re: What was your best non-career job?

I’ve had a couple. Worked as a pull up stocker for Budweiser my senior year of high school on Saturdays. Got all the extra merch I wanted, and gas station attendants assumed I was 21 since I worked for Bud and could buy all the beer I wanted on my last stop of the day.

Worked on and off for a horticulturist through high school as his assistant. Mostly loading up fertilizer on the trailer and setting flags on athletic fields as a guide for his tractor. He payed pretty well, and now I have a great looking lawn from everything I’ve learned.

ETA: This wasn’t a paying job, but during summer vacation growing up, I spent at least a month or 2 in Opelousas working on my Grandpa’s hay farm. Baled and stacked more square bales than I could ever count. Was also able to learn how to break horses and run heavy equipment. It sucked at the time, but I’ve cherished those miserable days since he’s been gone.

waiter. good times, good cash money, good people to work with.

When I was 21 I went to Denali Alaska and worked for a mom and pop cabin outfitter. It was located just outside the gates and sat directly on the Nenana River. One of the best summers of my life. Stayed in a cabin that I could only plug a couple of things in at a time or it would “blow”, constantly rotated between a space heater, a lamp, a CD player (it was 2001), a hot plate and a fan. I met the most amazing people that summer. I did every job there, from picking up guests at the train station in Denali to changing sheets in the cabins, washing linens, you name it.
One of the beat perks was trading services with other outfitters. Since I had access to a van I would trade rides to “town” (that meant Healy, a few miles north) for pizza, white water rafting with the guides, even flights on these small twin engine planes that flew folks out and around Denali mountain, even took a flight to Talkeetna for a getaway one weekend. The pilot didn’t care, as long as he had paying customers going he didn’t care if me or other raged along, we just could brag to the paying tourist our flight was free.
Best summer ever.
I’ll never forget the day I left. I rode the train in Denali to anchorage, took a flight to Seattle then to New Orleans. Walked out of the airport and thought I was gonna die, the humidity was choking me! Went from clean, fresh mountain air of Alaska to the swamps of Louisiana in mid August. It’s been 19 years and I think about that summer almost every day.
I recommend to any young adult, take a summer in between semesters and go work in a national park. It can and will change you for the better. Go West! Northwest!

Wrangler at The Pisgah View Ranch ! The Cogburns Chester & Ruby proprietors back in the 70's. Look it up ,the grandaughter Cindy is running it now but they are giving the land to the National Forest Service....gotta be worth 100s of millions. I always knew they would give me a few acres to build on but too late now. I made 1.50 an hour and paid them 15.00 a week room and board. Best food you ever are. And I would have done it for free, the girls I met ....Damn

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Where is boy scout camp . White water kayaking?


These posts make me want to work in a national park

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Valet at lauberge LC.

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Coming here to say this. We might know each other. I worked Valet there through my time at McNeese and a year after (6 years total). Had a blast there and met some damn good friends. Coming home with $100-$200 cash every night, and going straight to OB’s to spend it loved that job. We’d sneak into Party By the Pool and watch a part of the concerts sometimes, too.

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