Hey, all,

I lost my job on Wednesday. I'm going to have to go stay with my mother while I job hunt, who is a wonderful person, but is anti-trapping. She lives in an apartment in a fast-growing, wealthier area than the poor rural area I've been living in for the past year. The trapping season in North Carolina goes until February 28 and beaver trapping goes until March 31. I caught my first coon of the season on game land just before I lost my job. I want to keep trapping this season, but I am uncertain now of how to do it logistically. I may be able to find trapping opportunities on private land in the area I'm moving to, or else I can trap on the game lands in the area. But how am I going to put up fur? I can't do the fur handling in my mother's apartment like I could at my own house. The only solution I can see is, if I catch fur on game land, I could do the skinning at my trap sites or at a game land campground and maybe also the fleshing. I don't know how I'm going to put up the fur, unless I can rent some kind of storage shed or else convince my mother to let me use a spare room in the apartment.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. Thank you!

Kris

Respect your mother, get another job and become a keyboard trapper like the rest of us. It's not as expensive and way cleaner.

I'd give mom a hug of thanks and perhaps remind her that you are more important than the animals.
If she contributes to HSUS you're doomed and that idea is not going to work.
The animals will be more important to her than you.

get another job. dont move in with your mom. i suspect more to the story. no savings, no unemployment? so much work here right now the only people not working dont want to.

I respect her totally and if it wasn't for her, I'd be homeless and in really bad shape. I just want to find some kind of mutually respectful solution here. I know it is going to take a lot of discussion with her. Just want to see if anyone has any ideas/suggestions.

That's really not your business. I have savings and the job market in my field (librarian) is in bad shape right now due to the pandemic. I've already applied to 4 librarian jobs that I qualify for and they're all that's out there right now; believe me, I've looked, and I'm still looking. So don't make assumptions about "the only people not working don't want to."

It sounds like you are a beginning low volume trapper. Contact your State association to find other trappers near you. Contact them and see if you can work out an arrangement with someone. You may end up making friends and learning something. As far as using your mom's apartment, forget it.

Your job now, is finding a job. Once that is secured, worry about trapping again.

Hate to tell you but I agree with danny. If you were that serious about finding work I'm sure there is something else besides librarian that you could do until you can find your preferred gig.

Put this season on the shelf and spend time watching YouTube trapping videos and scouting new area. Spend some time with other trappers learning from them. Spend time with your Mom and be thankful she took you in. Make yourself more marketable and go find a job, even if it isn't in a library. Next year when you have a job and your own place you can go back after the fur.

These types of threads are very predictable, you might want to make a run for it while you can.

You're both entitled to your opinion. This thread is not about your opinion of how seriously you think I'm job hunting.

Find a local fur buyer and sell on the carcus but if I were you I'd focus on getting a job, not trapping.

Yes. You're right. I didn't know. I'll read this thread later, take the good advice, and figure things out. I'm sorry I posted this.

OK librarian I will add this caveat: People who are disabled are not working because they can't. Everybody else doesn't want to, in my part of the world.

I don't understand why a job has to be only what you're qualified in. If it's crisis time, any job will do until the qualified job comes available. I just don't understand the mindset that it has to be only one kind of job or nothing.

Don’t be sorry and don’t get bent that a couple folks suggested figuring out your priorities.

You’re worried the one that’s keeping you from being homeless isn’t going to like you trapping. My money would be on her questioning your priorities too.

Fix the flat and then go racing, you dig?

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Reminds me of cousin Eddy on the Christmas Vacation movie who has been unemployed for years and years because he was holding out for a management position.

Millennials. "This is my profession and this is the amount of compensation I expect. Oh, and I'll expect a promotion in my first year."