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CIBF

10-02-2006 10:06:19

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I have a question for those of you not making a living from farming but are doing it on the side. Whats your day jobs??

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jiskies2

10-04-2006 21:45:55

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

night computer operator and during the summer doing hay for fun!
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mile0001

10-04-2006 09:53:39

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

unix systems administrator by day and farmer by night and weekends.

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Rickstir

10-03-2006 13:13:03

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I direct project management efforts at a small college. I also teach night classes there and some internet classes.

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Stickler

10-03-2006 08:47:10

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Hydro power station operator/millwright, ex motorcycle mechanic, ex long haul trucker

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JCKS

10-03-2006 03:57:03

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Electronics Technician for the Post Office working from 22:50 to 07:00. Most days a good job as it supports my farming and land buying habit. I farm 374 acres, of which 226.5 are in row crop. I own 214 acres. Have too many tractors to hear my wife and girls comments, but I enjoy what I'm doing was raised on a farm and probably die that way. Life is Good!

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buickanddeere

10-03-2006 03:55:03

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I tinker with nuclear reactors.

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Brad in WI

10-03-2006 02:05:58

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I am with those guys that do the night shift thing. 3pm to 3am four days a week in a machine shop.

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10-02-2006 23:32:45

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I'm with Don. It's a night job 3:30-12:00 or 2:00. It just depends on the day of the week.
Been a diesel mechanic for 20+ years.

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Don-Wi

10-02-2006 22:39:48

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Well, it's more of a night job. I work 2nd shift in a machine shop, 1:30-11:30

Donovan from Wisconsin

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alg

10-02-2006 22:12:36

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Day and nights,Boiler operator or should I use my formal title.Stationary engineer.

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MF294-4

10-02-2006 21:05:40

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Working Electronics shop last 30+ yrs. Installing radios in farm and fertlizer business.Maintain some sheriff dept. and 911 systems etc. Have a farmer that has 40k acres of corn. Spent last day installing ground based gps correction sys for Case-IH dealer that is going to sell to farmers for precision farming. Put in 14 hrs today. Ready to retire.....

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THEkyroastnear

10-02-2006 19:48:03

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

factory job build refrigerators on assembly line pretty much hate it used to have cattle and raise some tobacco on 36 acres now just play with old tractors and try to help my neighbors on weekends

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Ol Chief

10-02-2006 19:41:24

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I learned most of the watchmaking profession at my Dads knee when I was real small.He taught me the whole deal, had to make many of the tools.Fine screws,flat drills,taps,cutting tools,treatment of metals the whole works.We had a chicken farm which Mom ran. Early WW 2 Got a job in a machine shop nights and weekends while ln hi. school.Went to sea in 44 in US Merchant Marine.Hit the books and worked up thru the ranks. Got my engineering license.Sailed until Korean war.Then went in Navy 1950 as Eng.Officer.Out of Navy,went back Merchant shipping.After lots of years in the junior ranks made it to Chief Eng. which jobs I held for forty years until retirement in 2003.During many of those years I sailed in the winter time and farmed in summer.Have reduced from 300 acres to only 30 now.I love farming but still have a hankering to go back to sea for a while, part time.Maybe to old? I have a nice shop and do occasional repairs for others but my own tractor fleet is more than enough to keep we busy forever.

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Hal/WA

10-02-2006 22:15:42

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to Ol Chief, 10-02-2006 19:41:24

My Uncle was an officer in the Merchant Marines in WW2 and was the ship's engineer, running the boilers and machinery. After the War he worked for Kaiser for many years. About the last 10 or 15 years at Kaiser he ran their steam plant. In retirement, he was a boiler operator for a local hospital.

My Uncle went back to sea several different times, partly to keep up his boiler papers. At that time, every so many years, Kaiser gave its employees 10 weeks of vacation and during those times my Uncle got a job on a ship and went somewhere, usually flying back from halfway around the world. I don't know just how he got those jobs--I should have asked him, but he sure had interesting stories about his voyages. I also got the impression that he got paid very well each time he went to sea.

