life after climbing

[sloth]

Or get a level 6 qualification in law, or something else which will pay back the many hours and thousands of pounds spent getting it!

[Gary Prentice]

Getting a desk job in higher management appears to be everybody's get of climbing plan. In my honest opinion keep that money you'll spend on a level 6 qualification and put it into a retirement fund it'll be more use.

These jobs are few and far between.

 

Have you got the level 6?

 

As far as I know, it's opening doors for those who have already achieved it!

[Arborist_On_Board]

Mmmm.... Sort of get it. I wake up most days with a new (I won't say injury.... Sounds bad) tweek in the system.

It is a very labour intensive job, which unfortunately also sits right up there with one of the most dangerous.

I am grateful that I have arrived at 10 years climbing without any serious work/tree related injury.

Bringing it round to your question, at this point now I have found myself in a small company as the foreman, with a very fresh faced team, who demand/need a lot of guidance and attention. Although are chomping @ the bit to be up there working, which means I'm writing risk/method etc. Not completely physically drained at the end of the day....... Although the mental draining is enough! 😃

[Arborist_On_Board]

Also as crazy as seems.... Some very low impact exercise when you get home. Predominantly stretching and using other muscle groups helps.

[Arborist_On_Board]

grey git no big accidents ive got a bruise on my back from a conifer hedge and i hurt my foot outside of work back in october and still recovering from it.

 

and i know i cant do this forever.

 

Hear hear

 

 

 

 

 

The old analogy of those that can no longer do - teach, well that's half my plan and the other is get the business to a point where I can have others capable of doing these things while I supervise or am doing less strenuous activities.

 

3 years isn't that long to be hurting yourselfunless you have been unlucky, 17 years is just say starting to show on me now.

[log dog]

simple when you cant work anymore you can come on arbtalk all day and bitch about everything and everyone !can you guess who i am talking about ? ha ha:thumbup:

[Gary Prentice]

Also as crazy as seems.... Some very low impact exercise when you get home. Predominantly stretching and using other muscle groups helps.

 

Daft as it sounds, when I really was climbing day in day out, an hour or two on an indoor climbing wall really seemed to ease the aches and pains.

[Chris at eden]

Yes and a ND should be good enough for that situation

 

You don't cover 5837 in great detail in anything lower than L6. I know this as I have done, NC, ND, ISA, tech cert and L6. The critical evaluation part of doing the AIA is in itself a L6 skill. Again, you won't be asked to critically evaluate anything on an ND course, its not higher education. Critical writing is the biggest learning curve on L6 and the thing that most people struggle with. ND is fine if you want to do mass risk surveys. Its not a top level consultancy qualification.

 

Another point. I've attended loads of planning hearings with the PINS. The inspector is usually a planning expert that knows nothing about trees. The first thing they ask is for you to write down your position, qualifications, and professional memberships. They use this to assess your level of expertise. L6 will always out weigh ND which is L3.