We recently reported on an unusual job offer on the island of Sestrunj in the Zadar archipelago. What might appear to many to be a simple job working in a shop has attracted a rather large amount of attention, from Croatia, Europe, and even beyond.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 8th of April, 2019, there haven’t been any schools on the island of Sestrunj for a long time now, and on the island itself, there are only twenty permanent residents.
While Croats tend to move to Ireland in their droves for work opportunities, higher salaries and more job security, Sestrunj, a small island in the Zadar archipelago, has been attracting attention from all sides since the posting of a job offer in a shop on the island, with would-be employees making contact from Ireland, Germany, and even all the way from America, as RTL reports.
Sestrunj – a little island close to Zadar, hasn’t even had a shop for four months, and the only the place where you can go and have a drink is at some sort of pensioner’s association on the island.
Since Sestrunj has been without a shop for the last four months, supplying the island naturally poses a big problem.
Eventually, the powers that be decided that Sestrunj’s store needed to make a return to the island and contacted some commercial chains, and as the first condition for the job, they needed a person who would be willing to move to the island and live there. The interest in the small shop was quite surprising, and so far as many as forty job applications from around the world have arrived on Sestrunj’s quiet shores.
“There were mostly people from Slavonia, and there were also people from the United States, Germany, Canada, a gentleman from Ireland called, he was willing to come back to the area,” said Nenad Šužberić from Sestrunj.
“They’re sick of the crowds in the city, they’re probably expecting to come and have some peace on the island and all that,” said Sestrunj resident Berislav Fatović.
The shop will need to be done up, but the apartment for the person who will work there is ready.
“It’s nice to live here because it’s quiet and it’s different way of life than in Zadar, in town, but we’re missing this shop because you need to think about the most basic necessities in advance, to make sure you’ve everything you need to have in the house,” admitted Zdravka Dilber.
With the re-opening of Sestrunj’s shop, everything would be much easier for the island’s residents.
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