The BEST Summer Job for Students | Tree Planting in Canada | Make Money Fast!

Well, we're doing something a little different today. Rather than chatting stocks and crypto, we're chatting about my experience tree planting, a truly amazing way to make money fast. I tree planted for 3 years in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Northern Alberta and I had a blast. Over the course of the 3 seasons I planted over 250,000 trees and met some of my best friends.
If you are a student and want to make money fast this summer, tree planting is an amazing option to help pay down your tuition or fund your travels.
(Filmed on March 22, 2021)

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[MikeJacobMorrison]

Have you tree planted before? Let me know about your experience!

[trevorklyne]

I have. I'm going in a few days for my second season in BC. Can't wait to go plant some trees.

[RippinBiscuits]

That's awesome Mike! I had a few close friends from Manitoba go out west to BC for a few summers to tree plant, and they came back with great stories. It sounded like a great experience all around! Great video!

[hectorkingjr]

👑I planted North of Thunder Bay on highway 527 in the early 80s once and in BC Okanagan area once in the early 90s.

I did it honestly and planted around 700 hundred trees a day.

I didn't last no more than a couple of weeks in Ontario or BC.
When people claimed to plant 6000 to 7000 trees a day they hid the majority rather than planting.

I believe they watch these people a lot closer now days.

I refuse to believe someone can plant 6000 to 7000 trees a day regardless in the past or future.

By the way, I was born in TBay and now reside in Scarborough, Ontario.

[ollivergodvil]

You have a great personallity. Great video (just subbed and liked)

[sobertrades]

Seriously dude nicely done videos. Well put together and it's nice how comfortable you are talking to the camera. Keep up the grind. Your channel going to grow and grow better then them trees 🤣 and just like our stock portfolios. Haha

[theecorbb]

i have retierd now after being a lifer 19 seasons bc coast. to be sure it is good money if you work smart. and to be sure it is a way of life that is worth living

[connorsheasgreen]

Absolute banger of a video, earned yourself a new subscriber

[CanadianDividendInvesting]

Awesome man! I think my favorite summer job was a valet at a ski resort!

[palliaskamen]

I'm 60 and set to retire in a couple of years. I'd love to do this!

[mathieulapointe]

I broke my pb cash and trees during my third season when I planted 4500 and 4000 at 16 cents a tree but you only remember these days when you quit 😅

[sofiadia]

Hi Mike! I am in Australia applying for a planting trees job and would like to know more about the job itself. Can you tell me a bit about it? I'm a bit scared because I notice that all the workers are men and I'm afraid I'm going to injure my back. Is there any way to prevent injuries, maybe by wearing a back brace?

[aaabbbccc]

This is a questionable job to do if you intend to work it for a single summer. Odds are rookies will be averaging minimum wage after camp cost deductions (typically 500 a month in BC), and many rookies spend 1000+ on camp gear, gas, clothes, ect. I was a top rookie for 2 months before quitting, I broke 2000 multiple times on 16 cent land and planted around 2000 more than the next best rookie, yet the wages were not so much more than a full time min wage job. Keep in mind you will sacrifice almost all your free time doing this job.

The biggest appeal of this job is the long hours, which are often 10 hours+, allowing for max EI for 8months (importantly, this is not applicable to full time students). As well, if you know you have multiple free summers, acquiring the skills to be a good tree planter will allow for surprisingly high wages. The best mantra to have going into tree planting is to accept that the first year is an investment for successful subsequent summers, a sentiment that I took for granted.

In terms of experience, you meet some great people out there. If you like the outdoors and outdoor work you will have fun on off days, but there WILL be times were you are miserable. My recommendation is to go into it if you are young and want a soft reset in life, IE you can’t live at your parents house and want to get away from something. It will be the hardest physical job you will ever do, and frankly it will feel like you got scammed constantly.

[oliverwatkins]

i live and work in the uk and this looks like a good thing to do is it worth doing for the money will it cover the rest of the months you dont work?

[jong]

I planted more than a million trees, ,,high balled everyone except Ron Dollar on a crazy contract, , , even at 40 years old i highballed everyone, , , , im the reason shovels are short., , , i can do it today at 51 after being driven over by a truck, , , , hard thing to forget, , , anyway, , , , A tree, ,,a tree is something not like money, , , yes most planters are doing it to pay for a tree, ,,,when you get older and plant for more than the money, , , when you are older, , , you think of them, , , , all the time, , , you care about them like each one was a child that you put on the earth....The micro sites, , , walking on sticks, , , , gluing them to rock on a cliff then doing the backwords blind on branches, , , load your bags right, , , , dont ever ever shock the rocket launchers, , , no high density, , , , no planting under an obstacle for the tree to grow straight....do minimums in the slash, , , flag in blue, , , grab the highest thing to flag, , , , take the slash and flag it on your never split the slash, , , it is not cool....when you flag, , do boundaries first, , , bag out at the to the back, , , fill first, , , no dead walks, , , for lessons on speed, , , have water, , , don't drink, , , no pot, , , , no drugs, , , no meat, , , be light, , , , move without shaking your head, , , , be smooth, , , ten a minute in central interior is easy, , , coast is very different, , , , start interior bc.

[Anyonecanbecome]

Hey Mike I don't know If you will read this. Thank you for this video. I have a question, how can I find a job like this ? I'm looking to do it this summer. thank you !

[VoodooMan]

Been looking at this for a while. Is $0.20 a tree now

[copy.d]

Can a international student work there on summer break??

[sukhenmondal]

How can we get tree planting job as an Indian?

[luiscampospereira]

Hi Mike! Do you know any site to work in tree planting in Ontario?