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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 15, 2005, 11:58 PM:
 
Since I'm unemployed, I'm curious how our members keep the wolves from their door, so to speak.

It's okay, if there be any lawyers out there, you needn't single yourself out for abuse.

What's your job? Any volunteers

Good hunting. LB
 

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Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on August 16, 2005, 12:25 AM:
 
I quit working 5 years ago. Promptly lost half of my net worth in the 2000-2001 Clinton market meltdown. No pension, no healthcare, only what I had saved and lost half of.

The next couple years only saw small gains. 2004 and the first part of 2005 have made up the losses from the end of the Clinton legacy.

In the last 3 years oil stocks have done well and China ETFs have really taken off in the last 2 months.

Jack
 

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Posted by 2dogs (Member # 649) on August 16, 2005, 03:57 AM:
 
Fire Service, <4yrs left before retirement[emancipation], if my body holds out. Then I plan on sitting in my rocker & just stare & drool .
 

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Posted by keekee (Member # 465) on August 16, 2005, 06:29 AM:
 
Im a Manager for Pepsi Cola. I run the maintenance department, that takes care of the machinery, and all that boring stuff.

Brent

[ August 16, 2005, 08:36 PM: Message edited by: keekee ]
 

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Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on August 16, 2005, 07:22 AM:
 
I have so many occupations I usually can't remember what I'm getting up to do in the morning. My main source of income is guiding big game hunts from Sept. 1 to Nov. 31. But the rest of the year I seem to stay busy. I live on a large ranch owned by a coal company, and do alot of contract work for them at different times of the year. All stuff outside, I build fence, do dirt work, put in culverts, cattle guards, water lines, stock tanks etc. etc. I am in the process of moving a building for them right now. In the winter I trap for a couple months full time and in the summer I work for a county predator control program part time. Some times it's great to be so self employed and other days I think I should go get a full time job with the coal mine and get all the benefits and make the big bucks with fewer worries.
 

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Posted by Barndog (Member # 255) on August 16, 2005, 07:39 AM:
 
I'm a pedologist. In other words I map soils.
 

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Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on August 16, 2005, 07:40 AM:
 
I’m a Space Applications Scientist. I do electronic component reliability and survivability analysis for various Government agencies. I can’t tell you which ones, or I’d have to kill you.
 

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Posted by Sue and Mark Nami (Member # 685) on August 16, 2005, 08:04 AM:
 
I work for a shopping mall Security.
 

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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on August 16, 2005, 08:21 AM:
 
I'm a pimp specializing in wayfaring Chinese girls who are interested in predator callers. Believe me, pimpin' ain't easy!

No, really, letter carrier for Uncle Sam for only sixteen more years, then I'll retire at 56, not be eligible for SS for at least another 14 years (by then, I'm sure) and hope to supplement my meager pension with the proceeds of my multinational custom, hand-made predator call manufacturing company and what I can beg, borrow and steal from major outdoor magazines who want me to write them stories about calling coyotes. I hope by then to have phased out the taxidermy business.

In truth, I'll probably be broke, divorced and destitute as a result of all the time I spend in the shop doing other peoples' taxidermy, making calls and writing and will be going door to door at all you guys' houses looking for a warm bed and something to eat.

Nope, pimpin' ain't easy.

Hey, where's Tripp?
 

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Posted by Dogleg (Member # 662) on August 16, 2005, 09:28 AM:
 
I'm a directional driller. I handle the engineering and day to day practical aspects of drilling directional and horizontal oilwells. Working eight days a week is cutting into the hunting time something terrible.
Mike
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 16, 2005, 10:11 AM:
 
Already, interesting vocations showing up. I had no idea.

Actually, I retired a year ago, in June. A Dairy Fairy, no more.

Applied for SS the very day I became eligible, intending to suck it dry before Lance can get his hands on any. (keep that nose to the grindstone, folks)

Good hunting. LB
 

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Posted by Norm (Member # 240) on August 16, 2005, 10:20 AM:
 
I own a small business that focuses on enabling others to secure time and financial freedom by working part-time for themselves.

