I asked this question over a year ago when I first started on the F&S website and didn't know any of you guys but would like to

[DakotaMan]

Retired software development manager and consultant. Left little time for hunting and usually had to live far from good hunting. Retirement is better than I expected though and it leaves lots of time to pursue shooting, fishing and hunting.

[WA Mtnhunter]

Gene pool management specialist and sea warrior for 23 years. Aerospace engineer building the paper airplane for the last 14. Soon to join the 47%.

[Douglas]

Local government work. I am my own boss and theres lots of open territory where I live to hunt and fish.

[Safado]

Dcast,
I have a degree in Architecture but I went over to the dark side a long time ago. So I never curse the "artichokes", I know how tough that job can be!

[labrador12]

Field Biologist for Canadian Wildlife Service, Organic Farmer, grazing management specialist, various and sundry sales and factory jobs. Cancer survivor, now going in for a heart ablation in a couple of weeks. Addicted to the Great White North.

[chuckles]

27 years as laborer, foreman, project manager, student, designer and business owner in the landscaping industry. Currently work is developing playground spaces for kids, with a focus on children with disabilities.
Got the most hunting and fishing in when I owned the business. We had a very liberal leave policy and found that employee satisfaction rating soared in the fall.

[Pmacc60]

Painting contractor 35 years

[Montana]

Part owner/operator of a family construction business. We specialize in concrete, however in the rural place we live in we do everything. I also fight wild fires for Montana DNRC in the summers. When hunting season rolls around we work a bit, but mostly hunt, we do take all of our workers with us to elk camp so it keeps them happy too.

[Guest]

Safety Consultant in heavy construction and drilling/completion, heavy equipment operator, and Poet Lariat of F&S blogs.

[canvasbackhunter]

Thats funny, lots of people in construction, but no farmers. I do a little farming in my spare time. I am still finishing up high school, but don't think i don't know anything yet. I don't know as much as WAM, Dakotaman, and others, but i have been hunting since i was 3. Everydayd after school i am in the woods or one the water. I am enjoying it while i can. It doesnt seem like i will get to do much of it when i enter the workforce. I am planning on studing mechanical engineering in college.

[fezzant]

Colorado State Park ranger - tough job to beat.

[Pray- hunt-work]

Thank you guys very much, I don't know why I take such an interest in others occupations, but it has always intrigued me as to how people make a living. I never went to college, which I now regret, but still seem to wonder just what my next step will be in the work place. Unlike C.B. Hunter I was ignorant at a young age and jumped into a couple of work places that didn't require further educations. Again, thank you for the previous responses.

[Edward J. Palumbo]

I read that more than 82% of Americans dislike their jobs. For a good portion of my life, so did I. It took me eight years of night classes simply to earn an Associate (2-year) degree. I returned to classes several years later as the oldest male in my class, graduating with a B.S. at age 50 (fifty). Candidly, there were periods of feast & famine as a Tech writer and QA inspector, and the famines grew longer than the feasts, but I enjoyed much of my work. It's never too late. We stop learning and we begin to stagnate. I'm 66 now, and I'd like to return to classes of interest...so I will!

[Sarge01]

I saw a study done recently that persons attending and completing a vocational school actually make more than 75% of the people with a traditional 4 year college degree. When I was hired as a Conservation Officer a person had to have either 2 years of military or two years of college. I didn't have to worry I had them both. I think that in professions like that military should still be a requirement. When we dropped the military requirement I saw a great difference in the quality of young officers. They seemed like they weren't as "grown up" when they came to work.

[Sarge01]

As a side note I was one of the fortunate that when I was 12 I said I was going to be a Conservation Officer and my dream came true. I was one of the lucky ones that got to do exactly what they wanted to do in life.