The news is about Jordan Wills, a 19-year-old young man who works as a paintball target and wins 16,000 a year approximately. Despite how painful this job may seem, he's okay with it and UK Paintball, his employers, actually received a lot of applications for the job.
Jordan was chosen for this job after the company interviewed eighteen candidates, mainly because he was athletic (he's a rower at Kingston University), had a high threshold for pain and already knew a lot about paintball.
His friends think that he is crazy, but he says he loves his job. He works two days a week and one shift is around 1 or 2 hours. Professional shooters use him as a target at a short distance to test the manufacturers' enterprises products (the "bullets"). Jordan only wears protection in his eyes and wears just a T-shirt. He says that the pain is bareable and that it only lasts for a few seconds. Sometimes it takes longer for the marks to disappear, between three or four days, but he rarely gets hurt. The company makes sure that Jordan doesn't get hurt and if he did they'd stop his shift. The student makes a report on the bullets' effect so the companies know what to improve on.
Jordan is a fan of paintball and has played for many years. He had a wide knowleadge about the subject and that's what allowed him to get the job. Many people applied to it, but it was necessary a high threshold for pain, which Jordan has.
Personally, I am surprised to see that someone does this kind of job. I thought that the companies used sponge figures to test their products, not people. But if Jordan is cool with it and likes his job then I don't see any reason why it should be wrong.
VOCABULARY
Threshold: the point at which something begins to take effect.
Salary: a fixed amount of money payed regularly to a person for work.
Wage: money payed or received for services.
Aim: to point (a firearm, ball, etc.) so that the thing discharged or thrown will hit a target.
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