What do you do for a living?

[COJoe]

I served a career in the Submarine Navy and hunted when I could get time.

fshaw, Thank you for your Silent Service. I served on subs as an Auxiliary Machinist Mate for 3 1/2 years of my Navy days but got out when Clinton was decimating the Navy in '94. I enjoyed my job not my employer......

I am now employed at a local hospital for the past 21 years, 14 years in HVAC and 7 years as an Electronic Equipment Specialist. This means I manage our Security Automation system for badge access to include installation and repair, also manage and install the hospital wide camera system and work on auto operating doors and all other types of doors in our facilities. We have a new company that took us over recently so now I have 8 weeks of PTO so hopefully I'll use it wisely camping with my wife and dogs and hunting! Blessed to have learned a skill in the Navy that has lead me to where I am at now.

 

[fshaw]

fshaw, Thank you for your Silent Service. I served on subs as an Auxiliary Machinist Mate for 3 1/2 years of my Navy days but got out when Clinton was decimating the Navy in '94. I enjoyed my job not my employer......

I am now employed at a local hospital for the past 21 years, 14 years in HVAC and 7 years as an Electronic Equipment Specialist. This means I manage our Security Automation system for badge access to include installation and repair, also manage and install the hospital wide camera system and work on auto operating doors and all other types of doors in our facilities. We have a new company that took us over recently so now I have 8 weeks of PTO so hopefully I'll use it wisely camping with my wife and dogs and hunting! Blessed to have learned a skill in the Navy that has lead me to where I am at now.

Thank you for your service as well. I retired the same year you got out. Were you on attack boats or boomers? SSNs for me.

 

[COJoe]

Thank you for your service as well. I retired the same year you got out. Were you on attack boats or boomers? SSNs for me.

Sub school in Groton, CT then USS Lapon SSN 661 out of Norfolk, VA which was an amazing 'cold war era' sub then we decommissioned in Mare Island, CA near Vallejo in 1992. Then served on the SSBN 728 USS Florida Gold crew out of Bangor, WA while it was still FULL of nukes before it became a Tomahawk missile platform. I enjoyed the schedule of the trident subs better as it was three months on, three months in port and able to go to many schools there. I went sub duty because it paid more, lol.

 

[Pdzoller]

Utility Arborist.
40 hour work week consisting of 4-10 hour shifts, Monday through Thursday with the option of 20 hours of double pay for Friday and Saturday. Can schedule as much time off as I want realistically but it’s not paid.
I’m on call 24/7 except for my days off that I’ve scheduled.

I typically take six weeks off per year, spread out between spring/fall bear, rabbit, elk and deer seasons. I really could have done worse as a guy that quit school after the seventh grade.

Ephesians 3:20-21

 

[fshaw]

Sub school in Groton, CT then USS Lapon SSN 661 out of Norfolk, VA which was an amazing 'cold war era' sub then we decommissioned in Mare Island, CA near Vallejo in 1992. Then served on the SSBN 728 USS Florida Gold crew out of Bangor, WA while it was still FULL of nukes before it became a Tomahawk missile platform. I enjoyed the schedule of the trident subs better as it was three months on, three months in port and able to go to many schools there. I went sub duty because it paid more, lol.

Lapon was a great boat that did some important things for the U.S.A. I was on Parche in Mare Island when you here decomming Lapon. If you ever made it to the Horse and Cow we might have had a beer there at the same time. Small world.

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[COJoe]

I honestly can't remember the name (Hum, I wonder why?) but Horse and Cow seems right. Glad 'those' bar days are over for me, lol. Enjoyed most of my time sightseeing in CA though. Small world for sure.

If you ever made it to the Horse and Cow we might have had a beer there at the same time. Small world.

 

[MD97756]

Corrections Officer

 

[DV75]

I'm a plumber, work 4-10s but have a 5 year old and a brand new baby boy. I take the 5 year old fishing alot but not sure he's ready for the woods around here quite yet. Shoot the bb gun in the back yard quite a bit too. I get out hunting in the spring a couple weekends for turkeys, teach my boy how to catch, filled, and cook fish most of the year, and get out for a deer/elk hunt a week a year.

 

[Pharmseller]

Pharmaceutical sales rep. Going on 27 years.

I get generous time off so I can hunt.





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[VAHunter23322]

Retired 30 Yr Navy Deep Sea Diver. Few follow on positions. Fully retired at age 50. Body is beat down from the diving but would not have changed a thing. Lots of free time but always something to do. Love having the freedom to enjoy life.

 

[Lil-Rokslider]

As much time as I can afford to not be working. PTO doesn't exist in my world.

 

[Ice-kub]

Hydrovac operator, suck lots of holes, bank lots of time, take a week for vacation with the wife, rest hunting and fishing. Need all that bank time as I'm not good at finding deers haha

 

[Wolfshead]

Retired Public School Teacher.
retired almost six years ago at 58.
I have things that keep me busy, and I can pretty much hunt scout or anything thus related whenever I like.
My Wife gives me things to do on occasion, but for the most part she allows me my hunting, and all that goes with it.
It doesn’t hurt that my Brother In-law is usually my partner in crime….

 

[Amos Keeto]

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As much time as I can afford to not be working. PTO doesn't exist in my world.

That hurts me just looking at it! LOL!

While I understand the significance of the wedding band, I believe I'd lose it while shoeing. Too many "sticky-outies" to hang a ring on and destroy a finger.
My dad never wore his while shoeing.
Just a thought!

 

[4stall]

Mechanic.

 

[Lil-Rokslider]

That hurts me just looking at it! LOL!

While I understand the significance of the wedding band, I believe I'd lose it while shoeing. Too many "sticky-outies" to hang a ring on and destroy a finger.
My dad never wore his while shoeing.
Just a thought!

Ya it's a rubber ring. I'd never dare wear a metal ring while shoeing. I've heard enough horror stories.

 

[Fire_9]

Background is Instrumentation/Process control and have worked in pulp and paper, power generation, and now work on a crude oil pipeline as a 'technician'. Basically a do everything position

 

[Huntndog]

My wife and I own a boarding and training kennel. I do all the training. 92 or 93 days in a row in the summer from dark to dark. School breaks are really hard , but when the kids are in school our business calms down a lot and I can do whatever I want.
35 years as a Presbyterian minister before that.

 

[Woodbury]

Same here. I help develop houses on lakes that are occupied a few weeks a year. Did one last summer where my house fit in the opening of the main house. Crazy…

 

[Apex_2024]

I'm a VP with a construction company.