What do you do for a living?


(Robin) #21

Hah! Good for you!


(GINA ) #22

I am an elementary school principal. I taught 3rd grade for 15 years and have been an administrator for 11. I am looking to retire in 4 or 5 more years.

My under grad was in political science and I had planned to go to law school. When the time came I was having some doubts and then I was involved in a minor civil case and saw the work up close. The reality of being an attorney was nothing like LA Law. I went to work for an insurance company and that was icky, so I started teaching. I liked it and was good at it, so there I stayed.


(Little Miss Scare-All) #23

OnlyFans keto-themed Cam Girl. When I’m not doing interesting things with responsibly sustained homemade sausages with herbs from my garden, I’m building so many treehouses on my property that the city has fined me 19 times for illegal structures.


#24

This is quite funny now I think about it… I actually work with wheat.
I clean it from the farm and turn it into a product for farmers to use for seed the next year.

I still take some home for the chickens, but can’t eat any myself.

It’s like the saying at sea ‘water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink’.


#25

@Rusty, love this cause we did it too. crops for sale but would never eat them :slight_smile: but luckily we did alot of livestock so I did get to eat off my own farm HA

I take it you are not the farmer tho? You are working at a facility to produce new seed for agriculture?


#26

Yes that’s right. We service a lot of farms in Norfolk and Suffolk in the UK. They bring us the seed they have saved for the next year, we add treatment and bag it.

We would love to have a small holding one day. Even if its only big enough to grow my own chickens. We have 5 chickens at the moment but they are pets that give us eggs, rather than for eating.


#27

a small holding is something so many of us do want :slight_smile: to have that freedom to handle more of our own lives in food/products we can raise and those of us who love that type of lifestyle, oh yea a very nice life to have if we can make it happen! Hope you find your way there when ya can!!


(Bob M) #28

That’s cool. I was in the US Navy for 6 years, in Nuclear Power.


(Jon Borgen) #29

I do Networking and Security for a Defense Contractor. Working on getting all the latest regulatory and statutory requirements in place for compliance at the moment.


(Little Miss Scare-All) #30

I want chickens soooo bad. What types do you have?


#31

We have a sussex, bluebell, cream legbar, then 3 silkies white, brown and black.
So we get 2 tiny white eggs about 40g, slightly bigger, a medium blue egg, a large brown egg and a huge cream egg that can be up to 80g.
And they don’t cost anything to feed because I get wheat from work.
If you don’t have much room and you are not sure, get a couple of silky hens. They are small, can’t fly at all and very very tame. You can pick them up for a cuddle.


(Marianne) #32

Pay is waaaay better, that’s for sure.


(Shawn Patrick Malone) #33

That’s great! I never had the mindset required for the nuclear field so that’s pretty great! I retired as a Senior Chief BM. I had a really good ASVAB, just didn’t take advantage of it. On a side note, put my notice in today at work and will be moving on to a non-government job. I’ve had enough of dealing with the government!


(Little Miss Scare-All) #34

Silkies are my absolute favorite. They’re so adorable that I don’t know what to do with myself lol. Have you ever seen black Ayam Cemanis’? That’s my dream chicken. I’m a little gothy :vampire:‍♀


#35

A brother of a friend was a nuclear sub captain I’ve had a drink with him from time to time and he has interesting stories.


(Robin) #36

Awesome! Captain of a nuclear submarine! I would have just said, tell me it… and then sat back and took it all in.


#37

with booze, he told more than he probably should’ve, but I hardly remember a word! :wink:


#38

Oh yes. Thamey have the same pigmentation at silkys. Even the meat is black.


(Marianne) #39

Congratulations! I hope you love your new job.


(Marianne) #40

Very cool. Probably not that many people doing that!