Or some employees

Can not live like a billionaire in this state, but they can tax you like you are one:)

I answer the phone 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I took a 3 week vacation back in '09, that's been it in 12 years. Haven't hunted a full day sunup to sundown in ten years, always have to come back to town to take care of some varmint issue. WORK-WORK-WORK-WORK no rest for the wicked which must make me really evil.

Just showing up when you say you will usually sells the jobs. A nice beard helps to.

You guys need to get a life...

Other than trap checks, I do not schedule Sunday work but will respond to calls. Don't schedule much on Saturday's either if I can avoid it. Already spent 38 years working retail, missing family events.

For you men that don't have lives ....Is it because you can't afford to take time off ? Or are you just so addicted to money that you don't want the time to spend it ?? Taking a couple days off a week is not such a bad experience ...

I still have to pick up animals, so if I'm in the area ill setup a job.

There have been times that I wanted to or needed to work seven days a week to accomplish a goal but once it was accomplished I went back to six days, then five.

The past few years I've found there's a lot of fish that need catchin' and a lot of lakes and ponds that need someone casting a fishin' line so they don't seem so lonely. I do my part to rectify that situation.

I'll check traps on the weekend of course but I can't say I consider any of the calls I get an "emergency" that can't wait a day or two.

As some know I work a day job, it's the only way to have health insurance on the wife and myself, so if I'm not at the day job I'm chasing critters which requires evenings and weekends to keep up. If my schedule is light on weekends I have home, vehicle and yard maintenance to do which leaves ZERO time off.
I watched both parents die of old age and am watching my 90+ neighbors shrivel up into useless slugs. I don't want to go that way, I plan on dying in my tracks, hopefully those tracks are left in a beaver pond somewhere.

In Mass. I get a 10 day special permit to trap beavers with a conibear/cage trap. You have a 24 hour check law. I can't skip the weekends or Sunday. I want those rodents gone in ten days!!!

Salys, I'm kind of working on the 90+ useless slug shrivel. I think I've got the "useless" part nearly done.

My dog used to chase his tail a lot. The only way he'd ever succeed is if he sat down; then he could grab his tail. Kind of a weak analogy, but I know two guys who work insane hours (because their keepers tell them to) - they're always sick, achin', full of medication. I consider myself blessed that I feel no need to live that way.
Yes, there's always work to do. There are also fish to catch and trails to ride.

Mr Schmidt, I like your philosophy ....Fish On !

Paul poor choice of words on my part, I should have used the word helpless, useless is that thing in D.C.

And I did break with the grind, I packed a full day into Saturday morning so I could take the granddaughter shopping for new camo since this is her first huntin' season. We even went and had a nice sit down lunch which is something she and I have never done before. Sunday was back to it, all day in a wolf trapping certification class and a quick check on a gopher job.