What do you do for a living?

[1derboy]

professional fish bum and part time business owner. or the other way around....something like that.

commercial glass and aluminum business to be exact.

Chris, this is exciting times for you. congratulations and all the best. i'm actually a bit jealous......

[Carl]

High school special education teacher and consultant 21 years. Infantry officer along the way, long since resigned.

[Frenchcaster]

Specialized in small animal surgery (dogs and cats major surgery).
Farns005, I know where to find you

Andreas

[wonderfulremark]

Insurance Broker.... yay......................................

[galallama]

Saltwater Salmon mooching and chopper access flyfishing guide in the summer, Steelhead bum in fall and winter

[laguna lefty]

I'm an archaeologist but now semiretired. Thus I pick the projects I want. Nice when it works but no sure thing.

[fredaevans]

Originally Posted by firepilot

Helicopter pilot doing mostly natural resource work. Our company does a great deal of wildfire suppression, and we also do a lot of prescribed fire, mostly for fuels reduction, and habitat restoration. Many of these burns with money from the Rockey Mtn Elk Foundation.

Interesting. The Erickson Air Crane (helicopter) manufacturing is just a short drive from my home here in White City, Oregon. Dam those things are big, but they can hoist a ton. Aircraft can be configured several different ways, including wild fire suppression. Which is the fun one to watch the crews practice here on the upper Rogue river.

In 'fire mode' the crew will fly up the river right over our heads at Modoc Ponds and flare out over the river a 100 yards up stream, dip this long pipe into the river and suck up something like 3,000 gallons of water in less than a minute. Interesting to hear the change in blade pitch (added lift due to the weight) as that thing fills up.

Fred

[Salar-1]

38 years as an air traffic controller with frequent "sanity " breaks as a Salmon fishing bum.
Last 3 yrs spent as a Salmon fishing bum with frequent breaks to prevent having "divorced" scratched into the hood of my car

[JetB]

Originally Posted by fredaevans

Interesting. The Erickson Air Crane (helicopter) manufacturing is just a short drive from my home here in White City, Oregon. Dam those things are big, but they can hoist a ton. Aircraft can be configured several different ways, including wild fire suppression. Which is the fun one to watch the crews practice here on the upper Rogue river.

In 'fire mode' the crew will fly up the river right over our heads at Modoc Ponds and flare out over the river a 100 yards up stream, dip this long pipe into the river and suck up something like 3,000 gallons of water in less than a minute. Interesting to hear the change in blade pitch (added lift due to the weight) as that thing fills up.

Fred

You can always tell when a crane is coming because it sounds like a banshee. It's one of a kind. I often see them pillaging the last of the old growth on Vancouver Island.

[Marcel]

BS in EE, have been in tech sales for the past 12 years. 10 years at Intel and the past couple for HP. It was clear early on that engineering/design work was not going to affordme much fishing time.

[J.G.]

CN S&C Mech. Territory starts close to Terrace and goes eastward to Endako .........That's a whole lotta nice water.

[rustyr]

Beancounter....Not very exciting, but it pays the bills and allows for a little fun for fishing now and then.

[fredaevans]

Originally Posted by JetB

You can always tell when a crane is coming because it sounds like a banshee. It's one of a kind. I often see them pillaging the last of the old growth on Vancouver Island.

We/I are just shipping logs, not finished product. And to that I have a major objection.

fae

[tassiespey]

Qffshore Diving Superintendant/Supervisor., Life Support Technician........Well done .....keep learning , I still am and I'm over 60

[jabster]

I make windscreens/windshields for big trucks. Just got back to my "roots" at the hands on fabrication after a quick sit over at the office. Next year probaply doing something else as they are moving most of the production to Poland...