shop manager, and three general assistants — to work at the “Penguin Post Office” in Port Lockroy, Antarctica. The five-month stint is open to UK residents over the age of 18. It will begin in early November 2024 and last until March 2025.
英国南极遗产信托基金会正在招聘5人——一名基地负责人、一名商店经理和三名一般助理——在南极洲洛克洛港的“企鹅邮局”工作。这个为期5个月的项目对18岁以上的英国居民开放。它将于2024年11月初开始，持续到2025年3月。
Responsibilities will include sorting the over 80,000 letters and postcards sent by the 18,000 tourists who visit the world’s southernmost post office each summer. Employees will also help sell postage stamps, run the small onsite gift shop, and look after the aging building. But their most important duty will be to keep track of Port Lockroy’s colony of about 1,500 gentoo penguins.
他们的职责包括整理每年夏天1.8万名游客寄来的8万多封信件和明信片。员工还将帮助销售邮票，经营小型现场礼品店，并照顾老化的建筑物。但他们最重要的任务是检测记录洛克洛港大约1500只巴布亚企鹅的种群。
Exciting as it may sound, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust warns applicants that the jobs are not for the faint of heart. Even during summer, temperatures on the icy continent can drop as low as -5℃. Additionally, the five people will live in a single bedroom with a tiny gas-powered kitchen. There is no flushing toilet either. Instead, staffers will use a camping toilet, which must be emptied daily.
虽然听起来很令人兴奋，但英国南极遗产信托基金会警告申请者，这些工作不适合胆小的人。即使在夏天，这片冰冷的大陆上的温度也会降到零下5摄氏度。此外，这五个人将住在一间带燃气小厨房的单人卧室里。也没有抽水马桶。取而代之的是，员工将使用露营厕所，每天都必须清理。
There is limited phone and Internet access and no running water. Visiting ships provide water in cans and also offer staffers showers every few days. But in poor weather conditions, they may have to do without a shower for extended periods. With the closest hospital in Argentina, medical evacuations could take up to a week! However, the biggest challenge will be the smell of penguin poop (大便) that will surround them for five months!
电话和互联网接入有限，也没有自来水。来访的船只提供罐装水，每隔几天还为员工提供淋浴。但在恶劣的天气条件下，他们可能不得不长时间不洗澡。离此处最近的医院在阿根廷，医疗后送可能需要长达一周的时间!然而，最大的挑战将是企鹅粪便的气味，这将围绕他们五个月!
Despite these drawbacks, the positions, which open up every summer, receive thousands of applications each year. Camilla Nichol, the Trust’s CEO, is not surprised. She believes that for the right individuals, the jobs provide “a unique opportunity to live in a landscape that makes you feel pure awe and wonder, where pioneering generations have gone before us, making groundbreaking discoveries about our planet.”
尽管存在这些缺点，这些每年夏天开放的职位每年都会收到数千份申请。该基金会的首席执行官卡米拉•尼科尔对此并不感到意外。她认为，对于合适的人来说，这些工作提供了“一个独特的机会，让你生活在一个让你感到纯粹敬畏和惊奇的环境中，在我们之前，先辈们已经走到了这里，对我们的星球做出了突破性的发现。”
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