What are some outdoorsy jobs that I could get into?

@4meAndyou There are usually jobs available for park maintenance at the lake near this city, it’s definitely an outdoor job.

@cherokeepatti Lifeguard. Just has to be able to pass the American Red Cross lifesaving test...no college. Agricultural picker, also. Low money, but sometimes sleeping situations are included.

@4meAndyou a lifeguard would be a seasonal job in many areas of the USA, pickers make very little money, some sleep in their cars. I worked with someone who’s whole family did that when the kids weren’t in school

@cherokeepatti Yup. My grandfather had a little house for his pickers, with no toilet and the shower was a hole in the floor with water spout...but he did give it to them as part of their wages. They used to pack 13 to 14 people in there.

@4meAndyou that’s better than nothing, some of those farms charge workers good money to sleep in a little tinyshack.

@cherokeepatti He had a second dwelling that was used a long time ago. We used to call it the murder shack. There was a story that only the men stayed back there, and that two of them got into a fight up on the roof, and one of them got stabbed. By the time I came along that whole part of the farm was grown up with weeds and it wasn't used anymore.

@cherokeepatti the labor from Mexico, the HB2 I think, are treated very well. they are brought in, housed, fed and sent back at a specific time.

@akindheart That's on the really big farms. My grandfather was a small family farmer.

@akindheart I’ve seen shows talking about how the Jamaicans would be hired to cut sugar cane in the southern USA and be told they would have housing near the fields. They would be charged a huge amount of money for tiny shacks to sleep in, no electric or running water & it would be taken from their pay....long hours, hard work and they’d go home with a fraction of what they were promised in pay. I don’t know if that story helped them or not but the sugar cane field were owned by a huge soft drink corporation, believe it was Coca-Cola, this was over 20 years ago.

@cherokeepatti Modern day form of slavery, is what that is.

@cherokeepatti i live near US Sugar Corp. if they are employed thru the govt H2A or H2B, they are treated pretty good.

@4meAndyou nope not down here. they make GOOD money. many are paid by the piece

@akindheart Cherokeepatti mentioned southern states. I know you are in Florida, but there is a large section of country that is considered the south.

@4meAndyou I believe it was in Louisiana not Florida

@4meAndyou i can only speak of Florida and that is because we are one of the largest growers of produce in the US.