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My name is Taylor Saya and I'm the lead

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ranger in the Northern Operations

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Branch in the Sacramento District for

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the US Army Corps of Engineers . I

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actually started as a park ranger . Um

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right out of high school , my very

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first job , I was a student Park Ranger

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at Success Lake , which is in the

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Sacramento district . And I actually

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met a ranger at success when I was

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young who gave me a T shirt that said I

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got caught wearing my life jacket as a

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reward for having a life jacket on .

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And I just thought that was the coolest

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thing . There are a lot of things that

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I really love about this job . One of

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the biggest things is how diverse it is .

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You also have a lot of autonomy , but

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every day you don't know what your day

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is gonna look like . You may be

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spending your day on the boat . Uh just

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talking to visitors , providing

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outreach to the local community ,

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providing visitor assistance . Um We

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also get to work in really beautiful

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areas uh And we have the benefit of

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working somewhere that other people

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choose to recreate and spend their off

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time . A really great thing about being

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a park ranger for the core um is that

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you are involved in more program

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areas , I think , than a lot of other

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agencies . Whereas with the core , you

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kinda get a little bit of everything .

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Um And that's really nice and the core

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also provides a lot of training and

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specific training to those different

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program areas . Um And that I think is

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a big benefit and a lot of the reason

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people join the core and stay with the

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core . I think if anyone is interested

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in this line of work , um if you have a

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passion for the outdoors , you don't

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wanna be stuck behind a desk for your

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entire career and having that autonomy ,

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just go for it . I think it's a great

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thing . I know so many rangers who have

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tried it and then they never leave

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because it's an awesome career .