Who are you people
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DaveNay
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Us midwesterners stick together too.....but that us usually because it is so **** humid and sweaty out that we clump together like cockleburrs on shoestrings.
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Dave
Us midwesterners stick together too.....but that us usually because it is so **** humid and sweaty out that we clump together like cockleburrs on shoestrings.
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Dave
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Dave:
I like the former better than the latter. It's more "you".
One thing about a stogie, if you let it go out, you can chew it all day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I am not very computer literate at all. Just a dumb truck driver/machinist/farmer/hay grower/biker. Your signature speaks of binary. I am familiar with a grainary but binary escapes me. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I do lawn care too......I let the Percherons mow it.
I like the former better than the latter. It's more "you".
One thing about a stogie, if you let it go out, you can chew it all day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I am not very computer literate at all. Just a dumb truck driver/machinist/farmer/hay grower/biker. Your signature speaks of binary. I am familiar with a grainary but binary escapes me. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I do lawn care too......I let the Percherons mow it.
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Neil:
This is a great thread. You can easily tell that. Look at all the veteran posters that have posted on it. It's refreshing, to say the least. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
This is a great thread. You can easily tell that. Look at all the veteran posters that have posted on it. It's refreshing, to say the least. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
LSmith
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I am an biomedical equipment technician. Ten years ago I had an opportunity to start my own company. I never looked back. While we are still small, I make a decent living and am able to make sure three employees can make a good living too. Two years ago My sweet wife and I found some land in Tennessee. I am a Mississippi delta flatlander but dear wife is a North Carolina Honey. She loves mountains and creeks and our land is blessed with both. I have always been a tinkerer and a mechanical jack of all trades. I bought a small Kubota and implements and am using it to develop our land. Purchacing the land and working toward living on it is the pursuit of a dream. We long to live in the woods with no mortgage and nature surrounding us. This forum has been a masters education in rural life and has been a blessing of great information and practical opinions.
One last point. When I was growing up I had an uncle who was chief of maintenance at a chemical plant. He was the type of guy that could fix anything with nothing. He was versed in electronics, mechanics, and life in general. In addition he was a scoutmaster and had an abiding love for the outdoors. He was a man I loved and admired. I have found much of his same spirit in the members of this group. That as much as any reason is why I spend many an hour reading this forum.
Lane Smith
One last point. When I was growing up I had an uncle who was chief of maintenance at a chemical plant. He was the type of guy that could fix anything with nothing. He was versed in electronics, mechanics, and life in general. In addition he was a scoutmaster and had an abiding love for the outdoors. He was a man I loved and admired. I have found much of his same spirit in the members of this group. That as much as any reason is why I spend many an hour reading this forum.
Lane Smith
Deerlope
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RETIRED; worked 30 years for the state of NY as a pipefitter, spent 23 years in the military, also retired from that. Grew up in NY on a small farm(dairy). Always like forestry and now own 50 arces of woodland.Do maple syurp in the spring and prune the the forest a little at a time.
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Polecat; He has a gun cuz he kin. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
alan40
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Hi Deerlope, how big is your sugaring operation? I take Rt. 11 to Watertown every 2 or 3 months. If your any were close would you mind if I stopped to look at your sugarhouse? Just started sugaring and found out the best way to learn is to stop at as many sugaring places as I can. Everyone has some really good points.
Take care
Take care
I have a checkered past. You could say I bounced around like the old "Pong" games; you could say I could never decide what I wanted to be when I grew up; but the closest description would probably be that I'm easily bored. These are just the highlights; I'll skip the jobs as a convenience store clerk, security guard, etc. that were fillers.
Barely graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA.
Tech school for body/fender repair.
Receiver for a wholesale warehouse.
Finally started college at age 22, English major.
Ran out of money 2 years later; started to night school (Boston University) and day jobs.
Director of Public Education for the Massachusetts Cancer Society.
Warehouse manager for a division of Litten Industries.
Parts manager for a Volvo/Saab dealership.
Finally graduated from BU at age 31 with a business major; immediately started back to school and got a degree in industrial arts education.
Moved to Florida.
Cost accountant for a land developer.
Owner of a small fiberglass boat building company.
Real estate salesman and later a Broker.
Programmer and information specialist for a small corporation.
Free-lance programmer.
Owner of a BBQ grill store; builder of custom outdoor kitchens.
Now "sort of" retired, building new home.
