Don't mean to get personal there but
what do you or did you do for living? I owned an industrial construction company in northern Illinois. Now retired.
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Bubba Jr.: 30054133853595/comments/30054158610715
Currently, I have the best job ever. I'M RETIRED. And loving every minute of it. I get up when I feel like it, I eat 3 meals a day, I exercise, I have a hobby, and best of all, I can take a nap whenever I feel like it.
We invested enough money years ago, that we can live fairly high on the hog, but don't spend much as we really have most everything we need.
Joe
Same for us, everything is paid for so insurance and utilities and food and gas are pretty much it as for expenditures.
We have traveled pretty much all we want to and both enjoy staying home now days.
For sixty years I've hated going to bed early and getting up and going to work, now that I'm retired, I stay up late (midnight to one am) every night and get up every morning between 5 and 6 am without a damn clock. đ
Every day is like the first day of summer vacation ...................................... đď¸
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Army, Infantry. Followed by law enforcement, Followed by insurance, loss control consulting. large heavy construction projects. Right now retired, living the dream. Annoy the fish at the lake, punch holes in paper.
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After a hitch in the Air Force, I was a police officer for eleven years. Went back to school and was Curator of Collections at the N.Y. State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
I got payed to play with guns and swords and other stuff. The only job I ever had where over the weekend I would day dream about what I was gonna do on Monday.đ
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I worked my way through college and grad school as a Maytag repairman.  Finished my MS in counseling and went to work technically as a social worker.  This included family, youth, group and marriage counseling. After a few years , I was hired by the county Court Services Department. My first assignment was âHigh Risk Officerâ working with both adult and juvenile clients.  Within the same department, I moved on to become the Director of a treatment facility for delinquent adolescents.  My next position within the department was Caseload Supervisor and after a total of 31 years, I retired as Deputy Director of Court Services. Â
Side gigs along the way included custody evaluation for family court.  College instructor in the police science division of a local community college teaching Juvenile Procedures, Probation and Parole, Corrections and overseeing independent studies of select students. I worked part time as an evaluator for a local mental health hospital .  I also did some private practice with youth, families and group parenting classes. Finally I was part of the county ERT team as a back up negotiator and filled in a couple of times over the years.
I have been "retired" for almost 10 years. Just before retiring, we purchased the remains of my bride's family farm. I am involved in day to day operation and take care of the minor chores and anything that needs to be done around the place......  The main work is completed by the neighbor who has farmed it for over 45 years....I grew up in the country so my life seems to have gone full circle.
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Biologist, Environmental Engineer, 37 years
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I have a lot of responsibility.
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Warbirds: 30054133853595/comments/30054210520859
I have a lot of responsibility.
Sure, but the question is, are you responsible enough for all that responsibility? I have seen at least one of the guns you bought, that suggest there is room for doubt.đ¤Ł
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Grew up as a cowboy riding horses, did the rodeos in southern Kalifornia team roping/calf roping. Went to construction as a laborer then carpenter. Next was law enforcement/deputy sheriff until retirement. Was a landlord until Kalifornia decided renters did not have to pay rent. Sold all my property in Kalifornia, moved to Idaho.
As a sideline I bought machine tools (lathes milling machines TIG/MIG welders) and learned how to use them. Made stuff I could not afford at the time. Made underwater lights for diving, housing for a Nikon F camera, spearguns, shafts, stempoints.
When I moved to Idaho I made parts for Polaris ATV/UTVs out of Stainless Steel and Ti.
Now just riding ATV and UTV in the backcountry of Idaho and visiting grandkids on both coasts in the motorhome.
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Dad worked me like a plow mule on the farm that started at around age 5 (100 cows, 30 acres silage, 5 acres tobacco, 8000 square bales a year and several miles of fence) I helped my dad build several houses and barns for people including my own. I got a BS and worked as a Branch Manager in a bank for 6 years. After that got a job working in a state of Kentucky Juvenile correctional facility (judge committed youth from all over the state age 13-18) I retired as the facility/program supervisor. During that time, I have repaired thousands of small engines and have 90 cows plus calves and bulls.
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