Went to the Hunting Camp. Anyone Else?

[Craig0320]

Planted and cleared all the lanes with a chain saw and hedge trimmers. Worked about 16 hours this weekend. Lots of bucks on camera.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I was up steelhead fishing in the spring around the first of April and we poked around the hunting grounds. We took some time then to pick out a couple new locations and clear some lanes for this fall. I don't like to disturb the area much just prior to hunting it.

I'll be heading back the week of Thanksgiving but I usually steelhead fish. Non resident licences are pretty pricey... fishing licences aren't. I am taking a few yote traps and plan to show my brother in law how to set up for them. We had them within 30 yards of camp last year. The area is loaded with them.

But I'm pretty juiced to hit the road.. a solid week of deer camp... friends and family... venison liver and onions... bacon wrapped steelhead nuggets... maybe even a coyote pelt to hang on the camp wall. Can't think of a better way to spend a weeks vacation.

 

[Craig0320]

My co-workers all live and grew up in the concrete jungle. They don't understand what is so great going somewhere will little to no cell reception and dirt roads and woods. We got a bunch off hogs right now we are trying to kill.

 

[adsm08]

My dad was at the camp this weekend, but I had a big side job to take care of, which finished off paying for next year's wood.

I don't get up there much since I'd rather fish than hunt. It's not as hard on my bad shoulder. I just put in my 2 weeks (well 3 weeks) at my PT job yesterday, so I should have more free weekends for a while. My FT gives me pretty limited ability to take time off during the week, so no hunting vacation.

 

[Craig0320]

I hope you meet your goals brother. My job is pretty flexible. Thank God for it. I have to go back next weekend and set up my feeder and stand. Going to try a new spot this year. Luckily the camp is only an 1 1/2 from work.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Craig... I have no experience with feral hogs... Yet. There are areas in Michigan where they are problematic and it just keeps getting worse. I know they cause major damage and multiply at rapid rates. The problem only continues to get worse.

adsm... owning your own business is a 24/7 365 grind. It never stops... ever. A week ago Saturday at 10pm I get the call that my walk in cooler was just over temp. and they wouldn't leave my food order. Out of bed I go... on the phone with my hvac guy on the hour drive there. Meet the repair tech and tells me there is a leak he repaired and added 3 pounds to get it going again. While he is fixing it I'm tossing out bloated dough. Once fixed I have to remake all the dough I just pitched and try to get my food back. So... I feel your pain... but you have to make time for yourself.

 

[adsm08]

but you have to make time for yourself.

I work on it. It's one of the reasons I put in my notice at my other job. I got the money for wood, my last paycheck or two (my last day is a bit nebulous yet, I might work the first week in December just to get a full paycheck from them) will buy the parts I need to rebuild my transmission.

I learned the hard way at my last job how important it is to take time for yourself. I worked there 5.5 years, took one week off near the beginning when I got married, and one when my son was born. The rest of the time I worked there I would work my full 40, maybe pick up extra on the weekends when given the option, and cash out my vacation days at the end of the year. That job broke me hard. Once I was out of there it was days before I got off the couch, and weeks before I could even think about doing anything.

 

[Craig0320]

I learned the hard way at my last job how important it is to take time for yourself. I worked there 5.5 years, took one week off near the beginning when I got married, and one when my son was born. The rest of the time I worked there I would work my full 40, maybe pick up extra on the weekends when given the option, and cash out my vacation days at the end of the year. That job broke me hard. Once I was out of there it was days before I got off the couch, and weeks before I could even think about doing anything.

I quit a 35/hr job because I was only home about one day a week and it took a toll on the all of us. Yes it was good money but we are simple and don't live above our means. I moved to the job I am at now and work Monday-Friday.

Craig... I have no experience with feral hogs... Yet. There are areas in Michigan where they are problematic and it just keeps getting worse. I know they cause major damage and multiply at rapid rates. The problem only continues to get worse..

Uncle we trap or shoot the hogs. They destroy everything. Rooted up the pasture and it would beat the teeth out of your mouth on a four wheeler. Had to disk it to flatten it out. They knock down feeders and lay across them to crack them open. We have them on camera doing it. They destroy land and property all the time if gone unchecked. I know they are Russian hogs also because I could here the accent in their snort and grunts.

 

[adsm08]

I quit a 35/hr job because I was only home about one day a week and it took a toll on the all of us. Yes it was good money but we are simple and don't live above our means. I moved to the job I am at now and work Monday-Friday.

