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Job Opportunity?

Job Opportunity?. From: Bsummerhill Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 6:07 pm Use mouse to advance slides. Thousands of metres up the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province, China, a team of workers, operating with hardly any safety measures, are building a footpath.

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Job Opportunity?

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  1. Job Opportunity? From: Bsummerhill Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 6:07 pm Use mouse to advance slides

  2. Thousands of metres up the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province, China, a team of workers, operating with hardly any safety measures, are building a footpath.

  3. The workers are building a plank road on the side of the mountain that, once it is finished, will stretch for 3km 9843 ft and be China’s longest sightseeing footpath.

  4. 48 year old Yu Ji above is one of the workers and he has been working on high cliffs building such plank roads for more than 10 years. He comments: Young people don’t want this job, as it requires them to stay deep in the mountains for months or even years.

  5. Yu Ji takes charge of the most dangerous part of the project drilling the holes to set up pipes to support the footpath

  6. Building a plank road on Shifou Mountain is difficult because the cliff stands vertical at 90 degrees, without any slope or alcoves.

  7. A finished section of the footpath.

  8. 134 replacement positions open immediately, no experience necessary, starting pay $1.87/day US.Eventual promotions to those with 30 days experience to $2.23/day US.Apply in person at the Chinese Imperial Construction Bureau, Beijing, China. A non-union pledge must be signed.

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