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30 years since I graduated with a civil engineering degree. Been full time at my current company for 29 of those.
“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”
ALDO LEOPOLD
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Started working underground at a silver mine in north Idaho in 1972 , got into the assay Lab at the Bunker Hill company in 1975 and worked in the assay field for the next 40 years and retired from the assaying business in December 2015. Bought a small grocery store in Montana and putting in twice as many hours and getting paid 20% wages , but enjoy working for myself.
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Tedthorn , me too ,I've been machining before I graduated in1985 and got into a small mold shop in the KCMO area . Went through an apprenticeship program and have been building the rotten bastards since . It's been a pretty good vocation for the most part ,the Obama years killed off several tool shops up toward KC . Too young to think much about retirement yet .
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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15 years (R&D Program Manager)
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Campfire Tracker
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39 years as a steel fabricator, where did the time go?
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen
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27 years in education... 30 if I count the two systems I was employed.. Retired 20 years ago, best job I ever had!!
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30 years in April at the same place
James Pepper: There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum? John Chisum: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.
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Campfire Regular
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45 years in heavy and agricultural equipment business. I still have a few years left. Maybe I’ll give it up at 50!
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Campfire Ranger
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10 years in insurance (first 5 were so so and last 5 i have hated it) after about 8 managing people in retail and restaurant. Neither one blows my skirt up but oh well.
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33 years in July working many different jobs for the same electric & gas utility company.
What a long strange trip it's been.
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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Machinist- 42 years with the last 27 at the same company. 1 year and 10 months to go.
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31.5 year firefighting career, all in the same department.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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I have been an educator for 36 years, the past 21 for the same school district. Teacher, athletic director, and currently an administrator,no where near retirement with my youngest daughter being 10!
Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want!
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34 years in the same trade. Last 24 for the same company.
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24 years on the Railroad, most of it welding. Should’ve been a real estate agent......
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Nearing 15 years in the military...That is not quite 1/2 my life...just a bit more to go and then I will have to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
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On April 4 it will be 35 years in banking. Same bank in the small town I was born and raised in.
KC
You can easily vote your way in to Socialism; but you'll have to shoot your way out.
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8 YEARS SHIP YARD WELDER 30 YEARS WELDER/MACHINEIST AT MOM&POP SHOP TRYING TO NOT GET KILLED EVERY DAY. IT IS A BAD PLACE FORK LIFTS AN CRANES WITH NO BRAKES . NOTHING MATTERS SEP GIT THE JOB DONE IF I DONT MAKE IT AT LEAST WIFE & GRANDBRATS WILL HAVE A BIG CHECK
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A little over 39 years in our local municipal Public Works Dept. Over 33 years were in the traffic engineering field. Satisfying work.
Have been retired since the Fall of 1993. This Sept. will mark 25 years of retirement. Best job yet!!
Jim
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33 years guiding hunters, trappers and anglers though some of the wildest, prettiest country in NA.
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