…. Hard to pay the bills trapping these days … how do yall keep the lights on ?

…. I manage a shop that makes couplings for oil and gas pipe

… what do you do ?

… with this age group I imagine most will say retired … in that case … what did you do ?

I pretend to be a boiler operator. Also audit for the fire department. And kill some problem critters.

forester (retired).

Tool&Die maker

Besides sheriff, I'm also tax collector, captain of the fire brigade and chairman of the Nonpartisan Anti-Chinese League.

I am a metal stamping 150 ton stamping press setup person. Also setup 110 ton a nd 200 ton presses when needed.

Owner / Operator wildlife removal. Plan on doing it until my last breath if the good Lord allows.

Sarge

Commercial real estate appraiser retired

… my best partner’s dads the sheriff around here … a lot of politics in that line of work

I've had a few jobs... all of 'em I quit... never got fired... One of my first was just a summer job for an old lady. Mom talked me into it. Only problem with it was I didn't get paid. So at the end of the summer I realized, nah I don't really like working for no money lol. So then I got a job at a trout farm. But all I got was tips from the people who came to fish, I would clean their fish for them and then they would sometimes tip me a few bucks but then I got smart and quit that one after one summer. Then I got a job at an excavating company close enough I could bike to or drive the ATV. That was good. But he doesn't work in the winter and then the next spring I just never really asked if he wanted me to work again that summer. But then I got a job mowing at a place a mile or two away as the crow flies. And that's what I do now, mow for them. They have a big chunk that gets mowed, takes me about 2.5 - 3 hours on the zero turn. Hoping to get a more real job next summer, maybe at Fleet Farm after I turn 16

…. What’s a typical day like in your line of work?

Corporate Technical Training Manager for a pharmaceutical operations plant.

my day job, I fix phones.

Retired riggin' man. That would be logger to most but specifically yarding the logs rather than falling them.

Millwright for the last 32 years.

June 1968 - joined USAF and worked in munitions maintenance
November 1971 - crosstrained into explosive ordnance disposal
January 1992 - went on terminal leave and retired from USAF in March
January 1992 - began trapping beavers full time for three timber companies
September 1997 - dad passed and I began making lure for Dobbins Products, which was owned by mom.
January 1998 - purchased Dobbins Products from mom, and I modified my beaver work to 9 months a year so I could attend conventions the other 3 months. I also went from three timber companies to one.
January 2022 - retired from my timber company contract.
1991 to current - contracted with the city for beaver management.

I own a wildlife removal business. I’m doing a lot of work for municipalities, sometimes your catching stuff, sometimes your fixing the damage they did. I was doing some preventative maintenance on Coast Guard houses but the shutdown has funding on hold.

wws

Retired from waaay to many years of paving roads. Playin music in the honky tonks since i was 18, still do it once in a while 40 some yrs later for foldin money.

…. Left a lot of dead beaver in your wake I’d imagine

… I know personally your lures are responsible for the death of a few predators lol

Farmer and fur trapper.

What sort of mill do you work in? I'm on a lumber mill myself. I'd be lost without my millwrights.

I have two jobs. For one, I put wet stuff on red stuff. I try to keep the world square for my other one.

… I have no idea what that means … but thanks for sharing

Telecom regional manager. Been in the industry 20 years. Prior to that I was in the building trades, carpenter, drywaller, and equipment operater. Commercial fishing for a few years, out of HS.

Drove a Ready Mix Concrete truck for 42 years. Retired now

Retired from the state where I was a party chief on a survey crew doing location surveys for the engineers to design roads and bridges.
Now I work a couple of days a week for a land surveyor. He was one of my supervisors and wanted to expand his private business. Over time, he slacked off on working as many days as we were to start with.

Trying to provide some thought invoking content lol. Firefighter and land surveyor.

I can vouch for Boss Man’s lures. Good and consistent product.

Retired. Ran a small log processor(duel carriage scrag) in a stud mill.

I’m the procurement forester for a sawmill. We cut southern yellow pine dimension lumber.

facility mechanic at a university for last 10 years before that water/waste water for the city ,after I got out of the army.

Been making old cars ..look new since 1976

Before that ..I worked in a ski & Skate shop .. sharpening hockey skates ..

Mounting bindings on skis...ordering hockey sticks and equipment.

Also repair late model crashes ..cars and light trucks...also deal with auto insurance companies.

