3 Great Careers In The Great Outdoors
If your idea of a job is to wake up in the morning and put on a shirt and tie before you head into the office at 9 every day, you have a far too limited view of what it is to have a job. An office job is just the tip of the iceberg of potential careers you could enter. If being in a cubicle out of the sun isn’t for you, why not try pursuing one of these great careers in the great outdoors.
Park Ranger
If you work as a park ranger, you won’t ever have to worry about feeling cooped up – unless you’re exploring a cave, of course. Because park rangers don’t have offices, they just have the forest. When people staring at a computer screen wish they could get away from it all for a while, you’re exactly where they would want to go.
Spend your time doing research, observing animals and getting your Smokey Bear on. Because while he said “only you can prevent forest fires,” it’s your job to actually enforce that philosophy. And if you’re lucky, you might even make friends with some wacky animals who are always trying to steal pic-a-nic baskets from campers.
Park rangers: the police officers of nature!
Lifeguard
If you like being outdoors but prefer the beach to the mountains, why not consider a career as a lifeguard? While other people go to the beach for vacation, you’ll be there all the time. Just imagine getting paid to bask in the sun with a small strip of sunscreen across the bridge of your nose, as you sit atop your tower monitoring the safety of anyone who may succumb to the wrath of the majestic ocean.
And as you protect the masses from the dangers of the undertow and great white sharks, you can take comfort in one simple thought: while all of the beach bums leave their offices to come to the beach for vacation, you probably won’t ever decide to go visit an office cubicle on your day off.
Construction
But the great outdoors doesn’t necessarily have to be in the middle of the wilderness or near an ocean. The great outdoors starts as soon as you step out of a building. And what’s a better way to enjoy being outdoors than by building new places for people to be indoors?
Working construction can give you the chance to work with your hands, get some fresh air and stay in shape – all at the same time. There are a lot of places that would charge you to do all of that, so just imagine getting paid for it!
