[leeroihe]

I'm working on this - but frankly most of these companies appear to have off-shored their roles or stop responding when they realize I'm not on H1B. Sometimes I think because I'm a black man they think I'm an immigrant that they can hire more cheaply. It's happened on numerous occasions before.

I've actually thought quite a bit about being an arborist. I've always kept trees at a few friends places and really enjoy the ecology aspect. That said, I don't want to live at or around the poverty line like I did while I was a founder at a prev startup only making $40k post tax. I'm just not about that life anymore.

[IshKebab]

I have a friend who does that. I don't think you'd be able to get a job doing that without any experience. He found it quite hard to get one and he did a degree on trees and had years of experience as a tree surgeon. And as you say, pay is not good.