The future!!

[Stephen Blair]

i would go back to living in a shack and having bonfires tomorrow if i had too, and it wouldnt bother me. i love cutting down trees and grafting. i was at a bbq tonight and there were 3 x employees there, each of them had loads of stories about there hardship working with me when they were in there teens, and they asked if anyone had ever stuck it out with me longer than a few months. the answer is no, barr one lad. this job isnt glamerous, but i love it. i think the whole 'arb' idea gives youngsters the wrong impression. i will do anything to make a pound as long as it is legal, i dont think there is as much doom and gloom as everyone says, also i have to laugh when folk ask if there is any jobs out there, then say will graft for the right money. what is the right money? if you work all day for a fiver, it is a fiver you never had in the morning.

[Johny Walker]

looks to me like too many eggs & not enough boxes but i do think the fall out rate is quite, high when they leave collage the job is not what they thought it would be like, out off about 10 staff in as many yrs 70% are doing something differant now not even remotely conected to arb work

[skyhuck]

i would go back to living in a shack and having bonfires tomorrow if i had too, and it wouldnt bother me. .

 

I hear what your saying mate, but what about your wife and kids?

 

I work mainly to give them a good life, not me.

 

I don't see doom and gloom for all, but when I read how some on hear are struggling, I wish things were different.

[Stephen Blair]

looks to me like too many eggs & not enough boxes but i do think the fall out rate is quite, high when they leave collage the job is not what they thought it would be like, out off about 10 staff in as many yrs 70% are doing something differant now not even remotely conected to arb work

 

i know loads of folk that went to university and college when i left school, they had a blast, left with a degree and did something totally different, some couldnt find work others had just changed there mind. it is the same in this game.

[Frank]

what makes me laugh, and sometimes scared, is all these college leavers going self employed / becoming freelance or whatever. Yet when you speak to them and ask if they have done this or that, they say "oh we brushed upon the subject for a day at college".

 

Like Shrek has said before, I wouldnt have dared go self employed until I knew there wasnt a tree in the world that I wasnt 110% confident in being able to handle.

 

Only the BEST will survive, its natural selection. (thats me stuffed then)

It doesnt matter how big a company is.

[Mesterh]

Are any of us relatively rich? Does anyone have 100k+ in there personal account with no debts? Forget about money in tools/machinery etc its worth nothing until you sell it.

 

I guess not many at all.

 

Lol I had some thing else to say and was going to make a point but completly gone now

[Stephen Blair]

Are any of us relatively rich? Does anyone have 100k+ in there personal account with no debts? Forget about money in tools/machinery etc its worth nothing until you sell it.

 

I guess not many at all.

 

Lol I had some thing else to say and was going to make a point but completly gone now

 

if i had saved up 100k and put it in the bank i would of lost half off it and paid a fortune in tax over the years. i have done ok in the last few years, it has nothing to do with kit, its ability to work hard and to keep trudging on when the chips are down.

[skyhuck]

i know loads of folk that went to university and college when i left school, they had a blast, left with a degree and did something totally different, some couldnt find work others had just changed there mind. it is the same in this game.

 

Doing a degree is more about showing you ability to study and collate information, than the actual subject studied.

 

For many job you need to be a graduate, but not in a specific subject.

[SJH]

It seems to be the same in most areas of work, alot of the trades have been the same, folk leaving school wanting to be plasters plumbers and joiners and a few years ago the building game was booming and there was good money on site work, but they are struggling now and finding it hard to make ends meat, I rekon if you looked at the stats of school leavers the percentage of them that wanted to get into tree work compared to other trades it would be quite low compared to those that wanted to be sparks or plasterers.

[Mesterh]

Thing is there is more work out there for builders.sparks,plasters etc than there is for tree surgeons.

 

If my area is anything to go by then it will be tough for many. Its a lottery sometimes on who you price up against.