I got my degree in Fisheries biology but at the time with budget cuts there were few jobs for a white male. I'd been working in fly shops and guiding in CA , NY and MT.... so I stuck with it and it served me and my wife well.

My degree did help me and college has other benefits. That said, in 1979 a CA state university cost me $30 a quarter plus room and board.

Pete

Factory work - Jail - RN - Physician assistant

U.S. Army. That's why I joined at 17. Wanted to serve my country and still feel the same.

Sarge

Find a job that would support a wife & kids as well as afford me the financial ability to build a house. I got into the trades and met my goals, the ONLY goals I’ve ever made.

I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was little, but wasn't up for the amount of schooling that took. So I then decided on being an English teacher, which is what I initially went to school for. But then, partying got in the way and I dropped out with only an associate's degree, which in retrospect was a probably a blessing. I could never be a teacher in today's educational climate......




Why does this not surprise me??? A typical liberal mindset, I guess. Certainly not something I would think anyone would brag about!!!

I'm just really glad that all of the people that are most important to me were the ones running INTO the fire.... not away from it!!!

Kind of had a variety of interests, Conservation Officer, biologist/forestry, contractor, fur trapper, farming/ranching
I couldn't get into Vermillion as a CO,,, I was white,
As a contractor and trapper I was doing well, So the biologist thing passed too.

I just kept plugging away 11 years of trapping and construction to finish college. , Realistically state college was inexpensive in the 70's and early eighties, ended up with a number of degrees,,,and close to a few more. I paid for all m own college, except one year after registering thye handed us checks as we walked out the door that were never applied for.


Ended up mostly in vocational education, Technology ed, Voc, Agriculture, construction and SPED. A relatively safe career, and not the kind of money I was making outside of school hours,, however I longed for construction and , hunting and trapping, freedom.,
I firmly believe I was called to be a teacher,,,, unfortunately it didnt pay my wife lifestyle like other directions would have favored

Thought I was going to be an electrician. And then I thought I would stay in the oilfield.

Went differently than planned.

After HS spent a winter trapping, then 4 years with the 1st Cav and 3rd Inf, 11 years trapping for a living, used GI Bill to get wildlife degree, worked for USDA as federal trapper, finished out career as wildlife biologist with BLM and US Forest Service. Still guiding hunters and trapping in retirement.

So you admit it! You wanted to remove guys shorts all along.

Has it already been a week?

You can't even be drafted. You never served.

Came in a bit hot on a guy being honest.

I was already signed up for tech school before I graduated. School ended in June and 4 months later I was in Illinois for school, and 2 weeks after that I met this smokin hot babe that would become my wife.

Wanted to be game warden ended up in College 3 years, lottery draft came around ended up 2w years in Navy as Hospital corpsman where spent most of my career with USMC

I went for wildlife biologist about the same time. As mentioned the job market was nonexistent. I ran into 2 guys who had Masters in the field, found out they were working at a golf course being ground tenders.
That was it for me, not going to waste 4-6 years of my life and spend a bunch of money on education that wasn't going to enable me to get a job.

So I dropped out, went to a tech school for 1 1/2 yrs, I was recruited by a company to start an apprenticeship. So I quit full time school and started working full time.
Best decision I made. It allowed me to retire early and enjoy life even more than normal.

Me to.

Always wanted to be a park ranger. Went to Penn State upon graduation high school, then the police academy.
I got my full time park ranger job, and worked 2 police jobs part time. Did this for 10 years, then natural resource management for another 8 years until I got into exterior remodeling. Now I’m earning twice as much loot.

I love being a park ranger.Best job I have ever had.

I was glad I didn’t have an extra thing getting in the way of going to work every day. I was able to finally work during the day, and not only night shift.

No I never served and I regret that now. But I'm married to a veteran, and ALL of my close friends are also vets. Just because I never served.... that doesn't mean I cannot be proud of the men that did.... and embarrassed for those that brag about their efforts to NOT serve.....

Freshman and sophomore year in high school I wanted to be a gunsmith

my mother convinced me there were better fields to get into , she didn't see a stable future in it , I think she was wrong but it would have been more work to find work and I probably would have ended up working for myself.

I had some machining and programing cnc in so I figured go learn electronics something that came fairly easy to me but not to most and then get into CNC machine repair and similar.

well in electronics school I took a part time job with a communications company that made telecommunications equipment. figured it would be a job for a while , 27 years later I guess I never got around to fixing machines. Turns out Telcom pays the bills , very stable and allows for remote work since nothing I work in is actually a at the office.

it isn't what I intended to do but it is the least worst thing I could be doing.
mainly it is a really good company to work for , they treat people right , the medical benefits really have been top notch, the medical insurance we had I paid 10 dollars for my oldest , 15 for the middle and 20 for the youngest kid, that was the copay on the pregnancy test then co-pays stayed flat at 20 for a bunch of years.
The rest if the prenatal and birth were covered from that first co-pay

that was it till they were 18 , that was some great medical insurance , adults pay co-pays but none for kids was great.

My goals were to go to college, get a bachelors degree, go to law school, become a trial lawyer, marry a model, live in the country, and retire early. All goals achieved, plus some huge blessings from God. The rest is all bonus time. (And not one student loan.)