My New Office

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As some of you know, I recently acquired my dream job. I'm working at a company in Utah, though I'll not mention the name.

I work in wilderness therapy now. It is a combination of two of my passions, the outdoors and helping others. I work with troubled teens and young adults, teaching them primitive living skills. While I do talk to them about their various issues, my primary role is to simply keep them safe. It is a joy.

I could go on about the various sites or details about the job, but once you see my office, you'll understand why words simply won't do it justice and why I can't imagine working in a cubicle ever again. And, I think you'll see why I love this job.

So with that, I've got a lot of pictures for you. Obviously I'm holding back (because I took a TON), but you'll get the gist of it. Enjoy (and come visit)!

It isn't a trick of my lense. There was actually a cool prism effect going on in the clouds.

Beautiful!

Yep. We got deer here, too.

Looked like some weather was coming in.

Yup. The weather came, indeed.

Inside one of the shelters we built, a few hours after sunrise.

I truly love my new office.

We were heading down a long, lonesome road.

More snow there, off in the distance.

One of my co-workers, pretending to be Chewbacca.

Beautiful dawn.

My kind of place.

Well, that's it for the pics. I whittled it down to these ones, but I took over 100 over the course of 8 days (and that WAS using self control).

We hiked about 15 miles this last shift, but hopefully the students will be up for a LOT more once the summer hits.

The job is near Zion National Park, so while I might not update the blog for awhile (I'm busy darn it), I will definitely update it once I get some hiking in over there. I've seen some pictures from co-workers adventures and I can hardly wait!

See you next time!

Quick update and a thing that made me say, "HAH!"

Hey all. Yeah, it's been an age since I last updated this post. So...

Really quick to get you updated - I've been hiking, of course but I'm not posting pictures because I'm being lazy. Awesome, right?

I got the job in Utah and fell in love with the scenery there. I'm now looking into possibly getting some land and starting a cult...I mean, starting my own sustainable farm or something. Been looking at pricing and it'll be pretty damn cheap. I'm excited at the potential of this state and will (eventually) post some pictures of my new "office", which is more badass than your office...or city, for that matter.

Finally, that thing that made me say "HAH!" has nothing to do with the outdoors, but is all about PETA. We all love them. They make us feel bad for eating meat and even owning pets (that we love dearly). Well, looks like the pompous Oz-like wizards have finally had their curtain pulled back.

The big reveal is well documented at PETA Kills Animals - you should check it out and mention it to all of your friends. This is the equivalent of Green Peace pouring crude oil all over the Alaskan wilderness, then bitch slapping baby seals with maces made from used sticks of uranium and the farting radon gas in their faces (PETA might be okay with this as long as you aren't keeping them as pets, right?).

I'm not knocking any of my friends that are all about PETA. I just hope that you won't be so damn smug about it now. YOU might want to love animals and treat them ethically, but apparently your beloved organization just wants to talk about doing it. Maybe you should consider this?

Anyway, that's all for the time being. I hope all of you are doing well. I do realize that the blog has slumped like mad, but I'll start getting it more up to snuff once things get settled down a bit more.

Be safe everyone (and get the F*CK outside!!!!!).