The question tests how McCandless planned to finance and support his travels through practical, short-term work. On his second visit, he intended to take a job with Westerberg, using that work as a way to fund his journey and gain independence rather than continuing a long-term or fixed destination plan. Westerberg, who ran a grain operation, offered him seasonal labor, and McCandless saw this as a sensible, concrete step to stay mobile while earning money. This fits with his pattern throughout the narrative: seek real, temporary work that allows freedom and self-reliance, rather than committing to a fixed path or location. The other options—moving to Alaska immediately, traveling to Salton City, or joining a farming cooperative in Oregon—don’t reflect the actual plan he had during that second visit, which was to work for Westerberg.