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Fungi_x
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A Job at a Mushroom Farm!
#6700831 - 03/22/07 08:50 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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There is a specialty mushroom farm, "producing oyster, shiitake, black poplar, cinnamon nameko and the elusive morels." withing a hours drive of where I live. I would really love to get a job there but I dont know what I should put on the application. Holly crap would I be in heaven if I could work there! Any suggestions?
I have a PDF about the company attached It has a pretty cool little photo in it.
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mikeytro
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Fungi_x]
#6700849 - 03/22/07 08:53 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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yea that sucks you cant put growing psilocybin mushrooms on the application good luck man
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SofaKingGood
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: mikeytro]
#6700866 - 03/22/07 08:56 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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Just say that you have grown gourmet mushrooms before and know a variety of cultivation techniques. Gourmet mushrooms are mushrooms you eat right....so technically Ps. mushrooms are gourmet......you are just smudging the truth..
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SofaKingGood said: Just say that you have grown gourmet mushrooms before and know a variety of cultivation techniques. Gourmet mushrooms are mushrooms you eat right....so technically Ps. mushrooms are gourmet......you are just smudging the truth..
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mycocurious
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Fungi_x]
#6700935 - 03/22/07 09:08 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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Fungi_x said: I would really love to get a job there but I dont know what I should put on the application.
Seriously dude, being up front with people has always been my best bet. But then again, there are ways to answer questions and there are ways to answer questions...
"Well, I do have some hobbyist-level experience cultivating mushrooms indoors and while I understand the techniques would be different, the underlying principles and best practices should be the same."
And then start talking about mitigating contamination risks, maintaining humidity, etc. Stick with stuff that's very general in topic and if he asks, specifically, what strain... just give him an innocent smile and say the "wild kind".
If he has a problem with it, better you don't have the job and if he lets it slide, then you know he's not judging you by it and is valuing what experience you do have.
IMHO, YMMV...
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: mycocurious]
#6700957 - 03/22/07 09:11 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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mycocurious said:
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Fungi_x said: I would really love to get a job there but I dont know what I should put on the application.
Seriously dude, being up front with people has always been my best bet. But then again, there are ways to answer questions and there are ways to answer questions...
"Well, I do have some hobbyist-level experience cultivating mushrooms indoors and while I understand the techniques would be different, the underlying principles and best practices should be the same."
And then start talking about mitigating contamination risks, maintaining humidity, etc. Stick with stuff that's very general in topic and if he asks, specifically, what strain... just give him an innocent smile and say the "wild kind".
If he has a problem with it, better you don't have the job and if he lets it slide, then you know he's not judging you by it and is valuing what experience you do have.
IMHO, YMMV...
yea I agree
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That would be a great learning experience. Good Luck.
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Vibrate]
#6701093 - 03/22/07 09:38 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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How did you find this job,I would like to know where to look to see if there is anything like this around me
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Fungi_x
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Blutjager]
#6701425 - 03/22/07 11:15 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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I herd about the place through a friend that read about it in the paper.
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Fungi_x]
#6701490 - 03/22/07 11:40 PM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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Good luck, that sounds like a great learning experience. I'd have to go with the up front method, though. I mean, don't show up unshaven, wearing tie dye and offer to sell the interviewer some blotter, but cultivation of actives is as valid as gourmet, isn't it?
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Sebastian23]
#6701689 - 03/23/07 01:04 AM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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Im thinking of going out tomorrow and getting a application. Maybe I can post it and see what you guys would say on it
I really want this job!
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Fungi_x]
#6701977 - 03/23/07 04:10 AM (17 years, 22 hours ago) |
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It'd be pretty cool if you posted the application and we could all see what's up with it. I'm very curious myself.
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: PoC]
#6702577 - 03/23/07 10:02 AM (17 years, 16 hours ago) |
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If I lived just a little closer (I'm like 90 minutes away) I'd kick your ass and steal that job.
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: boatshow]
#6702611 - 03/23/07 10:21 AM (17 years, 16 hours ago) |
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Think about it...
What are the chances that someone who runs a mushroom farm, so is obviously educated about mushrooms, doesn't grow and enjoy shrooms on the side?
You have nothing to worry about, except the interviewer hitting you up for a spore print. And your enthusiasm for growing will surely land you the job.
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: pokermush]
#6702698 - 03/23/07 11:00 AM (17 years, 15 hours ago) |
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My family has been large scale mushroom farmers (mainly agaricus) for 3 generations. They never enjoyed eating psilocybes although they would sometimes joke about how much more money they could make with a "magic mushroom" crop. In my experience, mushroom farmers are far from being hippies. They are more like high-tempered, hot blooded Italians trying to put food on the table. It takes a god-awful lot of work to efficiently run a mushrooom farm. Everything happens so quickly. "Organized chaos" is what we would call it.
The farm had a large compost wharf where larges amounts of substrate could be prepared year round with turners and tractors. So much is scientifically done now but my brother could walk into a room and smell if everything was right with the mycelium. He could even smell what kind of infection, if any, was present.
I've got plenty of stories to go around, that's for sure. It's a shame that the whole operation is sold, now. I grew up my whole life in the mushroom environment and I'm now getting into learning it as a hobby.
I hope you enjoy yourself. A specialty grower's op might be a little different but it sounds cool nonetheless.
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mycocurious
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: illchemist]
#6702707 - 03/23/07 11:05 AM (17 years, 15 hours ago) |
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illchemist said: My family has been large scale mushroom farmers (mainly agaricus) for 3 generations.
I've got plenty of stories to go around, that's for sure.
Seriously, you should in the pub sometime....
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: mycocurious]
#6702730 - 03/23/07 11:12 AM (17 years, 15 hours ago) |
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post the application i dont believe you.
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Fungi_x
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: strangladesh]
#6702966 - 03/23/07 12:41 PM (17 years, 13 hours ago) |
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You talking to me? You guys really need to learn how to use the reply function.
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: pokermush]
#6703008 - 03/23/07 12:58 PM (17 years, 13 hours ago) |
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pokermush said: Think about it...
What are the chances that someone who runs a mushroom farm, so is obviously educated about mushrooms, doesn't grow and enjoy shrooms on the side?
You have nothing to worry about, except the interviewer hitting you up for a spore print. And your enthusiasm for growing will surely land you the job.
I don't think I would go in with this attitude. The company is probably worriedabout someone wanting a job for these reasons. But I would definitely mention the hobby, just fudge a bit. If they are straight laced they wouldn't find the joke too funny from an interviewee. I haved worked in farm supply retail and jokes about pot growing were rarely made and discouraged. Good Luck!
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Re: A Job at a Mushroom Farm! [Re: Fungi_x]
#6703024 - 03/23/07 01:04 PM (17 years, 13 hours ago) |
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Most people just type into the box at the bottom, and by default it 'replies to' the last poster.
I know the owners of several local mushroom farms in my area and every single one of them got their start with growing magic mushrooms, then went into the legal business. They're business people and hard workers, but far from prudes. Just put down that you have experience and cautiously decline to talk about species during the interview and they'll get the point, but at the same time know you're being discrete. None of them will hire someone who brags about psilocybes because that could bring heat on them.
That said, most of the jobs at mushroom farms are just labor. There's lots of compost to turn, trucks and tractors/forklifts to drive and floors to sweep and high pressure wash. Unless you get a job in the 'lab' it isn't going to be much to do with mushrooms unless you're a picker, and in that case you have to learn to work very fast, which is darned hard work, and stops being fun after the first fifteen minutes. RR
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