Summer Read: My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dream Job

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For Caitlin Giddings, leading cross-country bike tours was supposed to be the ultimate escape from the monotony of normal life. Instead it was a kind of torture. Giddings was in her twenties when she was seduced by the idea of turning her passion for cycling into a paycheck. She wanted freedom and adventure! What she got, however, was a lot of whining and grief from troublemaking clients, including a deranged madman and a guy who kept peeing on another rider’s tent. In this episode of our Summer Read series, she describes how her fantasy went so, so wrong.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by GoRV,
0:03.4	which wants to help you make the most of your family adventures on the open road.
0:08.8	Okay boys, we are rolling.
0:11.4	We'll be going.
0:12.8	Well that's the fun part.
0:14.2	Because we're sleeping in our new trailer, we can go anywhere.
0:17.2	No airplanes or hotels or crowded campgrounds are required.
0:20.8	This is the ultimate choose your own adventure vacation,
0:23.5	because we have everything we need with us.
0:25.6	Except my PlayStation.
0:27.1	You don't need that.
0:28.8	So wait, Dad, you actually don't know where we're going.
0:31.8	That's not what I said.
0:33.0	I have two places in mind and you guys get to pick.
0:35.7	We can go to the beach or there's a spot in the mountains.
0:38.2	Mountains!
0:39.0	Beach!
0:39.6	Mountains!
0:40.3	Beach!
0:40.9	Guys!
0:41.9	Guys!
0:42.8	How about this?
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