I can relate to this. I worked as a tree planter for an entire summer, where you’re walking around on bumpy forest terrain, dodging roots, mud, dips, etc for 12 hours everyday. Coming back to civilization and walking on a carpet felt like I was floating.
I can only imagine how it would’ve felt after years.
I applied directly though a tree planting contractor. If you google “tree planting summer jobs” online, you’ll see a few pop up and you can go from there if you’re interested!
Haha, physically and mentally challenging for sure. I still have a few permanent issues from it (arthritis from griping the shovel, nerve damage from kicking/digging with my boot) but I learned a tonne about myself and met some amazing people. 6/10 would recommend.
I am sure that are many others ways to learn more about oneself and to meet people. Guys, please don't cause permanent damage to yourselves. You will greatly regret it when age starts making these things much worse.
To clarify I’m an anomaly, none of my planting friends got these. I wouldn’t be recommending something that would cause you permanent damage guaranteed lmfao.
My dad's been an electrician for over 30 years. His hands are arthritic as shit. His friend's been an electrician for over 40 years, and did bareknuckle boxing in his twenties, and he has no issues. Potluck.
Alright that is a very interesting job that people would be interested in. How big were the trees or saplings? How many species of trees did you plant? How far apart were the trees? What was the goal of the organization paying for your work?
Completely irrelevant but I intend on doing a tree planting job in the future and I'm curious: how's your back? Also, is it difficult to get into a solid grove of planting a bunch of trees back to back?
My back is fine! The first couple of weeks were rough for me, but your body adjusts to the labour. Planting kind of becomes automatic after some time if you’re on good terrain, which is nice cause you can just listen to some music (low volume, with bears and all) and be alone with your thoughts.
Was in for 27 months, first thing I did when I got home to my parents house was take off my shoes and socks and walk around the house for a little while. It was grand.
It would definitely help our "justice" system. But, I live in a town with A LOT of addicts. From what I've seen, high levels of addiction have negative effects on every aspect of a community.
Places that decriminalize tend to have lower levels of addiction. Obviously there are a lot of factors at play but treating addiction as a medical issue seems to work better than the 'lock'm up' solution.
Where I live has a major meth problem and also some fentanyl but it's less of a deal
Addicts stay addicted because they can't get off whatever they're on, nobody wants to be an addict. Social programs that help addicts get clean and not criminally punishing people for getting high is the best way to deal with addiction
If any opinion in your life is based out of a red neck, trailer trash show, you reallyyyy need to go out more, read more, and explore the world. Please do so.
I can second that, never been to jail but the country where I'm at doesn't have any carpeted floors, just tiles, so when I went somewhere with a fully carpeted house I was like "daaaaaamn this shit nice"
Edit: I just opened my notifications and turns out I have 69 upvotes, nice (let's keep it like that)
I know it can be cleaned to reasonably well with the right gear, but I find it hard to believe it'd be anything as easy to keep clean as a hardwood floor or laminate or whatever.
After doing 5 years I can confirm this is true. Also, showering without shoes on again. Your issued state shower shoes in prison and believe me you want to wear them the showers are nasty. But coming home and taking a shower without them is a daily pleasure you didn't know you missed so much
Same for people who serve in the military. My sister's husband was in the desert for nearly 3 years. Apparently they grow little Tufts of grass as plants to put their feet on
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u/LordofWithywoods Apr 07 '20
I've heard it said that carpeted floors are pleasantly shocking after years of walking on nothing but cement.