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...intense popularity of TV WESTERNS moved experts to ponder the social and cultural significance of the genre long before today's hit movie Brokeback Mountain...
...paid to do what a lot of people pay to do on their vacations,” says Kleinschmidt, who spent the summer cooking over a campfire and watching sunsets while working as a shelter caretaker in Vermont for the Green Mountain Club...
...It’s a completely different lifestyle—I was living in a cabin on a mountain,” she says. Rather than mastering key commands in Excel and taking midday Starbucks breaks, Kleinschmidt quickly began to exercise a new skill set. Her workday included cleaning up the trail, digging, water drainage, and moving rocks around...
...Work in the outdoors is largely a seasonal business, and the chills of mid-October brought Kleinschmidt’s Green Mountain Club work to a close. When she returned from the trail, she dusted off her degree in biology and mind, brain, and behavior, and spent the fall and early winter in Boston working in a neurobiology lab at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
...Kleinschmidt learned about the Green Mountain Club caretaker position through the summer camp, a place which she says “initiated me in the outdoor education world...