What job would you do for free?
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The Job I’d Do for Free (And How I’m Building a Life Around It)
There’s a question that cuts right through the noise: What job would you do for free?
For me, the answer has never changed. I’d take kids outside.
Not as a babysitter. Not as a camp counselor punching a clock. I mean genuinely leading young people into the woods, onto the water, and into situations that ask something real of them — and watching them discover they have more in themselves than they knew.
I’ve spent years kayaking, camping, and pushing into backcountry places that most people never see. And the moments that have stuck with me most aren’t the stunning views or the perfect campsites. They’re the moments I’ve shared that kind of experience with someone who had never felt capable of something hard before.
That’s the thing about the outdoors — it doesn’t care about your grades, your background, or what neighborhood you grew up in. The river doesn’t negotiate. The portage doesn’t shorten itself. And when you make it through anyway, that belongs to you.
GearThatWins started as a gear review blog. But the deeper truth is that it’s always been pointing somewhere bigger — toward land, toward youth, toward building a place where kids who don’t get these opportunities can come and find out what they’re made of.
So yeah. Guide kids outdoors? I’d do that for free. I’m working on making sure I don’t have to.
What about you — what would you do for free?