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

Published: Aug. 13, 2022, 10:55 a.m.

b'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\\xa0whining and grief from troublemaking clients, including a deranged madman and a guy who kept peeing on another rider\\u2019s tent. In this episode of our Summer Read series, she describes\\xa0how her fantasy went so, so wrong.'