What are the pros and cons of being a landscaper?

Question

What do you like about working as a landscaper?

What do you dislike about it?

Do you run a landscaping business or work for somebody as a landscaper?

How many hours a day do you work as a landscaper?

Answer 1

Loved seeing half an acre (or more) of bare dirt become green grass and perfectly mulched flowering beds.  Loved getting cuttings to sprout at home.  ?oops, hey they were left in the "cemetery" for gonners.

Disliked cleaning up after the masons and carpenters...especially considering my pay rate.  

I keep my own acre, so, yeah, I "run a landscaping business", did a little on the side for extra cash, and help maintain 7 other acres.  Did I pass the audition?

While paid I worked as many hours as were necessary in a day to finish a given job.  Real fun working by truck light.  At home, I work as long as I choose to.  Sorry, serious answer for your ? poll, homework, edification, survey thingie ? Depending on paying job hours, 3 per day, weekends all day playing in the dirt.  Geez, I never counted, just goof off outside.

Thanks for an insightful question.  Tsk, look at those beds, they really want weeding, where's my trowel and pruners....