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Summer Read: My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dream Job

An illustration of an angry man with a beard on a bicycle waving a wrench above his head.

For Caitlin Giddings, leading cross-country bike tours was supposed to be the ultimate escape from the monotony of normal life. Instead it was a kind of torture. Giddings was in her twenties when she was seduced by the idea of turning her passion for cycling into a paycheck. She wanted freedom and adventure! What she got, however, was a lot of whining and grief from troublemaking clients, including a deranged madman and a guy who kept peeing on another rider鈥檚 tent. In this episode of our Summer Read series, she describes聽how her fantasy went so, so wrong.


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国产吃瓜黑料鈥檚 longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life in audio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. We launched in March 2016 with our first series, Science of Survival, and have since expanded our show to offer a range of story formats, including reports from our correspondents in the field and interviews with the biggest figures in sports, adventure, and the outdoors.