Been self employed since 1987

Ran a machine shop for 30 years
Now I manufacture topical pet medicine

Equipment operator

Helping a deer outfitter for the season, after that is to be decided! Call me a cowpoke i guess, "ill pick up a 10 spot in prescott i know..."

Retired telephone company lineman and cable splicer...40 years!

Retired from education as a teacher of social sciences. I am still the head softball coach 33 years, was the wrestling coach for 27 years, athletic director 13 years.
Started out logging with my brother at 14 with an old McCulloch chainsaw I could barley carry and an A John Deere with a big old chain.
Operated my parents clothing store for 4 years.
Opened a group home for juvenile delinquent boys for 8 years, 8 boys ages 12-18, 24-7-365.
Got my teaching degree and started teaching at age 29.

I am currently head softball coach, town board chariman, raise beef, log our own land on occasion, my brother and I own 790 acres.
Started trapping at 12 years old.

Was a mechanic for the last 20 years, now I raise kids. Much more satisfying.

…. Do you lactate when they cry ?

I started real work in a Foundry here, worked there for a year and could not take the old timers jokes and their safety program was absurd,, left it and went to selling Truck extras at a big dealer parts place and a dump truck building company, was there about two years, and got fed up with no funding for working what I felt was more than I was getting !

Then went to a big outfit steel outfit building all kinds of products, got hired as a de-burr guy and part time over head crane operator, joined the steel workers union when I found out they had an apprentice program for four years in steel detailing and welding, so went to school for 4 years on night shift, passed that had to stay one year after passing, but stayed another 18 years
there, learn so much more about welding as new welding equipment came in, was out in a position of learning all the new machines and then taking all of the welding test on them to pass on the products being built, they closed down in the mid 90's
left and went to a small Laser shop building all kinds of lasers for all kinds of work, another 18 years part time, had an established trapping line for most fur here, and started tanning my own fur and making hats and things for others and to sell, while still doing Laser work, fancy work them lasers, really amazing stuff, finally they quit and I ended up at the copper mine here for another five years in their truck shop working on the big trucks and yellow iron that they called the dozers and bladed machine's finally retired last July 4, been free of force labor for over a year now !!

Still do fur work , in all that time I created the Squeakers some of you have used and I now have new model out, great hobby plus my fur work, have slowed down some but still take some fur in the winter. but squeakers is now the hardest work I do LOL

Learned about every way to weld there was with about every type of machine one could use, with all other types of ways as well, still do a lot of that for friends and family, was a great experience and I was paid very well, that apprentice surely paid of well for me, wasn't easy at times, broke up my first marriage, but you move on and I started that part of my life over with another greater woman. We are still together and will celebrate our 42 anniversary in December, wow how time flies !!

Yea I know I ramble to much !!

Furnace Operator at a hot metal smelter.
Platinum and platinum mining company.
Also was a hard rock miner for same company, and couple other mines.
I love it, a trappers dream of a schedule and excellent pay.

34 years as a tech for a phone company, and 10 as an airport manager. I also did taxidermy and wildlife woodcarvings for toy money as well as trapping since the early 70's. I'm retired, so every day is Saturday now.

4 years as a Drywall Contractor, and about 35 years as a General Contractor. Had a couple years in between those working for another contractor. Retired now, and have the body to prove it!

Resource Manager at USACE Lake Project - retired

.. glad you could make a living out of it …. Mescins took that business over down here

Car plants. Power and free rail,mono rail,flat top conveyor,lift/pop up tables,etc
Power house work. Turbines,Crushers,pulverizers, drag conveyors belt conveyors, gear boxes,etc
Food processing small conveyors, packaging equipment, Centrifuge separators,presses, driers , lots of other stuff
The last couple years I have been at a place that makes griddle bricks and a couple other products basically working with plant maintenance. It's not glorious but it's only 40 miles from the house.

Spent the last 5 years flying around on these things until Oct 1st, now I'm a supervisor managing a hospital based EMS program.

Most of yall got or had better jobs than me

.. talented bunch we’ve got here

Agreed. I had no doubt, though, lol.

…. I thought all yall Alaskans sewed walrus foreskin into to designer mittens for a living lol

No, we feed the wangs to you southern folk, and then buy modern high tech stuff for ourselves. lol.

Sling lines, turn valves talk on a radio and get fussed at by other grown men

Worked every job from bottom to top at a blast furnace. 9 1/2 more months and I'm done.

