plowing at 4 am when the temp. is about -4 is not a pretty job.. To me, working on lighthouses would be a fun job. I remember visiting a lighthouse at Whitefish Point and those circular stairs were nifty. Wouldn’t mind living in one.(in weather warmer than Michigans )
I did maintenance, electrical, TV, Radio and telephones on just about every lighthouse on Michigan’s shores and a whole bunch of the islands too. I’m pretty sure that I’ve been to all of them at one time or another.
As a single guy, it was interesting for the most part. I’ve got more than a few wild stories about working in the Winter. Snow mobiles were good for the most part but even they could and did get bogged down in the snow banks of lake effect snow. Mostly though I used snow shoes to get around out in the wild away from the roads. They also did a great job of spreading your weight on the River as well as the swamps.