Looking for lumberjack schools

Posted by chris dorward
August 24, 2007

Sometimes I get really sick of working with computers and start to daydream about what else I could do for a living. I call it looking for lumberjack schools because a few years ago I came up with the idea of going to Canada and being a lumberjack. Playing with chainsaws and all the smoked salmon you can eat. Sweet. It struck me as a funny example of that kind of (not very healthy) daydreaming. Here’s a list of the things I’ve considered in the past few days.

rear-view-chopper.jpgand my personal favourite, which I actually looked into for at least an hour on google…… Helicopter pilot. For $US 50K and in 6 months you can be a commercial helicopter pilot apparently. I even had a look at the medical requirements, and so long as you’ve not been at the SSRI’s for several months, and you’re pretty healthy, you’re sweet. I could even live up here in the mountains and fly people on heliskiing adventures. It’s perfect for me - I don’t know why I haven’t thought of it before. Obviously I should dedicate my life to flying helicopters.

Stop right there. Obviously it’s a hair-brained scheme and I should really just get my head down and get some work done, but it’s hard to concentrate right now. Even the simplest tasks are proving hard to complete. I’m looking forward to the parting of the mist when I can actually do some real work again. A couple more weeks and computers will start to make sense again.

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