'We landed dream £620-a-month gig in Maldives with no rent for a year - it's paradise'

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Soneva, which runs luxury resorts Soneva Fushi and Soneva Jani, pays the barefoot booksellers around £620 a month to run its on-site bookshops – but you won’t have rent to pay as employees get to stay in accommodation provided on the island.READ MORE: Luxury Maldives resort wants to hire someone to run its beach bookshop for a yearGeorgie Polhill, 27, from the UK, spent the last 12 months working on Soneva Fushi after leaving her career in publishing to work with kids and adults in the bookshop and spend her spare time scuba diving.Meanwhile, Marsa Maaz, from the Maldives, does the same role on Soneva Jani after finishing up university in Wales.We spoke to the barefoot booksellers to discover the highs and lows of working in paradise – check out their answers below.

Georgie, who was 26 when she applied, told the Daily Star: " I saw it on Twitter, because I used to work in publishing and the person who had it before me was a publishing person at Penguin."I remember, it was in October last year and we’d just had that awful wet summer and I was sitting on a train and it was grey and raining. " I'd just left publishing and was wondering what to do with my life and I saw that and thought… that looks amazing."While Malsa explained: "I first came across the job ad in one of my book club groups on social media."The article headline was ‘dream job selling books in paradise’.

I clicked on it only to realise it was based in the Maldives, my home country."It got me really excited, but I was still at university at the time.

However, when I moved back home after finishing university, I saw the job ad again, and this time it said they were looking for a local candidate.