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Location: Bandera, TX | My SO does predator control for Wildlife Services. Best possible job for him. While he definitely does not get rich of it, he loves it. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Farrier. As least that's one less expense...  |
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | My SO owns a auto repair shop that we both work at. So we live together, work together and I still love spending as much time as I can with him. I feel very, very lucky. |
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Location: Texas | My hubby is a police officer.  |
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Location: Oklahoma | My hubby is a heavy duty diesel mechanic. He is cummins certified and is the head mechanic for a concrete company. |
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Location: Pelham, TN | Mine just happens to be a bit maker!!! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Mine is on the Tower Crew for NextLink Internet. He's been here less than a year and loves it. He prepares the concrete pad, assembles the tower, climbes the tower and installs the software,cables, etc on top of the towers.
He used to be a heavy mmachinery diesel mechanic for an Oil Field Company. |
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| He runs with our neighbor putting in field tile and septic tanks. When that gets slow through the winter he cuts hedge for fence posts and we put in cattle fence around the area. Also does day work at the sale barn and a bigger cattle ranch in the area. |
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| BarrelRacing4Christ - 2017-02-01 1:43 PM
My hubby is a police officer.
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Location: Kentucky | Mine fixes the air tools for Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Farmer. We work together and I love it. |
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Location: Texas | My fiance is a general manager for a Dicks Sporting Goods. |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | Luckily my fiancé day works penning and working cattle for the public. My horses all have a "real" job thanks to him! It keeps them sane and super broke! He also rides colts for the public... that has its pros and cons- my colts are usually last priority because I don't pay! But he's made me a better horseman! |
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| Senior Managing Director for Greystar, they develope and build apartments , he runs the US and Mexico construction division. |
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| My husband owns his own construction company. He does anything from remodels, roofs, siding, etc.
In the winter when he's "slow" he also plows snow. Although this winter thus far he has been working 50 hour weeks still. |
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Location: Northwest | My husband oversees the operation of a wind farm. |
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| my husband is an alarm service technician, but can do most things that are electronic, as well as has a commercial trucking license in case he needs "something to fall back on." |
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| Mine is a mechanical specialist for Flint Hills Refinery, he does a lot of trouble shooting at his job. We also run several hundred cows on various lease places with my dad and brother. |
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Location: n.c. | Mine is a "jack of all trades". lol But, his main job is structural mover.
Moves houses, packhouses, barns, jacks them up, levels them.
He also hauls cattle, starts colts and anything else that brings in a dollar. |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | mine thinks his job is a professional coyote hunter,and fisherman.In the real world he sells siding, roofing and insulation. |
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | Mine is retired. He was a powerhouse superintendent. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My hubby is his own boss, he owns his mechanic shop and hes also a diesel mechanic and just a jack of all trades too. Works on Tractors, backhoes, does alot of welding for anyone that needs it, lawn mowers anything that has a motor. What gets me is that he really enjoys doing all this. 
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | Mine is a large equipment operator (Grader Foreman) for a road building company here in SW Fla. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Mine is now formally retired but spent 40 years as a shoe/boot and saddle repairman and custom saddlemaker. And in his spare time (LOL), he was a farrier.
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Location: Florida | Some of us don't have or have ever had husbands. The way I was raised SO doesn't count. Guess I am old school conservative. And you guys thought I was liberal. |
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Location: north dakota | Farmer and has cows |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | ndcowgirl - 2017-02-01 8:44 PM Farmer and has cows
I thought you were married to a doctor?
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Location: B-F-E | My husband is a foreman for a sheet metal company. His dad's a farmer which he helps a lot with and will eventually acquire. He also has a pig farm now that will eventually be a total of 10,000-ish pigs. I rarely see him, lol  |
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Location: Phoenix | Software Engineer. Super nerdy and often stays up late learning about stuff he doesn't know much about. It amazes me how smart he is. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Special Ed teacher and football coach, his team was 12-1 last year! He also trims and shoes my horses if I beg enough, lol. |
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| He is currently a finish carpenter, but got hurt at work a couple of weeks ago so not sure what he will be doing now. He also is a farrier and trained race horses for many years! |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | It's interesting and humbling reading this thread. I keep reading "My hubby is a ______ and he does ________." I'm sitting here thinking, dang I wish I knew how to do all these things, even a few. I'd love to spend a few days with some of these guys. |
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Location: Wyoming | My so was a lifeflight medic, now he is the director of emergency services at the local college. He also works part time in a cath lab. At the moment he is anticipating acceptance to physicians assistant school... he's way more ambitious than I am |
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Location: OH. IO | Bear - 2017-02-01 9:05 PM
It's interesting and humbling reading this thread. I keep reading "My hubby is a ______ and he does ________." I'm sitting here thinking, dang I wish I knew how to do all these things, even a few. I'd love to spend a few days with some of these guys.
