What do you do for work/profession?

[shayes11]

Furnace Operator in an aluminum casthouse geared towards aerospace alloys.

Ehh, not really. The positives definitely outweigh the negatives though.

A lot. We work a rotating 12 hour shift so I always have at least 3 days off a week, 4 after graves. And half of the time they're weekdays so it cuts down on the pressure in the woods. Then 160 hours of vacation which I usually turn into 2 or 3 different 9 day trips in or out of state. Even get a little bonus to take them outside of the summer months, which is nice.

It definitely helps. Lots of time off. And working in the heat gets you ready for those September days. Can't complain.

 

[SWOHTR]

Navy Surface Warfare Officer (O5). Student in class, preparing for the next tour of my career.

Enjoyable? Sometimes.

Time off? Sure…it’s great until “they” send you on a 6-month deployment with 21 days’ notice, then send you on a 6-mo training pipeline, only to deploy again for 6-9 months. All that to say, you’ll get the time off (probably), just not when you want to take it, ideally.

 

[MoldedbyNature]

1. Mechanical Engineering Technician for unnamed gov. entity.
2. Egh, its a job.
3. I get 26 PTO days a year and every other Monday off. realistically am able to take off two weeks to head out west to hunt and still am able to hunt 1-2 days/week local from Oct.-end of year.
4. I guess it's all relative really, i don't know that my job ever helped by opportunity but if my job ever hurt my opportunities to hunt it would be time to find another job.

 

[NortheastOutdoors]

I create content for myself and companies in the hunting and fishing industry so thankfully my workspace is heavily integrated in the outdoors. Funny enough though, a minimum of at least half of my time is spent behind my computer editing.

 

[Rdan2]

1. High school teacher/varsity baseball coach
2. Some days are brutal, but overall I do enjoy it.
3. Time off working in education can be tough during the school year (yeah I know, I get summers) but I hunt about every weekend August-November along with a few evenings in archery season and get a few long weekends here and there. When I draw a big tag I can usually take close to a week off if I'd like to go along with all weekends.
4. I used to think my job made it to where I couldn't hunt as much as others but after reading this thread I consider myself pretty lucky. Education is not for everyone but I still get out and hunt a bit, I'm home with the wife and kids a lot, and the summers are awesome.

 

[BackcountryWanderer]

1. ER Doc
2. Depends what day you ask
3. Can stack shifts so I can arrange my schedule for large chunks of time off. If I'm willing to grind out long stents. Can get about 2 weeks off a month
4. During school and training it made hunting near impossible, but now thats over and Im pretty fortunate to be able to hunt alot more. So long term its been a big plus for hunting

 

[QuikFire]

1. ER Doc
2. Depends what day you ask
3. Can stack shifts so I can arrange my schedule for large chunks of time off. If I'm willing to grind out long stents. Can get about 2 weeks off a month
4. During school and training it made hunting near impossible, but now thats over and Im pretty fortunate to be able to hunt alot more. So long term its been a big plus for hunting

Thats a great upside.. I grind out long stents to follow with grinding long stints.... I tore my achilles a little over a month ago, had surgery and the two days and weekend of recovery were my last days off. Some days are easy days, like today (hit the shooting range after patient rounds and an easy, 30 minute case) but others may never end before the next begins. I don't really think there are "easy" days in the ER. Chaotic place to me. Upside for me is the work environment, the OR is a calming one. How do you "like" the ER? I don't mean your work - I hope it's exactly what you were made for, but I really mean the environment...

My wife had me watch "The Pitt" (ER show) and asked me if it was accurate... I thought it certainly was; the chaos was palpable.

During training I committed a week every fall to an archery elk hunt. I was lucky to be in a program that was pretty flexible, and when I made my request as soon as the next years' rotation schedule was being made, left them with little excuse to not accommodate it. It was a really nice reprieve escaping into the backcountry for a week with my bow and my buddies.

 

[ElkFantastic]

1. Project Engineer
2. Eh, my job is manageable
3. I get 25 days of PTO, and every other friday off. This allows me to do the things I want, so one of the reasons I plan to stick around for a while.
4. I am fortunate that I make enough that I am able to go hunting at least once a year. Although I am guilty of not getting out there as much as I should.

 

[BackcountryWanderer]

Thats a great upside.. I grind out long stents to follow with grinding long stints.... I tore my achilles a little over a month ago, had surgery and the two days and weekend of recovery were my last days off. Some days are easy days, like today (hit the shooting range after patient rounds and an easy, 30 minute case) but others may never end before the next begins. I don't really think there are "easy" days in the ER. Chaotic place to me. Upside for me is the work environment, the OR is a calming one. How do you "like" the ER? I don't mean your work - I hope it's exactly what you were made for, but I really mean the environment...

My wife had me watch "The Pitt" (ER show) and asked me if it was accurate... I thought it certainly was; the chaos was palpable.

During training I committed a week every fall to an archery elk hunt. I was lucky to be in a program that was pretty flexible, and when I made my request as soon as the next years' rotation schedule was being made, left them with little excuse to not accommodate it. It was a really nice reprieve escaping into the backcountry for a week with my bow and my buddies.

ER is a special place thats for sure. I personally like the environment. I work in a pretty busy shop so its fast paced and never boring. I've got some of that ADHD so it works out well for me. If it was just medicine it would be easy. However, thats only about 50% of the job. It's all the other issues you have to navigate that can make it hard.

 

[QuikFire]

ER is a special place thats for sure. I personally like the environment. I work in a pretty busy shop so its fast paced and never boring. I've got some of that ADHD so it works out well for me. If it was just medicine it would be easy. However, thats only about 50% of the job. It's all the other issues you have to navigate that can make it hard.

I think that’s a commonality between fields - navigating issues - though I’m sure the individual and specific issues vary widely. I often tell residents and students that, that as doctors, we aren’t just doctors or surgeons, we are problem solvers. Sometimes it’s the patients problems and when it’s confined to that with a simple medical solution, that’s easy. Often though, it’s a system issue with hurdles you have to get over to get the patient the solution they need that is two stratospheres away. I imagine in the ED, those can be pretty massive. Anyway, glad you like it down there. Thanks for doing your part.

 

[grossklw]

1- own an asbestos abatement contracting business (I’m all office and sales, I have crews doing the actual removal)

2- not really, but it’s extremely flexible for my hobbies and my 3 young kids at home

3- I spend 10 days out west every fall, 6-8 all day sits archery deer hunting, couple sd pheasant weekends, and plenty of pheasant hunting around home. I’m more restricted by not wanting to miss my kids growing up than my job, I essentially have unlimited time off.

4- help certainly.

I’ll throw a curveball though and I was a physical therapist for 11 years before making the switch (may go back as I’m still licensed)

2- I enjoyed being a PT, enjoyed the variety of patients and developing relationships with them (or at least most)

3- I got 6 weeks of PTO so I hunted plenty, I was also only working 3 days/week at the end of my PT career so plenty of local chances too.

4- helped, had a ton of PTO (many new grads suck at negotiating, I got an extra week of PTO every year from day 1). If you’re young and kid less and want to do travel PT a guy could set his contracts up to coincide with living out west in a state they drew a tag with pre-determined off days to spend even more time hunting.

 

[Old Hickory 45]

30 years of patrol duty and 8 more years production work at the IAAAP Army installation. Also as a busy custom knife maker and licensed Private Investigation work.