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Forestry is a fairly low profile blue collar industry that doesn't get much mind share among the white collar people who think they're experts in how every indu
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Forestry is a fairly low profile blue collar industry that doesn't get much mind share among the white collar people who think they're experts in how every industrial facility should run. You have the luxury of actually being able to make decisions by the numbers.
When you go into space numbers unfortunately tend to have to take a back seat to optics.
Someone crashes a log truck and nobody cares. Someone crashes a helicopter doing "space stuff" and suddenly every jerk who feels slighted that you didn't divert enough resources from your primary task (space!) to pander to their issue (your team isn't divers enough, your facility isn't environmentally friendly enough, your company vehicles aren't all EVs, etc, etc) along the way is happy to tell the news reporter or the Youtube head how you "have a history of playing fast and loose" or whatever. And then all the vultures who want to be seen "doing something" descend...