>>2488158>rewarding>outdoors>good payPick any two, and only any two.
Outdoors professions that offer good pay are exclusive to megacorporations, and typically involve some form of field research and/or surveying that will contribute in some way to stripping the Earth of its resources, polluting, and oppressing the masses while enriching billionaires.
Outdoors professions that are rewarding exclusively offer bad pay and are intensely competitive to get into. They typically involve field research for purely scientific/academic purposes that doesn't contribute to filling megacorporate coffers, which is why the pay is bad and there so few such positions to go around.
Then there are unrewarding outdoor professions that also offer bad pay, such as trail maintainer, outdoor firefighter, etc. I'm casting a very broad net here. Some "entry-level" outdoorsy positions can lead to better positions (AKA ranger) in the NPS/NFS or similar, but these few slots are intensely competed for by former military enlisted members, some outdoor-oriented college grads, etc.
In other words, you are fucked. The deck is stacked against you. Your best bet is to unironically spend a few years in the military in order to have a chance at becoming Ranger Rick.
Geographer and arborist are super low-demand professions and qualified individuals fight tooth and nail for the few positions available. This is because those professions don't contribute to big megacorporate profits.
If you are willing to sell your soul, then there is plenty of megacorporate demand for geologists, soil scientists, petroleum engineers, and environmental engineers.
