What do you do for work/profession?

[ReaptheHeat]

Underground miner, work about 5 1/2 months of the year with the schedule we have. Also have around 300 Hrs of PTO a year. Jobs OK but I hunt a shit load.

Must be an AK job?

 

[WoodlandCritter]

1. Manufacturing Engineer

2. Yes but not as much as my last position. I got to do a lot of precision machining in a prototype lab environment at my last gig. Where I'm at now I basically just fix designs from freshly graduated design engineers. I really miss cutting metal.

3. Quite a bit. I'm usually able to dedicate at least one day a week during Spring and Fall seasons, plus I'll take a few long weekends or even an entire week off in addition (depending on travel to visit family etc...).

4. I took my current job because it lets me live where I can get out into the mountains and find elk sign during my lunch break and be back in time for the next meeting. I have a pretty decent amount of PTO, nothing special. But the location is by far the biggest help to hunting. I now live and work nestled in the heart of 2.2 million acres of national forest. The biggest detriment to my time spent hunting and fishing is all my other hobbies. I participate in three different shooting sports, I have an 18x30' garden I tend, I have 5 ducks to take care of, general house repair and improvement, general tinkering in the garage, etc... At least I don't have kids yet, although I would like to.

 

[dgl503]

1. Self employed Architect working in a niche side of the construction industry in NYC.
2. Since I went on my own I enjoy it much more.
3. I can't be gone for too long so I try to get in short trips. A few days here and there.
4. It helps more than before when I was working at a firm.

 

[Bearded Gnome]

Retired from 24 years at state corrections. It is good to get up and not to wonder what crook you were going to have to handle today. PTSD is alive and well in Corrections. A Washington State U. study said those of color, female, or worked 10 years or more were liable to display PTSD symptoms. I know about some of the symptoms. Be Well Brothers, Bearded Gnome.

 

[timekiller13]

I’m an RN. Currently working in a management role as the lead educator for our med/surg division. It’s a M-F job, but it’s flexible and I can take off just about anytime I want. No weekends except on-call 6x a year and no holidays unless I just want to come in. I’m also allowed to work 2 remote days per month. And I accrue so much PTO I have to take at least 2 days off every month.

My kids extracurricular activities eat into my hunting more than my job.

 

[iburns]

1. I’m a project manager for a heavy civil contractor ( bridge construction).
2. Sort of. Enjoyed it more earlier on in my career. Now with the stress of budgets and shrinking timelines it’s not as fun as it once was. Still enjoy the people and sense of accomplishment after a job is done though.
3. Realistically I usually get about one week a year to hunt. But that also depends on what work is going on. Some years none and some more.
4. Yes and no. Pays really well and has allowed me to afford to go on some cool hunts. But also getting away and fully unplugged can be difficult.

 

[ODB]

Technical Writer (but don’t judge my posts here, I only edit when I’m paid to) - 5 weeks off.

and Book Publisher

I work 14 hours a day and have a great deal of fun meeting some remarkable people. The latter endeavor will eventually replace the former.

 

[NE Herd Bull]

1. National Account Manager for a vehicle lighting manufacturer
+ Property Manager
+ Carpentry side gig
2. Yes (mostly...people )
3. 100-120 days a year (est)
Live and work in a very rural setting, with near unlimited access to some great private property.
Kids are now out of the home, and my bride is very sympathetic to my hunting addiction.
Not a guide, but take a lot of youth and friends on local hunts (that is very rewarding)
Trying to catch up on all of the bucket list hunts that I wished I could have done when I had younger legs
4. Helps: The late-in-life financial freedom sure helps
Hurts: Limited PTO and 11-12 hr days...but I hunt every weekend Sept - Feb

 

[Salmon River Solutions]

I used to actually make stuff for a living. Now I just run around the shop like a chicken with its head cut off.

Ken

 

[limpet]

1. Forester in Northern California working towards my license.
2. I enjoy it though this timber down turn is starting to affect moral. Looking at backup options after work isn’t very fun.
3. Getting access to 350,00+ acres of private land to hunt on is pretty sweet. I get to hunt after work all season as long as I don’t have to be home before dark. Stacking a buck in with firewood in your work truck on a Tuesday is a pretty sweet perk. I also get 3 weeks of pto per year plus a couple floater and a couple weeks of sick time that my boss lets me use when I “get the bird flu or buck fever”. We’re also on 4-10’s which make weekend trips easier. I try to do a couple longer hunts on public every season to chase big blacktails. Usually by the end of the season I’ve had my fill.
4. The pay isn’t great, I’ll never be able to afford any big destination hunts until I get side income so that sucks. I likely won’t be able to buy a house on what I make currently.

