Every time I meet someone new the question eventually arises “What do you do for a living?” People seem to understand the Real Estate sales portion of my job well enough. They are familiar with Realtors in general because of personal experiences when purchasing a home, various reality TV shows, and the list goes on and on. When I get to the part about being a consulting forester, more often than not, they seem to have very little, if any idea of what that means. “So you work for the state?” By this point I can see that I have lost them as they picture me in a tower looking for fires, cutting down trees, or just walking around hunting all day. In reality, a consulting forester is not all that different from a Realtor.
From landthink.com, April 30, 2013