Heavy equipment operator the last 19 years.
Journey man Ironworker for 7 years before that. Also Tree trimmer and cell tower building and inspecting jobs
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Retired. I live off my pension, social security and 401K.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. At 62 I am not done. Boats or construction ,rust or rot, pure job security..

Retired Ironworker of 35 years. Now I take care of my 2 small pecan orchard’s. In the process of setting up my honey, pollination, and bee business. Trapping bees instead of buying them. Caught 39 swarms last spring. The rest of my free time I manage to trap a few critters.

For 30 years I chased bat's around and killed beaver

Before that I was a machinist

Owned and operated a Logging Contracting business for 25 years, and then worked as a Consultant Forester for a couple of Timber Investment Management Organizations. We managed around 500,000 acres of industrial timberlands in the Adirondacks and Tug Hill Plateau.
Semi-retired now.

Late to the party but spent 30 yrs in an oil refinery, operations side in louisiana. Now run an adc business and cater cajun food over here in texas.

Utility pipe work. Waterline, storm drain and sewer. I run a crew for my dad during the week and run my business on the weekends mostly doing conduit bores under roads.

Been 20 years in linework. I started on the highlines, got moved to distribution and now I'm on the underground side of things. And I'll stay there until I retire.

It’s interesting to me to see what everybody does or did for a living.

I’m a residential general contractor (new homes, additions, remodeling, etc).

I also ran a property management business for about 25 years but got out of it two years ago. Owners paid me to manage their buildings, collect rents and ride herd on their tenants.

I’m 67 years old now and I’m slowing down on the general contracting work. I’m slowly transitioning to my third business, custom woodworking.

Work from home software developer. Home is a lake camp in the woods.

Journeyman electrician 20 years, did some tool and die work for a couple years.

Wetland manager retired 2005

I build and install concrete burial vaults.

Millwright

Operations Superintendent for an airport.

Retired electrical contractor , been in the trade over 50 years .

Retired carpenter but never really retired, kids see to that.
Enjoy the heck outta being a Poppy to our 8 grandkids!

I will lower the talent bar some...

I was an arborist / twigger for about 50 years. Most of it dangling from a rope or hanging from a crane in later years. I worked for a company that specialized in removing high risk trees, either over houses or power lines, usually both. Being many of my friends ended up crippled or dead, I always felt fortunate that all I obtained was wear and tear of the body and lots of arthritis. These days at 67, I only do trees for entertainment. I am trying to figure out coyote trapping, but most often find myself at the gun range or chasing muskies.

WS

I’ve been working at a bank for last 35 years, their Asset-Liability manager. I model out our bank’s balance sheet in all kinds of rate environment scenarios to manage our interest rate risk, our liquidity, capital value, and earnings performance, I help make sure the bank stays steady, solid, and performs well no matter what the market throws at us. I also manage the hedge accounting for our derivatives portfolio we use to help mitigate risk.
Jim

Retired QA analyst in microbiology lab Anheuser Busch St. Louis

Been an environmental consultant for 30 years.

Control room operator, 3 boilers, 2 turbines, water plant, and waste plant for a paper mill. 12 hour swing shifts

Yep, a man of many parts.

retired now, had to go on disability before that but before that I worked for C.Sharps first building custom guns then it went to factory guns. In my own shop I did artwork, sculpting /carving and then in the late nineties till '17 I did Japanese Sword restoration as well as checkering for Shiloh Sharps and then back to C.Sharps

Straight out of high school I was a combat medic and crew chief for a UH-1H (Huey). Duel MOS

Did a couple summers with the USFS surveying an Experimental forest while in college. I started a job in manufacturing when we found out my wife was pregnant. Been doing that since ‘92 with a couple different companies/promotions along the way. Been at the current one for 18 years and I am the Customer Success Manager and have 24 salaried professionals that I manage. Four of those are certified project managers. Job requires some travel at times to customer build sites, but it is mostly domestic USA.

Did some general contractor work on my days off when I was younger but it kept getting in the way of my Chippendales dance schedule so gave it up.

Timber Cutter

Started working for the old man as a sherpa and tool hander, lol, started commercial hard clamming at 16, did a short stint as a butcher, then a long stint as a Bay Constable for the town....all along still worked the bay, clamming, crabbing, eeling etc...retired in 2011, and right back on the boat on the bay to present times....right now green crabbing for the blackfish addicts.
After a pacemaker, 2 hips, 2 knees, and overall arthritis, still chugging along....