I also work for American Express Travel Related Services and am responsible for the investments in technology that support the management and introduction of payment products that are offered by the company.
 

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Posted by Joel Hughes (Member # 384) on August 16, 2005, 11:43 AM:
 
I work for an independant oil & gas company as a database administrator. Basically, I make the accountants, landmen, and engineers' lives easier by designing data warehouses, writing and building query tools, etc. And I support and maintain our database systems. Okay, yea, what a nerd.
 

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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on August 16, 2005, 11:47 AM:
 
Maybe, but I bet you get along better with your computer better than I do with mine. It's a love-hate relationship.

Leonard,

What did you do before you went on welfare?
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 16, 2005, 02:33 PM:
 

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Leonard,

What did you do before you went on welfare?

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I designed and worked with process controls, but please don't tell my mother, she thinks I was the piano player in a whorehouse.

Good hunting. LB
 

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Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on August 16, 2005, 03:23 PM:
 
I'm a troubleman for the Electric company in a small border town.

When you call in the middle of the night to report your lights are out, it's me they wake up to send to fix them.

I'm also the guy who cuts off your lights when you don't pay the bill.
 

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Posted by Norm (Member # 240) on August 16, 2005, 05:35 PM:
 
Joel... you have a great job... I had the same one for L.L. Bean as well as AXP....
 

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Posted by seeinspots (Member # 676) on August 16, 2005, 06:11 PM:
 
golf course supt. i ave. 70 hrs. a week starting apr. 1 through sept. then tapers off and by nov. its vacation time until mar 1. oh well somebodys got to do it.
 

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Posted by Az-Hunter (Member # 17) on August 16, 2005, 06:14 PM:
 
Retired from Qwest Communications, put in 30 years as a telephone man, outside stuff, lineman, installer, cable splicer etc. Still have 11 years till I can wet my beak in the SS trough, so I work three days a week. Im a doggie hearse driver, pick up stiffs from various animal clinics in Tucson,Phoenix and ElPaso to be cremated, then return urns of ashes.
 

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Posted by Rich (Member # 112) on August 16, 2005, 06:25 PM:
 
Work? I mowed my lawn yesterday.
 

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Posted by R.Shaw (Member # 73) on August 16, 2005, 06:50 PM:
 
Not nearly as exciting as some of the above. I pour concrete for a living. Several perks, but the best one is my job quits me when the fur gets prime.

Randy
 

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Posted by Alaskan Yoter (Member # 169) on August 16, 2005, 06:57 PM:
 
Well I'm a little over half way though a job in Adult Day Care (Correctional Officer for you more politcal correctness types)

Its a week on week off, twenty year retirement so I can't complain too much.

It used to fun back in the Max/Max days but now I have moved up to a correctional farm. Perty much make sure they dont burn the place down or walk away, and if they do I just fill out the right paper work and move on. Great food though!!

Well any way in 9 short years I hope to maybe live somewhere warm were I can hunt all year around (For different critters then swamp donkies and porcibears) At the ripe age of 45 to boot.

Directional driller...is that another way of saying your a Male Gigilo?

Todd
 

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Posted by JoeF (Member # 228) on August 16, 2005, 07:01 PM:
 
Always some sort of technical pursuit, often a manager, never by choice.

Latest gig involves keeping old Motorola equipment and a couple of their competitors' equipment alive, operations in IL and TX.

Raising cattle in Mo. and IL., the return beats the hell out of what the financial institutions have to offer!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 16, 2005, 07:14 PM:
 
Hey Todd, in the movies they show the inmates throwing poopoo on the hapless guards. How do you handle it?
 

