nope and don't plan too, it's just a hobby, job is for life.

if you got the money and your family responsibilities are taken care of, then do what you will, but for us, hunting is just not that important, priorites in life are.

 

nope and don't plan too, it's just a hobby, job is for life.

If you got the money and your family responsibilities are taken care of, then do what you will, but for us, hunting is just not that important, priorites in life are.

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thats prety intense, I work so I can hunt!

 

I love to hunt but cant lose my truck and house to hunt. I will slip off an afternoon here and there though.

 

I haven't quit, but when things were slow a few years ago at our family business, I laid myself off so we could retain some more skilled employees that had been there longer. The fact that I was off for the end of October and most of November had nothing to do with it. :wink:

 

Oh ya i forgot to mention that im young i dont have that much bills heck.my mortgage payment is only 160$ a month i bought a foreclosed house, my truck.is paid for and my wife has a great job so i guess it woulda been different if we would have been depending on my income

 

So why not work hard and get a nice house and stuff, I make well more then what my expenses incur and i can easily put away 3000 away into IRAS and Savings and another 1200 into 401k every month, If living like that suits you then so be it. Hunting is a HOBBY man that's it and nothing more, But your wife needs to rethink her marriage to you, cause your priorities are way out of whack with reality! Your wife makes good money so why would you quit and not bank all of your income? Me and my wife both work and we bank 80% of her money away every month, Living in the present is fine but you need to focus on the future as well!

 

Quit every year for 30 years. Does that count? Job has changed now so I cant. Of course the rut aint hit yet either hehehehe. Get busy livin or get busy dyin. Rather live my life now than retire rich at 65. By the time Im 65 I wanna be done with fun stuff and go back to work. The american model of work to death till 65 and then retire move to florida and die rich is stupid. Provide for your family and LIVE. Working 9-5 in a box and watching football on sat isnt living.

 

that is about the beat theory on life for a hunter i can think of. I got fired a month ago lol and i had an interview tuesday im.kinda hopin i dont get it so i can hunt alot this year and a guy above me said hunting for him is hobby, well not for me its my life

 

I want to. No kids, no wife, truck paid off. ready to do something I enjoy! Hard to find something that doesnt work in November though :thumbs_do

 

I did once when I was younger. Long story short, I was 19 years old or so and had requested off a Friday so I could leave early for camp the day before opening day of archery. At any rate, I get back to work on Monday and I am told that I am fired because "I didn't show up for work Friday".............after showing them the copy of the time off request that I had made and showing the HR man HIS signature he kept mouthing off and telling me I forged it, but knowing he was wrong he said this would just be my warning and if it happens again I am gone. I told him I would save him the hassle, told him to go "party" with himself and walked out. Went home, grabbed my bow and all and went hunting lol

 

Lol! I'm sure that's the exact word you used huh? :lol:

 

I decided to make a career change last year. I put in my notice so that my last day would be the day before duck season opened. I had enough vacation built up that I got paid through most of duck season and started my new job in January.

Now I get paid to play on AT when duck season is closed and can office from my duck blind when I need to. I'll be officing with some teal in the morning!

 

