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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 18:34:00 No.2575235 View View Reply Original Report

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/out/ career general? thoughts on different outdoor careers? currently in uni for environmental science
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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 18:38:54 No.2575238 Report

Quoted By: >>2575244 >>2575658 >>2575737

>>2575235
>environmental science
>uni
Your option is to become a corporate shill or become a cooperate shill.
Environmental science isn't a stand alone science--it is a fluff degree created corporations to train pseudo intellectual lackeys that don't actually know anything about science or the environment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 18:45:20 No.2575242 Report

Quoted By: >>2575246

Park ranger, field biologist, field biologist assistant, forester, hunter, fisherman, farmer, farm worker, ranch hand, survivalist youtube man, traditional crafts from wild materials, guerilla cannabis grower (JK obey the law kids), construction worker, lineman, surveyor.

Just a few off the top of the head.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 18:49:45 No.2575244 Report

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>>2575238
fuck, you might be right. coursework for this major is pretty broad…

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 18:51:30 No.2575245 Report

Quoted By: >>2575632 >>2575661

>>2575244
god college just seems so contrived too. but i don’t know how else to get this career part of my life started. (or maybe i am too nervous to just get out of school.)

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Anonymous Mon 01 May 2023 18:52:35 No.2575246 Report

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>>2575242
I have a cousin-in-law that fishes for a living and makes good money. I've never had a long conversation about it with him, but how the fuck is it possible? He has so many sponsors and shit that buy him a new boat every season and sends him gear all the time, and he just sells it off and makes massive bank. Meanwhile I'm working a shitty 9-5 office cuck faggot job.

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 17:51:36 No.2575632 Report

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>>2575245
Go to grad school for botany-biology or mycology and if you like it you can literally stay in school for decades doing research. Connections are more important than education but education can get you those connections.
I've yet to meet an "environmental scientist" that wasn't a government or corporate shill.

Fun fact the money a state makes on the timber and mining industries is the backbone of the state income. States like WA lie about being environmentally friendly but the timber industry basically runs the state. The state will never ever implement good policy because it would ruin their income so they hire idiots to justify timber practices and those idiots are called "environmental scientists"

WA and Oregon shouldn't ever log the lowland costal rainforests.

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 18:35:30 No.2575658 Report

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>>2575238
Most people I've talked to did their undergrad in environmental science and went into grad school for something related to their job or something they were interested in. I work for the forest service but many people in my states agency did the same thing. They are not all corporate shills lol

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 18:50:00 No.2575661 Report

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>>2575245
What kind of outdoor work do you want to do? You should be getting work experience in something you are interested in

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 18:50:54 No.2575662 Report

Quoted By: >>2575665

maybe you should try tree planting. it's pretty miserable but it's definitely a humbling experience and you can make a lot of money if you go really hard. the first year maybe not but your second season is like the comeback year.

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 19:01:15 No.2575665 Report

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>>2575662
Based. Become a botany chad and spend your days planting trees, spreading seed, and spraying DPs(displaced plants)

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Anonymous Tue 02 May 2023 22:09:15 No.2575737 Report

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>>2575238
>t. doesn't know what he's talking about
Guess what major all of your state environmental inspectors have?

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Anonymous Wed 03 May 2023 05:39:32 No.2575908 Report

Quoted By: >>2576898 >>2577522

>be me
>climber of towers
>do rope access shit
>rooftopping buildings
>urbex at times (att long-lines sites, old schools, data centers, EOC/NOC's)
>take motorcycles, atvs, snowmobiles, jeeps, snowcats to tops of mountains
>fix computers, radios, generators, antennas/cabling
>weather's totally shit? work on billing/admin shit, welding/fab projects in my garage, electronics repairs/calibration at my test bench

My biggest regret in life is not leaving my desk job and starting my own businesses years earlier. Pic related.

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Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 17:56:39 No.2576891 Report

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>>2575737
I'll break this to you as easy as I can because you're obviously not smart.
A primary, non tax, non voter controlled, income for a state is timber. The timber industry wouldn't be profitable without subsadies, tax breaks and especially land grants and free use clauses--and the timber cartel has massive influence on forestry policy.
I never said the inspectors didn't have the degree I said they only let idiots that agree with the timber industry into those positions.
so
basically
you don't know shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 18:02:28 No.2576895 Report

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>>2575658
>I manage clear cuts for DNR
you are absolutely a corporate shill
I'm betting you don't know anything about how timber income and funding works at all nor who sits on the western policy council.
Fun fact, any research university is heavily influenced by their corporate donors.

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Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 18:20:50 No.2576898 Report

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>>2575908
Sounds awesome, can you go into more depth on what you do exactly/how you got there?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 18:21:23 No.2576899 Report

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>>2575658
i am thinking about working for the forest service
how much of what you do is related to logging

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 05 May 2023 19:06:27 No.2576918 Report

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>>2576895

Nta but hiking through Washington state is bizarre. Logging companies making their own rules for public land, nearly getting killed by dozens of log trucks running down 7% grade like it’s the Indy 500. On the other hand I can agree with locals supporting the logging industry, a lot of these towns in the PNW would be nothing without logging revenue. Several locals said they volunteer their time and equipment for fire season because the timber sale keeps their kids schools open.

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Anonymous Sun 07 May 2023 04:31:57 No.2577522 Report

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>>2575908
need? where when how ill be there

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