What if I did go back to timber cruising? Or managing a group of timber cruisers for a contractor or licensee, doing internal QA etc?
I just saw an ad for $20k more than I currently make cruising in PG. Granted, I don't think I could ever do production, but I do think I can do QA.
It would mean divorcing myself from the making-decisions thinking-about-things part of forestry, but also the politics part, and re-immersing in fieldwork. That... is probably more appealing than I think it is on the surface of it.
I just saw an ad for $20k more than I currently make cruising in PG. Granted, I don't think I could ever do production, but I do think I can do QA.
It would mean divorcing myself from the making-decisions thinking-about-things part of forestry, but also the politics part, and re-immersing in fieldwork. That... is probably more appealing than I think it is on the surface of it.