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Posted by Doggitter (Member # 489) on August 16, 2005, 07:45 PM:
 
I used to breathe exhaust smoke and carb cleaner now I breathe welding smoke and plasma dust. :>(
Weld/fab for a company that makes ground drilling equipment, bits, pipe, in the ground hammers...
 

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Posted by predatordown (Member # 689) on August 16, 2005, 08:32 PM:
 
I work a whole sale tire distributer making phone calls all day long , selling tires to tire stores. Today I learned Im now incharged of all of the warehouse employees like (I really have time for this) Oh well its a job and I see no money flowing in fast enough to feed the family any other way , so I will just keep saying(hey I got this new tire that is going to be a mover in your area you want a 100 of them)
 

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Posted by Curt2u (Member # 74) on August 16, 2005, 08:34 PM:
 
I'm an electrician at a lumber mill. Mostly industrial construction and maintaining the existing equipment. We also have a power generation facility fueled by the wood by products. Never boring.

Todd, I'm certain you have the best job I could ever want. 7 on, 7 off, retire at 45. Heck, Leonard won't even have a chance to burn through all our SS by the time you retire.

After seeing Dan and Sandy this summer, I envy you Todd. He had to retire a little later than you will but still way before most folks. We were busting a couple beers by the pool a couple weeks ago and he was saying how great retirement was. People told him he would be bored. He said "that's BS, it's heaven!" I'll be working up till a few hours before I die I'm sure. lol!

Good hunting
 

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Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 216) on August 16, 2005, 08:43 PM:
 
Im a mailman I have a few more years than Lance til retirement
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 16, 2005, 08:45 PM:
 
Where can you find 50,000 black loafers?
 

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Posted by Az-Hunter (Member # 17) on August 16, 2005, 09:05 PM:
 
Todd...I know a fella up there in the corrections dept, went to school with him, he's a bit youngert than I, his name is Buddy Lindblom...you know of him?
 

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Posted by Melvin (Member # 634) on August 16, 2005, 09:10 PM:
 
Carpenter,residential and commercial.Everything from the ground up...Am now another social security person.
 

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Posted by Baldknobber (Member # 514) on August 16, 2005, 09:15 PM:
 
My main job is a Grade A dairy farm inspector. In the summer I'm kind of like Cal. I break colts, shoe horses, check pastures. Todd
 

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Posted by Jay Nistetter (Member # 140) on August 16, 2005, 09:17 PM:
 
Civil engineering specifications writer and construction cost estimator.
 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 16, 2005, 09:17 PM:
 

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Not nearly as exciting as some of the above. I pour concrete for a living. Several perks, but the best one is my job quits me when the fur gets prime.

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Ditto

Q,
 

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Posted by Alaskan Yoter (Member # 169) on August 16, 2005, 10:47 PM:
 
Leonard I hope your not eating?

I had a fella in the max/max unit that was little to creative. So they remodeled his sell, retro fit with a concrete bunk, just a light(with no switch) a toilet that he couldn't flush(Because he flooded to much, and a sprinkler head that wouldn't have worked any way with all the protection they covered it with. He would call us when he needed the toilet flushed, and we did that from outside the cell. this is where you quit eating........

He would sh** and Pi** in that thing mix it up with his hand making a soup. Heres the kicker....we would flush the toilet prior to serving him chow, we would then have him back up to the door to cuff so we could open, search, and feed him chow. As soon as we entered the room.......he spit this S&P soup at us that he had been holding his mouth for about 15 minutes, Yipper! would stick his head in the toilet to get a mouth full before chow was served. Needless to say this only happened once...I hope. Been a bunch of newbies since. One might even be AZ's buddy.

There was one guy that would SH** then cover his walls windows and him from head to toe in the dark colored camo, and we would have to suit up and go in after him. I'll leave that for another day.

But as far as getting piss thrown on ya....a couple times a year anyway.

AZ.......I think we talked about your buddy once way back in chat. He is in Seward right? I still havent met him.

Curt buddy tell Dan I'm counting the days.

