How can I, a total weirdo, get a job saving the environment?
*Landscape design/installation (still maybe considering this, but wondering if there’s a way to make it work as an actual person in the field who does not destroy one’s body with manual labor and also earns a living wage) Installing and maintaining landscape elements – and I’m thinking here of everything from specimen trees to lawns to rock wallks to doing grading and drainage work of a minor sort that a general contractor wouldn’t farm out to a non-landscape sub- doesn’t “destroy one’s body”. My family business has been large-scale landscape design and installation as well as running a large tree and shrub farm for 4 generations and the number of employees who have developed a disability or lasting injury on the job has been insignificant. There is of course the potential for repetitive strain injuries – though the work is rotated often enough that this is far less of an issue than in e.g. berry agriculture – and the more dangerous work is done with mechnical assistance from machines