Yeah, I gotta figure out what to do next. Next month will be 3 years I have been out of the dealership, working PT evenings and weekends and watching the kids (my full time job) because I can't make enough to make paying for daycare worth it. Big one starts school next year, and once he is going full-days I will ship the little one to day care and go back to work.

I want to just go back to the shop for three or four years and get the house paid off, then look at changing careers. The wife doesn't want me to do that because I am "always in pain and it makes you cranky" as she puts it.

 

[Craig0320]

Yeah, I gotta figure out what to do next. Next month will be 3 years I have been out of the dealership, working PT evenings and weekends and watching the kids (my full time job) because I can't make enough to make paying for daycare worth it. Big one starts school next year, and once he is going full-days I will ship the little one to day care and go back to work.

I want to just go back to the shop for three or four years and get the house paid off, then look at changing careers. The wife doesn't want me to do that because I am "always in pain and it makes you cranky" as she puts it.

Daycare is ridiculous. My wife runs one. We are blessed that both our moms, and my grandma doesn't work so they watch my youngest during the week.

Sometimes what we are good at isn't what we like to do. I really believe the service industry would benefit from having you. Your knowledge of vehicles and the internal workings of the job seem extensive. I also understand it would be dealing with the same headaches.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Craig... I have no experience with feral hogs... Yet. There are areas in Michigan where they are problematic and it just keeps getting worse. I know they cause major damage and multiply at rapid rates. The problem only continues to get worse.

Someone said they saw one up here a few days ago.

I was hoping it was someone's potbelly pig that got loose, I didn't think the wild ones liked the cold... but if they are in Michigan

 

[adsm08]

Sometimes what we are good at isn't what we like to do. I really believe the service industry would benefit from having you. Your knowledge of vehicles and the internal workings of the job seem extensive. I also understand it would be dealing with the same headaches.

I am eyeing a job as a service writer, with a path to the service manager's office, as that's where my degree was aimed, and I think my understanding of the day to day on the shop floor would be a benefit in either job. That has kind of been the idea for the last three years, but those jobs don't pop up every day. I'd be willing to go in as a tech to get my foot in the door, but I have found in other similar jobs that because I always do my best at whatever I am doing, I often end up being considered "too valuable" in my current position and my employer is unwilling to promote me out of that position.

That is basically what happened at my last job. I was injured and hurting both physically and mentally, and was passed over, or outright not even considered for several other positions in the dealership that I had explicitly expressed interest in because they didn't want to loose a senior master tech off the shop floor.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I am eyeing a job as a service writer, with a path to the service manager's office, as that's where my degree was aimed, and I think my understanding of the day to day on the shop floor would be a benefit in either job. That has kind of been the idea for the last three years, but those jobs don't pop up every day. I'd be willing to go in as a tech to get my foot in the door, but I have found in other similar jobs that because I always do my best at whatever I am doing, I often end up being considered "too valuable" in my current position and my employer is unwilling to promote me out of that position.

That is basically what happened at my last job. I was injured and hurting both physically and mentally, and was passed over, or outright not even considered for several other positions in the dealership that I had explicitly expressed interest in because they didn't want to loose a senior master tech off the shop floor.

My BIL is caught in that.

He is a Sr Master at a huge dealership, pretty much all he does is electrical. He has tried for other positions but he is too good at a job nobody likes.

 

[Craig0320]

I am eyeing a job as a service writer, with a path to the service manager's office, as that's where my degree was aimed, and I think my understanding of the day to day on the shop floor would be a benefit in either job. That has kind of been the idea for the last three years, but those jobs don't pop up every day. I'd be willing to go in as a tech to get my foot in the door, but I have found in other similar jobs that because I always do my best at whatever I am doing, I often end up being considered "too valuable" in my current position and my employer is unwilling to promote me out of that position.

That is basically what happened at my last job. I was injured and hurting both physically and mentally, and was passed over, or outright not even considered for several other positions in the dealership that I had explicitly expressed interest in because they didn't want to loose a senior master tech off the shop floor.

Well wherever you go I wish you all the best.

 

[adsm08]

My BIL is caught in that.

He is a Sr Master at a huge dealership, pretty much all he does is electrical. He has tried for other positions but he is too good at a job nobody likes.

Yeah, for a year almost all I did was electrical, Sync, and yank dashes, because nobody likes dashes, but I make good time on them.

I wouldn't mind doing electrical all day. If I could get into a big shop that can allow for specializing to that degree and just do electrical stuff all day I'd love that.