What do you do for work/profession?

[jmez]

1. What’s your job or profession? Veterinarian. I'm board certified in Equine surgery and only work on horses.
2. Do you enjoy it overall? Not as much as I used to. I love doing surgery but when you are realisitic with people as to outcomes and prices you get a lot more no's. They are also big and dangerous, many made more dangerous by things out of my control. Equine owners are the top of the food chain in the "voodoo medicine" world. They are also experts on everything, it is taking it's toll. Being on call SUCKS and those who aren't in a profession that requires it don't understand.
3. How much time are you realistically able to dedicate to hunting each year (days in the field)? Pretty much when I want. Fall and espeically winter is the slow time in a Northern horse practice so I'm not busy. I bird hunt a lot.
4. Does your job help or hurt your hunting opportunities? It helps. I get permission on a lot of private ground through my job, and as I said above Oct-Feb is my slow time.

 

[Bannedinshortorder!]

No shoes and a mule is best.

Horses??
4 is better.
Higher is better, if they can walk after.
Toe and heel shoes.

In the Rocky Mountains?
or
In the subdivisions at the base of the Rocky Mountains?

 

[OregonSteeler]

Derrickhand on a drilling rig. Been in the patch for 5 years. Work 7 days on, 7 days off. I take a week of work off for September and get 21 days to hunt. Other than that I have all the time in the world for turkey, deer, family vacations, etc. The pay is pretty great for no college degree and work is pretty easy most days, but can get hectic. If it wasn't for the time off, it'd be a tough job. And to boot, my rig has been within 30 minutes if my house for 4 years now, so home every night.

The up and down in the oil market is a big drawback. Currently laid off until April 15th, but its the middle of the walleye spawn in Oklahoma so no complaints from me.

Wonder if your profession has seen in uptick in job applications since the show Landman with BB Thornton came out?

 

[Fatcamp]

I'm a nurse in the operating room at a major hospital.

I do enjoy it. What we do is extremely meaningful and the team of people I work with are amazing. It does take a toll. There is a bit of call but worse is we take charge shifts on nights and weekends. We are witness to people on the worst day of their lives and that isn't great. Being a nurse in any serious capacity isn't for the weak.

I get four weeks of pto a year and I only work 3 days a week. Make plenty of money. Pretty much self schedule and at this point if I want time off I get it so I have lots of opportunity.

It helps for sure. My wife teaches though and that screws everything up for the Fall.

 

[madtinker]

Mechanical engineer. Overall I enjoy it but as I’ve gotten more experience I deal more with people, which isn’t where I wanted to be.

I could hunt a lot more than I do, but my kids are young. I have six weeks vacation a year, and I end up hunting 5-10 days for big game. Maybe this year I’ll take the kids with me and get a little more time out. We’ll see.

Overall the job helps with my opportunities. I can generally get any time off I want and my team is able to cover for me when I’m gone.

 

[Kingofthemountain83]

Been in the construction industry for 27 years... I'm now in the beginnings of becoming an inside lineman... That's a commercial electrician... So I'm back at school, in college... Taking algebra... It's like trying to read hieroglyphics to me...

 

[RogerC11]

I'm a professional short term rental host. I have about 20 or so properties that are all on airbnb. I can pretty much hunt anytime I want but the main problem is finding friends who also have the time and resources to come with me.

 

[Tobe_B]

A few questions for the group:

1. What’s your job or profession?
2. Do you enjoy it overall?
3. How much time are you realistically able to dedicate to hunting each year (days in the field)?
4. Does your job help or hurt your hunting opportunities?

1. I’m a professional workaholic. My full time job is managing a ranch; cattle, hay, and horses. My wife and I also own a small hay farm we manage together, although a lot of it falls on me to get accomplished. In my spare time I still shoe a few horses, started shoeing 15 years ago and quit full time for the ranch management thing. It’s a perishable skill that I don’t want to lose after all the time I’ve invested to get good at it. Very occasionally I sneak away and help some outfitter friends pack during the busy season in the wilderness

2. Generally yes. Some seasons get busier and worse than others. But I enjoy working with animals and being outside every day.

3. I get one full week a year for big game, weekends and other evenings for some tags. I don’t travel to hunt and have no interest in that. Small game and varmints are almost daily.

4. I don’t have a lot of free time so I’d say all the work hurts my time in the woods. But I’m outside every day and have plenty of wildlife interaction daily, so I don’t really notice the lack of dedicated hunting time. Having young kids and a family also requires my attention and focus.