How to Find an Unusual or Adventurous Job

If you seek adventure or the unusual in life, and even in your job, then you may want to find work that suits your tastes and inclinations much more than that boring cubicle job ever did.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet
• phone
• travel ability
• a sense of adventure

1. Not all of us seek security or desk jobs. Some hardy souls want to live a life of adventure, or we just prefer the unusual to the mundane.
   
   Still, you have to pay the bills, so what's to do? Maybe you can find an unusual job, a job filled with adventure. Or you might get an outdoors job, or a job that's filled with interesting travel experiences.
2. You could be here In the Resources list below, you'll find some web sites that feature unusual jobs so check them out.
   
   Here's a small sampling of some unusual jobs you might enjoy:
   rodeo clown
   performing in western and cowboy shows as a trick rider or roper
   working as an extra in a movie
   jousting in a tournament and performing in Renaissance Fairs
   working for the circus
   becoming a Smoke Jumper
   tree planting in the wilderness areas of the world
   teaching English as a second language in Mexico or Japan, or ?
   working in a zoo
   saving trees or butterfly's or animals on a nature preserve
   working in Antarctica
   working as a camp cook at a fishing resort in Alaska
   driving a carriage in Central Park in New York City
   building solar stoves in Honduras
   winter caretaker at a remote mine in Alaska
   house sitting on a Mexican beach for months at a time
3. That's just a tiny sample of the unusual or adventurous jobs to be found around the world.
   
   You can even find a job working your way around the world, in some way, for example. Many people have already done it, and you could too.
   
   Keep your eyes open, and ask around; maybe someone you know has heard of an unusual or adventurous job right in your area. You never know.
   
   Now you'll need to do an internet search for "unusual jobs" and for "adventure jobs" and "outdoor jobs".

Tips & Warnings

• It takes courage to live an unusual life, and to make a living with an unusual, or adventurous, job.
• If traveling to a foreign country to work, you must follow all the rules and regulations for working in that country.