Off-season, you re a mere mortal, working construction, guiding fishing trips, mixing margaritas. A patroller with at least one year under his or her belt must pass expert ski or snowboarding courses, sledhandling clinics, and leadership seminars. Sales associates perfect the three S s straightening, stockings, and selling. Mechanics get greasy hands. Buy your own shop, and do both.
Someone has to wash the grimy rags.
Hired on by outfitters to oversee the well-being and health of team members, expedition physicians organize the acquisition and transport of all medical supplies, treat every kind of emergency, and decide when to call for a helicopter evacuation. To stay in the business, you ll need a full time job at home and a boss who ll tolerate long-and frequent absences. The current vogue for far-flung expeditions and the growing number of novice clients have put a premium on outdoor physicians. Draft plans to transform once-polluted mining quarries into amphitheaters, design private marigold gardens and elaborate public hedge mazes, and work to preserve historically significant tracts of land. We shape a living medium.