However, I find myself in a position where I either have to get a job in a Walmart or such to get health insurance, or pay approximately $2,600 per month ($31,200 per year) for basic health coverage until Medicare kicks in about 14 months from now. My present insurance carrier is withdrawing from coverage in Florida on Oct. 15.
Barely graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA.
Tech school for body/fender repair.
Receiver for a wholesale warehouse.
Finally started college at age 22, English major.
Ran out of money 2 years later; started to night school (Boston University) and day jobs.
Director of Public Education for the Massachusetts Cancer Society.
Warehouse manager for a division of Litten Industries.
Parts manager for a Volvo/Saab dealership.
Finally graduated from BU at age 31 with a business major; immediately started back to school and got a degree in industrial arts education.
Moved to Florida.
Cost accountant for a land developer.
Owner of a small fiberglass boat building company.
Real estate salesman and later a Broker.
Programmer and information specialist for a small corporation.
Free-lance programmer.
Owner of a BBQ grill store; builder of custom outdoor kitchens.
Now "sort of" retired, building new home.
However, I find myself in a position where I either have to get a job in a Walmart or such to get health insurance, or pay approximately $2,600 per month ($31,200 per year) for basic health coverage until Medicare kicks in about 14 months from now. My present insurance carrier is withdrawing from coverage in Florida on Oct. 15.
Bird
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Don, your career changes sound almost as bad as my family. My dad and both my brothers, no matter how well they were doing, got bored and changed careers every 3 to 7 years; not much they haven't done at one time or another. I changed schools 12 times in 12 years when I was a kid; 3 of the schools I went to, left, came back, and left again.
Until my early teens, we lived on a few acres (3 different places) with chickens, milk cow, horse, hogs, dogs and cats, and big vegetable gardens, although Dad always had a job in town. Dad bought a Texaco service station in Oklahoma when I was 16, sold it a few months later when the highway bypassed the town and business slowed, bought a Mobil station in Texas, then added the bus station for Continental and Greyhound, and started the town's first auto parts store. So, when I graduated from high school, I was working in his businesses, in addition to being the town's only part time substitute mail carrier for the post office. I went to college one semester (18 hours), then dropped out to leave home, went to work full time as a clerk in the Dallas Post Office, working nights, and moonlighted as a school bus driver one year and a cab driver in Dallas. After 5 years as a postal clerk, and in spite of about to be promoted to a supervisory position, I got bored and joined the Dallas Police Department, and moonlighted as an apartment assistant manager, hotel and department store security, etc.
Now I would have gotten bored and changed jobs like my brothers, I think, if it hadn't been for the fact that there's a great deal of specialization in a big city police department, so I could change divisions, and it was like a completely new job. Some changes I asked for, some I was asked if I wanted, and some I was just told what assignment I was going to do next. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Everyone started in "patrol" after graduation from the academy, but after about 3 years, I became the department's first recruiting officer in the Personnel Division, and started back to college part time. I asked to, and did, return to Patrol after 7 months of recruiting, both in the city and traveling.
After about 4.5 years as a patrolman, promoted to sergeant, and supervised a team of 6 detectives in a burglary and theft unit.
After only 15 months as a sergeant, promoted to lieutenant, 12 weeks at the Southern Police Academy at SMU, then back to Patrol in a different part of town from where I'd worked as a patrolman. After a year and a half, was sent to the Northwestern University Traffic Institute in Evanston, Illinois, for 9 months. Came back to work short special assignments in the Youth, Traffic, and Planning and Research Divisions. An assistant city attorney and I rewrote and updated all the city's traffic ordinances.
Then I became Commander of the Personnel Division. After several months of that, I asked to go back to Patrol, and did, but within a few months was asked to be Commander of the Helicopter Section. Then, after a change of chiefs and a complete re-organization, I became a shift commander in the jail.
I graduated from Abilene Christian College with a BS in Criminal Justice, minor in sociology, when I was 35 and that same year, after about 4.75 years as a lieutenant, was promoted to Captain, Commander of the Communications Division, where I was also project manager in building a complete new communications center, which merged fire with police communications for the first time.
Then I became Commander of the Inspections Division (departmental safety officer and also basically what's called the Inspector General in the military). Then the Inspections Division was disbanded in a budgetary negotiation and I became Commander of the Vehicle Services Division (auto pound, wrecker company supervision, and our own fleet management). And I was again project manager in building a complete new 30 acre auto pound and a major upgrading of the police fleet of vehicles.
