Akin to Lumberjacks?

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It’s an interesting point.
We are (tree surgeons/arborists whatever) a service industry.
We don’t make anything we perform a service.
Fallers and farmers and the like produce a product, trees as a raw material for construction etc. Or food to eat.
I can see the rationale behind thinking that is somehow more ‘worthy’ than domestic tree work.
Even line clearance keeps the population heated and out of darkness.
But then I think about the money to be made for relatively easy work and finishing early most days, I feel a lot better then.

It is a interesting point... I know I'm unique in my market and it can/is often a boutique, but unfortunately I'm damn good at pruning fruit trees.. I also work in a number of parcels with forestry tax exemptions. Both of which are not uncommon, enough so that if I put my efforts there I could make a living doing just that.

 

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Also returning to the original post: I truly enjoy working hard outdoors, solving unique problems, chatting with new people, seeing new properties, hopefully enhancing the beauty of a place and increasing peoples enjoyment and/or safety. Now the paperwork side of running the business, not so much.....