Sure are some neat ways to make a living on here

My wife and I own a wildlife control company up in the north east Part of the state

Retired.

Cooler Service Manager for Coca Cola.

Maintenance technician

*11 years as a shipment inspector for Amoco (1983 to 1994)
* 1 year as a part-time truck driver for large grocery chain (1993)
* 1 year working part-time for USDA boll weevil eradication (1993)

*1994-1995 = completed college (wildlife management degree)

*26.5 years as a Georgia game warden (1996 to 2022)

* Retired now at almost 61 years old.

*Part-time-time beaver trapper for local timber company and a few large landowners.

*Full time deer & turkey hunter and land manager on my 1300 acres of leases.

Opening day of firearms season here this morning.....

These two 2 yr old bucks been keeping me attentive so far this AM...

Life is great! Living the dream!

Took over for sheriff Beehan I presume lol

Mostly a tradesman my whole life. Had a stint where I did some security work while going to school for policing, was almost a corrections officer then realized there's no way i'd enjoy that despite the pay, so I joined the infantry reserves. got to do some cool stuff there. was going to reg force (full time canadian forces) but met my now wife.

Went back to the trades continuing the carpentry I left off on.

Got to a point where I Was doing everyone's job and I realized I wasn't looking for a paycheck or a job I even liked I would go through jobs to see if there was anyone there that could teach me anything. I rarely got put with the lead guys I would be given an apprentice or two and running another site so after awhile I realized it was 60$ here to open a business so I did.

First year was spotty figuring out taxes and trying to stay busy. vast majority was word of mouth. second year coming to a close and I can't do jobs fast enough to get to the next. some nutcake customers, some crappy jobs but I've never been stiffed a paycheck so far and end of day everyone is happy

Mostly do window & door installs & service work (used to do warranty work for a lot of manufacturers) custom trim work, custom hardwood staircases, Decks, sometimes I'll do siding (i hate plastic/vinyl try to stay away from it and just do wood like clapboard or cedar shake) and sometimes I'll do renovations and odd jobs.

Been trying to hire a part time guy but everyone who applies their last name is singh. what do you do?

Figuring I may just drop any two man jobs which will be a lot of my window and door work and just stay solo. Between markup and labour can usually pull about 1K CAD a day (keep in mind so far january and february are fairly dead so far) give or take. sometimes a loss sometimes a lot better, but it allows me to spend time with my family and maybe retire my wife in a year or two.

Also very satisfying making my own schedule. Just took a random few days off I didn't book for so I could dye & wax traps and set up deer blinds.

The man is deceased now but was the president of a bank south of me and one heck of a mink trapper. Saw him many times standing above a creek on a culvert checking traps with a suit and tie lol

I was a forklift operator for commercial concrete and masonry. Collecting pension and social security now.

I’ve only ever fished/hunt/trap

I’ld fish for 4-5 months straight 7 days a week

Take a month-6 weeks off,,,trap and hunt

Then do it again

Canada,Alaska,Mongolia,Argentina

Every thing was provided room/board/ transportation

Never made a lot, but didn’t spend a dime

Saved/invested everything for 30 years

I don’t work anymore,,,,,I just fish/hunt/trap on my own schedule now

I lived the dream!!

Owned and ran a machine shop, machining industrial ceramics for the past 40 yrs. Have a taxidermy business as a side gig for 20 yrs and will do that full time once I get up the nerve to pull the trigger on shutting down the machine shop. Been a trapper since 1968, and look forward to doing more out of state trapping in the future.

Fiddle-fart around; it's worked good so far....67 years anyway.

Interesting thread
I worked big oil for 40 years with many jobs
Licensed tankerman
Plant electrician
Blender and product manufacturer
Lead operator
Plant (terminal manager)
Area manager

Most know what I do for a living. I started trapping on our little farm and around our rural community farms around 1964. After high school in 1969 I just missed the draft for Vietnam. If I wasn't accept at the University I would have been off on another career since my draft number was very low.

I went on to higher education and graduated with a BS Degree in Education & Kinesiology with a Minor in Psychology.

I did 3 years pre med after college and found it wasn't my true calling. Mom and dad werent happy with me as I remember.

I was doing some trapping throughout my higher education period in my limited free time. I spent many weeks in the hills of W. Virginia chasing beaver, bobcat and deer hunting.

