blog header  The Best Job for Adrenaline Junkies  Jump out of a
plane, unsure if your parachute will work, and get paid for it?
Parachute testers do it every day.  (Photo Credit: The National
Guard/Flickr)  Bored with your job and starting to consider
finding something more interesting to do? Risking your life for
a living would definitely create more adrenaline in your system
than many office jobs. Parachute testing is a real job, and real
people do it.  Popular Mechanics introduces us to Rickster
Powell, a 41-year-old who has 20,000 jumps out of an airplane
under his belt. He claims that of the 50 chutes he's tested,
only nine reached production. This invites the question of what,
exactly, was wrong with the other 41 parachutes Powell has
tested, but we can at least assume that he survived the jumps.
Some of the problems Powell has experienced include unstable
fights, but he tells Popular Mechanics about the time a fellow
tester (yes, there is more than one!) deployed his chute too
close to Powell. This re