That was very nice of you to say. :) |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | My SO is a Welder. Because of that I now know more about welding than I ever cared to..... the other day I caught my self looking at the welds on my horse trailer to see if they were "pretty welds"
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| Mine is a pipeline construction inspector, he specializes in traceability and software application/design. He was a surveyor for nearly 20 years before that. Dude is crazy smart with numbers and computers. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Things I'd love to learn: carpenter, electrician, diesel mechanic, welding. |
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Location: British Columbia | J-man Electrician |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Bear - 2017-02-01 10:22 PM Things I'd love to learn: carpenter, electrician, diesel mechanic, welding.
Doc you already have a gift working with your hands and helping with the healing of the sick and to me thats super special, we need more Doctors like you. Not many can do what you do. |
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| TessBelle - 2017-02-01 9:32 PM
My SO is a Welder. Because of that I now know more about welding than I ever cared to..... the other day I caught my self looking at the welds on my horse trailer to see if they were "pretty welds"
Same here! My guy fixes ag planes (he has a fancier job title but that sums it up) and does quite a bit of welding for the company in his spare time as well... I now catch myself checking all the welds on my trailer and critiquing them spoiler alert: he claims he could have done them better :) |
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| My husband is a 3rd generation brick mason and owns his own company. He also farms and logs on the side. |
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| My husband is the batch manager for a concrete company. But his real gift is automotive. He can fix anything from diesel to lawnmower and do it with bubble gum and tin foil if that's all that's handy. I literally could sit and watch him for hours tackle a project. It got so bad around here with friends and neighbors dropping stuff off that he put an end to it. The concrete company keeps him extremely busy these days. |
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | Mine is a psychologist. Farrier and day working cowboy on the side.  |
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| Master Electrician for a company that mainly does Industrial work. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Tilt The Kilt - 2017-02-02 8:09 AM Mine is a psychologist. Farrier and day working cowboy on the side.
Horses are probably his go to - to sort out all of the things he hears about and tries to help people with. |
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| So neat to hear what everyone's husbands and SO's do! Sounds like we have a very talented group  |
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | 3canstorun - 2017-02-02 8:09 AM Tilt The Kilt - 2017-02-02 8:09 AM Mine is a psychologist. Farrier and day working cowboy on the side.
Yes! He'll retire one day from his practice but he'll die a cowboy.
And honestly the horse shoeing is what kept the bills paid while in grad school. |
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Location: Oklahoma | RidenFly - 2017-02-02 5:37 AM
My husband is the batch manager for a concrete company. But his real gift is automotive. He can fix anything from diesel to lawnmower and do it with bubble gum and tin foil if that's all that's handy. I literally could sit and watch him for hours tackle a project. It got so bad around here with friends and neighbors dropping stuff off that he put an end to it. The concrete company keeps him extremely busy these days.
Concrete companies definitely keep them busy... Mine has been putting in long days trying to get trucks running. He's currently in-framing a motor of one of their haul trucks right now |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | My husband is an attorney. He does some side work as a real estate appraiser. |
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| Mine use to be a high voltage lineman... that use to scare me to death.. he decided he needed an easier job, climbing poles got too hard on his knees... He went back to driving an 18 wheeler for a large company... amazing insurance, good pay and he's only gone once a week now. Plus side, I have him drive us to all the horse shows, he can back our trailer into any spot with his eyes closed lol! |
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Location: Way up North | Mine is a seed salesman (corn, soybeans, etc) and they just got a drone to add to their consulting side so he likes to think of himself as a remote pilot too haha |
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Location: SW North Dakota | My husband is a full time rancher/farmer. I tease him that he doesn't have a real job.
We still do all of our cow work from horseback, so our rodeo horses are all ranch horses. I am very proud of him. He talks to his dogsand horses like they're human (either praising or cussing). He can weld anything, does all his own mechanic work, and most of his own vet work. Farms thousands of acres and runs hundreds of cows without a hired man. He's incredibly hard working, I just wish we had more free time together. |
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Location: Nor Cal | My husband is Active Duty Marines! He's been in 10 years and plans on going the full 20+, then we are moving back to our home state and he's going to open a gunsmith shop/gun range. I consider myself very lucky cause I get to stay home with our little man (with another on the way).  |
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| rpreast - 2017-02-01 3:28 PM
BarrelRacing4Christ - 2017-02-01 1:43 PM
My hubby is a police officer.
