Why are Horticultural professionals SO devalued?

[Haironyourchest]

3 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

 

.... One of my groundies said  "Felling Trees is much like making love to a beautiful woman" the home owner just creased up.

 

Hours of painstaking preparation, five seconds of thrills and the cleanup is a chore?

[Trailoftears]

Its a can of worms really,and I didnt start this topic to be divisive-but thats good fun too 😁

My main point is we should ALL be paid/valued more given the weather conditions we all tend to have to endure+the skills+the dangerous conditions/ignorant home owners (talk about p.r.skills 🙄),not to mention the HUGE investments needed in plant/m.c's needed to carry out  work/safely and efficiently too.

 

[Trailoftears]

Perhaps a plus one for landscapers,I do work for a couple of the more enlightened customers in my roster who are more than happy to encourage and aid me in growing the best herb of all-we usually strike a 50/50 deal.The industry is not without its perks in fairness...

[dan blocker]

My 78 year old granny does her own mowing, plants up her own flower borders, plant a few short rows of spuds and other veg crops. Trims a small privet hedge with hand clippers🤔. Does that make her a Horticulturalist🤔. When I said did she want a shot at being an arborist she told me to “F off”! Ya grandad can though?

[Trailoftears]

My Dad too was an arborist too,he had a long rope plus a clip,he seemed to encourage my Mum onto a long ladder and shout at her  a lot after handing her a rusty bowsaw via a bamboo cane ( he tended to stay on the ground mostly).

[peds]

34 minutes ago, dan blocker said:

My 78 year old granny does her own mowing, plants up her own flower borders, plant a few short rows of spuds and other veg crops. Trims a small privet hedge with hand clippers🤔. Does that make her a Horticulturalist🤔.

If she could find the time to do that for a few dozen or hundred or a thousand odd other people, she could probably earn a bit of cash. 

 

Does being able to feed yourself 3 meals a day make you a chef?

 

Anyway, what am I doing stuck here in the gents of this motorway service station giving blowies for a fiver a go, when the guy in the cubicle next door is giving them away for free, and he's enjoying it more? It's impossible. 

[dan blocker]

10 minutes ago, peds said:

 

 

Does being able to feed yourself 3 meals a day make you a chef?

Not in my wife’s case? No it doesn’t. Your right.

[Joe Newton]

Confirmed troll, just ignore

[Ty Korrigan]

On 28/08/2023 at 22:59, AHPP said:

Most tree surgeons know fvck all about fvck all. 

Especially business and pricing.

[Haironyourchest]

3 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Especially business and pricing.

 

We know how to impress the ladies though.. there was a survey a few years back for the top ten "manliest" jobs. Arbs took first place, it was discussed on here at the time.