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Old 02-11-2007 | 02:04 PM
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bigcountry
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Default RE: The Blue Collar Bowhunter !

ORIGINAL: Tj Craig

MEN,
How many of you actually work for a living and BOWHUNT for a hobby and WONDER if the guys we idolize could do what they do if they lived on the income we doAND THE WORK SCHEDULE we do? Yep!!! NONE of them! The Wensels ? LOL, Could you imagine them two fat guys actually working ?? lol !!NOPE !! andTHEN GOING HUNTING AFTER WORK a sweatty back breaking day of workFOR THEM WORLD CLASS WHITETAILS ?? LOL !! Hell ya gotta have money to live where they live and lease 10,000 Iowa acres likethey do ,Heck if they actually had to work you wouldn,t have ever heard a wordaboutthem andYou and I know it ! Traditional Bowhunting has been YUPPIED ! AS well as all bowhunting period. Iam a BLUE COLLAR BOWHUNTER how about YOU !???
TJ
I guess I don't understand what one has to do with another. Other than kinda patting yourself heavily on the back.

I do whitecollar work. And not ashamed at all of it. If people are jealous, they have no one to blame but themselves, when they cut up all the time in class, and spent all thier time playing games.

I am just amazed about doctors, they go thru grueling 12 years minimum schooling, and are dead broke doing it. They deserve all our respect. I know I couldn't go thru thier program. They dont' even start making money until they are in thier 30's. Thats insane. They want to enjoy a hunt, I say go for it.

And when people actually see how many hours I work on salary, (usually low 60's) I usually hear them say, they wouldn't do it. They say they would rather spend time withtheir family and work 8 hours a day. Actually most white collar hunters I know, dont' get to hunt near as much as blue collar hunters, because most blue collar hunters seem to get off more days, and easier, and very specified shifts they are can work around, unless they are self employed.

Fall is the busiest time for us, as its end of physical quarter, and then Europe does most of its lab work. This sucks for hunting.

Most of the people I see on those 10,000 hunts are self employed business owners and for some odd reason most these days I meet are home contractors. Kinda middle of the road blue/white collar since the housing boom.

Now, lawyers on the other hand are well lawyers, and don't deserve much. [:'(]

I feel kinda lucky as I understand both sides. I was the first from my family to ever graduate college. Almost all my family are coal miners, and so was I going thru college. Only reason I went to college was scholarship aid, and a hefty 20%unemployment in Eastern Ky in the late 80%. I came from both sides of the tracks, and neither side totally understands the other unless they have done it.

I don't know stealth, It sounds like a big hefty dose of jealousy on your part.
 
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