compostgoblin 210 points 2 years ago

Honestly? Sounds like a pretty decent life path

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theangryseal 46 points 2 years ago

I knew a guy who did that around here and I never seen anything but a smile on his face.

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prole 14 points 2 years ago

Does he... not know about climate change? lol

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theangryseal 25 points 2 years ago

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.

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Glitterbomb 14 points 2 years ago

He probably knows a whole lot about soil biodiversity collapse. Close enough

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tetrachromacy 180 points 2 years ago

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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sugar_in_your_tea 92 points 2 years ago

Fake: Anon never goes outside
Gay: Anon likes to ride

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Dogiedog64 21 points 2 years ago

See Greentext post

Look inside

"Anon is fake and gay"

MFW

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UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 2 years ago

Me too, thanks.

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Krik 27 points 2 years ago

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.

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Angelusz 33 points 2 years ago

If you get the proper gear, clothing etc. - - still better than a cubicle in urban hell.

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Schmuppes 23 points 2 years ago

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DahGangalang 18 points 2 years ago

I'd take a substantial pay cut for the opportunity.
--Me, cubicle code monkey wage slave.

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spooky2092 15 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't

work from home code money/server toucher

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DahGangalang 7 points 2 years ago

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.

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desktop_user 12 points 2 years ago

with the right gear even freezing rain is tolerable, the big thing is that you need to prevent any water from getting between the boots and the rain/snow pants (or use the single piece pant boot things for wading).

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scutiger 5 points 2 years ago

single piece pant boot things for wading

Waders?

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parody 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the reality check

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baines -3 points 2 years ago

atvs are a death trap

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Phoenix3875 170 points 2 years ago

Colleague asks to do Environmental activism

Don't know what that means, but sure why not

mfw blowing up oil pipes

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Agent641 8 points 2 years ago

'How many credits do we get with this field project?"

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Zoldyck 168 points 2 years ago

Anon teaches us that making seemingly random choices and going for it is better than making no choices at all

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ameancow 59 points 2 years ago

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jballs 25 points 2 years ago

I was trying to explain this to my son yesterday. He's in middle school but already has a career path picked out. I was like, "dude, I didn't even know my current job existed until a decade after I graduated from college, you don't have to have this all figured out yet. Plans change, life gets in the way. Just go with it."

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Croquette 7 points 2 years ago

It is something I am learning myself, but without the experience to back it up, it's really hard to understand truly.

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someacnt 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder why self-intro in college application asks so much about life plan, when it is not remotely how we should live.

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ameancow 3 points 2 years ago

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LainTrain 2 points 2 years ago

I'm tempted to disagree somewhat as a mid-20-somethibh. I think your point is excellent overall but I also think it's pretty important to have plans. Just don't expect to have 20/20 foresight and that your plans will fail - but the takeaway is to make more, better plans, and do your best to take failure on your chin, rather than to feel it's okay to just drift not knowing what you want in life and not planning on how to get it.

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ameancow 7 points 2 years ago

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TimewornTraveler 1 point 2 years ago

I disagree. I think you need to have plans but be willing to let them go. You're wrong! No you!

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ryedaft 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, but Zoldyck was talking about doing something Vs doing nothing. And that doing something random is fine as long as it is something.

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Hossenfeffer 27 points 2 years ago

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!

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conditional_soup 6 points 2 years ago

How's the saying go? Success is opportunity... Uh... When... Eh...

(I had to Google it)

Success is when opportunity meets preperation.

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Demdaru 12 points 2 years ago

Literally, it's kinda inspiring tbh. While choices were pretty much freefall like, when he commited, he commited. And when situation got clearer, readjusted course slightly to make it better for himself.

Not once would it pass through my mind I'd ever find greentext inspirational.

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Yuki 58 points 2 years ago

Man, I recently quit IT and went back to school and became an electrician. Couldn't be any happier rn

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hash 27 points 2 years ago

I'm in cybersecurity and being a heat pump technician is starting to sound very appealing. Can't seem to convince my younger brother tho. Guess we all gotta make our mistakes before we can learn.

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joshcodes 14 points 2 years ago

I consider leaving cyber and becoming a barista on a daily basis

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Sophocles 9 points 2 years ago

Do it, I left IT to become a chef. The pay is less but I feel so much better about my job. Theres a huge difference doing something that actually benefits people (making good food for people was my path, it doesn't have to be cooking specifically) rather than slaving away for a corporation's benefit. It's awesome when you go out and see people enjoying what you did

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Yuki 2 points 2 years ago

YES! This perfectly describes my current feeling about my job!

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spooky2092 2 points 2 years ago

My CISO has been trying to recruit me for year to his department, but I haven't got the mental health to spare for the cybers.

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PieMePlenty 8 points 2 years ago

I firmly believe you cant really fully articulate what a certain career feels like. You need to experience it for yourself because it subjective. Some may like it and some may not. If he were to listen to your advice, he may be left wondering; what if.

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DogWater 4 points 2 years ago

Combine your current skill set with HVAC and you can make big money in data centers i have been told.

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Manifish_Destiny 3 points 2 years ago

Tell him no one is hiring and security is saturated.

