Honestly? Sounds like a pretty decent life path
I knew a guy who did that around here and I never seen anything but a smile on his face.
Does he… not know about climate change? lol
I mean, yeah, but he spent his whole workday riding around in the woods on an atv. He came to my little gas station to fill up his truck and atv and he was always happy.
He also inspected mines, I think most of his job was about looking for runoff from the mines.
Colleague asks to do Environmental activism
Don’t know what that means, but sure why not
mfw blowing up oil pipes
Op could have made worse choices overall. ATVs are pretty cool. Soil is soil. Coulda been a cubicle monkey. At least op is getting some sun.
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Gay: Anon likes to rideSee Greentext post
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“Anon is fake and gay”
MFW
ATV is cool, yeah!
But sampling soil from who-knows-where is shit. Imagine two weeks of rain at 4 °C and everyday you have to drive out. You are muddy, you are wet, you are freezing.
I’d take a substantial pay cut for the opportunity.
–Me, cubicle code monkey wage slave.I wouldn’t
- work from home code money/server toucher
You’re not wrong. I make enough money at my current work that I’m hoping to be able to stop working w/i about 10 years (I’d be in my mid 40’s) and then go do some kind of outdoors work (ideally as a park ranger or game warden) where I’d be able to get back to my redneck roots and be away from the city 75% of the time.
atvs are a death trap
Anon teaches us that making seemingly random choices and going for it is better than making no choices at all
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I’m in my mid-50s and pretty financially successful (enough that I’m thinking about retiring soon). My entire career gameplan has always been ‘seemed like a good idea at the time’ combined with ‘someone I know put in a good word for me’. I’ve never got a job from a cold interview.
Moral of this story - network like your future career depends on it!
Went to college, had GPA issues.
Stoner neighbor friend says " Bro, you should do undergrad research at some lab at school, it’s really easy and they give you an A at the end of the semester.
ok
do undergrad bitch work get easy A
They ask me to do a master’s. Ok
they told me I could do a PhD. Ok
apply to national lab for post doc
accepted
working there 10+ years
boss retiring, says I have to run the research group now
its ok
Sometimes I regret my choice of doing software engineering only to be glued to a computer my whole adult life working at optimizing systems for large corporations to maximize their already huge profit and contributing nothing of significant value to humanity.
I’d rather be riding around on an ATV outdoors with the sun and trees and flowers and birds collecting soil and rocks and stuff.
Environmental science jobs are legit, they’re pretty chill too, unless you’re working as a lab analyst
