At 93, Betty Reid Soskin is something of a celebrity.
A ranger assigned to WWII Rosie Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, frequently writes on his blog , has a Wikipedia page , and was interviewed by NPR and popular.
They became so popular, he said that the tour of the park audiences have doubled months, the visits are booked in advance, and the park has added views follow.
No doubt why Soskin enjoys celebrity status: She saw and lived everything "many, many lives", as he said NPR.
Soskin served as a clerk in an association of black paint during the Second World War, a political activist and composer during the civil rights movement was, he observed, and now interprets his experience of war through their stories.
But it is not only the oldest active duty in the National Park Service - Soskin helped shape what the park has first as a consultant and then as an interpretation park.
She works five days a week, five hours a day, and sometimes overtime. On Wednesday and Friday Soskin day answering e-mails and petitions spend in his office at the headquarters of downtown Richmond. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays education Visitor Center and provide two or three performances in their small theater.
Some days are bus tours through the sites that make the National Park or presentations are carried out.
Soskin Business Insider recently an insight into their experiences.
Business Insider: How did you start in the National Park Service?
Betty Reid Soskin: I as a state employee joined in the planning phase of a national park in 2000. An emerging distributed locations was the Ford assembly plant, which was designed by Albert Kahn and built on land belonging to the state.
This means that, as a sales representative for a member of the California State Assembly, had a seat at the table of the most important planning for this landmark building was built on land belonging to the state. It was built on air rights. This brings me to the residence, eventually the role of advisor for the National Park Service, which later paid a contract worker by the Trust Rosie. I resigned my position with the state in the year of 2003.
What were the early influences in your career?
If you held nine decades before entering lived in the park service many roles - wife, mother, artist, teacher, dealer, administrative support, sales representative for a member of the legislature, head of a research project UC Berkeley psychology department, chief of staff of the City Council in the city of Berkeley - each color added to my current career and influenced my work in every way.
What are the most useful skills to have in order to be a park ranger?
It would be dependent on the area in which one is assigned. Rangers from the National Park Service, the whole range of career opportunities - botany, marine biology and forestry communication and graphic design - skills reflect a variety of areas.
If one is in the interpretation, people skills are definitely a plus, and enough imagination and the ability to communicate research to enable problems throughout the private park.
However, I must admit that I'm not an interpreter training and what skills I got to do with me - were acquired under long before they discovered the park service.
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