“I Was Always In Search of an Adventure”

This is the part of ourongoing seriesin which we interview people who have interesting jobs and get them to tell us how they landed them. They will also reveal how they handled the transition to the real world after graduation —

Scott in the Alaskan Gold Crest Mines

Scott Nelson lived upstairs from us our senior year at Brown. When I finally saw him again (six years after our graduation) at the wedding of mutual friends from Brown (his college roommate and my NYC roommate got married), we final...