"I used to work as a guide on guided bike tours, and it wasn't really satisfying," Mr. Toutain told me when I called to get his story.
A comunero who dares to work as a guide to illegal loggers or hunters is branded a traitor and could lose all property rights.
"This is the way Switzerland is positioned in our minds; it was the place for romance and natural beauty," said Sanket Shah, 21, from Pune, India, who got a degree in management and went to work as a guide for Enchanted Journey.
Saints are routinely called upon to spend a Saturday making cheese in the storehouse of the local bishop or to take a year off from their regular job to work as a guide at one of the many Mormon historical sites.
"'My pleasure,' I said, 'is for everyone to be kind, humble and courteous.'" The narrator, Boris Alikhanov, an alcoholic, unpublished author, is on his way to work as a guide at the old family estate of the poet Alexander Pushkin.
RUSSELL B. AITKEN had his first taste of tribal living at 18 in 1928 when he ran away from home to work as a guide with the Ojibway Indians in northern Ontario, Canada, an experience that helped prepare him for his later travels through jungles and wilderness.
"Before going to Everest, he said it was his last time to work as a guide.
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"Whatever you put on your résumé needs to be in quantifiable terms," said Mary W. Quigley, a journalism teacher at New York University and the author of "Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide for Comeback Moms".
Off the back of a CV that now encompasses a brief stretch in almost every facet of the world of employment, I was rather disappointingly granted an interview to work as a tour guide for American students visiting Europe. .
