Forest ranger mobilizes social media with a post about losing his dream job and asks his followers: “Share this truth”.
Brian Gibbs, a forest ranger at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa, USA, moved social media with a post about losing his dream job.
Gibbs was fired as part of the U.S. government’s effort to reduce the federal workforce. He was one of 77,000 employees who were laid off and courageously exposed his situation in a post where he talked about his sadness, frustration, and the importance of forest rangers.
“I am absolutely heartbroken and completely devastated to have lost my dream job as an education ranger at the National Park Service,” he said in his Facebook post.
Gibbs explains how he was suddenly laid off and listed the responsibilities he took on as a forest ranger, father, and U.S. citizen when he accepted the ranger position, asking his followers to share his message: “Share this truth widely.”
“I swore to defend and protect the constitution from all foreign and domestic enemies. I am the protector of 2500-year-old American Indian burial mounds and ceremonial mounds. I am the one who told his child that they belong to this planet. That their unique gifts and existence matter. I am the lesson that showed their children that we live in a world of gifts, not commodities. That gratitude and reciprocity are the gateway to true abundance, not power, money, or fear,” he wrote.
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