First 7 jobs!

Waldo said:
I get along with the crew quite nicely.

Tom, my dad (Terrill Collier) actually introduced me to you in think in Chicago after one of the Tour Des Trees ride. We all ended up going out for Turkish food, i think.

No, i'm not the Lorax, that was Dad.

The BCMA was tougher than I thought it would be. I passed, but i really should have studied for it. I would actually encourage you to take a couple of college level soils and arboriculture classes to prepare.
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Super impressive.
I'm glad to have you here at the buzz.
 
oldoakman said:
Lets see, kinda tough to remember... Oh yeah..
1. Paper route
2. Landscape maintenance and mowing
3. Christmas tree shearing, harvesting, bailing, and loading
4. Back to landscape maint and mowing (same company as before)
5. Security guard, midnight to 8:30 shift (SUCKED)
6. Lube rack at Buick dealership (sucked)
7. Landscaping again, design build company
8. Tree work/arborist

Tree work was interspersed with the landscape positions on occasion depending on the client. Next year will be 50 years in the green industry.
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Just amazing.
 
1) Ag mechanic for my father in an IH dealership in Iowa
2) Hired hand for a 35K hog unit farmer
3) Back to working for my Father as a Mechanic
4) Active Duty Air Force
5) Building Custom Beach homes part time (still Active duty) Housing market tanks new job needed
6) Learned to climb tree and do a tree removal from a CA out of Brownsburg IN and started doing that part time (still active duty)
7) Driving truck for a heavy haul truck company
8)Back to work for DOD as a welding foreman (still doing trees part time now a CA myself and own my own business)
 
Started life as a dishwasher at KFC. SUCKED
2. Cashier at small dieing dept store. Store died, I moved on.
3. Telemarketing. Waste of life there
4. Roofer. Multiple years, multiple companies. Screw that crap.
5. Drove semi for a lumberyard for 3 years. Long hours, asshole bosses, crappy pay.
6. Industrial welder. Cool job, kinda liked it. Working for big corporate sucks though. You're nothing but a man hour.
7. Back to same lumberyard to drive semi for 3 more years.
8. Started a small siding company with my cousin. That went OK for a little while until I got my wife pregnant. At that point I got scared and thought I should go get a real job.
9. Started working for a lawn service. Moved on to sprinkler service, then on to tree service. Happily ever after
 
1. Shoveled shit out of horse stalls for my neighbor who owned a tree business (he sent me out with his crews sometimes who taught me to climb even though I was 15)
2. Climbed for my uncle who does tree work and logging on the side
3. Research technician at Oregon state university research farm (summers during high school)
4. Climber for Davey (just a few months between semesters in college)
5. Current summer job is a crew leader at osu demonstration forest, teaching high school teachers about forestry so they can teach their students (pretty cool. Boss says "treat them how they treated you in school" so I get a kick making them wade through blackberries and poison oak.)

Got 3 years left of undergrad, already paid for from tree work on the side. Who knows what side of arboriculture or forestry I'll settle on.

@ward I saw you the other day and almost said hi but didn't want to be creepy lol
 
1. Construction- One grandad was a GC, one owned a building/design firm.
2. Food bar at a buffet. (No dishes)
3. Dishes, food bar, admissions counselor at college.
4. Farm hand
5. Construction- framing
6. Lawn care with company that would become the tree company I learned to climb with.
7. Horse logger

Now a CA and climber.
 
Ok I'll give this a shot. Many of these jobs were occurring at the same time
1) Worked for a artist welder as a grunt boy/grinder @15
2) Hand pressed tile shop (mom and pop) but we had orders as large as one of the presidential houses kitchen remodel
3) Construction/heavy equipment operator @17
4) Valet parking lots/garages in downtown
5) Dishwasher/barback/server
6) Self employed coffee shop (1yr) and also exotic reptile breeding wholesale/retail
7) Several random jobs, warehouse/leatherman knives assembly/barista
8) Many odd jobs including treework while my wife was pregnant while moving from AZ back to the PNW
9) Full time Arborist (2008), Currently employed and part time self employed Arboriculture
 
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1. Youth basketball referee- fun but parents were a nightmare
2. Mom and pop ice cream store-one season, I wasn't invited back te following summer! (Ate too much ice cream).
3. Worked at a marina as a gas dock boy and landscaper/random tasker. Lots of experience, mowing etc, even got to run the big fork lift for in/out customers and helped the semi retired old guy build/repair docks. I was known to provide the best "pump out" (read: shit tank emptier) on spring lake. Also got my first taste of self employment washing/waxing boats at other nearby marinas.
4. Office monkey at the place my dad still works (been there 40 plus years). This job really lost it's appeal when the knockout blonde who was training me to replace her left
5. Grounds maintenance at my college for a few summers, really fun. They gave me my own golf cart and I learned a lot about how to appear busy while actually waiting until the next break
6. Juice bar manager on Oahu, crappy job but super easy and got my start in tree work from this job. Also sold Xmas tree seasonally at this time.
7. Tree work. Oahu to portland.
8. Kids..........
 
Such an interesting thread. Some are born close to the work, others find their way to it. Like fish in brackish water nosing their way towards the pure. When you see a lot of resumes come in for jobs over time you can see the pattern repeating itself. Some people have a feeling for this work and it shows up early or manifests itself slowly through life choices. There is always a path for these ones. :)
 
1. Video store clerk. Killer job, hang out, watch movies, "work" a little, mostly making Popcorn and cleaning the popcorn machine.
2. Home construction. Various angles/rackets. Did that for about 5 years until the bottom dropped out.
3. Tree work. I probably would've moved on by now if the fruit wasn't hangin so low. It's all right, don't get me wrong, but I'm looking forward to 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Treebuzz helped me kill it in my local market! Now I have a great time running a biz wit' my bro and livin the life!
 
Snow shoveling
Home gardening
Paper boy
Farmers market vendor
Basketball coaching/bingo
Micky D's
I-beam painter straightener
that is up to grade 9 roughly. Did alot of sales. Tried to be a carpenter but the construction dust ruined it for me
So many jobs before Arb career found. back to school for 36 consecutive mths of practical and academic training on a botanical gdn.
Our vocation. Arboriculture saved me.
 
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