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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, this was totally me as a teenager. Have her look into Wilderness First Responder (WFR) courses. There is also such a thing as Wilderness EMT training (W-EMT) which a friend of mine did and which I would have loved to do back in the days when I was like your daughter. She would probably love those, and they are great training for things like trip-leader and camp counselor positions in the short-term (which are fantastic summer jobs for older teenagers).

For Search and Rescue, have her look into the Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group. They are local and have some good training opportunities, though I think you need to be 18 to become involved. It pulls in a lot of military-types, as well as outdoors-loving people who have more typical day jobs. If she's old enough, talking to people there might be a good way to explore interests.

For paid search and rescue type jobs, I think you're either looking at the military or getting really lucky getting into an emergency response job outwest. Disaster response is another option. Once she's college aged, she could look into things like wilderness firefighting or the Student Conservation Corps.

I had a fantastic time doing trip leading type jobs in college, but there's not a lot of future in it if you want to either make more than the minimum to get by or have any kind of family life. My friend who was a W-EMT has made a career of it though, and has lead trips on 5 continents for a tour company. I became a biologist, which is a-okay, though the vast majority of my time is spent staring at a computer screen, the pay is mediocre and there's a lot of competition for interesting positions.

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