April 6, 2006
Vol. 133, Issue 40

You, too, can find a thrilling job this summer, just like this park ranger. (Photo courtesy of wolftrap.org)

How to make cool money this summer

I spent last summer in the trenches. These trenches happened to be long, rubber-lined ponds of varying depths, filled with hundreds—and by the end of the summer, thousands—of water lilies. Not exactly World War I standards, but working in greenhouses in the middle of an Ontario summer and finding mud in your ears at the end of the day definitely starts to lose its appeal—usually around mid-May.

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