Ya Mick. I got started in it because I could charge for the hazard. Kept me out of needing to pay for college. Same with commercial fishing. But, I do love it. I like solving puzzles with stiff consequences for failure.
Butch, the warm body comment was just meaning that people who need a job, any job, don’t necessarily have work ethic and we end up sifting through them to find functional motivation. If I hire people who do what they enjoy, I am getting the advantage of built-in motivation (work ethic for that vocation.) I worked in a grocery store when I was young. I had bad work ethic for that (by my standards at least). I was miserable doing that.
People who love to watch tree work videos are usually good candidates for hire, especially if they do tree work and then go home and watch videos LOL.