BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Do you have an accountancy qualification and are you familiar with the bureaucracy of the European Union? Perhaps a career as a shepherd on the plains of southern Hungary beckons.
The "puszta" flatland, traditional home to more than a million sheep, is running out of qualified shepherds and is now importing them from neighboring Romania.
Not only are herd numbers growing, but shepherds must have accountancy skills and, since the country joined the EU last year, be capable of applying for grants, the newspaper Nepszabadsag reported Tuesday.
Ference Silay, who trained as an architect, is an ethnic Hungarian from Romania who now earns a living from the award-winning herd he owns in Domaszek, southern Hungary.
"Being a shepherd isn't just sitting next to your dog on the field all day, smoking a pipe," he told the paper.
This may be a new career path. It is worth some consideration, even though I know nothing about sheep except that they hang out in a filed, get fuzzy and then you shave them. They they are all funny looking until the fuzz grows back. I also suppose while sitting in the field smoking my pipe I should study the European accounting laws as they are very different from ours. I wonder if I have to speak their language. That could be the biggest issue.
Thanks for the thought Molly.
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