Working in the Great Outdoors.

[Bomber]

Hey, I'm a chocolatier--which means I already work and play in the same place!

Just a little bit envious

[millarky]

I manage a 700 acre estate (250 acres of fields and 450 acres of woods). I have worked here for the past 9 years. We have 4 horses and 6 ATVs. One family owns it and comes up for a weekend once a month. My wife and I have lived on the property for the past 3 years. Over the past 9 years myself and one other guy have cut in 10 miles of trials for horse back riding and ATV riding. We have several wildlife food plots that I manage. We also have 4 acre pond with catfish, large mouth base, talopia in the summer and trout in the winter. We also have 250 yard rifle range. I do spend alot of my free time in the woods "hanging" around, and enjoying the fruits of my labor.

Now THAT"S a job you can love...all the bennies with none of the taxes...

I spend days in a scantily lit ultrasound room. Seeing baby-to-be though is worth it's weight in hammocks

[6_string_jams]

I manage a 700 acre estate (250 acres of fields and 450 acres of woods). I have worked here for the past 9 years. We have 4 horses and 6 ATVs. One family owns it and comes up for a weekend once a month. My wife and I have lived on the property for the past 3 years. Over the past 9 years myself and one other guy have cut in 10 miles of trials for horse back riding and ATV riding. We have several wildlife food plots that I manage. We also have 4 acre pond with catfish, large mouth base, talopia in the summer and trout in the winter. We also have 250 yard rifle range. I do spend alot of my free time in the woods "hanging" around, and enjoying the fruits of my labor.

Wow, is that in the Statesville area?

[NickRP]

I work in Aerospace, sit in a cube all day in a building with no windows looking at a computer screen. I come in before the sun is up (4am) and sometime leave after its set....what a life..... But it pays well and alows me to buy toys, and hopfulley soon a house here in CA, that will someday appreciate, then I can sell my crackerjack CA home and move out somewhere where there is actual wilderness and by a place in cash and finally get a job I WANT vs one i need....
Also, wife does the same thing and has the same plan

[BLUEFIN 774]

Hey gang, I just got back on land again for a few more weeks.

I work on an oil rig several hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. I spend three weeks at a time offshore. I really enjoy getting out into the woods when I am home. As a hobby I also teach scuba diving (my favorite part of scuba is shipwreck diving) It is interesting to see what others work at.

[Red Wing]

you get to hang on your rig while you're out?

[MrClean417]

I used to work on a Golf Course. Mowed grass for a living and I was happy all the time. My wife just groans when I say that. You don't make much money mowing grass on the golf course. I had an Associates degree in Aeronautics but at the time 20 year veteran, full blown engineers were having problems getting jobs, so I was mowing grass and going to Tech school for an electronics certificate. So I was outside pretty solid from late 1984 to 1989 and only part time from 79-83. I remember being either cold and wet or Hot and dry with very few moments in between, probably because I had to stop and notice the good times. Like early morning in the Fall with the mist/fog coming off the lake, the temps finally brisk in the morning with a warm day ahead and the ring of the cup cutter as I'd knock the dirt off of it before cutting a new hole. It was 4:30-5 in the morning and I'd have the course to myself. Also, quite a few very hot days with Thunderstorms blowing in, that first good and cold blast of air conditioning followed by a downpour, just refreshing.

The hours of shoveling snow paths up to the pro shop, or digging and laying forms for concrete cart paths in the winter, that wasn't as pleasant.

[Syb]

Account executive selling products to high schools to help students graduate. I'm on the road (locally, thankfully) and work from home.

[Law Dawg (ret)]

Went to school for Wildlife Biology but life got in the way of finishing it (ain't life like that?). After a number of jobs, some outside and some not so much, I tried being a Reserve Deputy Sheriff. Liked it so much I found a start in the CHP but switched to the Kern County Sheriff's Dept because chasing tail lights was dull dull dull. Including reserve time I have 33 years in law enforcement...28 compensated. I am recovering (sorta) from work related injuries now and my retirement papers sit on the coffee table as we speak.

Started wanting to study wildlife but ended dealing with a different kind of wild life. Been a blast and I will miss it!

[mbiraman]

I've been fortunate to spend allot of time outdoors and in some remarkable places. Carpentry work outdoors. Parks branch Bowron Lakes. Forestry work took me all over the province to remote inlets and valley etc for 14 yrs, camping out quite a bit of the time. Climbing in Squamish,,hang gliding etc. Have lived in the Kootenays on my land by the Little Slocan River since 82. The back country is pretty much out my back door although i've only been going back out in it for the last couple of yrs after a long absence partly due to injuries , tendonitis and back and knee injury,,,,,,and also i was playing music semi pro for about ten yrs, other interests. Now because of the down turn in the economy my 15 yr cabinetry business is quiet and i go hiking allot, kayaking (-: and spending way too much time here on HF. I just bought a winter quilt. I thought i didn't winter camp??. We just got dumped on over the last couple of days so i've been shoveling three feet of snow off the roofs since yesterday trying to beat the rain thats coming , but hey , its outside.