INTP Careers: Forest Ranger?

[Wish]

Naturally, I've read many of the profiles of INTPs and more often than not there are also suggested careers that could compliment an INTPs skill set. While there are the more understandable ones such as engineer, philosopher, or scientist, I have seen present on a large amount of these lists the career of forest ranger.

So, I ask myself why would an INTP make a good forest ranger? Certainly I would enjoy being one, though I have a love of nature (though I did not believe this to be a commonly shared characteristic of INTPs) and strolling in a forest by myself is one of my favorite activitie, but I fail to see how this is appealing to most INTPs.

Any insight?

 

[nickgray]

What forest rangers do exactly? Aside from taking strolls in the forest, obviously.

 

[Anthile]

I guess you are from the USA like most people here so I don't really know how it is over there. I know that studying silviculture is hardcore here in Germany. Basically because it's an amalgamation from many disciplines plus working outside. Oh, and sometimes it includes hunting too (wildlife management).

 

[cuterebra]

Strolling through the forest sounds nice. Running into poachers who are armed to the teeth would be somewhat unnerving--but I guess that's one of the reasons forest rangers carry guns.

 

[Cavallier]

Hardcore indeed. Most of the forest rangers that I've known (who actually worked out in the back country instead of an office) have had at least a few hairy tales of adventure. I think I'd love it. As a child I loved nothing more than tramping through the forest with my dog all day long (I lived in Alaska and we didn't have neighbors for miles) and now I go camping every chance I get. Oh what I wouldn't do for a cabin somewhere. I had a number of run-ins with moose and other wildlife but if you know what you are doing you're fine 90% of the time. Not that being a forest ranger only involves forest day hikes. There's are lot more to it and the job description depends entirely on where you are stationed. I'd imagine that back country Alaska and the local campsite deputy would be very different jobs. I think it does require self assurance, independence, and fair bit of grit to be one though.

Oh, and I think you'd be surprised how many nature oriented INTPs we have around this place.

Edit: One of our neighbors got in big trouble with the local cops for having guns he shouldn't but the cops couldn't get close enough to his house (he was pretty violent) to arrest him. They called the local forestry service since he was camped out on protected land and a couple of Fish and Wildlife guys ended up shooting the guy in the leg so the cops could arrest him. Here's to hoping this was an unusual situation huh?

 

[SEPKA]

I think it have something with Si function. A long description of INTP on the Internet said that INTP love the border between civilization and nature (or something like that). I love to go to the forest for adventure, but Forest Ranger might be too far for me, I will just chicken out.

 

[Android]

I know two forest rangers, and pretty much all they do is clean up after campers.. which only occasionally means picking up trash on the side of a trail. Most of the time it's bathrooms and campsites and the like.

 

[SEPKA]

I remember the top 10 popular occupation for INTP include Food Centre Cleaner. It have nothing to do with the preference though. You should looks at the methodology of whatever article that suggest INTP to be forest ranger.

 

[Joz_helloworld]

It is one thing I kind of considered in the multitude of things I considered/continue to consider...

There is a fair amount of solitude and good feeling being out in the natural world...

And some rangers work in more research type areas. One ranger I was talking to worked in limestone caves, her main role was research, although she was also required to take people through the caves too.

I didn't know rangers in US need guns and stuff... that'd be scary... but I suppose you have to deal with bears and wolves. Let alone poachers and scary dudes.

It would depend on the needs of the park you worked at, some would be about tourists, some about research, others about maintanance, pest control, and a blend of all probably at most.

 

[Tacoma200]

Not sure about a forest ranger but I do like to work out away from everyone outdoors. Even though the work may not always be challenging it frees up the mind, while allowing the hands to work.

 

[AlisaD]

I think i'd rather enjoy being a forest ranger.
Don't even need a gun, have my cane already.

I have actually seriously considered doing something like that, but in Serbia you have to have a degree in biology or something related to foresting and stuff to get a job like that.
As it was more like: "I'd like do disappear into the woods tomorrow" than: "I'd like to devote 4 years of my life to getting there" kind if a thing, I never did it

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Could you do volunteer work and achieve a similar thing, not counting the income?

 

[AlisaD]

Well, the main point I am trying to achieve is generating a decent income while doing something I don't entirely despise, so volunteering unfortunately wouldn't really help too much

 

[YoungGuns]

Could you do volunteer work and achieve a similar thing, not counting the income?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that free unskilled labor will always be in massive demand. I've done and organized a lot of volunteer work for my Eagle Project that took place in a park.

At my local state park in Tennessee, there's seasonal workers that do manual labor like landscaping and such. It seems to be a pretty good job for manual labor.

As for being a ranger, I'd love it if it didn't require years of education to acquire.