Call Grayback Forestry or Franco Reforestation or Pacific Oasis and tell them you're interested, they'll walk you through it. A lot of the entry-level workforce consists of dumbass 18yo kids so they're used to answering questions. With your availability window you may not get out on actual fires much but Grayback will for sure have fuels work and I'm pretty sure the others will as well.
srf0638
7mo ago
When I was in a fairly similar situation, I picked up some contract wildland fire work. I didn't have any experience, but I was willing to travel and work, and they needed bodies. I enjoyed it overall, pretty slow at times but the money was decent. Seven years later, I'm a permanent employee on a hotshot crew, with a consolation master's. Unintended consequences (or were they?)
srf0638
7mo ago
I'll broadly echo this. My impression is that, at least post-COVID, blue-collar labor has as much bargaining power as it's ever had in the US, or very nearly so.
srf0638
7mo ago
Very reminiscent of the courtroom procedural bits in Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity, which I liked a lot.
Thanks for the backstory. That's pretty wacky, but it sure beats sitting inside doompoasting all day.
Edit: read through some archives and man, that was kind of a bs ban. I hope he makes it and tells us all about it.
srf0638
10mo ago
Well, it certainly sounds like you'd know if it helped. I barely drink, haven't really a/b tested for myself, but it does seem like I enjoy being around people more when I drink, and when I saw that excerpt it occurred to me that maybe the author was on to something.
srf0638
11mo ago
I know several of these feels.
Do you drink? I can't find a full-text source online, but see https://twitter.com/snowset/status/1625119258265911296
Eh? (Unless you're talking specifically about match sprinters, which is an awfully small sample size. The bad outcomes for endurance guys have historically involved low bone density and maybe skin cancer.).
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