2223“My mother told me this quite regularly when I was a child,” he says in his audio clip, “because I’d constantly be trying to eat sweets, or if I got pocket money I’d go to the shop and just buy sweets. I got told off so many times and I wasn’t allowed sweets when I was around them.

“I just got hyperactive all the time, because I’m quite an energetic, happy outgoing person. But now I’ve grown up and I’ve got the choice to buy my own sweets if I want to or not, so I’m delighted.”

Our subject is Allan Dixon, one of the 2013 winners of the Best Jobs In The World contest.

Taken at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory during the SOTM World Tour.