Shirking safe: The jobs where thrill seekers need only apply

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Shirking safe: The jobs where thrill seekers need only apply
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Not everyone is content with a secure 9-5 that offers zero drama, some people want to risk their lives for a living 😅

Not the usual things you’d look out for when searching for a job, however not everyone is content with a secure 9-5 that offers zero drama.So who are these people not satisfied with safe – and what makes them take on a role that risks their life? Every. Single. Day.‘Swimming with sharks is emotionally tolling – things could so easily not be fine’

The club didn’t offer reimbursement for the hefty dues she had already paid, so Samantha promised herself she would stick with it until she obtained a diving qualification – while also vowing never to dive after she’d qualified.‘But at the end of the year, the club took a trip to Egypt,’ Samantha explains. ‘The water was crystal clear and so warm. We saw so many amazing fish. It was there I realised I loved diving – just not in cold water.

‘It means you get a build-up of oxygen in your joints or brain. If you ascend really quickly to the surface, the bubbles in your body can expand really quickly and lead to decompression sickness or an air embolism in your lungs. It’s one of the things you have to be most cautious about in diving.’ ‘They can smell one drop of blood and detect small electronic impulses in the water, such as a heartbeat,’ says Samantha. ‘They are made of pure muscle because they have to constantly swim to stay afloat. And they have really sharp teeth – one row of teeth behind another – so that when the old teeth fall out, there are more sharp teeth to replenish. They are basically perfect hunting, killing machines.

‘On a night dive, when I had seven divers with me, there were small sharks around and they were really active and feeding,’ Samantha describes, recalling how nervous she was to keep both her and the divers in her care safe. ‘The sharks were all swimming up to my light and I had to literally move them away with my torch.’While everything turned out OK in both instances, Samantha knows just how quickly things can change.

‘The whole situation made me feel shaken, introspective, and conflicted,’ remembers Samantha. ‘I realised how my two goals – to teach people how to look after themselves safely while giving them insight into a beautiful other world beneath the waves – can sometimes be at odds with each other.

Experiencing such a sense of adventure and the freedom of being up in the sky, it was a moment that changed his life forever. ‘I decided then that I wanted to be a pilot.’ ‘I fly to the mountainous places and the low land swamp areas,’ he explains. ‘The first two years I was flying, it was really stressful. When you finish training and they let you go solo, you’re now the only one making the decisions in the air. I had headaches all the time as a result of it all.’

Although bush flying carries with it risks that could easily lead a pilot and his passengers to their deaths, Ryan says that the stress of the job isn’t often discussed. ‘I don’t think bush pilots talk about our own personal fears a lot,’ he admits. ‘They want to give this persona they are super confident in all situations. But we’re making an average of 40 life threatening decisions every day.’

‘They don’t even get nervous for me,’ he says. ‘On days when I would come home stressed out, my wife would just tell me to go do some wheelies on my motorcycle. It’s nice to have someone back up what you’re doing.’ ‘The Royal Marines paid for a resettlement in further education so I started looking at what courses would be available,’ Jack explains. ‘I knew I wanted to work outdoors and for myself.’

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