Message from @Trashboat

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2018-10-08 22:50:46 UTC  

I wonder why I've never heard of this before

2018-10-08 22:50:56 UTC  

Give it a look. Be aware that USA jobs website is an absolute nightmare and takes forever.

2018-10-08 22:51:45 UTC  

Yeah

2018-10-08 22:51:52 UTC  

I am looking at mufrti.org rn

2018-10-08 22:52:45 UTC  

Sometimes jobs will train you, but having your red card does make you more competitive. Veterans and Injuns get preference, so the more you can do to compete with them the better

2018-10-08 22:53:01 UTC  

or should I be on fs.fed.us

2018-10-08 22:53:37 UTC  

This is a good tutorial.

2018-10-08 22:53:56 UTC  

Well, the plan was to get into trade school after the winter and do that and get my cert. and then maybe move over to Germany until my gf gets on her own two feet and out of her sort of highschool/college hybrid.

2018-10-08 22:53:59 UTC  

That was the like

2018-10-08 22:54:05 UTC  

1 year kinda plan

2018-10-08 22:54:08 UTC  

1-2 plan

2018-10-08 22:54:41 UTC  

Ah. Well, if you don't drink it away, a season can net you 20k easily. Which could help you into trade school and Euro-GF help

2018-10-08 22:54:43 UTC  

But I don't think I will have the money for trade school and I am not a fan of being in debt and I would've liked to make sure that I could spend time with her every other season.

2018-10-08 22:55:14 UTC  

I don't know/think trade school has summer breaks, but lots of people just do summers.

2018-10-08 22:57:14 UTC  

I mean, she is coming here for Christmas and ideally summer, but idk this deal with this one that I am applying to rn.

2018-10-08 22:57:21 UTC  

Trying to figure out their course times and all that jazz.

2018-10-08 22:57:48 UTC  

Ah. Well a good GF is worth quite a bit. And with welding you can earn a good living, relatively dox resistant (not proof) too.

2018-10-08 22:57:55 UTC  

(nothing is dox proof)

2018-10-08 22:58:27 UTC  

If we lived within the same country, she probably would be more than a gf tbh.

2018-10-08 22:58:54 UTC  

But things work differently over there.

2018-10-08 22:59:07 UTC  

Schule uber alles

2018-10-08 22:59:10 UTC  

All that shit

2018-10-08 22:59:26 UTC  

Women usually go to college and have a family at like 30

2018-10-08 22:59:30 UTC  

Which is not happening

2018-10-08 22:59:42 UTC  

So I have to make the job fit around that for sure.

2018-10-08 23:00:10 UTC  

This NWFT thing says I need to be affiliated with other sorts of forestry organizations

2018-10-08 23:00:18 UTC  

Like department of homeland

2018-10-08 23:01:06 UTC  

Hmmm... well I'm in school and affiliated that way.

2018-10-08 23:01:14 UTC  

You can apply to jobs as a novice though.

2018-10-08 23:01:17 UTC  

I know that for sure.

2018-10-08 23:02:14 UTC  

To what jobs?

2018-10-08 23:04:21 UTC  

wildland fire
https://www.usajobs.gov/ - you make a profile there first (lol it's down, how typical)

2018-10-08 23:04:43 UTC  

Nice

2018-10-08 23:04:54 UTC  

And then after you've made a detailed and throrough (But truthful) resume, you can just select and apply

2018-10-08 23:05:32 UTC  

Filter by agency (forest service and bureau of land, although don't sleep on indian bureau or fish and wildlife), and look for "forestry / range technician/aide"

2018-10-08 23:05:35 UTC  

That's the actual job

2018-10-08 23:06:16 UTC  

You can spam and apply for them all, but so can everyone else. It's a brutal slog. The good news is once you've worked for a season you have an in and, if you survive / enjoy the experience, returning is much less painful bureaucratically.

2018-10-08 23:06:31 UTC  

ALSO there are private trail / fire crews. Nature Conservancy for one.

2018-10-08 23:06:49 UTC  

Yeah but why are they gonna want an 18 year old who hasn't been to college though?
If they do at all?

2018-10-08 23:07:23 UTC  

You strong and don't complain? It's mostly digging and paying attention when you need to.