After seven years as a desk-bound secretary in the planning and engineering division of the water department in Tucson, Ariz., Rebecca Carpenter yearned for an outdoor job with a little more mobility. An innovative employee program got her rolling in the right direction.These days, Carpenter’s “desk” is the dashboard of a Dodge van. As one of four backflow inspectors, she travels around Tucson with a laptop computer and assorted tools of the trade, grateful for her office on wheels. “I went from being a secretary to two or three steps farther up the ladder,” Carpenter says. “I’m an outdoors person,
