treeclimber165
Member A.K.A Skwerl
I'm starting to come to a disappointing conclusion after many years of climbing. The vast majority of people out there do not care about what I know, nor do they care to be told how they should have their trees trimmed. 90% only want a 'trained monkey' to climb up and whack off the limbs that they deem 'bad'. I have fought this for years, trying to explain and justify why I do not want to hack a limb off even with the roof line. This has cost me many jobs and many customers. The two companies I am climbing for now do mostly 'limb removal' rather than pruning. It is sad but true. I can shut up and remove the limbs I'm told to remove, and make a living. Or I can argue with them AND their customers on every job and be unemployed. I'm finally giving in and simply removing limbs when told to remove limbs, saving my energy and expertise for the ocassional job where I am asked to prune a tree.
I feel sad, yet strangely at peace about this newfound conclusion. I feel like I can earn a living rather than starve, and save the lectures on pruning for the few who actually want to hear it. I'm finding myself approaching jobs differently now. There are jobs for tree lovers, where I do my best work and explain why I am doing what I am doing. Then there are jobs for tree haters, where I look at the limb removal as a partial removal. They do not CARE what happens to the tree, they only want it gone (from over the roof for now, but they will want the whole tree gone soon).
Is this so awful for me to look at my career this way?
I feel sad, yet strangely at peace about this newfound conclusion. I feel like I can earn a living rather than starve, and save the lectures on pruning for the few who actually want to hear it. I'm finding myself approaching jobs differently now. There are jobs for tree lovers, where I do my best work and explain why I am doing what I am doing. Then there are jobs for tree haters, where I look at the limb removal as a partial removal. They do not CARE what happens to the tree, they only want it gone (from over the roof for now, but they will want the whole tree gone soon).
Is this so awful for me to look at my career this way?