>>1706238My grandfather and his buddies basically went straight from high school to working jobs innawoods. All of them have really cool and interesting stories from their time in their respective fields but I think that the one that I would apply to this thread would be this one.
Grandfather's friend flunks out of HS because he failed all 4 of his senior year classes and basically says fuck it. He hitchhikes to Alberta and gets a job in a ranger post with the government. They tell him that food and water will be accommodated for and the post has a wood burning stove. He gets there and the place is a dusty mess.
The glass is broken, the stove is dented and old (this is in the 1970s so this thing was built during the depression from a old oil drum) and there's a pack of wild raccoons living in the fucking room storage area. He basically left there, to figure it out.
He gets to work, working late into the night to make the place relatively livable. If he wants to talk to people he has to use a radio and the only people are other works in stations really far from him.
He manages to patch the windows, undent the drum, and remove the coons. He makes the place relatively livable. It becomes a case of him having to read books, report in anything he sees and not fucking die. All for what was aboot 40k a session in today's money.
also there was one day when they had to call in a helicopter to help out a old WW2 vet because he took the job, lasted 2 months, died and they found out when he didn't check in on his radio.
