Park Ranger for a Week
The following article recently appeared on the NPS Digest website (public domain). Sean Aiken sounds like a really cool guy. We should all be so thorough in choosing a career.
Job #46 of 52: Park Ranger For A Week
Sean Aiken is traveling anywhere in the world working 52 different
jobs in 52 weeks while trying to figure out what to do with his
life.
"After finishing college with a business degree, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t settle for a career that I am not truly passionate about," Sean explains on his website OneWeekJob.com. "My goal is to gain a better understanding of what I need in a career to be happy and inspire others to go after their passions. Any company or individual anywhere in the world can offer me a job for one week. The job can be absolutely anything, anywhere- garbage collection, actor, working the family farm, a suit and tie corporate position."
Instead of paying Sean for his work, job
providers make a donation to the Make Poverty History / ONE
Campaign. He sustains his project through the kindness of
strangers by staying at people's houses each week, taking the bus,
hitch hiking and with the $1000/month provided by
NiceJob.ca to help with costs.
Sean spent Week 46 working as a park ranger at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and shared his experiences through the following updates posted on his website.
Week #46 Announced - Park Ranger
This week I am working as a Park Ranger at
Forward Looking On The Trail Of Life
The scenery here at
Aloho
& Mahalo
In order to fully immerse myself in the culture of island life, I
appropriately adopted the island pace (well demonstrated by my lack
of updates this... [more]