POSTED ON ANOTHER THREAD
I just decided at age 12 that there were 2 kinds of people. DOERS and WATCHERS. I will be fine when I retire but yeah I could be more set if I worked 365 days a year. Of course I wouldnt have caught 10lb largemouths in the 100s(no clue how many)...and before the bs flies if youve ever been to Mexico and fished at a camp you might remeber the name of the guy running it and why my nickname is dozer.
Seen hundreds of buck fights...real ones not 2.5 yr old sparring.
Seen elk in areas of NW OK that SUPPOSEDLY doesnt have them. Mountain lions TWICE IN THE DAY where there SUPPOSEDLY WERE NONE.
Killed a bunch of deer and passed a ton more and got to watch them for days on end.
Caught thousands of rattlers....and let them go...it is a rush.
Killed some bears....spot stalk no bait.
Spent a lot of time with the family.
Met hundreds of cool hunters while guiding....makes me wonder where some AT'ers come from.
Been swept down a river and pulled myself out using wild rose branches.Kept my bow too.
Killed prairie dog over 1000.
Deer over 1200.
Multiple coyotes over 1200.
Cant shotgun shoot for crap but love quail and hunt them 20-30 days a year.
And a lot of other crazy stuff including 38 days in a mexican jail for WORKING WITHOUT A GREEN CARD.iRONIC HUH?
If you wanna live a 9-5 life have at it.
I have no desire to retire rich at 65 and live in florida.
If I cant go like a mofo I have no desire to breathe.
So many people in our society arent even alive, they breath air but have no reason to exist except sat/sun football.
And why would you even comment about someone that really lives unlike some? JEALOUSY
Would like to add:
Had a cougar as a best friend for 8 years.
Kept hundreds of hot snakes including king cobras,taipans.
Have a 14ft burmese albino.Eats fawns.
Had a buncha crocs upto 10 ft in mexico.
Get out and live guys.
Make sure your ok financially(work more/harder/smarter) and live.
How many of us will be dead at 65 due to cancer or heart disease or treestand falls?

 

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Anybody else

 

Never have....wanted to, but never have. Actually I only work 7 days out of 2 weeks. 12hr shifts, but hey it's what I love to do and I can't see myself quitting for anything! I took a 10k plus a year cut to do what I do now if that tells ya anything.

 

i would assume you are in law enforcement? I loved that schedule when I was cop. I've never had to quit before, but prepared myself to do so.

 

I am currently not on the fire up in Ely MN because of 2 reasons, coaching football and the deer opener on Saturday. I just kinda ignored that recall letter.

 

And if you can talk to the boss. Offer to do whatever it takes to get some prime rut time. I always worked extra hours year round so I could duck out, even when I didnt quit.

 

nope.

My wifes grandfather used to work 3 jobs until the fall then quit em all and go hunting for 2 or 3 months. he's got a beautiful log home filled with awesome mounts of things i can only dream of one day hunting.

Not a bad lifestyle if its the one you choose

 

I used too, jobs are hard to find now but I'm lucky now. I work less than 6 months a year and have plenty of vacation, sick and personal time built up. I can't count how many times I was told I couldn't have the opening days off and said "Well, I'm outta here" I figure a company that you work hard for should let you have 2 days or so extra when hunting season's in LOL.

 

I didn't realize anybody posting on this forum had a job!

 

Haha makes you wonder

 

After 7yrs of not taking vacations, I gave my boss notice I was taking two weeks to hunt. 2 days before I was going, he wants me to start a big job, so I asked who's going to run it while I'm on vacation. He says, "your only going hunting, you don't need to take off". I told him, I'll call you in two weeks when I get back. When I called, he tells me he has nothing for a couple days(as punishment). When he called two days later, I was already working for somebody else.

 

after 7yrs of not taking vacations, i gave my boss notice i was taking two weeks to hunt. 2 days before i was going, he wants me to start a big job, so i asked who's going to run it while i'm on vacation. He says, "your only going hunting, you don't need to take off". I told him, i'll call you in two weeks when i get back. When i called, he tells me he has nothing for a couple days(as punishment). When he called two days later, i was already working for somebody else.

owned! Awesome!

 

no, i have not quit to go hunt .

 

nope im blessed with a month of paid vacation a year, plus the option to buy a flex week.

 

not yet, and not in the foreseeable future but I won't rule it out. yes hunting means that much to me.

 

Sounds like a fireman. I am glad to see I aint the only lunapath in the US tho.

 

I got out of the air force in 1985 and quit jobs the next two years to bowhunt. it would be tougher to do now with kids and stuff.
I get 6 weeks off so I have time now.

 

Never quit, but at my old job my boss would say "he is always reliable....until the rut hits, or the birds start gobblin" I save my time off to be in the woods or vacation with family.

 

Nope. Having a job is what allows me to hunt.