 

[Blake C]

Carpenter
I take 4 weeks total a year for hunting.
The key is to become very useful. Focus on adding as much value as possible. When you're a valued employee you can take more time off without putting your job in jeopardy.

 

[BWSmith]

Trying to get the part as Jason Stathom's 70 y.o. dad in his next movie?

Until that comes in.... doing chimney $$$ restoration/rebuilding on historic properties,along with roofing on same. The higher,more difficult the better I like it. Grew up in the biz,my dad was a contractor.

 

[John pettimore]

Aviation, maintenance background but in executive management. Make great money but it sucks the soul right out of life. Lucky to get 5-7 days a year to hunt and even those are interrupted continuously with work. Yea I'm tired of it, and I’m also doing something about it. Start a new job, huge pay cut, here in a couple of months that should allow a much better quality of life.

Someone above said chasing money was great until it wasn’t. I haven’t reached the point yet where I made it and never got to enjoy it and do not plan too.

 

[Azone]

Drill and Shovel technician.
Another way of saying welder/heavy equipment mechanic. I can take six months a year off to do as I please or I can be an hour whore and pile on enough OT to make a normal guy sick.
It’s a great job working with a wild bunch of assholes from all walks of life. There is never a dull moment, most days I love my job. But there’s definitely days I positively hate it.
Wouldn’t have it any other way at this point, I’d be way too bored.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I spent 40 years working in the aerospace industry. After I graduated from college I worked on the Apollo/Saturn and Space Shuttle Programs. I left after 18 years and went to work for a different company on the F-18 fighter, B-2 Stealth Bomber and other classified programs. Worked there for 22 years until I retired in 2000. I was a member of their management team over Production Engineering. Great career, never bored. I still do some contract work for my old company.

 

[adieatrick]

Data Center Operations on the mechanical side

 

[william schmaltz]

Environmental Compliance program management for a major O&G company. I enjoy my job. A whole lot of variety and always solving problems.

When I was younger I thought I’d rather get paid pennie’s to work outside than be paid well to ride a desk. I was wrong. It was a blast and I don’t regret it, but 5 years of being a very broke field biologist was enough.

I have a young family so relocated to hunt/fish more so I can prioritizing my time off towards them. I could shoot a limit of pheasants a half hour from home every day after work. An hour from world class walleye fishing. World class deer/waterfowl right where I live and plenty of opportunities. I work a 9/80 so have every other Friday off and earn plenty of vacation/sick/holiday. I do 1-2 10-day trips a year and the rest of my vacation time is for family.

 

[NWBLKTAIL]

Electrician/commercial fisherman

Went up in the summers during my apprenticeship and deckhand on my FIL gillnet boat in Bristol bay. A few years after I got my electrical license bought his old boat when he built new.
Now all I do is fish in the summers and then home with the kiddos while they are all still little, eventually will go turn tools or get into another fishery.

I get 20+ days in the Field not counting shooting and scouting, no complaints for having 3 under the age of six. My days in the field will likely double or triple once everyone is old enough to go. No complaints life’s good.

 

[Timplant]

I am an operations manager at a 50 person Tree/Turf/and Pest company, I am responsible for about 20 guys and 2 schedulers, year round. I run the Tree Division, been here 8 years and worked my way up from a new guy, (had 8 years in the oil patch previously)

I make a healthy 6 figure salary and I get 160hrs of PTO, we usually take three week long vacations two of which are hunting trips, nd one vacation with the wife. I use the rest on the Fridays to hunt deer and ducks over my dogs, and we do a Nashville trip mid march every year.

I trap half the year and shoot ALOT, I live up against 22,000 acres and fill my bobcat tag and otter tag within yelling distance of my back porch. We run boats the other half of the year 4 or 6 days a week between scouting, training dogs, and fishing.

I have access to unlimited fishing opportunity and pretty much unlimited white tails and smaller...


Northern Michigan isn't half bad!

Hunt 50-60 and Fish 80-100, we also camp almost every weekend in the spring/summer.




OH AND, access to a 28,000 customer list and about 40k a year on a truck, I use it for tons of opurtunites for accesss....... gotten lots of free boats and toys from working for older clients with nothing to do! It works out great.

 

[43.6N]

Physician. Mostly hospital based. Have other clinics/directorship responsibilities that take up some additional time.

But for the most part, I can take a week or more off every month during hunting season.