…. 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.