He enjoyed his time in the Merchant Marine and travelled all over the Pacific. He met his wife, who was in the Waves in San Francisco and they were married for almost 50 years when she passed. He is gone now too, just like so many of the people who helped win WW2: REAL HEROES!

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Steven@AZ

10-02-2006 18:55:10

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Teaching 6th graders...

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Kelly Campbell

10-02-2006 18:15:08

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Day job is being a television producer/director for a educational television network.
Also work part time for the local farm supply in the evening, and then there's the farm with hay to be put up and horses to be trained! :)

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shawnspeed3

10-02-2006 18:07:54

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

When I was younger and still racing cars/bikes we called it an RJ or real job...work all winter take the summer off..sorta like farming ...I used to be a fabricator/machinist, then engineer , and now I am a clay sculptor,that has a farm and sells his wares to my co-workers at generous motors, that are looking for food that is raised naturally with no crap(horemones/antibiotcs) and on pasture. also help my tennant that rents 13Ac of ground for row crops mantain his equipment,and fill in his labor gaps when needed as an ag-prentiship , city boy's gotta learn somewhere...Shawn

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steve from mo - dangit!

10-02-2006 18:03:27

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Jobs. in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

That's about right.

I am a program evaluator for the State of Missouri Legislative Research Committee Oversight Division. That means I used to be an accountant, then an auditor, and now I am mostly a writer. That's #1.

I run a small computer network for my wife's office and write ads for her real estate business.
That's #2.

I have some rental houses. That's #3.

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Red Tech

10-02-2006 18:01:48

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

My situation is a little different, being as I'm still in my teens. Dad owns the farm, (actually only 20 acres with another 160 acres of pasture a few miles away) and I help him out with it. Dad works days as a Heavy Duty Mechanic for the public works department of the nearest town. I spend my days working as a first year apprentice Agricultural Equipment Mechanic for the local Case-IH dealership. On the evenings and weekends I hit the books, doing my Grade 12 by correspondence schooling. At least, courtesy of a program we have up here in Alberta, I can earn high school credits by doing an apprenticeship. Hence why I'm a first year apprentice and a Grade 12 student at the same time.
Not a lot of time for farming, but I try to help when I can.

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RM in Va.

10-02-2006 17:51:31

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Industrial electrician/AB logic programmer. Use to raise tobacco but only have cattle now. Sure glad I have a job so I can farm some. LOL

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barnrat

10-02-2006 17:33:08

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Don't know if you can count me, cause I still consider myself a full time farmer. When I'm not farming I drive school bus or drive log truck. In between that I run a small farm/industrial equipment repair shop.

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Jimmy King

10-04-2006 11:23:21

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to barnrat, 10-02-2006 17:33:08

Having been raised on a Dairy and Registered Hog Farm, and came back with my Dad in 1971 to Dairy Farm, He passed away in 1986 and I Dairied until 1996. You Barnrat farm full time, and just have a part time job, and that qualify's you as a full time farmer in my book, And I did milk Jerseys. At one time about 1/3 of my herd was Registered.

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barnrat

10-04-2006 15:25:03

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to Jimmy King, 10-04-2006 11:23:21

My wife and I milk about 40-50 Jerseys, Holstiens and inbetweens on 160 acres in Western NY. All the Jerseys and crosses are or will be registered. All I can say about the Jobs is that it wouldn't be possible without my wife doing more then her fair share. And all that work is at least allowing a couple of young(under 30)farmers to get started and actually be able to own the farm and the animals.

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BigMarv1085

10-02-2006 17:07:29

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I'm a airline mechanic and farm about 300 acres of hay and some cows. Ran a large vegetable farm with hogs,cattle, hay, and about 2000 acres of row crops.

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Dave Sherburne NY

10-02-2006 15:27:21

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Retired Do what I wanna when I wanna.

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River Bottom farmer

10-02-2006 15:26:23

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Truck and equipment mechanic for Nations Rent now a Sunbelt Company...Just dont know for how long gettin to be a sad place to work...River bottomm Farmer

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thejdman01

10-03-2006 17:33:05

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to River Bottom farmer, 10-02-2006 15:26:23

I was thinking about maybe driving truck for sunbelt out of chicago as they pay good wages, is it a copmany wide thing or just a jerk of a boss?