Same
Thank them both for me! |
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Location: North Dakota | My better half manages a warehouse full of whole sale HVAC, and plumbing supplies-he has a class A license (JUST IN CASE) Been with the company 19 years-they are a local firm that is incredible to their employees. And then when he comes home......welding, remodeling, cutting up meat, plumbing, heating, he can fix campers, cars, four wheelers-his dad always said-if someone can get paid to do a job-you can learn it! Not sure that applies to Doctors but so far he's been right! And of course he does have a few hobbies-but work always comes first..
HEY DOC-buy the dang welder and see what you can learn-good equipment make good welders if you're patient! |
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Location: North Dakota | My husband is the Fisheries Management Section Leader for the ND Game and Fish Department. He's the guy that makes sure ND Fisheries are operating smoothly, from stocking to management of our lakes and reservoirs; they are a huge proponent of our tourism industry. He is incredibly smart, but yet incredibly humble. He even developed & published a method in which to monitor over exploitation of fish, while he was in graduate school at the University of Minnesota. He's a total numbers guy!LOL He should have been an engineer, but he loves fish, so he centered his career around what the loved:) |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | I enjoy hearing how everyone is so proud of what their spouses do! They all seem like amazingly hard working individuals....great thread! |
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Location: Kentucky | Bear - 2017-02-01 11:22 PM Things I'd love to learn: carpenter, electrician, diesel mechanic, welding.
My husband would tell you that no, you do not LOL. The more skills you know like this, the more everyone wants free labor! Probably the same as being a doctor though, people want services for free. |
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Location: never in the right place | my husband does heating and air conditioning, in the winter he plows and he also hauls cars for a restoration company |
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| My husband trains horses for the public full time (mainly team roping horses). He also buys a few nice prospects every year to finish out and sale. He has a small heard of corriente/longhorn cattle as well. He works hard, long hours but loves what he does. I dont see him ever having a boss other than himself. |
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | Tundra - 2017-02-02 12:11 AM TessBelle - 2017-02-01 9:32 PM My SO is a Welder. Because of that I now know more about welding than I ever cared to..... the other day I caught my self looking at the welds on my horse trailer to see if they were "pretty welds" Same here! My guy fixes ag planes (he has a fancier job title but that sums it up ) and does quite a bit of welding for the company in his spare time as well... I now catch myself checking all the welds on my trailer and critiquing them spoiler alert: he claims he could have done them better : )
Ditto! There are a few trailer brands we can never own because the welds just aren't pretty enough.
My handsomest husband is production manager for a regional sign company but he'd prefer it if you just call him a sign man. Signs are like a cult. Once you get in, you never get back out. He keeps threatening to get SIGN LIFE tattooed across his knuckles.
He can do just about anything. Design, fabricate, weld, paint, and then wire it up so it lights up at night. He amazes me with the things he can create. His brain is always going figuring out exactly how to make his ideas look and function like he wants them.
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Location: KS | TrackinBubba - 2017-02-02 1:23 PM
Tundra - 2017-02-02 12:11 AM TessBelle - 2017-02-01 9:32 PM My SO is a Welder. Because of that I now know more about welding than I ever cared to..... the other day I caught my self looking at the welds on my horse trailer to see if they were "pretty welds" Same here! My guy fixes ag planes (he has a fancier job title but that sums it up ) and does quite a bit of welding for the company in his spare time as well... I now catch myself checking all the welds on my trailer and critiquing them spoiler alert: he claims he could have done them better : )
My handsomest husband is production manager for a regional sign company but he'd prefer it if you just call him a sign man. Signs are like a cult. Once you get in, you never get back out. He keeps threatening to get SIGN LIFE tattooed across his knuckles.
He can do just about anything. Design, fabricate, weld, paint, and then wire it up so it lights up at night. He amazes me with the things he can create. His brain is always going figuring out exactly how to make his ideas look and function like he wants them.
He's pretty cute too.
^^^^this made me laugh.....know exactly what your talking about.
My husband farms and ranches, honestly he can do whatever he puts his mind too. I'm thinking about joining him. |
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| My husband is a truck driver. He used to cowboy for a living, and loved it and misses it, but his current job has better pay/benefits, etc and works better for us right now.
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Mine is now fully retired.
