Pro tip: once you've secured the job just ask ChatGPT to do it. Same pay but more free time for you.
And that is the story of how I have my own personal chef and a team of arborists. Follow me for more advice.
You want to know about the big money? Look into cutting down trees on other people's property.
Cut down a mature hardwood tree on your neighbour's lawn and it might cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There's got to be a way to monetize that.
Too late. Lawyers already have.
What’s incredible is the number of commenters who don’t recognize obvious satire when they see it.
I'm pretty sure it's satire.
But....
Two things at play: people don't seem to critically/carefully read things very much, and Poe's Law has been so thoroughly beat into the ground the past few years that satire has taken a huge blow.
For what it's worth, many autistic folks have a hard time discerning satire so that kinda adds to it.
It does make a rather absurd pivot in that paragraph.
Wouldn't that be detectable?
Legit asking. I feel like the joke here isn't terribly well makes.
Hmm, most of the comments I read add interesting tidbits about the life of an arborist and the costs of removing a tree that people might not expect. I wouldn't say that the commenters don't understand the joke, I for one appreciate the extra information.
Being an arborist is one of the most dangerous careers there are, this "passive income" guy would probably die in under a year.
If that post was sincere, I will eat my hat.
you mean your tree.
Ever eat a pine tree, many parts are edible.
the seeds. need fiber eat the wood.
Lamo. The delivery & cadence is perfect.
That was almost c/linkedinlunatics material for a second. Well done.
I agree with this guy but to the plumber trying to charge my mother 450 to re install the float valve assembly....fuck you man.
Its not that the job is worth 450 dollars, its that his time is. If he's at your place fixing something easy, he's not somewhere else making that money he could make. The whole process of getting there and fixing it could take a couple hours.
Man I wish I could do that for computers
I wish you could too 😔
If the plumber is your mom's neighbor and has the float already, then yeah it's pricey but if they had to drive 30 minutes to get there and go to the store for the part, it really isn't that crazy. Also is it a legitimate business or just an under the table side job? Location in the country matters too.
Have you ever installed a float . .. because $400 for at most an hour of work is crazy. If it's more than an hour then you're doing something wrong or something else.
But I literally just redid mine and it's stupid easy.
Yeah absolutely, I'm not disagreeing with you. But if you had to drive across town to perform the work, and say you didn't know beforehand that it was a float or you didn't have the right type with you and had to go to the store, then your total amount of time spent port to port would likely be more than an hour. How much is your time worth? I am a technician , my work charges over $200/hr labor rate. About half that goes to me. There is overhead with coordination, vehicle costs, tools, etc... Basically what I'm saying is that yeah, the physical work only takes 10 minutes, but much more goes into the cost than just that.
It's one of those things where it would be great if you could make an informed choice on whether you needed to hire a Master Plumber or save a bunch of money with Dave who has a pipe wrench and a youtube premium subscription. One of those things where if you knew enough to know whether you could get by with Dave, you're probably pretty close to doing it yourself.
What you are paying for with that master plumber is the knowledge of the codes and the experience that they have. Plus all the tools to do the job.
If Dave were worth his salt - he would be capable of telling you this job is over his head, or if you legally need a professional.
That's part of being a handyman. If he can't do that then he's dangerous, and not worth any amount of money.
And you'd best pay him for coming to this conclusion....
As a former groundsman for an arborist, I was shocked at how much of what seemed like a ludicrous sum just bled away to nothing. Guy earned the equivalent of maybe 20$ an hour after expenses. This was 20 years ago, so that was livable and more than double what someone at McDonalds could expect to make, but the actual income he brought home to the family was microscopic compared to the 1.2 million he took in before expenses.
Completely missing overhead costs. We had a couple trees removed and it cost a fortune, or so I thought. But a crew of 6 showed up with 3 big trucks that probably cost 6-figures give or take. A chipper, a lift, and a tractor-trailer combo to haul off the trunks. All that has to be paid for, plus insurance, licensing, bonding, health care, payroll taxes, etc etc.
Everyone gets paid, of course, so they’re making money. But putting big bucks in the bank for the owner? Not likely.
The thing is, it's hard to discern where to stop... Could it be done safely with 1 guy and a truck? 2? Cherry picker? Did they need 6 guys, 3 trucks, and $300,000 worth of machinery to make it safe and easy? One costs 5x the other method, but it's just easier on them and not necessary at all in some cases.
I like the little detail that they can't do math.
$1,750 per job assuming ten jobs per week is $17,500 per week of working. Assuming 4 weeks per month, that's $70,000 per month. Assuming 12 months of working per year, that's $840,000 per year. I'd be calling it "almost a million" at that point. I think the math works out, but the business prospects don't.
It also says 10 other jobs so 11 per week even
He says 10 other jobs per week. So that’s $1750x11x52 which is over a million.
This is akin to the whole ‘ two coins, 30 cents, one is not a nickel’ trick question. I like it.
A 35¢ coin and a -5¢ coin. Easy!
$1750 x 10/wk = $17,500
$17,500 x 4 weeks/mo = $70,000
I grew up with a wood burner for heat in the winter, so ever summer we'd go out and cut down a dead tree somewhere, cut into chunks that can be rolled or carried to a truck bed, hauled home, unloaded, and repeated until the entire tree was collected. That would mean probably 5-10 truck loads in a standard farm truck. With 3 non professionals running 2 chainsaws, that's 4+ hours not including drive time.
So while this is satire, for anyone who's not cut down a tree before, especially one with consequences if you fell it wrong, the pros make it look fast an easy.
The same with almost every work. We don't see years of expertise and background calculations behind every their action. Especially with good tools they are used too.
It's porn to watch a professional do what they are skilled for.
I have helped remove a tree before, it wasn't over a house or in a dangerous place. We sawed the limbs top down. fell the trunk, cut it into firewood sized rounds, split it. and dug out the stump by hand.
It was a 15' tall tree.
5 unskilled labor, 20+ hours.
If we had the right tools, it might have been a couple-hour job for that tiny tree.
It's definitely a job worth paying someone with the right equipment to do.
you could probably do 2 trees at the same time. that's over a million dollars a year
"Lawrence, what would you do if you had a million dollars?"
"I'll tell you what I'd do, man. Two trees at the same time, man!"
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