Whats everyone do for a living?!?

[k0ua]

Yeah, nobody in the marijuana growing and or distribution business is honest enough to own up.
Or moon shiners.

A couple of years ago, a marijuana grower was a regular on here. He did not seem to have any qualms about saying it. And this was before the Colorado/Washington thing too.

 

[300UGUY]

A couple of years ago, a marijuana grower was a regular on here. He did not seem to have any qualms about saying it. And this was before the Colorado/Washington thing too.

Yeah, I remember that. Can't remember who?? I think he was from California.

 

[newbury]

Yeah, I remember that. Can't remember who?? I think he was from California.

Weedpharma, last on 2/6/15. From his writings it seemed he was growing it legally. And making big $$$.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Wasn't there someone who talked about his Daddy making moonshine. Might have just been as a hobby.

 

[KRBrouwer]

Just thought this would be a neat thread to start to see what everyone does to afford the nice tractors they own!

Let me start off by saying I work in the Oil Industry on the production side.

What do you guys/gals do?

Currently I am a CSO of a small (12 person) BioTech company that we started about 12 years ago. I grew up in Holland, Michigan, and my first job at 12 was picking blueberries, first by hand and then running the machine. The pay wasn't great but it sure taught you about work. In college, I worked as a star route driver for the Post Office delivering mail from the main office to the smaller local offices. Worked from 4-6 am, went to school from 8-3, and then did the evening run from 4-6 pm. I split this time with my future BIL who was in seminary at the time. It wasn't a bad job except when the Sears and Pennys catalogs came out. A truck full of them was some thing to move by hand. After that I took 2 years off, and worked in construction (steel buildings), and learned many of the skills that I still have fun with today including welding. I got interested in Pharmacy, and in order to put myself through school, I bought a snow plowing route from a National Guard person who was being transferred. I plowed the driveways for the houses on Lake Michigan. They were vacation homes that no one lived in during the winter, but insurance dictated that the house be accessible, so I had to plow them so no more than 4 inches of snow accumulated on the driveway. Needless to say we had the most snow that winter in 10 years, and I easily made enough to put myself through 3 years of Pharmacy school. After Pharmacy school, I worked as a Pharmacist for 1 year, but got bored just filling prescriptions, and went back to Graduate school in Kentucky and studies the metabolism of drugs. This was school as I liked it (they paid you to go). When I graduated I went to work at Glaxo in drug development, and spent the next 18 years in various positions there learning to develop drugs. After two mergers, I took one of the packages offered, and started our current company. We will see where it ends, but I really enjoy the current job, a good amount of stress (more work than we can do, but not sure if we want to expand), lots of travel, and the ability to combine business and pleasure with travel to Australia, New Zeeland, Japan, China, Sweden, and the EU. I still enjoy time spend on my tractor though. We had 3 inches of snow this past week, and I got to do my yearly plowing of our small development.

Ken

 

[rmk700]

A couple of years ago, a marijuana grower was a regular on here. He did not seem to have any qualms about saying it. And this was before the Colorado/Washington thing too.

He's not posting anymore? Got busted maybe?

 

[k0ua]

He's not posting anymore? Got busted maybe?

See above. Newbury says he is still active.

 

[OldMcDonald]

I found it

Aaron Z

I like that. Pity there is not just a button to press to tell you so.

 

[little k]

I know what a tri axle is. What is a rock bucket?

 

[Bigfoot62]

I know what a tri axle is. What is a rock bucket?

Trucker slang for a dump trailer.