If you're among the more than 300,000 unemployed people looking for work in this state, here's a chance for some temporary employment and exercise:

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is accepting applications for Forest Firefighter and Natural Resource Worker positions for the 2009 fire season, which begins April 15, 2009. More than 350 positions will be available statewide.

It sounds a little less relaxed than Jack Kerouac's 1956 stint working as a fire lookout at Washington's Desolation Peak, but hey—an adventure nonetheless. Unemployed beat poets and other interested parties, click here.