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Put it this way - if I won 200 million in the lottery tomorrow - I'd never work another day in my life but I'd be a professional student. Learning for the sake of learning.
Prob die with 20 degrees... I'd behave similarly, except I'd probably have no degrees, but would treat myself to bits and pieces of classical education as well as certain skills such as learning how to weld other than stick method and such. Architecture would be one for me. I love old buildings and the way/skill they were built. New ones - no soul.
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Firefighter....35 years and counting.
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How would I find you house in Yankeetown?
Well, I'd head SE from Iowa for a start. When you get here, rent a boat and ask for directions to Bennett Creek. There's a 14' lizard lives there can give directions to the house. Don't argue with her. Well, as you might suspect, I had the general heading right but didn't figure on negotiating with any really big lizards. Oh she's a sweetheart. OTOH, if it came to my attention you were going to wander down this way I can probably arrange a simpler manner of meeting. I'm actually not in Yankeetown proper but can toss a rock into the jurisdiction without breaking a sweat. Have a house guest at present, a retired federal agent. He's crazy enough to make me appear perfectly normal.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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He's crazy enough to make me appear perfectly normal. That is scary!
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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22 Years in a 980 CAT Log loader with a Denharco boom and 2.25 cord clam ![[Linked Image]](https://s13.postimg.org/58mh6dugn/980.jpg)
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Trauma surgeon in Camden, NJ. Basically I repair African Americans for a living. It's like Dodge City and Marshall Dillon is losing the war.Not PC by a long shot and the anti gunners just don't git it.
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Most if the building trades here are getting mexcanized. They drive wages down.
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im azzhole and im good at it
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Spent 18 months in cosmetology school before they told me it had nothing to do with space....
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Lot of people on Campfire. I was thinking people on here could do or fix anything. I be a damn plumber-pipefitter. Am also a pretty fair welder also. Wonder what other occupations hang out here. I have worked at the trade for 45 years. my workin' days for a livin' are over....... Teamsters & Obummber take care of my bills..... now I just shoot schidt all day.......
T R U M P W O N !
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Trauma surgeon in Camden, NJ. Basically I repair African Americans for a living. It's like Dodge City and Marshall Dillon is losing the war.Not PC by a long shot and the anti gunners just don't git it.
Laffin'.......my......azz......off. Funny chitt, you would fit right in with the Air Cav.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Trauma surgeon in Camden, NJ. Basically I repair African Americans for a living. It's like Dodge City and Marshall Dillon is losing the war.Not PC by a long shot and the anti gunners just don't git it.
Laffin'.......my......azz......off. Funny chitt, you would fit right in with the Air Cav. DD.......what R you doin' up here..........?
T R U M P W O N !
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The days of residential plumbers, HVAC installers and electricians making a good living at their trade are past, IMHO.
bruin, I have to respectfully disagree, I know many people in the trades, who have a very good life, and are making good money, Residentrial work will never be what it was for those 2-3 decades, but there's still good money to be made. Work and the economy can be regional, I'm not sure I would want to try making a living as a residential Plumber in Rhinelander Wisconsin for example, simply isnt enough work, and no work means no demand for decent wages. Wait a few years till your kids start thinking about college, which is where I'm at now, 25K a year for a public state school, undergraduate at that..100k in education to work where? Likely making about what the trades are making, or less.There's fewer options nowadays, no doubt, But I would never dissuade anyone from getting a License in the Trades, I believe there will always be a demand for a skilled set of hands. One thing about the trades, your skills are yours and you can take those skills anywhere you want to go. Nice generalization (it is the 'fire after all) but absolute rubbish if one chooses the right course of study, and many, many do.
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im azzhole and im good at it Having now met you, spot on. 
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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I work for Homeland Security monitoring subversive conservative websites. 
Leave the gun, take the canolis.
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I work for Homeland Security monitoring subversive conservative websites. i knew there was a naha in the wood pile around here somewhere :-D
I kill chit. "The Heathens nest"
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I'm a dental floss tycoon.
Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the 24HCF.
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I'm a dental floss tycoon. So you manufacture those new-fangled G-strings?
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
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