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    I second that -- I always want to learn from others, names and locations withheld to protect the guilty/innocent is fine. I'm just glad we don't roll the way you are describing. No question that the eye in the sky is running the show; all the others are supporting actors to make the play move...
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    Well, not quite. We work 4 days, Mon-Thurs; Fridays are for equip. maintenance, estimates, stump grinding, and perhaps small fill-in jobs. And I was giving our target, mean average per day. Some days a bit more, some days a bit less. And over winter, we are hungrier, leaner, with less work...
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    America's Most and Least Trusted Professionals All right! Tree men are off the charts!
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    Current job listing for the City, Forester: $18.35-26.23/hr (40 hrs/week). It is a bit hazy since you could look at gross take for the crew (shooting for $2K/day mean average, 4 men on the crew), or divide it by individual. For sure, our overall gross works out to over 4x the city rate, net...
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    I compare our crew to the city forestry dept. as we drive by and see them "working" with their lackadaisical attitude and slow pace. Being gov't employees, they aren't as motivated, since they get paid the same rate no matter how hard they work. There isn't as much incentive of risk vs. reward...
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    My orthotist in Mobile, AL had a successful business for years and years, his own medical building near the hospitals, anything you could want. However, he was on his 3rd business manager/secretary that he had to fire. The previous one was incompetent and wasn't doing duties, so he was losing...
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