\n\n\n\n\n\nDo they let people with no relevant experience whatsoever work in Antarctica? Does anyone want to go do menial work in Antarctica with me?
\n\nkontextmaschine said: everything2.com/title/H\u2026
\n\nkontextmaschine said: dude did the thing and wrote a bunch of nodes about it, worth reading through his other stuff.
\n\n\nThere is usually a 10 to 30X applicant to job ratio, so competition is fierce and aiming low doesn\u2019t help. \u00a0There 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\u2019re in desperate need of, or to know someone.\n\n
Naturally.
\n\nLearn to love disco. \u00a0For reasons beyond the ability to calculate rational fact, ABBA is the official mascot band in Antarctica. \u00a0When 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. \u00a0You will then remember that since the Air Force\n ceased antarctic operations in 1998, you are on a continent without \nammunition. However, there is no crime in Antarctica because there is no\n law, so the cognitive dissonance can be fantastic.\nI think they should let me go on the basis of being an ABBA fan alone.
\nAlso:
\n\n\nAll personnel with blood type O+ deploying to the ice sign a waiver agreeing to be considered part of the \u201cwalking blood bank\u201d, and can be called on at any time for a donation.\n
(I think he means O-.)
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he\u2019s the guy from whom I learned the South Pole repeatedly gets stolen as a souvenir by rich tourists, which is some DuckTales shit