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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

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Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.

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Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.

Represent teams or professional sports clubs, performing such activities as meeting with members of the media, making speeches, or participating in charity events.

Receive instructions from coaches or other sports staff prior to events and discuss performance afterwards.

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In 1982 Inglis and climbing partner Philip Doole were stuck in an snow cave on Aoraki/Mount Cook for 13 days due to an intense blizzard. Both legs were amputated below the knee.

Mountaineer / Winemaker / Speaker

<p>After a Zorbing adventure, the team is at the halfway point of their roadtrip. In Rotorua, they meet with Doug Tamaki, local personality John "Bertie" Cocking, and political blogger David Farrar. After a ferry ride to the South Island, the team meets with mountaineer Mark Inglis. They head to Christchurch where they talk with Robin Judkins, an artist, author, and creator of adventure racing events.</p>

Rotorua - Christchurch

I started mountaineering when I was 12 years old. So, to be a mountaineer, you have to have a couple of extra self-confidence genes, otherwise, you wouldn't want to be a mountaineer, anyway. [MUSIC] You have to be prepared to be scared on a regular basis, and I guess that set me up incredibly well for all the changes that have happened in my life. I had my legs off on Christmas Eve, 1982, 23 years old, and you look down the sheet, down the bed, and the sheet's in halfway down the bed. And it's like, right from that moment onwards, it was, how can I turn this into an advantage? >> How did you, sort of, get up the courage to climb another mountain? >> You need to understand that a mountain didn't take my legs. My competence on the day was the thing that meant I lost my legs. What a mountain is, it's a mirror of you, it's a mirror of your competence. It's like the exams that you've gone through school and you're going through in school. For me, it's just another opportunity to be able to excel, another opportunity to be able to reform people's visions of what they think a disabled person is, because I'm not disabled. I just have an opportunity to live my life in a different way. And one of the hardest things that I've found was that for a lot of years, I didn't realize that when people saw me, they saw a double amputee first, and they didn't see Mark Inglis. And people were giving me advice, compliments, them going, you're doing fantastic. And I probably took my foot off the gas. I probably didn't try as hard as I should have, and it wasn't until I sort of learned the skill to be able to stand outside yourself and look back on and see the person that other people see. But I came to understand that I've only ever scratched the surface of what a double amputee can even do, so how can anyone else know. So I take the compliments with a grain of salt and a great deal of humility, and thank you very much, that's fantastic. I mean, putting a box to one side and then get on with it, it's because there's so much more to do. 

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I started mountaineering when I was 12 years old. So, uh, to be a mountaineer you have to have a couple of extra self-confidence genes, you know, otherwise you wouldn't wanna be a mountaineer anyway, you know? You have to be prepared to be scared on a regular basis, and I guess that set me up incredibly well for all the changes that have happened in my life. I had my legs off on Christmas Eve, 1982. Twenty-three years old and you look down the sheet down the bed, and the sheet's end halfway down the bed. And it's like, uh, right from that moment onwards, it was um, "Well, how can I turn this into an advantage?" For me, it's just another opportunity to be able to excel. Another opportunity to be able to reform people's visions of what they think a disabled person is. Because I'm not disabled. I just have an opportunity to live my life in a different way. 

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