BACKBONE CONTRIBUTOR - JONATHAN PAPICH "This career is not about recognition, or accolades, or parades, or making a lot of money because, let's be honest, absolutely none of those things will come to fruition even if they were the motivating factor." - Jonathan Papich.  Jonathan is a Lead Forestry Technician on a Type 1 Interagency Hotshot Crew. He's currently in his seventh season working for the U.S. Forest Service as a member of a Hotshot Crew. Hotshotting is all Jonathan knows of the wildland fire community. When he first started fighting fire, he was about as inexperienced as is humanely possible, which was only magnified more by the fact that he was beginning my career with the best of the best on a Hotshot Crew. "Most of my memories of that first season are just a blur – a blur of exhaustion, pain, and hard work. In addition to the blur, I had no concept about the quality of my performance other than my desire to somehow work as hard as the Herculean Hotshots to the right a...