Interesting work...

[Doc]

Scottish National Heritage are looking for mink trappers in the Western Isles.

You need to be able to walk 20km a day.

Experience with boats, firearms and the public is 'desirable'. Pay is only £13.7K but it is a terrific part of Scotland to live and work in.

They're also looking or hedgehog controllers on Uist.

http://roles.snhjobs.co.uk/applications/positions.nsf/Opportunities?OpenPage

 

[Batfink]

Weren't DEFRA after Ruddy Duck Control officers a while back too? Same wage and experiences required I think.

 

[Wayland]

You could make yourself a nice warm coat too....

 

[BorderReiver]

You could make yourself a nice warm coat too....

Ah but,do you get to keep the pelts?

 

[demographic]

Just posted a link to a mate who lives up there

 

[bent-stick]

I wonder if work would give me a years sabbatical

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Im too unfit for the job, and i doubt i could get a wifi signal

 

[Klenchblaize]

At 13K per annum you would need to already live there or have seriously sharpened your bracken shelter-building skills!

Cheers

 

[Wayland]

That's why you'd need the warm coat...

 

[Longstrider]

Now all I need is for someone to decide that they'll do the same thing along my local river valley (I wish!) I spent a Winter trapping mink locally a few years back and had more than 200 of the little ers. That was running a line of never more than a dozen traps along and beside the Great Ouse within 20 miles of home on a part-time "It gets me out and about when I feel like it" basis.

That warm coat idea of Waylands isn't so far-fetched either. I spent a good deal of my youth with an old 'keeper who kept all of the mink I shot or trapped seperate from the others and secretly cured the skins. He sewed them into a lining for his old Barbour jacket (Which would have been far too big for me otherwise) and gave the jacket to me for a birthday present. That coat was so warm I would have to take it off to cool down whilst sat out on poacher-watch on nights when it blew a gale and threw sleet at me! The jacket was stolen from the boot of my car many years ago along with some tools and stuff , but was probably unique, so if you know of someone with a tatty old Barbour Northumbria with a hand stitched mink lining... Name and address via Pm would be MOST appreciated