Days work with my MS170, now the manual. Career advice please.

[MyStihlWontStart]

I built a new shed for my firewood today, cut up some logs with my ms170, split it, and stacked it. I am really enjoying my new Stihl chainsaw.

I don't like my job as a finance director. I sit at a desk all day. It pays very good, but I would rather be a chainsaw operator in the pacific northwest. What are job opportunities like? What is pay like in Oregon, washington, BC? How can I get training and experience? Who are the big employers of operators? Give me the straight dope on a new career.

Pictures - Cuz it happened.

 

[pantelis]

I built a new shed for my firewood today, cut up some logs with my ms170, split it, and stacked it. I am really enjoying my new Stihl chainsaw.

I don't like my job as a finance director. I sit at a desk all day. It pays very good, but I would rather be a chainsaw operator in the pacific northwest. What are job opportunities like? What is pay like in Oregon, washington, BC? How can I get training and experience? Who are the big employers of operators? Give me the straight dope on a new career.

Pictures - Cuz it happened.

how old are you?

 

[Full Chisel]

Oh boy, he buys an MS170 and now he's ready for PNW falling! Somebody give him a 660, a helmet and a pair of wedges already...

 

[stihlaficionado]

Post counts are going to be high on AS tonight

 

[hanniedog]

Stick to being a desk jockey. First good wind and your "wood shed" will be a pile of junk.

 

[MyStihlWontStart]

how old are you?

29

 

[hills bay performance]

You should try dragging a 066 with a 36" bar a mile in the woods to cut firewood a couple times before deciding on a career change .

 

[MyStihlWontStart]

Stick to being a desk jockey. First good wind and your "wood shed" will be a pile of junk.

It is not finished. It needs cross braces.

 

[MyStihlWontStart]

You should try dragging a 066 with a 36" bar a mile in the woods to cut firewood a couple times before deciding on a career change .

I am a veteran. If I can handle the army I can handle tree work.

 

[Full Chisel]

You should try dragging a 066 with a 36" bar a mile in the woods to cut firewood a couple times before deciding on a career change .

Nah, he's ready...he's got an MS170 and knows how to use it! He's clearly qualified...

 

[pantelis]

29

too old for a new career, why you dont like the big money and the soft chair that your job give you?

 

[hills bay performance]

My point is you should try it before you make a career move . Some things are fun on the weekend not so much as a job. And thank you for your service

 

[pantelis]

I am a veteran. If I can handle the army I can handle tree work.

Veteran in what , you have go in any war somewhere?

 

[pantelis]

Post counts are going to be high on AS tonight

The doctor say to dont tell him no . its a part of the therapy

 

[rob066]

Nah, he's ready...he's got an MS170 and knows how to use it! He's clearly qualified...

And drag trees from the woods with a garden tractor

 

[Marshy]

You're better off starting with a local firewood hack outfit nearest you on weekends for some real world experience or even take some vacation for a few week on your day job and go experience it for a few weeks. Most jobs are not like Axe Men BTW. Go get dirty banged up worn down worn out beat up smacked up cussed at spit at cut up sctatched up sweat in you eyes wood chips in your eyes splinters under your nails blocks of wood dropped on your toes hit your head hit you shins hit your elbow bloody lip bloody nose stung by bees bitten by ants mosquiteos and deer flies get poison ivy poison oak reach near heat exaustion... then consider leaving your day job.

 

[MyStihlWontStart]

too old for a new career, why you dont like the big money and the soft chair that your job give you?

I want something vmore physical. I enjoyed Jr enlisted army life better than this.

 

[MyStihlWontStart]

You're better off starting with a local firewood hack outfit nearest you on weekends for some real world experience or even take some vacation for a few week on your day job and go experience it for a few weeks. Most jobs are not like Axe Men BTW. Go get dirty banged up worn down worn out beat up smacked up cussed at spit at cut up sctatched up sweat in you eyes wood chips in your eyes splinters under your nails blocks of wood dropped on your toes hit your head hit you shins hit your elbow bloody lip bloody nose stung by bees bitten by ants mosquiteos and deer flies get poison ivy poison oak reach near heat exaustion... then consider leaving your day job.

Again, I am veteran, this is child's play.

 

[MyStihlWontStart]

Veteran in what , you have go in any war somewhere?

OIF

 

[pantelis]

I want something vmore physical. I enjoyed Jr enlisted army life better than this.

You can starting tomorow if you like , but its better to the soft leather chair with the fat money .