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Jarrod Sayer McCall, Idaho Years on Job: 13

Jarrod Sayer spends hours in planes—but he does his sightseeing while free-falling from 1500 ft. As a Forest Service smoke jumper in McCall, Idaho, the 35-year-old parachutes 20 times a year into pristine backcountry to battle wildfires. “I get more out of life by doing this,” he says. “How many people go to work 30 miles into the wilderness, then hike to a river and catch a jet boat home?”