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I just read the headlines
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I'm a Cry Baby
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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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 The Vaccinator
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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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 A Somebody to Everybody
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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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 Horsey Gene Carrier
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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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  Fact Checker
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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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 To the Left
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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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Regular
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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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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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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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 Hog Tie My Mojo
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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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 BHW Resident Surgeon
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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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Go Get Em!
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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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Expert
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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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 Owner of a ratting catting machine
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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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BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Things I'd love to learn: carpenter, electrician, diesel mechanic, welding. |
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