The

The I spent 16 years I spent 16 years in the Marine Corps, and when I got out around the 2017 holiday period, I felt

kind of lost. I drove Uber for a while, helped an old platoon mate get his landscaping business

up and running, and then did my toe into

celebrity bodyguarding. But if working those jobs taught me anything, it's that I'm just not a people

person. Working with Marines is different. There was structure to it, discipline, and no offense to the

general civilian population, but y'all are animals not that marines

aren't but driving people around dealing with paparazzi and having suburban housewives demand more

respect than most marine corps officers would that was a whole other level of ass pain it got to the

point where i was seriously considering to move

into private security, which was something I promised myself I'd never get into. But then, funnily enough,

the ex-marine I spoke to, who had a link to the industry, ended up suggesting something completely

different. And once I heard it, I couldn't keep my mind off

of it. He said he knew a guy that had been in a similar situation, needed to transition back

to civilian life, but more conventional jobs just weren't clicking for him. The guy worked a ton

of different jobs, hated every one of them. Then, almost at random, he decides to try

being a wilderness guide for a little while. That was four years ago. His buddy had been a guide

ever since up near Marble Mountain, said it was the best decision he ever made. I asked the

ex-marine guy a whole bunch of questions about it and he told me what he knew.

He said his buddy basically worked for himself, so he set his own hours and had the freedom to pick his own clients.

Then all he did for a living was hike with folks, camp with them, and impart all the survival skills he'd learned in the military in the process.

People paid him handsomely, too.

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