First Day Orientation at Oregon State Parks

Speaker is at William Tugman State Park after completing orientation at Umpqua Lighthouse. It's Thursday evening, getting dark, with first work day scheduled for Sunday. Currently in a campground setting with RV, anticipating training and deep cleaning assignment.

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January 3, 2025

11:57

Author

rswfire

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[0:00] we're heading north to Reedsport to do

[0:03] laundry I just went into

[0:06] Lakeside CU I was going to do laundry

[0:08] there but it took me to my GPS took me

[0:10] to a RV park it didn't seem right I

[0:12] suspect it probably was but um we're

[0:15] just going to go on read sport to normal

[0:18] laundromat technically I can do laundry

[0:21] at the campground I think I have to go

[0:22] to umwa though to do it and you have to

[0:25] sign in up and you know after

[0:26] orientation I'll learn about all that

[0:28] but for now we got to go do laundry the

[0:30] traditional way The Nomad traditional

[0:34] way Lakeside is so cool by the

[0:37] way I'm going to have to get some video

[0:38] of that place that place has a Vibe oh

[0:41] my God it was so cool let's go see what

[0:44] reads for this

[0:45] L my new home it gets flooded

[0:50] here lots of

[0:52] rain William tugman State Park

[1:02] I have a feeling I like umwa lighthouse

[1:04] we got to go there today that's where

[1:06] orientation is at I was looking at some

[1:09] stuff on the

[1:10] map I have a feeling that's the way

[1:13] better

[1:13] [Music]

[1:15] part

[1:17] [Music]

