davidsevera:

davidsevera:

Do they let people with no relevant experience whatsoever work in Antarctica? Does anyone want to go do menial work in Antarctica with me?

kontextmaschine said: everything2.com/title/H…

kontextmaschine said: dude did the thing and wrote a bunch of nodes about it, worth reading through his other stuff.

There is usually a 10 to 30X applicant to job ratio, so competition is fierce and aiming low doesn’t help.  There are trial lawyers who spend seasons as janitors, and wartime news correspondents who bus tables in the 155 galley just to get to the ice. It seems to many the best way to get the attention of a hiring manager at Raytheon Polar Services Company is either to have a skill they’re in desperate need of, or to know someone.

Naturally.

On the other hand:

Learn to love disco.  For reasons beyond the ability to calculate rational fact, ABBA is the official mascot band in Antarctica.  When you least expect it, reasonable life-loving people will don day glo wigs and polyester and boogie down to the likes of DANCING QUEEN, and FERNANDO.  You will then remember that since the Air Force ceased antarctic operations in 1998, you are on a continent without ammunition. However, there is no crime in Antarctica because there is no law, so the cognitive dissonance can be fantastic.

I think they should let me go on the basis of being an ABBA fan alone.

Also:

All personnel with blood type O+ deploying to the ice sign a waiver agreeing to be considered part of the “walking blood bank”, and can be called on at any time for a donation.

(I think he means O-.)

he’s the guy from whom I learned the South Pole repeatedly gets stolen as a souvenir by rich tourists, which is some DuckTales shit