My other full time job is being Uncle Jays favorite nephew.

Todd

[ August 16, 2005, 10:50 PM: Message edited by: Alaskan Yoter ]
 

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Posted by brad h (Member # 57) on August 16, 2005, 11:22 PM:
 
I maintain 12 people (three crews) and all the equipment necessary to drill horizontal oil wells. 7 on, 7 off. If there's any equipment problems anytime during my 7 days there, I handle it. It's a 24-7 job.

People like "Dogleg" live on the rig floor so to speak, and do all the necessary calculations and tell the brake handle operators what to do to keep the bit and bottom hole assembly in check with where the oil is. Sometimes money zones are as thin as 12 inches.

A very feast or famine occupation(s) to say the least.

Brad

[ August 16, 2005, 11:36 PM: Message edited by: brad h ]
 

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Posted by Greenside (Member # 10) on August 17, 2005, 06:57 AM:
 
I own a retail garden center along with a wholesale stock lot. We also do residential and commercial landscaping.

Dennis
 

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Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on August 17, 2005, 07:16 AM:
 
I'm a Sports Bra fitter for Angelina Jolie.
 

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Posted by Todd Woodall (Member # 439) on August 17, 2005, 07:37 AM:
 
I am a Firefighter/Paramedic and videographer on the side. 24 on 48 off, helps during the hunting season. I kinda like Richs job, need an assistant?

Todd
 

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Posted by Greenside (Member # 10) on August 17, 2005, 07:50 AM:
 
Rich H

Some how I thought you were more into the oral?

Dennis
 

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Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on August 17, 2005, 08:39 AM:
 
No Dennis, not the case. Besides I couldn't possibly compete with you.
I was told that you were employed by Tampax.
A supervisor in the installation department.
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 17, 2005, 09:05 AM:
 
Higgins has the job I want when I die and go to heaven. Putters around the house, all day. His own boss. And hunts half of the week. That's it! I'm jealous.

Good hunting. LB

We should start a new thread. "See any job you would like to trade?" (that turnkey job looks tempting)

[ August 17, 2005, 09:10 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
 

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Posted by Greenside (Member # 10) on August 17, 2005, 09:26 AM:
 
Ah, the old Diesel fit-ter!

Dennis
 

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Posted by Krustyklimber (Member # 72) on August 17, 2005, 10:36 AM:
 
"I'm curious how our members keep the wolves from their door..."

I live with the wolves.

Krusty
 

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Posted by canine (Member # 687) on August 17, 2005, 05:37 PM:
 
i own my own concrete and concrete overlay business. residental and comercial, will travel if anyone has any old nasty lookin concrete they need resurfaced and a good spot to kill some coyotes
 

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Posted by yuccabush (Member # 582) on August 18, 2005, 10:16 PM:
 
A question for the concrete guys.

Is the cement shortage affecting you?
 

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Posted by nd coyote killer (Member # 40) on August 26, 2005, 09:12 AM:
 
I'll will be with Brad H and Dogleg starting in the spring. I'm finishing school with a Geological Engineering Degree and working part time as a taxidermist (mainly doing the PR and prep and skin work)
 

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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on August 26, 2005, 04:59 PM:
 
Years ago, when my daughter was in kindergarden, I came home from work one morning after a rough night. At the breakfast table, she asked me what I did for a living. Not thinking, I told her "Your daddy shovels snow in a salt mine." How was I supposed to know that all of the little ankle biters were going to be getting up in front of the class one at a time, and telling what their parents did for a living? Made quite an impression on the teacher who had spent the morning hearing; My daddy is a policeman, My daddy ***** cars, My daddy is a supervisor, My daddy shovels snow in a salt mine.
 

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Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on August 26, 2005, 05:04 PM:
 
Kokopelli,

Aren't you glad you didn't say that you were the piano player at the local cathouse?
 

