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07-09-2019, 12:43 PM #76Registered User
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Around here from what I seen in the small town there is often not enough work for a full time gig so the key to employment is a bunch of jobs so when you lose a job its not the end of the world because you got a few others and so now you got room to pick up another job
so its like diversification which is a principle of investing
the Carpenter I was helping at folk fest last week told me he picked up all kinds of work last weekend just hanging out/ volying and running into prospective customers
one buddy had 5 jobs one for each day, I ran into him on the street and he asked what day is it ... tuesday gotta run to this job !Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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07-09-2019, 01:05 PM #77
Pretty funny. I'm doing all this completely in reverse. went straight through college/grad school/to job worked my ass off for 30+ years. Now at 55 I'm a few months (current gig runs 10-1) from totally saying fuck it. Trying to buy a condo at the beach but the seller's being a total dick but thats another story. Wait what were we talking about? god where did i put mah beer
"Can't you see..."
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07-09-2019, 01:28 PM #78
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07-09-2019, 01:33 PM #79
It may be pertinent to explain to OP that at the time you had a pretty good setup, like owning a house in SLC that was close to skiing.
Sure, hindsight is 20/20 but in 2009 the world was ending (housing was crashing) and you made a decision to move for school to seek alternatives to your hard labor career after your body gave out. I don't think you can beat yourself up too bad given the info you had at the time.
OP may not be in as solid a position. Renting a room in a ski town probably gets pretty old when you hit mid 30s.
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07-09-2019, 02:36 PM #80
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07-09-2019, 02:46 PM #81
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07-09-2019, 03:36 PM #82
I could've sworn I saw a really good post from AdironRider in here today but now can't find it. Mirrored a LOT of what I've observed. Did it get deleted or is it just my imagination?
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07-09-2019, 03:46 PM #83
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07-09-2019, 03:54 PM #84
Well I am not outing the OP but he contacted me and I am owed a beer.
Nevertheless.
The Mountain West is exploding with development right now, maybe not everywhere to the extent of Bozeman or Park City etc but there is all kinds of opportunity.
Find a niche that doesn't cost a lot of money for start up and start filling a need.
Buddy of mine started a safety consulting business, ex-patroller and Firefighter looking ahead to when he retires in another 10 years. He is already paying off the start up.
If a business or an acquaintance does you wrong, you can openly call them out on it. In a small town, every pretends to be all nicey nice, but there is NO loyalty except to the machine. In that town, seems that near everyone's "bent the knee" to the powers that be, and if you aren't an all out ass kisser, take objection to getting effed over, and don't want to stay quiet about what's going on around you, then you're out. It's a bizarre dynamic. The fear that people have of pissing off the wrong people is palpable.
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07-09-2019, 04:30 PM #85Funky But Chic
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07-09-2019, 05:07 PM #86
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07-09-2019, 05:17 PM #87
With very few exceptions every year of my life has been spent living in cities of 1M or more people. Living in Vail for 3 years in the early 90's was weird - everyone knew my shit. I'd get people whose face I barely recognized ask me if I enjoyed the steak they watched me buy the other day at Safeway. That was fucking creepy.
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07-09-2019, 05:25 PM #88
^^^ Yeah that is a little off, no question.
That's something I've found living in a small town as well: lack of boundaries.
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07-09-2019, 05:30 PM #89Funky But Chic
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Rocky used to cackle over the stature of limitations..."even if they catch me I still win!" was a tag line of his.
Meanwhile, pretty much everyone who worked with him figured he had a big pile of cash stashed in a hole somewhere and was plotting how to steal it.
Not me of course.
Well yeah me too.
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07-09-2019, 05:31 PM #90
When did you "throw in the towel"?
So whiteroom guardian living in Bozeman area, struggling with California’s wealthiest moving to town?
Sorry I thought we were trying to guess. You do realize that your username is an alias. Like a mikeyb dating story or something.
Suck it up or leave honestly. Life’s too short to be miserable. Youre presumably young, have no responsibility etc. working for or with the man has its perks also. I’m assuming half the people in that anonymous area made money in Silicon Valley working for the man. Now they are cashing in.
Work seasonally somewhere else come back to ski. But mixing career with living the dream details a lot of people. Seems like you can be a professional in Seattle, salt lake, Denver etc and still get after it.
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07-09-2019, 05:36 PM #91Funky But Chic
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07-09-2019, 06:08 PM #93Funky But Chic
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07-09-2019, 06:31 PM #96Funky But Chic
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07-09-2019, 06:35 PM #97Funky But Chic
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I'm not sure he wanted those. He wasn't a spring chicken when I knew him and he seemed pretty down with working until he died. As long as it paid cash money.
He's the one who convinced me to put my prized Estwing framer away, man I loved that thing but I listened to him.
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07-09-2019, 06:38 PM #98Funky But Chic
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I do have and use one of these though:
Great for splitting kindling.
(Estwing Campers Hatchet)
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07-09-2019, 06:41 PM #99
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07-09-2019, 06:58 PM #100Funky But Chic
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Not sure what that means but I bet I deserve it
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