Summer Seasonal Staff

Your field of study is only part of the knowledge you need to navigate an interconnected world. 

Sharing efforts to solve problems under pressure, respecting differences while remaining principled, and showing up to a challenge with kindness and acts of service are hallmarks of leadership applicable to all fields.

Chopping vegetables, cleaning cabins, or driving shuttles are not usually the first tasks people describe when imagining how to develop leadership skills or impart the importance of caring for the environment. 

Working at Alaska Wildland Adventures, however, is often meaningful and mundane in the same moment. 

Many small, seemingly unrelated actions often set the stage for an individual to make a new connection with the natural world or a cultural experience. Nourishing meals, safe transportation, comfortable accommodations, and supportive staff help create a foundation from which individuals can extend themselves and their worldview where it counts. 

Like when confronting the effects of a changing climate firsthand at the foot of a glacier, or floating a river and seeing salmon demonstrate the interconnectedness of our oceans and freshwaters, or when acknowledging the importance of historical and contemporary indigenous voices in shaping Alaska’s future.  

These experiences are not reserved for our guests. They are a regular part of our staff experience and our work helping people connect to wild Alaska. Work that, while sometimes mundane, always requires collaboration, creativity, and kindness. The type of work that when added to another discipline can catalyze and produce amazing results. 

There is probably an internship available in your field this summer. Or a gig that will let you work like crazy and bank tons of cash. But there is another path. It heads north to a future that helps you build different connections to the world.