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> In response to a shrinking budget, the land management agency is suspending seasonal hiring next year. Public lands will bear the cost. These aren’t careers.
by dgfitz 2y ago
> In response to a shrinking budget, the land management agency is suspending seasonal hiring next year. Public lands will bear the cost.
These aren’t careers.
- idiotsecant 2y agoWhat are you saying? These are vital positions. I'm not sure what it matters to the discussion if they are 'career' or not?
- mgerdts 2y agoIt’s probably related to this: > “I moved across the country to work here, for a seasonal job,” she says. “We have people who have worked here for 10 years as seasonals, and made a career out of these positions. They trusted that the jobs wouldn’t go away.” I suspect the other part of these careers involve seasonal work that covers a different part of the year, such as working at ski resorts.
- milesward 2y agoThey should be!
- plasmatix 2y agoAnd now they aren't even jobs.
- coding123 2y agoDon't worry they'll hire migrants after a while when people forget this story.
- JackYoustra 2y agoBetter migrants than no one?
- samschooler 2y agoOften the US hires young Americans to do these jobs. It is huge for helping young people with job training and class mobility. Without these jobs it will be that much harder to find a job with no experience in the outdoor industry.
- javajosh 2y agoAlthough I downvoted you, I admit having a grudging admiration for people like you who are openly and smugly conceited. Honestly, that's much better than those who hide their real sentiment in a cloak of high-emotional IQ yet sociopathic virtue signaling obfuscation.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoI'm upvoting him for that reason.
- aphantastic 2y agoNah. They’re just plainly and proudly wrong. Nothing admirable about that, it’s essentially the default state of human kind. > In addition, the agency is freezing all external hiring for permanent positions.
- dgfitz 2y agoHow is saying “these aren’t careers” smug and conceited??
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoI can't begin to guess how many layers of irony to read into this.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoyou're assuming they're not 1) a bot, 2) a paid shill, or 3) stirring the pot simply to piss people off out of boredom or whimsey
- dbetteridge 2y agoThe article clearly lists multiple "careers" including biologists, timber workers and maintenance staff. The only reason they're not careers now and are forced to be seasonal hires is due to ongoing defunding of the forest service over decades
- samschooler 2y agoSeasonal hiring for intermittent tasks that are best done in the summer is cheap for USFS and makes sense. They don't need to be careers.