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Rick (IA)

10-02-2006 15:22:40

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

In past lives I was a spook, a banker, and a retail store owner. Now I'm a desk farmer and grandpa, looking after our family farms from our place in town, where the 8N resides under the crab tree.

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RJ-AZ

10-02-2006 15:05:31

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Master mechanic for AZ Dot (17yrs), run a field service truck mostly all outdoors work. No tractors yet but work on a few on the side keeping all the junk in this ;ittle Burg running.

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JDB

10-02-2006 15:00:20

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Job title is mechanical designer. Basically a glorified draftsman / jr engineer

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BillyinStoughton

10-02-2006 14:33:24

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Sales for an HVAC Wholesaler. Great gig! Get to drive around my territory (which is quite rural) and look for old tractors and implements all day. Of course there is some more important things to do once I reach my destinations, but for every two high stress (in office) days I have...I have one day out and about. Too young to have this good a gig.

Plus I have to drive by both a Case IH dealership and a JD dealership. So if I need parts, I plan my day so lunch falls right when I happen to be driving by. We call that "window farming" up here.

I like to catch up with you's guys when I can find a minute once in a while.

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Pitalplace

10-02-2006 14:20:41

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Conductor on the railroad, retired cop, have 7 acres with two shops. One for wood working and one for the tractor habit. Try to spend as much time playing in the shops and possible. Have helped a friend with large custom farming operation but way too busy with the railroad and playing now.

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Matt from CT

10-02-2006 14:08:57

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I feel about as useful as a lawyer recent weeks ;)

I'm a computer geek, and been earning my keep recently doing "Assurance" work...basically making sure the IT Department has dotted the Is and crossed the Ts. Not exactly creative, value-added stuff...but it pays the bills.

Don't have a farm, but a large garden, cut my own firewood, have a TO-35, and one of these days I'll have some large four legged critters roaming around...

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Cue P.

10-02-2006 14:07:13

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Another engineer here. Electrical actually - in the nuclear power industry. Gardening mostly and some fruit trees at home but worked on a farm thru high school and college. Now satisfying my farming itch by helping out a friend on his veggie/apple and pick-yu"r-own place...which gives me a place to use my old tractor too !!

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Grub0927

10-02-2006 14:03:34

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I'm a sales/service rep for a company that manufactures piston aircraft engine parts. Business trips come at the "wrong" time for some of my farming adventures. My wife says I need to be on the road less; I say we just need another tractor (bigger of course). I'm sure you can see the eye roll from your seat.
I moved back last summer to the small farm I grew up on in NW Oregon. Mom and Dad couldn't keep up so they moved to town. My wife and boys love it and we can't imagine doing anything else.

Grub

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Steve from Arkansas

10-02-2006 13:34:57

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Work full time for Rual Development, an agency within the USDA. I have 50 brood cows, give or take a couple. I also am a volunteer fire chief. Our two stations cover a town of about 350 pop. and about 120 sq miles of timber and farm land. We do first responding to medical calls as well as fires. Saturday my son who is also on the fire department and I were the first to arrive on scene where a building had fallen on man. Turns out to be my wifes uncle. He died as I was talking to him while loading into ambulance. Internal injuries. His son was there too. Pretty sad. He did tell us he was in no pain. I guess that was a blessing.

I am working at restoring a 1937 MM ZTU, also a 1937 ford pickup. Also in line to be restored is a 1937 Ford 1 1/2 ton, a 1946 KB5 IH( if I live long enough)

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Case Lady

10-02-2006 13:23:12

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

15 years of working as slave driver and bean counter for the oldest law firm in Tulsa, OK. Taught Agriculture Education prior to this job. Prefer working with livestock rather than lawyers, but gotta support my cow buying habit somehow.....

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spitz

10-02-2006 13:19:20

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I teach Math and Agriculture at a high school. Get a lot more respect as a teacher when you do what you teach! Keep on!!