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Posted by brad h (Member # 57) on August 26, 2005, 06:06 PM:
 
fixes, races, jacks, chops, ***** , makes

(edit) I had to guess that word.

"My daddy se lls cars."

I like this board. LOL

[ August 26, 2005, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: brad h ]
 

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Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on August 26, 2005, 06:50 PM:
 
I sit at a motel all day and collect money waiting for my SS check to show up.
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 26, 2005, 08:30 PM:
 
Yeah, sorry Brad. That's a banned word and I can't tell you why or I'd have to kill ya.

Good hunting. LB

edit: Danny, you geezers crack me up. Wait all month for the ss check so you can go into town for a Big Mac.

[ August 26, 2005, 08:32 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
 

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Posted by Jrbhunter (Member # 459) on August 26, 2005, 10:00 PM:
 
Mechanical Engineer... designing cheaper and faster ways to turn a pile of lumber into office furniture. I give customers what they ask for... not what they want. I give the shop floor what they need, not what they like. Technically I am the meat in a "pissed off sandwhich" for 40 hours a week. I train police attack dogs for stress relief.
 

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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on August 28, 2005, 06:34 AM:
 
Tim....Yes,it could have been worse. The Parent/Teachers meetings were usually interesting enough without me stirring things up even more.
 

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Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on August 28, 2005, 09:09 AM:
 
Leonard, ain't no Big Macs out here. The closest thing would be a cattle truck on there way to the feed lots in Amarillo.
 

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Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on August 28, 2005, 10:03 AM:
 
Geeze Danny, you make it sound like you're out in the middle of nowhere, lol. Big Mac's are just a short 70 miles to the South. Next you'll be trying to tell us that every gas station in town is at the same intersection.
 

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Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on August 28, 2005, 10:35 AM:
 
All the gas stations on the corner of 54 and 380 went out of business. A rancher down the road ***** gas out of his pvt tank to all the locals. Are you going to be coming down next week? Don't worry, I have gas in two 55 cal drums.
 

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Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on August 28, 2005, 10:55 AM:
 
I know it ain't a bad word, or is it If it's because of a town...I got it.
 

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Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on August 28, 2005, 12:53 PM:
 
Danny, I couldn't get out of work, even though I put in for the time off months ago. So, I'll probably just sit around and pout!

[ August 28, 2005, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: NASA ]
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 28, 2005, 01:31 PM:
 

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I know it ain't a bad word, or is it

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Well, here's the deal.

Of the twelve banned words, only a couple are scatalogical, the rest have to do with keeping certain gossips (you know who you are) from exercising completely free speech.

It has been darn near impossible, too!

Two years later you say, "you got it"?

Good hunting. LB
 

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Posted by Bud/OR (Member # 450) on August 28, 2005, 02:24 PM:
 
'****** ' must be 'scatalogical'...but, damn, I hate the term 'Native American'.

What do/did I do for a living?...Thirty years as a journeyman bricklayer. I worked the whole West Coast to work union jobs. Can't believe the amount of scabs that would work for half pay.

I retired when I was 48...Spent three years with a fishing rod in one hand and a fork in the other...went from 190lbs. to 308lbs. An old buddy of mine asked if I'd like to lay stone(repair work) on the old Columbia River Gorge highway for the State Highway Dept. I jumped at it. It's not a job. It's a tax retrieval system. I've been getting back the money that Oregon screwed me out of when I was working out of state and was taxed twice on the same pay.

Five months ago I was still waaayyy over 300. I'm back down to 250lbs. now and still dropping(citrus diet). Going to retire...again...next April on my birthday. I'll be 62. I'm going to do it different this time; less food(more oranges) and more predator calling.

Bud

[ August 28, 2005, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Bud/OR ]
 

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Posted by Jeff Thomason (Member # 691) on August 28, 2005, 02:34 PM:
 
Firefighter, EMT, and Stud Service
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 28, 2005, 02:38 PM:
 

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'****** ' must be 'scatalogical'

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