I'm getting this coursera cert because I can't afford schooling again.
But I'm jumping ship from 15 years of being a network technician.
I wanna go out, sweat my ass off in the woods, collect data, come back and plot it on a map and make other maps.
How much work do I gotta put in to achieve this life?

Guys I'm learning a skill.
Is there anyone in these threads that works with GIS for a living?
I would like to prod your brain if I could