Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Yellowstone

A few months ago, I started researching and applying for various jobs in national parks near home. I didn't think anything would really happen with it. It would be for pretty much the entire summer, in the woods somewhere, and I wouldn't get to see my family or anything.
Today I got a phone call from some guy who works at Yellowstone. He offered me a job to come work in the park over the summer. I would be gone from May 1st to August 20th. Quite a long time. Strange thing is, I didn't even apply for the position he offered me. He said that I would be working at the deli by the lodge at Old Faithful. I would be working at the Subway in the Disneyland of national parks. I want to work in national parks, but not at a deli. I wanted to go with the rangers or something. Not a deli. It'd be a full time job, I'd live up there, they'd pay for me to live there and I'd get paid decently and not have anywhere to run and spend it.
National parks don't have very good cell phone service so that's kind of a bust. If I were to go away for the entire summer, there are a variety of things that I would miss out on. First of all, I love to be home with my family. Home is so much better than anywhere else. Second, Darick comes home July 17th and if I was gone all summer, I would miss any and all the time we would be able to spend together. That would really suck because it's already really hard not to have him around, but to have him back and me gone would be really hard. It would take the entire summer. I wouldn't be able to work at the theater, which is one of my favorite things to do. Working there is so great and I love the employees (for the most part).
On the reverse side, if I was ever to get a summer job in a national park, now is the time. Before I get married and start a family, now is the time for anything like that. What are the odds of having this opportunity again? I want to work with the national parks professionally, but it would be different. When I start a career there, I'll be married and be working on a family. Right now, I'm only tied down to my family at home and they can manage the summer without me.
It's a lot to think about, lots to consider, going to have to pray about it a lot for sure.

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