Since 2024, reports of vacancies on the French lighthouse La Jumen have appeared on the network. It is claimed that you can get a lot of money for work there, but there are no people who want to respond to the offer due to difficult working conditions. We checked the reliability of such publications.

In June 2025 in public "Point of view”(147,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) on VKontakte described the alleged vacancy:“ The ranger of the La Jument lighthouse (la jument, in French is pronounced as lamo.-Ed.) In France-work for $ 1 million a year, but there are no people who wish. At first glance, it seems that this is a dream work: you are sitting on a tower in the middle of the Atlantic, they pay you good money for this. But the trouble is that no one is in a hurry to settle down on it. In the famous picture of 1989, taken by Jean Gishar, the ranger of the lighthouse Theodor Malgorn peeps out of the door of the tower when the giant wave is ready to cover the entire building. Not everyone can survive such an element, even if they pay a lot of money. ” In the same month, similar posts came out in other communities, among which "Do it yourself | Construction and life hacks"(3.2 million views),"About everything in the world | Science is facts"(1.2 million)," "How is it possible?"(245,000),"The tricks of life"(66 000) and others.

Similar messages were distributed a year earlier, and not only in Russian. The position of the Light La Jumen lighthouse was called not only The most difficult work in the world, but also the highest paid for an ordinary citizen. At the same time, the authors of different publications cited various annual salaries (in addition to the above amount of $ 1 million): $ 500,000, $ 1.2 million, € 2 million, $ 2.4 million and others. Such notes are found in Facebook* (there also stated that the picture of Gishar was taken during a rescue operation) and Threads*, and numerous videos on this topic - in TiktokWhere some gained several million views. In addition, c reviews To the lighthouse on Google Maps, many users wrote that they would like to get a job there, and even left a resume. Moreover, in this service there is a second, incorrect, Location Lighthouse, but there are comments in the reviews about the position of the caretaker.

Building the La Jument Lighthouse (with the Fr. "Kobyl") It was conducted in 1904-1911, and in more than 100 years he was Included In the list of historical monuments. Structure located Near the island of Wesan in the Sea of Iruaz in the west of France. The place was chosen for a reason: in this region, due to violent currents, dozens of shipwrecks occurred earlier. Yes, and the beacon itself is constantly threaten Storm waves that reach a height of more than 20 m, so the foundation of the tower had to be strengthened.

La Jument found world fame after the storm on December 21, 1989 thanks to a series of pictures taken by Jean Gishar. On that day, the photographer went to the lighthouse to capture the waves from a height, and the caretaker Theodore Malgorn, hearing the noise of the helicopter, wanted to see what was happening, and went outside (although, according to him, he understood that he was raging a storm with a force of about 10 points on a box of boonta). “It was extremely strong even for especially the storm winter of 1989 with unusually high waves.” I remembered Malgorn in 2007 in an interview with the German magazine Stern. When the caretaker came out, a huge wave rose above the back of the lighthouse, and at that moment Gishar took his pictures, which later became world famous. One of the photos Bring He is the second place at the 1991 World Press Photo contest in the “Nature” category. Malgorn said that Gishar shared a part of the income from the pictures with him: "Not much, but I am satisfied."

According to Malgorn, those few seconds could cost him life: if he stood a little further from the door, he would not get to the tower. “And I would be dead today. You can’t play with the sea, ”he said. The man also talked about the damage that such waves caused: they beat the windows, bent a balustrade several times, and once pulled out the front door. In the same interview, Malgorn was asked about his everyday duties, to which he replied: “This is mainly handmade. The lighthouse caretaker is a mechanic, an electrician, a painter and a mason in one person. There was also office work, although, fortunately, there was little it. [And in their free time] there is nothing much to do. Read, watch TV, craftswomen. And fishing. " According to him, the lighthouse has several caretakers: they were on duty for two weeks, and then rested on land for a week. Therefore, despite statements In viral posts, employees did not have to spend a whole year on the lighthouse alone.

In the same conversation in 2007, Malgorn said that by that time he had been working on another lighthouse for six years - Créac'hwhich is located a little north, on the island of Wesan. He explained the reason as follows: “The lighthouses are gradually automated. There is no one on La Jument since 1991. ” Then where did the news about hiring such employees come from?

In the spring of 2024, journalists of the French newspaper 20 minute They wrotethat the publications about the unclaimed despite the very high salary of the vacancy of the La Jument lighthouse career is a deception. According to the publication, a few weeks earlier in the Tiktok franco -speaking segment, a minute video appeared in which the author talked about such a dangerous work with a salary of € 1.2 million a year (it also stated that the monthly salary was € 50,000, which gives only € 600,000 per year). At that time, the video was watched more than 177,000 times. However, the Brittan Mayakov and signal lights service in the 20 Minutes commentary said that she was not planning a set of caretakers. The same note reported that the La Jument lighthouse has been automated since 1991 and has been costing without such employees for more than thirty years.

After the video released in Tiktok, several people called the Interregional Directorate in the North Atlantic and the West La-Channel to learn more about work in the lighthouse. They were replied that such a vacancy does not exist. In Brittany, the rangers of the lighthouses located at sea have not been since 2004 when Automated lighthouse Kéréon. According to 20 minute, for 2019 in the region It remained Only a few caretakers who worked on ground beacons. The newspaper added that the information about the salary is € 50,000 per month is also a strong exaggeration, since the employees of one of the marine lighthouses in another region of France received ten times less. So, in 2018, Le Parisien reportedthat the salary of a lighthouse on a pair Cordouan (although it was also automated in 2006) is € 1600 per month. It also said that in total they rest at home on land for about 26 weeks a year.

Thus, in viral videos and posts it is reported about the nonexistent vacancy of the French lighthouse racer La Jument. According to local officials, it was automated back in 1991, so the constant presence of workers there is not required. In addition, bloggers and Internet users greatly exaggerated the salary for such vacancies in France, as well as the duration of the locals in lighthouses.

*Russian authorities They think META Platforms Inc., which owns the social networks of Threads and Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities and symbols in Russia are prohibited.

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