When we lived in Illinois he was an equine dentist in the morning on the Chicago racetracks and then worked 3 to 11 being a police officer.
He retired from police work and we moved to Texas 20 years ago where he continued to do what he loved...Equine Dentistry. He had to quit when a horse tore his rotor cuff 3 years ago. He would love to be able to still be working. He's not cut out for this retirement stuff.
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Location: Arkansas | Farrier, horse trainer (although he is about to stop starting them), we buy/sell several horses a year so he puts time on them to tue them up, etc. He also day works a little when the opportunity arises. We have 20 or so head of horses, so that keeps him busy when he doesn't have other work. LOL. We were raising a few pigs but we are finished with that as well. |
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Location: On My Horse! | Mine is a high voltage lineman. :-) Hard, scary work, but he enjoys it! |
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| My husband is a safety manager.. |
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Location: Lone Star State | Principal and football coach. |
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| TwistedK - 2017-02-03 6:36 AM RidenFly - 2017-02-02 5:37 AM My husband is the batch manager for a concrete company. But his real gift is automotive. He can fix anything from diesel to lawnmower and do it with bubble gum and tin foil if that's all that's handy. I literally could sit and watch him for hours tackle a project. It got so bad around here with friends and neighbors dropping stuff off that he put an end to it. The concrete company keeps him extremely busy these days. Concrete companies definitely keep them busy... Mine has been putting in long days trying to get trucks running. He's currently in-framing a motor of one of their haul trucks right now
We're close to the border. Mine wonders if they are going to get contracted to build "the wall." |
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Location: Oklahoma | RidenFly - 2017-02-03 2:17 AM
TwistedK - 2017-02-03 6:36 AM RidenFly - 2017-02-02 5:37 AM My husband is the batch manager for a concrete company. But his real gift is automotive. He can fix anything from diesel to lawnmower and do it with bubble gum and tin foil if that's all that's handy. I literally could sit and watch him for hours tackle a project. It got so bad around here with friends and neighbors dropping stuff off that he put an end to it. The concrete company keeps him extremely busy these days. Concrete companies definitely keep them busy... Mine has been putting in long days trying to get trucks running. He's currently in-framing a motor of one of their haul trucks right now
hmmm... I'll send mine down to keep those trucks running if they build the wall |
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Location: Missouri | My husband works for the Hwy Dept. in our County. He mostly drives a dump truck, but operates heavy equipment when needed. He's just been there 4 years and loves it. Me? not so much. Driving around in a truck all day has made him lazy. Before that, he sold tires. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | My husband ranches with his dad, but since most major decisions ranch related are "above his pay grade," he bought his own Semi, Cattle Pot, Belly Dump and Grain trailer to haul cattle/hay/grain/gravel. It's good money when he hauls hard, but sucks having him gone so much. He's starting to haul less since his dad is getting older. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Mine is a truck driver and instructor in the Army....a carpenter, a welder, an electrician, a farrier, etc etc etc....
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Location: frozen tundra of pa | ?My wife is a 4th grade teacher. |
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Location: Armuchee, GA, NW section of Ga | Basically retired, but still Chairman of the board, and keeping busy with various business related actitivies that keep him out of my hair...
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Location: North Dakota | Mine dispatches for power cooperatives but within then next few months he's hoping to get a position in maintenance scheduling that will really change our lives. Hoping and praying that it comes through  |
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Location: BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA | My husband is a signal maintenance technician for the railroad |
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Location: British Columbia | DPentland - 2017-02-05 10:37 AM
My husband is a signal maintenance technician for the railroad
Does he enjoy it? Justin is a journeyman electrician, but I saw that CN was hiring in Kamloops for this position and told him he should apply. He is going through all the hoops at this he mill right now, bUT if that doesn't work out, he doesn't really want to stay on as a contractor. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Nevertooold - 2017-02-02 2:24 PM Mine is now fully retired.
When we lived in Illinois he was an equine dentist in the morning on the Chicago racetracks and then worked 3 to 11 being a police officer.
He retired from police work and we moved to Texas 20 years ago where he continued to do what he loved...Equine Dentistry. He had to quit when a horse tore his rotor cuff 3 years ago. He would love to be able to still be working. He's not cut out for this retirement stuff.
Isn't that the truth? This past year, with his dizzy spells etc, I won't let hubby work in the shop around the stitchers, etc.....He has decided to sell out.....and I REALLY don't look forward to that.....lol |
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| We're both self employed and work together... We have a fencing company, raise and train horses and have cattle. |
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