[1:18] so might try to end up

[1:21] there same boss if I do so we'll

[1:27] see I did email though I was like can I

[1:29] be at gatekeeper this summer I would

[1:32] love to just be in that little building

[1:34] right there causing

[1:37] chaos I'm just sitting here I got 15

[1:39] minutes before I got to go to Umpa

[1:42] Lighthouse and get ready for

[1:45] disorientation and I'm ridiculously

[1:47] nervous which I don't understand that

[1:49] I'm just sitting here talking to AI

[1:50] about it

[1:54] cuz this is not even a paid job like

[1:56] what the like I

[2:00] I don't like what's happening around

[2:01] here I'll just leave like it's that

[2:04] simple this

[2:06] is not even a great camping spot this is

[2:09] not even where I

[2:11] would choose to be I was paying for a

[2:15] place I won't be

[2:17] here so I don't understand

[2:21] like I'm just anticipating lots of

[2:24] different things cuz I know how people

[2:25] are and i' had forgotten like this this

[2:28] job comes with a social network I'm G to

[2:32] have to

[2:33] navigate and I'm like

[2:37] man we'll see how it goes though because

[2:40] I'm just going to be myself and if

[2:42] someone has a problem with that then I

[2:44] just go because I'm

[2:47] not I'm not going to let them make me

[2:53] smaller it took me a lot of time and

[2:56] effort to become as integrated as I am

[2:59] to completely accept myself the way I am

[3:03] I'm not going to have somebody tell me

[3:04] there's something wrong with me or

[3:08] unprofessional because I don't do things

[3:10] their

[3:11] way that would be

[3:14] unacceptable that's the

[3:28] line for

[4:00] we're out here by

[4:03] ourself after 3-hour orientation I got a

[4:06] cool hat though I'm keeping this hat

[4:08] forever that's my hat

[4:11] now I love this

[4:14] hat they complain about me wearing it

[4:17] when I'm not on duty I'll tell them I'll

[4:19] quit cuz I'm keeping this hat

[4:20] and I'm wearing it

[4:23] forever this is my hat

[4:26] now oh that was an interesting day oh

[4:29] man

[4:30] man it went

[4:32] okay they made us go around the room

[4:34] introducing ourselves when they got to

[4:36] me I looked at my boss and I was like

[4:39] this is the most awkward thing you could

[4:40] have asked me to do the whole room

[4:42] started

[4:44] laughing oh and then I was just like I'm

[4:46] Sam I'm a nomad I stare at the ocean

[4:48] that was basically all I

[4:53] said what else

[4:56] happened that was so long she put a pict

[4:59] of a bunch of keys up on the screen I'm

[5:02] like I'm not going to remember this I

[5:03] got to take a picture cuz they gave us a

[5:05] bunch of

[5:07] keys

[5:10] um it's mostly fine but you

[5:15] know I was being my authentic self I was

[5:18] mostly just chilling the whole time and

[5:20] listening and watching and you know

[5:23] pattern matching and doing the things

[5:25] that I

[5:26] do I think she picked up on it like I'm

[5:30] not your average host like don't even

[5:33] don't try to put me in a

[5:35] box I'm off for a couple days so it's

[5:38] Thursday I my first day is Sunday

[5:41] they're going to train me that day oh I

[5:42] volunteered to deep clean a yurt nobody

[5:45] else volunteered so I said okay I'll do

[5:48] it

[5:52] um oh that was something else too oh

[5:54] they made us do these team building

[5:56] exercises and she's like does any anyone

[5:59] want to read their question first I'm

[6:01] like I'll do it why not like cuz

[6:03] everybody's just like I don't even know

[6:06] like what's happening here and then one

[6:08] of them had this team building exercise

[6:10] they were like their question had

[6:12] something to do with pretending this man

[6:14] was in the park and he had a

[6:16] knife and she was telling the story of

[6:19] how this happened once

[6:22] and someone went looking for him I think

[6:27] some volunteer went looking for him I

[6:28] was like that's exactly what I would do

[6:30] I was joking but not really right so and

[6:34] you know I knew that wasn't the answer

[6:36] right but I'm still that's the answer

[6:38] I'm giving that's what I would

[6:42] do just make me a park ranger

[6:45] already that's what the park ranger

[6:47] would

[6:48] do or would they I don't know maybe they

[6:51] just called the

[6:53] police I go look for this

[6:56] man you know got to protect the public

[7:02] right what is even happening I don't

[7:04] know how I feel about all

[7:06] this

[7:08] but I'm going to give it a fair

[7:12] chance it feels

[7:14] weird there were so many Rangers in

[7:17] there when I first got there I was a

[7:18] little bit early and I was just in there

[7:20] with them and I'm like God there are a

[7:22] lot of Park Rangers none of them

[7:26] attractive so I'm just like man I came

[7:29] too ear

[7:30] early yeah I'm just sitting there just

[7:33] listening to them joke around and stuff

[7:35] and just like man this little Club here

[7:37] I don't know if I want to be a part of

[7:39] this

[7:40] club so I don't know I guess it's

[7:43] probably good for me to

[7:46] be um doing this right now because it's

[7:50] going to tell me a lot before I get

[7:52] myself too

[7:54] invested so but part of me likes it part

[7:57] of me does like it so

[8:00] it's kind of

[8:03] a it's a weird situation for me usually

[8:06] I don't have like don't have conflicting

[8:10] feelings about a thing it's not how I

[8:14] work um maybe sometimes cuz like when I

[8:18] was in Nevada I was like should I stay

[8:20] in Nevada or keep going to Oregon I sat

[8:23] with that for a

[8:25] week I guess this is similar it feels

[8:28] different though

[8:32] I guess because that

[8:33] decision you know it was different it

[8:35] was

[8:37] like was it

[8:40] though I mean guess cuz what I'm

[8:42] weighing is do I want to stay a

[8:44] volunteer or become a park ranger

[8:48] or not do that at all

[8:52] cuz you know it comes with some

[8:55] constraints rules regulations whatever

[9:00] bunch of nonsense navigating weird

[9:02] social relationships all of

[9:05] that

[9:09] um I don't like being contained I don't

[9:12] want to modulate my my expression you

[9:16] know like I want to be myself

[9:21] so I don't know guess we'll

[9:25] see it's going to be dark very soon it

[9:29] kept us there so long there b no

[9:31] daylight

[9:32] left I probably should start walking

[9:36] back I love this

[9:39] hat you know that does tell me something

[9:41] doesn't it and the fact that it's a hat

[9:43] that's got the Oregon State Park logo on

[9:45] it says

[9:47] volunteer I mean that's kind of like a

[9:49] identity marker right and I like it this

[9:52] much that's

[9:54] probably something I should consider

[9:56] that's telling me that

[10:02] maybe maybe the resistance

[10:06] and the friction that I feel with this

[10:09] is something I have to navigate and

[10:11] accept

[10:13] cuz it's just I've never been able to do

[10:16] it my entire life I've never been able

[10:19] to do that I can never make any kind of

[10:22] a work relationship work where there are

[10:25] too

[10:26] many that's too structured that comes

[10:28] with too much of a

[10:30] a system you know

[10:32] that's and that's why I've always been a

[10:35] freelancer I have so much more control

[10:37] over my life that

[10:38] way this is different this is making

[10:42] myself part

[10:46] of it's not infrastructure is the wrong

[10:48] word this time

[10:52] it's it's a common word I just can't

[10:55] think of it at the moment

[11:05] and system ain't the right word either I

[11:07] can't think of it now it's just

[11:19] um this is a big

[11:23] deal this is a very good opportunity I

[11:26] don't want to screw that up

[11:30] I hope I don't if I screw it up I hope

[11:32] it's cuz I chose to not because kind of

[11:36] stumbled into doing so just by being

[11:39] myself and that's a problem because I

[11:41] should be able to just be

[11:44] myself but I know how this stuff goes

[11:47] I've experienced enough times in my

[11:50] life so I don't know maybe that's part

[11:53] of it

[11:56] too yeah

Energetic Signature ambivalent tension

Field State threshold crossing

Orientation toward institutional testing

Summary

rswfire travels north to Reedsport for laundry after GPS confusion at Lakeside CU. He attends a 3-hour orientation at Umpqua Lighthouse for his volunteer position at William Tugman State Park. During orientation, he participates in introductions, team-building exercises, and receives keys and a volunteer hat that he declares he'll keep forever. He volunteers to deep clean a yurt when no one else does. The speaker expresses nervousness about navigating the social network that comes with the job and conflicted feelings about institutional constraints versus the opportunity. He reflects on his history of struggling with structured work environments while acknowledging this could be a significant opportunity leading to becoming a park ranger.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps the tension between sovereign identity and institutional embedding, holding both attraction to belonging (the hat as identity marker) and resistance to systemic constraint. The field is testing institutional waters while maintaining sovereignty boundaries, using the volunteer position as a low-stakes probe for deeper ranger integration.

Dominant Language

authentic self pattern matching contained/containment navigate identity marker screw it up being myself

Symbolic Elements

threshold hat keys lighthouse knife club

Ontological States

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transitional
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sovereign
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conflicted
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probing

Subsystems

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cognitive
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relational
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ethical
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emotional

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Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

11:57

Bitrate

2,562 kbps

Codec

H264