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greenstormA couple potential jobs have come up recently.
One is in the area somewhat west of me-- same employer but a different area, so a different set of supervisor/management structure/decision makers (each region is basically a fiefdom). Housing prices there are a little more expensive than they are here; there doesn't seem to be an equivalent low end to the housing market, but the homes one step up tend to have a lot of useful stuff: heated studio or workshop, coldroom for hanging meat, pond, artisan or gravity-feed water, barn or pole barn, things like that. The area also has more of a farming community, including a multi-farm shop and farmer get-togethers, and it's where I take my geese to be processed. There's also an airport in the region, a nice music festival, more people and some nice restaurants including nice sushi restaurants, a lovely downtown, and fiber optic cable goes along the highway so some homes close enough may have it. New cell towers were built in the area. Plus a fairly significant white supremacist movement, social polarization, a very very contentious relationship with First Nations, and it's pretty much not accessable from the city in one day. I could almost certainly get this job. The posting closes at the end of this month; I haven't yet contacted the person in charge of that team to ask questions. Some good questions might include: what is the actual work (sounds like there might be a big monitoring component, which would be fabulous), what is the relationship of the work to the Nations, who else is on the team and what do they do, what is the policy on remote work and flexibility (could I work from over here until I can relocate, and if so how long is that expected to be).
The other is for a Nation that's heavily partnered with a large forestry company, I'm not sure if my credential is sufficient. The Nation is pretty remote but have an office in the biggest city in the area; I imagine the work would be fairly significant telework with an equally significant element of travel. This would be an extremely different employer; obviously a smaller company with I think no other foresters. Small companies, especially "family" (/band?) companies often run very very differently and I suspect I would be able to work to my own hours as I much prefer. Probably I could relocate throughout the region as I chose. I suspect I would be a really significant jack-of-all-trades and that would be challenging with a steep learning curve and no mentorship(?) but might also let me follow my interests a little more. Some questions I should ask: what are the goals or outcomes of the position? How are the decisions which this person will implement arrived at, and how often do they tend to change? Who manages this position? How much travel is expected? How does this position relate to the forestry company with which the Nation is partnered, who does which parts of the process (operational, strategic, landscape)? Will my credential be sufficient? How much mentorship and training budget is available?
Possibilities. None of them are clearly perfect. I probably can't actually afford to move, in the end. But maybe I should talk to some people?
One is in the area somewhat west of me-- same employer but a different area, so a different set of supervisor/management structure/decision makers (each region is basically a fiefdom). Housing prices there are a little more expensive than they are here; there doesn't seem to be an equivalent low end to the housing market, but the homes one step up tend to have a lot of useful stuff: heated studio or workshop, coldroom for hanging meat, pond, artisan or gravity-feed water, barn or pole barn, things like that. The area also has more of a farming community, including a multi-farm shop and farmer get-togethers, and it's where I take my geese to be processed. There's also an airport in the region, a nice music festival, more people and some nice restaurants including nice sushi restaurants, a lovely downtown, and fiber optic cable goes along the highway so some homes close enough may have it. New cell towers were built in the area. Plus a fairly significant white supremacist movement, social polarization, a very very contentious relationship with First Nations, and it's pretty much not accessable from the city in one day. I could almost certainly get this job. The posting closes at the end of this month; I haven't yet contacted the person in charge of that team to ask questions. Some good questions might include: what is the actual work (sounds like there might be a big monitoring component, which would be fabulous), what is the relationship of the work to the Nations, who else is on the team and what do they do, what is the policy on remote work and flexibility (could I work from over here until I can relocate, and if so how long is that expected to be).
The other is for a Nation that's heavily partnered with a large forestry company, I'm not sure if my credential is sufficient. The Nation is pretty remote but have an office in the biggest city in the area; I imagine the work would be fairly significant telework with an equally significant element of travel. This would be an extremely different employer; obviously a smaller company with I think no other foresters. Small companies, especially "family" (/band?) companies often run very very differently and I suspect I would be able to work to my own hours as I much prefer. Probably I could relocate throughout the region as I chose. I suspect I would be a really significant jack-of-all-trades and that would be challenging with a steep learning curve and no mentorship(?) but might also let me follow my interests a little more. Some questions I should ask: what are the goals or outcomes of the position? How are the decisions which this person will implement arrived at, and how often do they tend to change? Who manages this position? How much travel is expected? How does this position relate to the forestry company with which the Nation is partnered, who does which parts of the process (operational, strategic, landscape)? Will my credential be sufficient? How much mentorship and training budget is available?
Possibilities. None of them are clearly perfect. I probably can't actually afford to move, in the end. But maybe I should talk to some people?
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