Considering a career in logging? This is Logging-on’s favourite career video.
The Pacific Forest Foundation has produced a video titled “This Is My Office”. It aims to promote logging as an attractive career to young people. The video is just under eight minutes long and covers the following general areas:
- Job opportunities – the need for skilled people, the professional jobs on offer, the variety of work and the good remuneration.
- Expectations – what will be encountered and safety issues.
- Technology – the high-tech equipment used and increasingly computerised machines.
- Stewardship – sustainability issues, managing crops, the low environmental footprint, and the use of logging residue for biomass
- The rewards of being a logger.
The wide variety of jobs, needing unique skills, which are required to prepare timber and take it to the market, are highlighted in the video. It is a good watch, even for experienced loggers. Source: www.pacificforestfoundation.org