Do college tree climbing classes lead to unemployablity?

[BRT]

Ah,....higher education: the sacred cow of our current society. Where the professors and faculty are paid off in ever increasing salary and benefits, and the students are conned out of more and more money---increasingly without a job to show for it when the diploma finally rolls around. Mountains of student debt, & still clueless. State funded universities are a yoke around the taxpayer's neck we will probably never get out from under.

 

[BRT]

Sorry for the derail/rant.....

I took ballroom dance, golf, scuba (got PADI cert. out of the deal), etc. Didn't take tree climbing....took that Kindergarten through ~9th.....then, other interests came along.....

 

[GregManning]

nothing to make you feel dumber than to take o chem.

I wish someone had told me, "don't try to understand it in the 1st semester; just memorize it."
"You might then understand it in the 2nd semester ! ?"

Thankfully, my school allowed a few "Pass/Fail" options during my stay.

I tried dance, but that didn't work.
So I did JuJitsu for many years. (very defensive approach; late 1960's & 1970's; the classes were for mainly for women & I was the Uki "dummy").
Also did lots of Tai Chi (lots of folks think it looks like dance); and Shaolin Kung Fu.

 

[treehumper]

Are we as a society becoming dumber? We can't seem to connect thoughts despite their obvious interrelationship. Every year companies demand better educated, technically competent prospective employees yet, when surveyed list a host of soft skills learned through a much broader education and life experience.

We need a well rounded education that is coupled to the application of skills developed not test scores. While the tester may see the correlation between results and acquired knowledge, too many students don't. They see it as done and over with once the results are published.

Look at our work and you'll see the whole range of subjects taught, with maybe the exception of basket weaving...

 

[New2trees]

While getting a coffee another patron of the shop saw my shirt and asked if I was really a treeguy. I replied yes and then she asked if I was expensive to which I replied we are reasonable and handed her my card while she went on to say she had some very old and big trees that needed to come down. I said we just recently took down the old oak in town. Pointing at my title, "Sr. Arborist" she said that means your a good treeguy, all I need is an old treeguy with a chainsaw.
I smiled, and walked away....

Hell give her my number...I am old as dirt and have two residential tree jobs under my belt (both on my own property)...You can tell her I am licensed and insured... I have a class C in MD and my truck has full coverage.