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Sounds political

Zero interesting in guiding hunters. Just not my cup o tea. I do around 75 days guiding fisherman on the ocean a year, and that's enough for me..(grin)

Heading out to go trolling today. We'll see if a king salmon is home. If not, I'll be home by noon and grind on the other boat for awhile.

That's sounding very familiar. Maybe not quite as extreme as praying for an errant bullet, but I completely understand where you were.

Electronic Tech during the week and chemist on most weekends - I turn beer into urine.

Fly Fishing Guide for Atlantic Salmon in Norway. I make a little side money in the winter tying specific patterns. I guess its not a bad life. I used to guide a lot more days in the US. But its a nice change here.

that looks beautiful. I'd love to visit Norway,sweden, and finland someday.

Penis Butler. google it

Damn, some of you guys have cool jobs, can't say I'm not a bit jealous. I certainly don't. I get to do the work on peoples vehicles that they don't want to or can't do themselves. I've never minded mechanical work, but am not by nature the most patient person, and that comes back to bite your azz with regularity when wrenching on vehicles. I've got a bit better over the last few years, but my hands tell the story of all the times I get a bit too rammy and decide something is going to move right phuggin now...I need to find a cool job!

I have a great job and and y'all Web surfers should appreciate it. I keep the Internet safe for ya!!

Although, what you elect to do with you laptop is entirely up to you!!

Stagehand theater tech San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet. Very cool but lots of work and to damn many hrs.

Threads like these are always interesting to me. It's humbling to see the collective talent and expertise in the folks that hang out here.

I did 26 years in the Air Force doing a variety of jobs and then 10 years doing DoD, Homeland Security, and Emergency Management consulting and project work.

I fell into my current job of managing the installation of radiation treatment machines (linear accelerators) into hospitals and clinics. It's a good mix of office and field time and I get to meet some very interesting folks. The downside is the business end where mgmt always want more/faster..... But there's BS everywhere. I felt quite blessed to find a good job at 55.

Brewing beer for a friend's restaurant. Quality control work is fun.
Mechanic restoring old British motorcycles for a friend's shop and carpentry fill out the rest of my time.

I build pistols {1911's} for a living. It ain't bad but I wouldn't say it's fun either.

If I'm doing my job right, I piss off liberals for a living. I'm a lawyer with a pro bono conservative legal advocacy practice (the paying work is corporate law). I focus on First and Second Amendment matters and do quite a bit of scholarly writing and publishing to counter the left's attacks on individual rights. If you know Mark Levin's legal work (not his radio work), that's the general theme of what I do. I probably make more enemies than friends from my work (especially since I'm in the San Francisco area), but when you do what you think is right for a living it's all you need.

If that post is truthful

You have my gratitude. Thank you

+1, and friends here.

Sounds very familiar. It got to the point with me when I was fixing something some other idiot messed up, [bleep] rigged or half a$$ed like the one that ticked me off often, a junction box with wire too short to work on I would almost stroke out. I mean I could pickup a grown man and beat another grown man to death with him. When your patience is that thin your burned out... Time to find a new job...

Thanks, it's the truth. I spent a good number of years as a lawyer at large firms getting pissed off at what was happening. I worked at a firm that was supporting one of the anti-gun legal groups (Legal Community against Violence) and was turned down when I said I wanted to do pro-2A legal advocacy. I decided that it was time to do something about it, even if it meant a lower income, so I left big firm life and started my own practice. I set aside about half of my working hours and used them to develop a body of scholarly work to support pro-liberty issues, found a few former law partners who were admitted to practice before the Supreme Court and had them sponsor me for admission and I've been writing law review articles and filing Supreme Court briefs since.

What I've learned is that the anti-gun groups rely on horribly flawed (if not outright fraudulent) legal arguments that gain acceptance, in part, because they are repeated so frequently in legal scholarship. I'm working to reverse that. I know my limitations, as a one person shop, but there's this theory about Army of Davids that I think rings true.

If anyone is interested, my papers are on the Social Science Research Network site for free download: http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=2133013

That takes one to a login page. Must be registered to read?

I have a handful of degrees in teaching and history but I couldn't stand the public school system. Spent a decade as a martial arts instructor, fantastic job, kept me very fit and like the Boy Scouts I felt it made a positive impression on the students. All that ended when I got injured pretty severely in my late 20's, then again two years later. I've been working an office job I hate since 2008. Tossing around the idea of opening up a gym one of these days.