NEOM is an acronym for New Future, which refers to the megaproject financed and built in Saudi Arabia to create a futuristic city and economic area with an area three times that of Cyprus, which is intended, together with the La Linea project, also in the same country, to show what the cities of the future could be.
The truth is that both projects are very extravagant ideas and aim to turn into reality what George Orwell or anyone else could have imagined cities to be like in a hundred years, but with the difference that NEOM is expected to be completed by 2025.
This megaproject, which consists of the construction of a city and two huge skyscrapers, has been adding more buildings to make NEOM an even more futuristic city at the same time that it is made for grandeur and wealth, with the addition of a megaport for yachts. and hundreds of luxury villas.
But no matter how much ostentation, luxuries and wealth a city wants to offer, for it to prosper it needs people to live there, and these people need jobs. The builders of NEOM are aware of this, and with the aim of beginning to attract attention and find the first inhabitants of this futuristic city, they have already published a list with up to 235 job offers, which while it is true that there are common jobs, there are also There are others that attract attention.
The curious jobs offered at NEOM
Leader of animal repopulation: Being a city built from scratch, and in the middle of the desert, as expected there is no fauna. NEOM is looking for professionals to help build corridors for wildlife in addition to monitoring species and evaluating the biodiversity of the place.
Head of student recruitment: The success of the city lies in having citizens who want to live in it, and the younger they are, the more future it has. That’s why they’re looking for someone to make NEOM “the place to live and work,” while also preparing the “brightest young minds” for careers within the city.
Professional for the aquatic mobility station: Although it sounds like something common, and to a certain extent it is, this offer is looking for employees for the city’s aquatic station, what happens is that it will not be a common port, but one full of superyachts and other ostentatious vessels.
Director of personalized health: He will be in charge of prioritizing the health and well-being of the citizens of NEOM, and in other words it seems a bit like you could aspire to become a kind of health minister of the city, which is not a bad position.
However, not everything we get from NEOM is good news or curiosities, since as the BBC reported last week, Saudi forces have been authorized to use “lethal force” if necessary to expel to residents who refuse to be relocated.
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