Sean Strauss, ride foreman at Oaks Amusement Park, stands in font of his favorite ride: the "Rock & Roll."
Julie Sabatier / OPB
What’s the philosophy behind enjoying a good roller coaster ride? What should travelers keep in mind as they’re waved through a construction site on the road? What’s it like to care for cattle at 4,200 feet elevation (and what’s the mooood on the range)? 🐮
As usual, we’ve got lots of questions about the different jobs Pacific Northwesterners do every day. So to close out 2025, we’re bringing you the latest installments of OPB’s “At Work With” series, in which we get curious about all sorts of professions and ask people your questions about what it’s like to do what they do.
This time, we bring you along to a day on the job with a ride inspector-operator at Oaks Amusement Park, a traffic control supervisor on construction sites and a rancher in Eastern Oregon’s Baker County.
We’re always open to new ideas for interesting jobs — or volunteer positions — that we can learn about next. If you’ve got a suggestion, email us at theevergreen@opb.org.
Listen to all episodes of “The Evergreen” podcast here.