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Lv_InSaNe_vL 14 points 2 years ago

Funny enough i switched from being an electrician to doing IT a few years ago.

I'm making a ton more money and I'm inside all day. Which is nice today because it's 25°F and windy as shit here today. Its less nice when it's 70°F and sunny though.

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Lunar_Voyager 1 point 2 years ago

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Yuki 1 point 2 years ago

It might be because our country needs electricians at the moment hence that's why the pay is higher atm

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Lv_InSaNe_vL 1 point 2 years ago

I'm making almost double what I was as an electrician in IT.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 49 points 2 years ago

I have a family friend who grew up near a creek. He loved bass fishing, so when he heard that invasive carp were eating bass eggs he took that personally.

He'd go out night after night bow hunting carp. He'd kill them and throw them on the bank for animals to eat. Dozens of these huge fish every night for years.

Eventually he cleaned out several miles of the creek by his house, and it's some of the best bass fishing in the area.

tl;dr - He got a degree in fisheries.

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rooroo 24 points 2 years ago

Man really is all about that Bass; no treble.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 9 points 2 years ago

Actually he liked treble hooks for bass fishing

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rooroo 2 points 2 years ago

I kinda wanna answer with a joke about that but all I can think of is mid.

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Comment105 12 points 2 years ago

People, man.

One man can create a great local environment with time.

And then there's how much a group could do. How much more could they do if they just got one or two more to join?

And yet some of us just sit here, feeling a bit depressed and purposeless.

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pigup 38 points 2 years ago

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

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Comment105 8 points 2 years ago

Actually, though? Or did you just make that up?

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pigup 14 points 2 years ago

True story

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Xanthrax 31 points 2 years ago

You're doing God's work. Underground runoff is real, and it's full of shit and pesticides. Digging a well for fresh water sucks.

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VitoRobles 28 points 2 years ago

My drinking buddy is a neuroscientist.

Same story. Went to college uncertain what he wanted. Did liberal arts, realized he was always curious about how the brain works, and just kept pushing through.

He's not really sure how he was going to make a living, but he's good at what he does and it's the only thing that keeps him going.

A few drinking sessions prior, we celebrated over him submitting a paper that took five years to write.

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cyborganism 27 points 2 years ago

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.

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Noodle07 9 points 2 years ago

Apply to the public sector ? I'm doing that, fuck waking up to increase profit margins of someone else

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TheIvoryTower 23 points 2 years ago

Forrest Gump: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both."

OP is Gump lol

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whitecold 23 points 2 years ago

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Baguette 21 points 2 years ago

Born to go field study and research nature, forced to be a cog for increasing shareholder value

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ZMoney 8 points 2 years ago

Tried this with geology. Then quit and went to get a PhD. Now as a postdoc finding out that even the $50 million grant to "sustainably extract critical elements" is mostly bullshit. The system can't self-correct.

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TheDoozer 19 points 2 years ago

I basically fell into my life choices and they've worked out remarkably well for me. I intended, upon leaving high school, to get a music education degree and become a high school band teacher. Then due to budget reasons (and an unwillingness to take out $50-80k in loans) and having to work full time to support myself, I ended up taking a break from school (after taking 5 years to get my Associates Degree). I moved to the opposite side of the country on a whim, and after a year and a half at a truly miserable call center job, my friend suggested the Coast Guard. So I talked to a recruiter and got a report date.

Around the same time, I met a woman in my area (back before online dating was the tragic mess it currently is) while just looking for people to do things with, since I moved across the country knowing nobody. We got along, but nothing kicked off until I told her I was joining the military (leaving), we both expressed how interested we were in each other, and became a couple.

I'll spare you the longer story, but ended up proposing during "off-base liberty" in boot camp (generally speaking DO NOT RECOMMEND) because I was moving halfway across the country, and, per my proposal, "neither of us have anything, you just lost your job, and the way we both are, even if it's bad we'll stick it out for a year. And if you ever want to go back, we'll buy you a plane ticket, split what we have, and you're no worse off than you are now." We ended up getting along amazingly.

And I was worried about joining the military (which I was doing for the GI Bill so I could finish school then become a band teacher), but the job I've been doing is WAY better than being a band teacher, and I'm currently buying a house (for the second time) and getting set to retire somewhere amazing. At 46.

My life is considerably better than anything I might have planned, because I went along with the opportunities that came up. I think OP failed task successfully.

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ryedaft 18 points 2 years ago

If it was one of those federal jobs with a 3 year probation then green text is probably unemployed now.

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prole 6 points 2 years ago

My thought as well... There is a small chance that it was for a private firm, but I imagine most jobs like this are government.

Even if it was private sector, eliminating this regulatory enforcement avenue lowers the demand for this kind of work, so it could affect people's jobs there as well.

No need for a contractor to sub-contract you to take soil samples if there's no regulations surrounding soil composition!

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InternetCitizen2 15 points 2 years ago

Cannon is a winner

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valtia 13 points 2 years ago

Environmental science jobs are legit, they're pretty chill too, unless you're working as a lab analyst

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SkunkWorkz 11 points 2 years ago