oportunity for a couple for meaninfull paid work travel

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maki2

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I came across an interesting job possibility for an outdoor enthusiast couple. Every year the "Leave no Trace" organization hires couples to travel and teach. At present it appears that the Subaru company is the sponsor for these educational teams. You need to have good public speaking skills, writing skills to keep up blogs, the ability to film a video, work with keeping up social media, etc.

The job provides a monthly income that in the 2017 article for the position was about 1,000 per month for both persons. But there is also a cost of living stipend that goes with it of about $2,000 dollars a month. You are also provided with cell phones, Ipad, video camera etc. Of course the accounts for connections are also covered and gas money. It is not a ton of income you won't get rich, but then again your outlay is not going to be a lot either since your basic living and traveling expenses are taken care of. But if you want to build up a resume for this kind of work in the future it is a great way to begin and a fantastic reference for an interesting career related to being in the outdoors and nature.

You are provided a new car for your transportation and they also provide camping gear. I know that the 2019 Outback has fairly decent towing capacity so quite likely if you had a trailer that was within the limits it would give you more comfort and more ability to carry personal possessions. They don't provide a trailer but who knows, if you got the position you might even be able to find a sponsor who will offer to step up and provide one for a year's time. After all it is a worthy organization who are doing work that is directly related to keeping our natural resources intact so humans can continue to have them available for recreational camping.

There are teams which stay on the West Coast and other teams which stay in Eastern USA.

They have not yet announced taking applications for the next season which starts in spring of 2019 and runs until early 2020. But here is a link to the  description for this last year's job. https://lnt.org/sites/default/files...e Traveling Trainer Job Announcement 2018.pdf
 
I saw their presentation at Organ Pipe last year. That one was pretty well scripted and acting excited was as important as the message which was pretty mixed. Walk in the woods stay on the path but don't make the path wider type stuff, really didn't resound with the crowd of RVers there having seen illegal immigrants being chased by the border patrol all through the desert in their beat up brand new Ford Raptors on the previous night ( now that might be a fun job). More of an attempt at becoming known as enviromently concerned company without really knowing what the issues really are type thing in my opinion.
 

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