>You definitely have to be a special type of person and even a borderline social outcast to make it a regular job. Many, many years ago I was in the Army and s

>You definitely have to be a special type of person and even a borderline social outcast to make it a regular job. Many, many years ago I was in the Army and served with a man, Corporal White, who was the oddest person I had ever met. He was probably the best soldier I have ever seen, but refused to take anything seriously and treated the Army as a game to be played (as one should). Anyway, he put in a DA4187 form, a personnel action request form, with roughly four words on it: "request duty in Antarctica", it worked its way up the chain of command, and after several months a telegram (the army sent telegrams called PERSGRAMS up until the late 90s!) arrived assigning him to duty in Antarctica. He spent about six months down there, in his words "moving around barrels and crates and playing Nintendo", and came back engaged to a scientist. Now he and his wife are itinerant adventurers and I don't think they've lived anywhere for more than six months in the last 25 years.