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gotbaitgofish

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very good article jmairey thanks
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 I am 50 years old, B-day Feb 24.  Red Jungle Fowl are my pet of choice, for the time being. I am planting Buffaloberry,Serviceberry, and Wolf berry with the hopes to hide my small house and feed off the land later, lol.
Built my house, paid my truck off, and own an Aegean Kayak(paid off) and my take home pay comes from selling properties in Mt.Hermon and Berkeley Ca.


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5+ years in the mortgage industry,... Wholesale account executivie....


Hate the job, love the pay.......What can I say? :smt006

Wish I could fish for a living....
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These days along with a four hour a day job for the Fresno Unified school District as a extended day coordinator.  I’m actually make the rest of my living as a freelance writer and photographer and occasional kayakfishing guide and instructor. subjects are sports-paddling and fishing.
« Last Edit: April 18, 2006, 05:55:24 AM by Paddle and flies »
Why Do I paddle a kayak instead of a float tube or a pontoon boat? I like seeing where I'm going not where I've been!
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hey Alfredo,

Caterpillar is damn famous as when I was in europe visiting my wife's family in slovakia the people we visited asked if we were able to get caterpillar boots for them here in the states. that is when i realized for a while now caterpillar has also entered the fashion scene: O )

Those work boots lok pretty tough but i always wondered if caterpillar actually licenses shoe makers or do people just use the name?


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22 + years as a Electronic Technician in Agilent Technologies ( used to be Hewlett Packard Company ) based in Santa Rosa California....What can I say,  I LOVE MY JOB......but the work I HATE !!!! because  they are sending me to Malaysia next month to train people who taking over my job.... :smt011 jobless after coming back 'coz they laid me off :smt010  but I will be working temporary for EDD for six month ( Unemployment )....Now, I got  more time to go fishing.... :smt045

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As others have said, my primary responsibility is to my wonderful family, Ema 11, Max 7. and my wife Jessi.  Ema and Max both fish and Ema is starting to Yak it with me.  Jessi could not be less interested..... 

Full time job in Student Affairs at UCSC with a BA in Speech and MA in Education.

I'm working on fishing for a living..... currently am a licensed guide (kayak fishing), represent marketing company for Ocean Kayaks for fishing, wirte a weekly fishing column for the Santa Cruz Sentinel and occasionaly write for other publications, and host the weekly "Let's Go Fishing Radio show" on KSCOAM in Santa Cruz---(streaming at ksco.com 7pm on thursday nights, or theletsgofishingradioshow.com...tune in).  So far all this goes to support my fishing habit only, can't really support the whole lifestyle, but in the future?  who knows.

Great thread.

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Papa Al

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Those work boots look pretty tough but i always wondered if caterpillar actually licenses shoe makers or do people just use the name?

Years ago I worked at our store in West Sacramento. We would get foreign people off the boats in the port that would walk to our store, buy all they could and take it back with them to sell.

Cat products like hats, shirts, jackets, boots are a big market. We sell tons of the stuff. The sales dept gives even more away to their customers. Buy a new D11 crawler and get a Cat hat!

Cat is real picky on how their logo is used. They license the manufactures. They also have rules on how the dealers can use the logo on our materials.


Here's a sample, not my store:
http://www.shopcaterpillar.com

« Last Edit: April 18, 2006, 12:47:55 PM by alfredo »


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....thought I'd revive this thread....

Here's what I really do at work  :smt002





 

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