Borrowed Dreams: The Roughest, Toughest Jobs on the Planet...and What I Learned from Working Them

by Gross, T. Scott

• ISBN13: 9780967025209
• ISBN10: 0967025206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Our Time Pr

Summary

Readers are invited to accompany Gross and learn his lessons as he works 12 of the roughest, toughest jobs on the planet--including stints on an oil tanker, border patrol, fire crew and medical helicopter. Color photos. Web site information.

Author Biography

T. Scott Gross, writer, pilot, everyday adventurer crosses the continent in search of what drives us to work and live the way we do. Scott pulled on the boots, tied on the apron, or slapped on a hard-hat to bend backs with those everyday heroes who make the world work. Scott worked the factories and the fields, with good guys and bad. He chased drug dealers and dreams across a landscape of dazzling beauty and unexpected danger. T. Scott Gross lives the 'blue' jean adventure bringing home more than tricks of the trade. He brings us tales of the heart and shows us how the work we do is in fact who we are. T. Scott Gross has looked at life from the inside out. An instrument-rated pilot, an Emergency Medical Technician, and a Certified Speaking Professional, Scott can fly through storms, jump-start your heart and energize an audience. Best known as the author of Positively Outrageous Service, Gross is back showing off his skills as a first-class storyteller, and adventurer who thinks ideas make the best souvenirs.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
About the Adventures	1	(4)
Freedom in My Pocket	5	(6)
Border Rats and Bandits	11	(24)
A Different Kind of Freedom	35	(6)
Of Men and Metal Monsters	41	(20)
Just to the West	61	(8)
Big Wheel, Good Night	69	(18)
Island of Iron	87	(34)
A Long Day's End	121	(4)
Storm Lake	125	(28)
Flatland Memories	153	(6)
Double Time	159	(10)
I Am...the Cookie Man	169	(8)
Sunrise at the Charray Inn	177	(6)
Cold, Green Water	183	(44)
Sniffing for Asphalt	227	(4)
An Adventure is Born	231	(26)
Angel of the Air	257	(28)
Home for the Moment	285	(6)
Gypsy Booter	291	(22)
Ours to Choose	313	(8)
N95MK	321	(6)
Carpe Diem!	327	(22)
Index	349