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greenstormTo shake off a case of morning waking-up-before-anyone-else-and-it's-lonely blues, I started looking around at arborist certification career paths and from thence ended up at the BC agricultural labour pool which is notable, among other things, for having jobs like "mink catcher" and "artificial insemination centre jobs". It's not helpful for what I'm looking for (that seems more like a yellow-pages dealie, alas, or I guess I could look in the trade publication (if you're interested in a career change, subscribe to the damn trade publication for the new job asap, it's fun and useful)) but damn, it's nice to know there's a place those jobs are advertised.
(I could totally go to St Louis, MO, in July for the international tree climbing championships. I'm sure they have smaller ones around here, too, come to think of it. Let's research: Ah, shows the regionals in New West, July 12th. In fact, pacific northwest chapter isa website is pretty damn useful too.
(There are also some couple-day courses I may want to look into)
Z0MG, I almost forgot the phytoremediation lecture coming up! I really need to be more involved with the UBC botanical garden-- wish I'd started there instead of VanDusen all those years ago. As a start I should run down and become a member, and wander around a bit too.
There, that feels nice. I'm almost settled into this job, so it's important to keep the next steps on the horizon and to keep edging towards them; elsewise it's just stagnation.
Agroecology at UBC is a more academic route that could land me in the same place, as could the forestry program there, but while I've wanted to learn a lot of this stuff I'm not sure I can do the full-on academic thing without getting my hands dirty that it requires. This stuff is smaller steps at a time, and exciting therefore.
(I could totally go to St Louis, MO, in July for the international tree climbing championships. I'm sure they have smaller ones around here, too, come to think of it. Let's research: Ah, shows the regionals in New West, July 12th. In fact, pacific northwest chapter isa website is pretty damn useful too.
(There are also some couple-day courses I may want to look into)
Z0MG, I almost forgot the phytoremediation lecture coming up! I really need to be more involved with the UBC botanical garden-- wish I'd started there instead of VanDusen all those years ago. As a start I should run down and become a member, and wander around a bit too.
There, that feels nice. I'm almost settled into this job, so it's important to keep the next steps on the horizon and to keep edging towards them; elsewise it's just stagnation.
Agroecology at UBC is a more academic route that could land me in the same place, as could the forestry program there, but while I've wanted to learn a lot of this stuff I'm not sure I can do the full-on academic thing without getting my hands dirty that it requires. This stuff is smaller steps at a time, and exciting therefore.
