Will Work

For much of my adult life I have been concerned about where I will work and what I will be doing. To be fair I haven't let these fears get in the way too much but the thought of "how will I make my next dollar" has nagged at me. I have also had the tendancy to become bored or tired of being in one place for too long and because of this I have quite the list of past jobs:
South Lake Pizza - Cook, Driver, Manager
Kamma'aina Kids - Program Director
Holland America - Driver guide
Starbucks - Coffee Maker (not a Batista....we're in Murica)
South Hill Cycle - Bike Mechanic
LCI Kids Club Ansan - English Teacher
Wiley E Waters - White Water River Guide

This is not even half the list, a fact that I am both proud and a maybe a bit rueful of. On one hand I have been around the world, met tons of people and learned all sorts of interesting things. On the other hand I have a laughable 401k, no health care (besides the Affordable Care Act) and no real "home base" or connection to a place. For me, now, these two balance each other. I know some day in the future I will want more stability and direction but for now I am content to learn and experience all that I can, while I still can.

With all that in mind I am prepared to continue the odyssey that has gotten me this far. My goals are to 1 pay my meager bills and 2 continue to learn new things 3 have new experiences and meet new interesting people. These are pretty loose conditions for employment, and I'm hoping that you will be so kind to send some ideas my way.

Current applications:

North Slope Heavy Machine Opperator
2 weeks on 2 weeks off 12hour days $35 an hour plus benefits, flights, room and board all in Prudohe Bay Alaska! Not sure about this one but why not?!

Deck Hand on Sailboat
Several months and thousands of miles of sailing on a medium size ship for no pay but think about the stories!

My life as a deckhand

I feel a special kinship to the seagulls that feed at the edge of the water on halibut carcasses left by successful fishermen. Like them, I feed off of others leavings, both figuratively and literally. When a sandwich, soggy with day long perspiration is found wedged between seat cushions my heart palpitates, a half eaten bag of Doritos tossed into the trash makes my mouth water. I am the omnivore of dirt bag fishermen. It has (no joke) become a game to see how long I can live off of scraps without buying food, four days and going strong. I am however going 7 days of cleaning fish and busting ass for 8-12 hours a day without showering, I no longer smell myself but I do worry about attracting bears.

I smell and am not really making much money but I am feeling really good about it. I am not rich in money but I am earning dividends on experiences. It feels good to lean and do something new and different even if it is just working on a fishing boat. Now the real question is how do I keep doing this (working and learning new things) for years to come or the even more difficult to figure out question is how do I stop and re-enter the real world.

Adventures in AK

So much has happened recently, lets go over the past month:

• Working at Home Depot (kinda hating life)
• Kaitlin (my friend from Alaska) invited me up to hang out
• Gave notice to work, flew out three weeks later
• Arrived in AK drove directly to Prudohe Bay to jump in the Arctic Ocean naked on the solstice
• For the next week I helped Kaitlin with various porjects
• Started working as a deck hand on a halibut charter.

To say the least it has been a bit of a whirl wind tour. Now I live in a shed. No really, we keep the bait in here along with a huge pile of other random crap needed for fishing. I go out on the charter every day with six people all looking to catch a huge fish. 99% of the time we catch our limit of 12 fish. While motoring back to launch I fillet and pack the fish, then I clean the boat go back to the shed and go to sleep to wake up and do it all over again. It's not the most fulfilling thing I have ever done but it pays the bills (if I had any bills it would pay them).