Comments | rantingranger: This Pretty Much Equals a Career

rantingranger

This Pretty Much Equals a Career

Jul 26, 2008 21:44

As you may have gathered, I have much going on at the moment, and not all of it great. But I thought I should at least report - for those who hadn't already heard from the thunder-stealing
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firekite July 27 2008, 06:57:56 UTC

That is so cool! What do you do, exactly? How did you get into it? I think Josh would love to work in a park.

rantingranger July 29 2008, 06:24:42 UTC

"Ranger" can mean many things, and among rangerly types in the National Park Service, that term typically applies to those with law enforcement responsibilities. Among rangerly types, they call me an "interpreter" - I present the walks and talks, answer the telephones, and help visitors arrange their ideal experiences at the visitor centers. Other rangerly types perform research, manage natural resources, maintain roads, trails and buildings, or perform administrative and technical stuff ( ... )

rhiannon_1983 July 27 2008, 16:41:02 UTC

That's awesome, congrats!

rantingranger July 29 2008, 06:25:19 UTC

Thanks, and continued congratulations to you and your guy and your growing kid!

crazylife99 July 27 2008, 19:21:27 UTC

That's great. Congrats!

rantingranger July 29 2008, 06:25:31 UTC

Thanks!

clwriter July 27 2008, 21:34:03 UTC

Congrats! You might see me out there on a horse sometime--hopefully I won't ever meet you due to some kind of emergency! But we always know that if we were to get in some kind of trouble, our local "flathats" are the world's best at rescue.
Right now I'm feeling sorry for our state parks' staff--it's already pretty obvious they've been told to enforce parking like a bunch of fiends. And the guy at China Camp was locking up the gates to the parking lot at 7:55 last week, even though the sun was still visible behind McInnis. They're going to be mighty crabby by the end of the summer! Nobody gets into that line of work for the fun of writing tickets (I hope!)

rantingranger July 29 2008, 06:28:02 UTC

Thanks!

And yeah, before I got into the National Park Service and worked extensively with the North Coast State Parks, I thought I would prefer to work within the State Parks, but until this state can get its financial shit together, I feel a touch leary of taking employment with them.

apel July 27 2008, 23:22:58 UTC

Woohoo! Congratulations! Do you have to buy your own flat hat or do they give you one when you start?

rantingranger July 29 2008, 06:30:13 UTC

Thanks!

And about the hat ... um, yes? You get a uniform allowance at the start of your appointment, so you can use that to buy your hat, or you can buy it with your own money if you've already blown your uniform allowance, or you can just find one that somebody left behind (crazy bastard!) like I did. So they pretty much give you one, I guess.