The misery you endure.....

[Stitch]

What does eveyone do for a living?

I work for a steel roofing company, and run a small-medium construction business on the side.

Construction work all year round sucks! But money's good, plus we get lots of days off to ice fish and shoot things in the winter.

[eastonct124]

I grew up in the autobody business....family owned. At 28, with my boy on the way, found out I'll have to wait for the "kicking of the bucket" event.
Up until recently, I've owned my own shop doing concours quality restorations on (mainly) prewar cars. I love the business, but I never got big enough to not have to do mud work for 16 hours straight...so at 40....be 41 in march....called it quits.
Currently studying for the state liscensing exam for life insurance.
Hopefully pass it this week.
I would like to have time for my passions too....lots of fishing!!!

[john k]

I am a carpenter, we do insurance restoration, (fire,water,wind and idiot damage) we work year-around. I have worked for the same company for almost 18 years and have only had 2 days off for lack of work. It was the first winter I worked and it was very cold out and the senior guys got the inside jobs. Its now my time to get the inside jobs once in awhile. Might find time to work in the barn on my tractors this year if I am lucky.

[Stitch]

I was a union carpenter for a year. Lot's of metal framing, sheetrock, acoustic sealings etc. My dad's a journeyman/foreman for an interiors company. I deal with the idiot damage EVERYDAY!

Easton, I love to fish too. I'm not sure whether I like to ice fish or open water fish more, main target is walleyes, then crappie, then catfish. I'm lucky enough to have the Iowa river (best walleye fishery in Iowa) in the front yard, good cats too. I'm putting a pond in in the spring!

[eastonct124]

Stitch, I'm a cold water fisherman mainly....I have a passion for flyfishing for trout. But, the river in my backyard is so densely overgrown, I can only use my 4'6" ultralight w/2lb test.
The resevoir is 200yards away....full of state record L&sm mouth bass, pickerell, rainbow trout, white perch (we ran into a school of 2 lbers once), 2-3lb yellow perch, and rarely catch cats. My boy got one about 2 lbs last year...which is huge for up here.
I'm digging out a 1 acre section on my property where there are two springs bubbling up, when I get the loader/backhoe situation figured out.

[bignastyGS]

I have been working for Penn Dot since 1994.Been plowing I-80 for the last 10-11 years now...This is my winter daily routine...

[67hydro]

Well
Was a heating and air installer/service tech for the last 17 years.
Installed and serviced residential and commercial equipment, primary role was install for the last 8 years, trained and evaluated all the new guys, engineered all the new systems from a to b, got a bit rough on the old knees and over the years the company started to slash here and there and take.

So I started about a month ago working for a housing maint. Company at a local Army base for the service guys housing, great job, rewarding and 40 hours to boot.
Jason

[MBounds]

It's not hard to figure what I did for 30 years - I retired as an E-9 Signals Intelligence Operations Chief.... I'm mechanically inclined so while in the Army I had a portable hobby.. clock collecting and repair. After retiring from the Army, I operated a clock shop for about 10 years and re-retired. That's about when I acquired 15 acres of family property (since 1855) and needed a mower. I recalled my Father's comment that the IH-made Cub Cadet was "the best mower ever made". I found a neglected 108 & a sad 109 in a field with weeds growing up in them and bought both. Needed an engine for the 108 (to come much later) but the 109 was resurrected and I began mowing grass and then came the 782D, then an Original, thus the tractor and library collection began....

Now I'm also watching those grandkids grow up...and Yep, it's priceless...

Myron B