ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the common association of career with work and working lives and highlights that while popular views of working in the outdoors focus on the provision of adventure activities, the field of outdoor employment is broader and not easily harnessed into a coherent sector. It presents that the binary distinction between physical/technical and interpersonal skills needs to continue to be challenged in the workplace, with recognition of the equal value of different skills and skill sets in the outdoors. The chapter suggests researchers need to go beyond outdoor leadership adventure or education contexts, and seeks to explore wilderness therapy and environmental contexts, which may value different competencies more highly. It also suggests that the concept of the boundaryless career has been criticised as needing greater clarity, conceptualisation and measurement. A broad perspective of career is that it involves the unfolding sequence of a person's work experiences over time.
