Gradumacation

[Nickrosis]

Well, I finally graduated with a bachelor's degree in Urban Forestry from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, having spent 4 years of my life drinking, smoking...errrr.....reading, writing, studying, and enjoying school. One of the things that I found to be true was that I learned the most outside of class through student organizations and time with faculty in other settings.

Studying abroad in Europe was life-changing and serving as student body president was unbelievably challenging but was equally valuable through what I learned. I'm just wondering if anyone has any words of wisdom as I hit the real world in the morning for good. Seriously, hit me up here.

 

[rumination]

Congratulations on your edumacation!! Even though you're not in school anymore, don't forget to keep on learning!

oh, and if you can't take the work world, there's always grad school

 

[MasterBlaster]

Congrats, 'lil sprout. Now you can work on that PHD, after you take care of that pesky Masters degree.

You probably think I'm joking.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Nick don't need no Post Hole Digger MB!

Whatever you do; let your education continue; in whatever you do, even if it were sweeping in the street

Sometimes the lesson really wasn't the subject;
but how to think and re-search

You aren't leaving school, you are entering it!

A tree is not the only thing that gets tougher, stronger, smarter against windy times, internal forging can be part of the equal and opposite response stored; your gift for the journey you took straight into the wind

Learn which voices inside are always right; tune to that station conciously when needed

Reflect on and store stuff; trust your brain to work beyond your knowing on this stored stuff; giving some of the intuition above.

A lot of the stuff that was forced down you; you'll never freakin use; but most of it ya will somehow trusting ya go a good ~60 yr. run. Things from school will just pop up, and you will have the background to be more familiar with them; do not dis-card!

Good Luck Dude,
-KC

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Congratulations Nick, your not a college puke anymore. LOL

Threre's a job I know about, if you're looking. The work is miserable and there are no benefits but it pays minumum wage. Let me know.

Welcome to the real world.

 

[a_lopa]

nick keep studying to much hard work to get to where you want old mate

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Nick your old dept head bob miller is speaking to us at NC state U, which is finally considering adding uf content. It'll only be an 18 credit option within forest mgt but it's a start.

I'm wondering what advice you would have to an arborist (who may well be the only one on the curriculum design committee) to get tree care into the course list along with the administrative stuff. I may be just a voice howling in the wilderness, but I'd like the howls to be heard.

Congrats on sticking it out and making the system work for you!

 

[seanlarkin]

Congrats Nick.

 

[NeTree]

Good job. Now for reality.


Rule #1

Never stop learning.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Once again; you are not ending your education, but only beginning it with better tools.

Better tools you have now more than most;
But a shiny tool allowed to go to dust or rust,
can be outran by the infamous tortise
(still werking on that one)

Not the strongest application to tree werk, but in gener-all:
Measure twice,
rather than cut twice (or 3 or 4 or...)

There is much to be said about the dynamics of youth,
so much lifeforce pushing out, ready to run;
but in the balancing trade,
an elder with less pushing out;
can read the info constantly pushing in,
recognize the patterns etc.
This becomes a sense i think,
in the blend there is room for all;
at it's right time.

Trachtenberg was a jewish man in a german concentration camp; to carry himself through the horrors, maintain his mind; he dreamed of teaching school again; and without anything to write on, conceptualized and wrote a whole new approach to numbers in his head, that he later brought to the world. A great story of perserverance, a great lesson in math; and a great lesson in not always opting for linear thinking; and to arise at the same specific quanity and place, their can be other patterns through the woods; even in precise math! Trachtenberg Multiplication Page

 

[jamie]

congrats

well done......

go out and have a beer or 3 on me.....

jamie

 

[murphy4trees]

I juust love telling people what to do and they so rarely get asked..
So here is my advice " don't take life seriously... nothing is really important.... but here's the catch.... act as if it is..."

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

well done nick old boy .. here are a few words

always be open minded,nothing much out there is black and white

 

[pbtree]

Congratulations - Now begins the adventure of life - be sure to live it to its fullest, and remember somethings else...

Use all the skill sets you have picked up to keep an open mind about leaning more!

 

[Jumper]

Congrats, and don't take yourself, or life too seriously. But as Daniel alluded to, sometimes you have to put on a really good act worthy of an Ocsar.

What's the employment plan, continue in the family biz or strike out on your own?

 

[JohnVander]

Do what is right, have fun, and always smell the roses.

John

 

[jkrueger]

Advice

It's funny when some asks me for advice I can think of nothing and when they don't I've a thought or 2.

Thumbs up!
Jack

 

[Nickrosis]

Thanks all! My plans are to continue in the family biz - he did rehire me! I'm still working on getting a raise from the current $11/hour....

I'm doing PHC work for the next couple of weeks, I'll spray lawns too, trying to get time on the tree crew, and I'm sure I'll be doing lots of landscape work. If I want to climb, it's gonna be on my own time. I've found some climbing work in Chicago and some felling work in Central Wisconsin.

This fall, I start at UW-Milwaukee for a master's degree in Business Administration, following their leadership track to get courses in human resources, marketing, finance, accounting, growth, management, and much more. Plus, I'm continuing in Spanish with a grammar and composition course. Everyday at work I have a speaking exercise! All the courses (except Spanish) are in the evening at 5:30pm, and the campus is about 35 minutes from our shop.

Outside of that, I'm volunteering for the Wisconsin Arborist Association and working with ISA and TCIA on other matters. You'll see me around...

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by Nickrosis
You'll see me around...

With a schedule like that? Not likely.

Remember to stop and smell the roses from time to time.

Time is one thing we never have enough of.

 

[jkrueger]

if only.

Nick,

If you were near I would give you a job with some climbing and having a brain down below when I'm in the tree. $15 - 20 per hour.

Unfortunatly, your not and we might be to fast together and get ahead of the work and not be working.

My son is at Hunter in NYC and studying bio-physics. He has worked with me on breaks. Boy was it great to have a fellow intellectual below. The days where pure joy. And He said no for the summer, hes going to Germany to study and then back to Hunter. (he loves to climb)

Your on a path and beating your own drum!

A sad dad,
Jack