Then I was transferred to be Commander of the Planning and Research Division, spent 10 weeks at the FBI National Academy at Quantico, and after another new chief and another re-organization, I stayed where I was, but they changed the name to Budget and Research, and added all the fiscal affairs, the quartermaster, and the fleet management to my duties.
So after 24 years and 10 months, I retired, sold the house, and we took off in a RV for 6 years; worked in a big RV resort in Virginia one summer, worked one summer in my brother's tire dealership/garage in Achorage, and worked two years doing gas leakage surveys in Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, before settling for 8 years on 10 acres, with tractors, garden, rabbits, goats, and air tool repair business, and working cattle and hay baling for a rancher neighbor. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
And now back in town for family and health reasons. Who knows what's next? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Until my early teens, we lived on a few acres (3 different places) with chickens, milk cow, horse, hogs, dogs and cats, and big vegetable gardens, although Dad always had a job in town. Dad bought a Texaco service station in Oklahoma when I was 16, sold it a few months later when the highway bypassed the town and business slowed, bought a Mobil station in Texas, then added the bus station for Continental and Greyhound, and started the town's first auto parts store. So, when I graduated from high school, I was working in his businesses, in addition to being the town's only part time substitute mail carrier for the post office. I went to college one semester (18 hours), then dropped out to leave home, went to work full time as a clerk in the Dallas Post Office, working nights, and moonlighted as a school bus driver one year and a cab driver in Dallas. After 5 years as a postal clerk, and in spite of about to be promoted to a supervisory position, I got bored and joined the Dallas Police Department, and moonlighted as an apartment assistant manager, hotel and department store security, etc.
Now I would have gotten bored and changed jobs like my brothers, I think, if it hadn't been for the fact that there's a great deal of specialization in a big city police department, so I could change divisions, and it was like a completely new job. Some changes I asked for, some I was asked if I wanted, and some I was just told what assignment I was going to do next. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Everyone started in "patrol" after graduation from the academy, but after about 3 years, I became the department's first recruiting officer in the Personnel Division, and started back to college part time. I asked to, and did, return to Patrol after 7 months of recruiting, both in the city and traveling.
After about 4.5 years as a patrolman, promoted to sergeant, and supervised a team of 6 detectives in a burglary and theft unit.
After only 15 months as a sergeant, promoted to lieutenant, 12 weeks at the Southern Police Academy at SMU, then back to Patrol in a different part of town from where I'd worked as a patrolman. After a year and a half, was sent to the Northwestern University Traffic Institute in Evanston, Illinois, for 9 months. Came back to work short special assignments in the Youth, Traffic, and Planning and Research Divisions. An assistant city attorney and I rewrote and updated all the city's traffic ordinances.
Then I became Commander of the Personnel Division. After several months of that, I asked to go back to Patrol, and did, but within a few months was asked to be Commander of the Helicopter Section. Then, after a change of chiefs and a complete re-organization, I became a shift commander in the jail.
I graduated from Abilene Christian College with a BS in Criminal Justice, minor in sociology, when I was 35 and that same year, after about 4.75 years as a lieutenant, was promoted to Captain, Commander of the Communications Division, where I was also project manager in building a complete new communications center, which merged fire with police communications for the first time.
Then I became Commander of the Inspections Division (departmental safety officer and also basically what's called the Inspector General in the military). Then the Inspections Division was disbanded in a budgetary negotiation and I became Commander of the Vehicle Services Division (auto pound, wrecker company supervision, and our own fleet management). And I was again project manager in building a complete new 30 acre auto pound and a major upgrading of the police fleet of vehicles.
Then I was transferred to be Commander of the Planning and Research Division, spent 10 weeks at the FBI National Academy at Quantico, and after another new chief and another re-organization, I stayed where I was, but they changed the name to Budget and Research, and added all the fiscal affairs, the quartermaster, and the fleet management to my duties.
So after 24 years and 10 months, I retired, sold the house, and we took off in a RV for 6 years; worked in a big RV resort in Virginia one summer, worked one summer in my brother's tire dealership/garage in Achorage, and worked two years doing gas leakage surveys in Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, before settling for 8 years on 10 acres, with tractors, garden, rabbits, goats, and air tool repair business, and working cattle and hay baling for a rancher neighbor. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
And now back in town for family and health reasons. Who knows what's next? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
