>>2856976
Maintaining trails is pretty cool. Joining totalitarian government enforcing private clubs is pretty gay.

>>2856976
I volunteer for a trail association. /out/ work in my region doesn't pay the bills unfortunately.

>>2856977
>private clubs
>national forest is a private club
wew lad

>>2856976
Ecologist is a pretty good middle ground for field and then transition to office/specialist species when you get sick of the field. Pay isn't terrible out here either.

>>2856980
Lol imagine thinking this. You are genuinely retarded. The internet exists you are on it. The conservation Corp is a private organization. The national forests are not. You are a fucking moron and should be ashamed of your stupidity.

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>>2856984
>The conservation Corp is a private organization. The national forests are not

Shut the fuck up you stupid cunt. Your retarded gibberish response barely deserves a reply. CC work in NF. Any cope reply from you is null and void to do your overwhelming retardation. You're a fucking idiot. go away.

>>2856985
Give him a bit. He's still spinning his wheels trying to think of a reply to this.

https://youtu.be/9-fHJHGcLMo

>>2856984
Conservation corps are most all government organizations. California conservation corps, arizona conservation corps, etc are state run and things like americorps are federal. They are not private orginazations they are a public program to create jobs and skill development for young people.

>>2856976
I can't afford /out/ jobs. Realistically I don't know any millennials or zoomers who can. It's going the way of the dodo.

I want to go back to mowing yards. It was much more fun chainsmoking with my boss and pushing a mower than listening to browns yap about bullshit for izzat.

Land Surveying. Been doing it over ten years and ive seen some beautiful spots.

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I have worked as a Land Surveyor in multiple industries and multiple continents, if you are interested ask away, I could type away a big spiel but desu I kinda can't be fucked but I will answer questions with depth if interested

>>2856976
It's slave wages, and if it's trails they will drag your ass through hell and high water, but with one season under your belt you'll have a good shot at any WG-03 or 04 trails position with the feds. Which is to say, the best job in the world.

>>2857498
What background do you need for this? For some reason I'm always jealous of you niggers just standing by the roadside twiddling your equipment.

>>2857431
>>2857498
Land survey anons, how do I really get /out/ on the job? I work as a construction surveyor right now, but I don’t like building subdivisions in the suburbs all day. When I finish school I want to survey glaciers or mountains or something. No PLS yet but I’m working on it

I work as an exploration geologist for a big mining company in Canada. I've been able to travel internationally as well to some of the coolest places. I've just got back from a project in Arizona. I've travelled to places like Nahanni, remote arctic islands, parts of Alaska, the deserts of Chile, Namibia etc. It's probably the most out job ever. I get paid to stay in fly camps we set up in the mountains even.

>>2857510
>What background do you need for this? For some reason I'm always jealous of you niggers just standing by the roadside twiddling your equipment.
My background was carpentry and I used to always see surveyors come onto my jobsite and I was jealous. So I went to university and studied a course in it, you can get jobs without a degree but they will only take you so far on the pay scale. A good way to get a foot in the door (ausfag here btw dunno what it is like in other countries) It should be a degree as there are a lot of things to learn, in reality background doesn't matter as long as you aren't stupid with mathematics, you can do whatever you want to do whenever you want.

>>2857515
>Land survey anons, how do I really get /out/ on the job? I work as a construction surveyor right now, but I don’t like building subdivisions in the suburbs all day. When I finish school I want to survey glaciers or mountains or something. No PLS yet but I’m working on it.

I think the simplest answer is to just change company anon, I do believe it is quite rare to get a surveying job which is specifically /out/ only. I used to work a job which sent me to virgin land to obtain data for potential gas wells. This sent me truly into the in the middle of nowhere which was very neat, sometimes awful land and sometimes beautiful scenery. My current job has me doing construction and literally everything else. most surveying leads to construction of habitat unless you get a rare job surveying within the ecological field with other professions. Ironically the most /out/ I have gone with surveying is with oil/gas giant companies like anon here.
>>2857524
Just look at the scope of work when applying and ask questions during interviews, follow the company on LinkedIn to see their work etc.

>>2857529
meant to say destruction of habitat

>>2857515

I think it really depends on the company and what they specialize in. I’ve been wanting to find mainly a mainly /out/ company but they’re hard to find in the here in the south east since everything is being so built up.
I do construction stuff probably 40% of the time but the rest is either commercial property update surveys or I’m inna woods.

I’m a geologist. Licensed and everything.

>>2859212
What's it like drilling in the absolute shittiest parts of the Dakotas and Texas?

I'm deploying to Antarctica in 2 Weeks. Has anyone here been to McMurdo?

>>2856976
Game Warden might be an alright /out/ job. You get to stop Asians from poaching 10,000 undersized fish

>>2856976
being a railroad conductor was actually a pretty good /out/ job, if you can call it that:
>depending on where you work out of, most of your territory can be quite remote between towns/stations
>working outside year-round, all weather, -50c to +40c
>see pretty much every local wildlife species after working long enough in the same area
>see auroras and meteors and other interesting/beautiful natural phenomena because you're awake & outside at strange hours
>don't have to deal with many people (besides one crewmate that is different every trip)
>make good money
main downside is not having any schedule/time to plan good /out/ings.

looking forward to doing mineral sampling with a geologist buddy this spring. a REAL /out/ job.

>>2859223
Impossible to get a job as one.

I thought /out/ jobs that made good money were impossible to find too bros. I left kitchens after 15 years and got a seasonal job working for a fertilizer company. I started early spring and they paid for me to get my pesticide applicator license. They started me at $22 an hour. It was hard work with long days but plenty of overtime. Good money but had to work lots of weekends. Well I started to hate that job for many reasons, but then I found out most municipal grounds maintenance jobs require a pesticide license. So I applied to a parks and rec maintenance worker position for a city near me. They hired me because of my outdoor experience, and I already had the pesticide license. They paid for me tonget my CDL B. They started me at $24 and hour. Doing everything from trail maintenance to mowing fields, tree removal, digging Graves, lining soccer fields, plowing/salting. Its a great job and union too. I just got my certified playground inspector license($200 test)and moved to a better city more near where I live doing the same work, but now I make $26 an hour working 40 hours a week with maybe 100 hours overtime a year. Its possible to find good outside jobs, but you have to start from the bottom. Give yourself a 5 year plan. Good luck.

>>2860269
Michigan by the way.

>>2860269
There's so much of this that just doesn't happen in the real world.

Anyone here train to become a ranger?
What about a firewatch? Id love to be a firewatch, i know the job basically doesn't exist anymore, but I'd love to be one.

>>2859223
>>2860233
Here in michigan most dnr officers are on welfare part of the year. You cap out at like $23 an hour. Then you get laid off for 1 or 2 months because the government is so cheap. Crazy to think that a job with so much outward prestige treats their own people like shit. Several coworkers are ex conservation officers and they worked at target or Kroger in their laid off months. Ranger is basically a more seasonal version... expect pay from $12 an hour to $18... good for kids.

>>2860316
From what I heard, firewatch still exists in rural Canada. Come to think of it, I heard that before COVID, so things might've changed in the half decade since.

>>2860328
And they probably need at least a Masters to even qualify for that $23 lol.