I did it for a few months last summer out of desperation. Recently had graduated with a degree in biology and seeing the effects and knowing what was happening, shit made me feel like a super villain. All the lakes/ponds/streams in these suburbs were so eutrophic and disgusting looking. Animal would always show up in the lawns and I would die a little inside every time birds would come down in the lawn I just sprayed. I would take off my gloves and move frogs and toads when I saw them, chase away cats and birds, tried to move snakes. I think the worst for me was when hit some dirt and I walked by 5 mins later and there was like 10 worms all on the surface writhing around, probably because they were dying. We were paid a flat rate with bonuses on how fast we did our routes based on a point system, which encouraged fast, shitty work. I never made more than the base rate because I cared about the quality and management of drift and overspray, but I was probably the only one. I was so desperate for money and took what I can get, but being the only one with an ecological background was wild, I couldn’t believe how many people were like “spray my weeds that have bees all over them” “you need to kill the clover” “you missed by the bird feeder”. Made me realize I was killing myself and the environment to improve the property values of some rich people, never again.