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Originally Posted by kaudrey
Look at www.coolworks.com. They have some cool jobs.
I'd love to volunteer or work at a national park where you get to live in the park. |
Working as a front desk clerk in a lodge at Denali National Park in Alaska in summer 2003 was the most physically demanding job I've ever had. I had no energy left to enjoy hiking. My legs ached and my feet became so painful I couldn't walk. Standing all day is the pits!
Some of the older workers worked in the gift shop where they could sit down all day but they about died of boredom. Most places won't let you sit down anyway. One of the better jobs was driving a van around and around the loop, taking guests back and forth to various locations. All the other jobs (clerking, waitressing, cleaning, cooking) were physically very very demanding.
The supervisors were younger, much younger, and didn't have much sympathy for older workers. Also, many of the workers were from eastern bloc countries which made things interesting, but they were used to working at killer jobs, which made us American "slobs" look bad.
In short, I would not call any seasonal work at the national parks a "fun" job at all! But volunteering could be a nice short term gig.
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