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jubilee johnny

10-02-2006 12:59:50

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

By day I'm a dentist. But I can't wait to get home and into the shop. Right now I'm trying to finish restoring a John Deere/van brunt drill before cold weather sets in. My 3 year old boy, Jeb, is right on my coat tails all the time and has all of our tractors, trailers, and other vehicles named. Both my grandparents were farmers and I helping in wheat harvest when I was about 12.

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mjbrown

10-02-2006 12:52:37

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I'm a boat rigger for Cornell Crew. A boat rigger fixes/
tweaks racing shells & oars. Both are now all carbon fiber. I could be on any day fixing a ding you can hardly see to making a mold to fabricate a new bow for a wrecked boat. There is a shell wreck video on you tube under St. Ignasius Crew that is rather hair raising if you want to see why this job has paid for my farm and machinery.

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PhilcaseinWPa

10-02-2006 12:28:18

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

I work as a lab tech 9 months at a college. Then each summer i take a leave of absence and work on our produce farm. Been doing this for 25 years and am trying to figure out if I can afford to retire in a year or year and a half. I'm just not sure which job to retire from, the easy one or the fun one. My wife says if I want her to keep on helping with the farming I had better retire soon and be around in late August and the fall to help her out. So I guess that's settled. Let's see 248 workdays left.

Phil

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John T

10-02-2006 12:17:56

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Graduated from Purdue as an Electrical Engineer and worked at it most my life, but farmed some part time and quit the engineering a while and farmed full time plus was a used tractor dealer in the seventies n eighties. Early out retired as an engineer in 1991 and got my JD law degree and am now a semi retited Country Lawyer and still farm just a little. In addition to attorney work I give tractor electrical seminars at some of the national antique John Deere tractor shows and wrote articles for the Green Magazine. Plan to fully retire soon and travel in our RV to visit the kids and attend tractor shows, give seminars and travel n camp the Natinal Parks, God willin.

John T Nordhoff in Indiana

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GeorgeH

10-02-2006 13:56:11

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to John T, 10-02-2006 12:17:56

John Deere issued law degrees? LOL

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John T

10-02-2006 18:09:32

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to GeorgeH, 10-02-2006 13:56:11

Heck, I hadnt heard if they (Mother Deere) did or I may have tried it lol cuz I'm a John Deere man fer sure. Had to attend Indiana University School of law to earn my Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree or JD (Juris Doctor) as its referred to versus MD (Medical Doctor) etc.

Yall take care now, best wishes n God Bless

John T

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Allan In NE

10-02-2006 11:18:49

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Job? UGH! 'Taint got time fer no job! Too darned busy playin'. :>)

Allan

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ZacsDad

10-02-2006 10:33:19

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Currently VP of Service Development for a telecom hardware manufacturer. I write the proposals and scopes of work to provide installation services for complex voice/data networks. Been a network engineer, worked for IBM fixing mainframes (so very looong ago), a market gardener for a while, motorcycle mechanic, musician, lots of other stuff at one point in time or another

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jmixigo

10-02-2006 10:25:53

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

After I retired from the Harley-Davidson motorcycle business I bought part intrest in a Heavy truck repair/road service/wrecker service where I work part time.

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farmallman

10-02-2006 10:18:34

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

Ok, Now i aint a farmer but i want to be one. Now i went to college and now have a Diploma in Agriculture. That said, i am looking to buy a farm, but land dont go for very cheap here. I currently work at a tractor dealer in parts and i help out on the farm at home. we have cash crop (sugar beets, corn, beans, and wheat) and laying hens. I love it

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Sam (MO)

10-02-2006 10:16:17

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to CIBF, 10-02-2006 10:06:19

well, when I'm not working with the cattle or baling hay. I work as a contractor for the Army. Spent 22 years with them wearing the green suit, but now I call it "get shot at and missed and s*&t and hit.

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nballen

10-02-2006 11:14:08

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Re: OT...Day Jobs??? in reply to Sam (MO), 10-02-2006 10:16:17

Mechanical Engineer...currently designing commuter locomotives.

Would be farming / ranching fulltime in a heartbeat, if I could see the way clear to pay the bills and make a decent living at it (BTW, my wife doesn't work outside the home).

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