I had a growing interest in lure formulation in the late 60's and early 70's. In those early years I developed some of our current products that are now 50 plus years old this year.

In 1975 I started selling our lure line Jameson's Ultra Blend Scent Co. and began advertising our product line. I also began attending trapping conventions near the same time. The rest is history.

In the same time frame, needing a job to pay the bills, I worked as a salesman for Wilson's Meat company for a few years. I did some student teaching for a while and pondered going back to finish what I started with med school.

I got fired from the meat salesman job due to me telling my boss at that time what I thought of him. He resented the fact that I had gotten an education and would make comments to me frequently. I did a good job and was the top sales rep at that time.

After being fired I was out of work for some time. My old boss that fired me I found, was not giving me a good reference from the years I worked for him. That explained why I was not being hired or getting any follow up calls for any of my other job interviews I was to find out over time.

Once we found out the reason I think my dad had a talk with this fella and straightened him out. I went on to purchase a home shopping service route and vehicle after I had a good interview. This old company was called the "Jewel Tea" company and later renamed to J.T's General Store.

I ran my route for 17 years which gave me freedom and a good income for all those years. It was the financing thru this business that paved the way to pay for my "lure business building capital" and my developing Wildlife Pest Control Services and ADC business.

I did some beaver control work for the Arkansas Game and Fish Dept. for 9 years along the Petite Jean river. Lots of beaver back then in the early 1990s.

The last 27 years have been fully consumed by our lure business and running a full time wildlife pest control business with employees. Its been a great life and wouldn't change much as I look back over my life. Each day is a new beginning and life is good for me. I am blessed.

Most of you know my wife is in my care daily, but we have made it work since our lure and wildlife pest control operation facility is near our home. I can't travel as I used to due to care giving duties, but I have accepted that situation and thankful to be able to do what I do each day.

Thats my life's work history.

Retired from USN in 1990 after 22 years, spent 8 years packing hunters and dudes into the local wilderness area for local outfitters, drove long haul truck for 6 years but spent more time gone from home than when in the Navy, officially declared myself retired so could enjoy the home life, took up trapping and became Wildlife Control Operator, now busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest, but able to enjoy home and actually adding to saving account.

worked on a dairy farm as a kid. Out of high school I worked at a hatchery, 5 yrs. Then worked at a chicken processing plant. Left there and worked at an auto parts store for ten yrs.Worked for a local goverment as a purchashing tech. for 26 yrs and retired 4 1\2 yrs ago . Now I work part/full time at an auction company. Enjoying life.

Started out in the masonry trade. Tended mason and learned to lay brick, block and stone. After almost three years I went into the carpentry field as a laborer and worked my way up through the trade. Worked as a carpenter for a lot of years doing remodeling, building new homes and some light commercial work. Moved into the office end of the business doing estimating, working with vendors and clients, writing proposals, billing etc. Spent a lot of time going back to school and working full time, studying business and education.. Then I went into education. Taught Building Construction Technology for 23 years, teachers kids about the carpentry trade.

Worked on lots of projects including, countless sheds, 16 new homes, and 7 good sized cabins, one outdoor classroom nd one barn for a large 4 H learning center. Retired from that and tried running a greenhouse. Should have done a better job doing market research. Too much established completion and I was not smart enough to figure that out until I lost money.
Been working as a code enforcement officer and plumbing inspector since the summer of 2018. This job has been interesting and for the most part enjoyable.

Will be 71 in a few weeks.
I have trapped as time as allowed, and always loved camping and fishing, plus hunted when I had the chance. Move a lot slower thanI used to but still moving. Don't trap as much as I did in the 1970s or 1980s but still get a few out.
Mac

Retired land surveyor. Resurveyed sections/townships to recover public land survey (section) corners originally set from late 1850 to 1875ish.

Plaster and tile swimming pools/grape farmer, mechanic

Background in industrial/commercial HVAC/R. Low voltage electrician. Primarily installing and maintaining building automation. Occupancy sensors for the HVAC systems and lighting controls, dampers, alarm systems, surveillance cameras and indoor air quality. Watched several buildings from my computer station. Also in charge of snow removal for most the buildings and parking lots for the company.

Was also a boiler operator, heavy equipment operator, building engineer for a hockey and entertainment venue. Even got to drive a Zamboni.

