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.

That was the like

1 year kinda plan

1-2 plan

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

(nothing is dox proof)

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

But things work differently over there.

Schule uber alles

All that shit

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

Which is not happening

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

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

Like department of homeland

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

You can apply to jobs as a novice though.

I know that for sure.

To what jobs?

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

Nice

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

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"

That's the actual job

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.

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

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

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

The west is more on fire every year.

Fire is the only environmental government sector that's growing.

Because there's no choice.

It's war-scale operations and spending. (well, maybe not modern war)

There's an aviation side to it?
That sounds even cooler.

Yes, but no one starts there unless they're a veteran with air experience

🤔

But yes, theoretically if you're elite you can eventually become a smokejumper.