Lots Of Great Talent On This Forum..."WHAT DO/DID YOU DO FOR A LIVING?????"

[Kodiak43351]

Metal fabricator / body man until total knee replacements and now iam retired and use metal detecting to help cope with pain and stress , and do I have stress ! Lol Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

i can understand the pain thing. I'm living with mid back pain and it sucks and I'm only 42. Prob injury from throwing hay and straw all my life or military injury.

 

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[Kodiak43351]

i can understand the pain thing. I'm living with mid back pain and it sucks and I'm only 42. Prob injury from throwing hay and straw all my life or military injury.

i come home from work everyday in lots of pain but metal detecting is too fun to give up.

 

[MODIZZLE71]

Chef / Kitchen Manager @ The Full Moon Oyster Bar in Southern Pines, NC

 

[cactusrat]

Chef / Kitchen Manager @ The Full Moon Oyster Bar in Southern Pines, NC

The Navy taught me how to burn water and did it for 25 years after I got out.

How many pearls have you found?

 

[MODIZZLE71]

8 total ive not found one my staff has tho i avoid stabbing myeelf

 

[paul of Penna]

Started with fixing washing machines and other major appliances....then US ARMY then HVAC for the last 30 years.....
Basically "YEA" I can fix that!

 

[Sapper724]

I was a Combat Engineer in the Army for 9 years. Basically we did demo and poked mines with sticks. Also did route and convoy security.

 

[jackedliberty]

Was an orderly in a psychiatric hospital for almost four years. Just got a new gig working for Target loading freight in trucks. Very physical work, but pays well.

Still pretty young, so heading back to school for park law enforcement once I get some of my debts paid off. Love helping people and love nature, so it seems like a good mix.

 

[dirtfisher28]

Collision repair now run a mobile collision repair business doing bumper repairs and paint touchups etc onsite for carlots and dealerships

 

[GarretDiggingAz]

Metal fabricator / body man until total knee replacements and now iam retired at 44 and use metal detecting to help cope with pain and stress , and do I have stress ! Lol Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

I hear ya brother. Been on disabilty now for four years. 5 brain surgeries and two strokes. So trying to support wife and 3 kids now (had 5 during that time) on limited income. Who would've thought, retired at 40 and didn't win lottery. Blew threw the savings and still trying to cope. Been detecting and saving the clad and been prospecting. Not rich yet. Lol. But at least finding some gold. Wish I started these hobbies when able to run the hills, but at least my diggings are close to the beating path.
Keep up the fight. Hope you've got family. My wife's still around. Can't believe that. I guess I'm lucky she puts up with me.
If you're ever in Arizona I could take ya out to do some prospecting or hunt some parks. Or we could collect brass in the desert.

 

[Sapper724]

I hear ya brother. Been on disabilty now for four years. 5 brain surgeries and two strokes. So trying to support wife and 3 kids now (had 5 during that time) on limited income. Who would've thought, retired at 40 and didn't win lottery. Blew threw the savings and still trying to cope. Been detecting and saving the clad and been prospecting. Not rich yet. Lol. But at least finding some gold. Wish I started these hobbies when able to run the hills, but at least my diggings are close to the beating path.
Keep up the fight. Hope you've got family. My wife's still around. Can't believe that. I guess I'm lucky she puts up with me.
If you're ever in Arizona I could take ya out to do some prospecting or hunt some parks. Or we could collect brass in the desert.

What part of az are you in

 

[sask hunter]

Wow we are both young iam 44 , was married for 16+ years have two beautiful daughters . Then about two years ago wife decided she wasn't happy and started to cheat and got pregnant from this idiot. He kicked her as out and she came running home asking if is take her back along with her new baby! Well for sake of my daughters I wanted to keep family together insaid yes. Well on my bday last march she left in the morning and went and picked up her baby's daddy and came home and said she is leaving me and our two daughters. So now it's just me and my daughters and iam on disability as well so money is an issue defiantly , can you talk about stress that iam under lol , but I hope karma pays her a visit! Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

 

[RobRieman]

Damn sask that sucks. Good luck to you my friend

 

[sask hunter]

Damn sask that sucks. Good luck to you my friend

Thanx... Yes these are rough times now , and now that metal detecting done that was a great stress reliever

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[Kodiak43351]

Thanx... Yes these are rough times now , and now that metal detecting done that was a great stress reliever Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

keep your head up I've been there with my first wife. You have your girls and that's the main thing. If ya get to stressed get on tnet and scroll through the finds. That always perks me up because I think that could be me finding that. Good luck.

 

[pkb]

Raymond forklift technician 53 years old . Damn I love this sport of dirt fishing LOL

 

[fish1on]

USAF electrician/electronics
only served 10 years then got hurt but now I am a civil service employee doing the same job but no uniform.

 

[G Freeman]

Played country music in bars and Moose lodges in my younger days Then drove 18 wheeler out of Mt Airy NC to west coast and back for many years then started playing music again and played the Dell Reeves homecoming in Sparta NC once a year for 10 years. Retired now and got into hard rock mining and quartz rocks and MD, and at 68 I and the wife are very happy. Played in Nashville once at Earnest Tubb record shop. Got so many stories cant tell them all here but life has been good.

 

[GarretDiggingAz]

Thanx... Yes these are rough times now , and now that metal detecting done that was a great stress reliever Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

Yeah Sask. a couple of young pups on early retirement. Sure sucks. Sorry about your ex, but it'll come around to her.

Just keep truckin as they say. I keep getting up each day and just wait to see what the world brings. I know how fortunate I am to be alive and don't try to waste it. Though there are the days when wasting is what I do. Lol.
Just try to plan out trips to goldfields and possibly detect a time or two between them. Funds depending of course.
I truly don't know how I've been able to get by this long, but it keeps working out. I just don't try to let the stress get to high. Just come her and read about "lost treasures of mariposa"(eagle's thread) or even Lanny AB's thread. Two of which I really enjoy. Though there are many others I enjoy as well. I love seeing peoples finds, or the discussions about which detector is better. Lol. Always good for a laugh and learning session. So much to learn from others that are involved deeply into detecting.

 

[Sandman]

i can understand the pain thing. I'm living with mid back pain and it sucks and I'm only 42. Prob injury from throwing hay and straw all my life or military injury.

At 72 you rack up lots of things to give us pain.