Nothing

Retired power lineman 43 years of building and maintaining mostly high voltage transmission lines and some distribution work

I am a retired Federal meat inspector with the USDA.

35 years in the adult entertainment business. Retired since 2009.

Pete

Retired. Airplane pilot, 31 years, predator control winter and spring, wild land fires summer and fall. 14,000 hours

Graduated In '85, went to work for CT/DMR (Dept of mental retardation), they changed it to CT/DDS (Dept of Developmental Services), for 37 years until I retired in 2022. In '98 I started my own NWCO business which I still do today full time. So, there was a 24 year overlap doing both jobs.

My first job was par time working in a Ben Franklin for 80 cents an hour at 16 yrs old. After graduation went to work at a tree nursery where I met my wife. Then off to build motor homes for Winnebago. My last job was working as a welder for 42 years building recycling equipment, took alpt of pride in my skills taking a pile of steel and making something useful out of it.Now days I do what I can and it takes longer to do now than ever before. Retired early for health reasons COPD sucks arse,sure miss trapping but still get out to fish some have good people that help get my deer home turkey hunt some walking distance plays a big part in what I choose to do.FYI, have alot of trapping stuff that could use a new home.

Retired - made diapers for many years

I sit at a busy intersection with a cardboard sign that says:

Trapper
Anything helps

… 160 probably appreciates your work lol

Union cement worker, 35 years in .
Mostly heavy/civil expressway and airports.
Wanted to retire on Labor Day but as we have over $7 billion in data center work they're putting me out to pasture as a site superintendent.
Easy work managing 7 subcontractors and the money is awesome.

Did a bunch of jobs over the years.....Well Driller's goffer at 14, various farm work like haying, manure shoveller, spud farm laborer, Land Surveyor rodman, Seasonal Conservation Aide with a couple Soil Conservation Districts, Seasonal Soil Tech with what was then called the USDA Soil Conservation Service (now the NRSC), full time taxidermist most of my adult life, plus full-time caregiver to my late wife the last several years of her life, and now, at 70, I am a full-time grouch, curmudgeon, worn out woodsman that does very little except live the life of the idle rich....oh, and do as much as I can to embarrass my children and be a source of constant amusement to my two young grandsons.

Machinist

Farmed for 75 years, since birth. 5 or so years as a truck/farm equipment mechanics. 34 years for an REA power company. ( line crews and power equipment mantainence.

Great thread! Thanks to Savell, for kicking this one off.

Gotta ask....what did you do in the "adult entertainment business" ?????

Chief lineman, distribution work mostly overhead , ran many many miles of Hendrix cab!e . 28 years been retired for 11 years

Bet he was a fluffer......

Currently selling crack, powder and heroin mixed with a small amount of fentanyl. Seems to be a good way to rid ourselves of demonrats. Life is good for now.

I was Maintenance at a local Catholic convent (retirement home for Nuns) for 42 years. Did basic maint., painting, carpentry work, grass mowing/yard work, snow removal, equipment operator, Class 4 Engineer license, and basically anything that came up.
Retired now for 2.5 years. After graduating in 1976, I worked in a shop that made electric heating elements, was a paint stripper in a paint shop, pumped gas at a full service station, worked in a beef slaughter house, was a welder at Checker Motors, and probably others that I've forgotten. The old body ain't what it used to be, 2 heart stents, and a hip replacement, and rotator cuff surgery has slowed me down, but I'm not done yet! Been trapping since I was about 15.

Making big concrete smaller for over 40 years while living my bucket list in my off times.

83 YO this year and still going and reminiscing over my 50 years rattling around on a snow machine trapping!

Last half of my life I have been a surgical test dummy.

Shoulder 5, knee 5, colon, kidney, stomach, hernia, hand, tonsils, wrist, vascular, heart, and a few more. I counted 20 once.

Farm, build cabinets and custom wood stuff, weld, drive truck, do dirt work, and cut trees.

Own a precast concrete plant. Made septic tanks, grease traps, and steps. Installed them, plus about 200 other items. My dad and grandfather started it in 1948. I been there as a kid about 12 years and full time 40 years. Plus, take care of rental properties and a cattle farm. I try to get in a little trapping , hunting and fishing!! Sometimes it’s tuff!

Own an plastic injection molding facility at which I am the plant manager. I dabble in real estate on the side (mostly industrial, vacant and hunting properties) and have rental properties.