fishing for your living

Got an A.A. in Fine Arts and then started working for a Pile Driving Contractor in the office. Almost 15 years later I am now the A/P Supervisor (sounds good but as the only person in A/P supervisor sounds funny) and the MIS (another cool name for the guy that is in charge of anything with software or electricity flowing through it not directly construction related) as well as a few other various jobs. It is fun and exhausting and eats up a lot of my time but hey it pays the bills.

Jeff

I carve fish and fish related images in wood in a Pacific Northwest style. Once in a while I sell a piece and that helps to fund my kayaking & fishing. This will be my second year of creating the AOTY awards.

This summer I've taken a second unpaid position as a Bean Hollow haunter. I love the commute!

With what is left of my attention I work as the AP and billing supervisor with a small company based in Santa Cruz that sells data storage media and solutions, primarily to medical facilities. Been here for 8 years. Never thought I would be working a desk job in finance/accounting, but one thing you learn in SC is that you need to be flexible to make it here. This job keeps me from having to drive the 17 and they let me bring my husky dog into work so I can't complain.

 I have been working with jewelry for the last few decades. Mostly custom design and fabrication with some lapidary action thrown in. I'm in the process of opening my own store in Windsor and it's really cutting in to my fishing time.
 I started out as a motor-head wrenching and doing custom paint, did a stint with the railroad, and fabricated stainless for a wine tank company.

 To fund my kayaking, I'm a Field Service Engineer, for a big Japanese company,Hitachi, in their Semiconductor equipment division. I work on Plasma metal etchers.  Also I'm an amateur astronomer, and worm farmer (very small scale) Worm poo, its what plants crave!

I work for Saint Michael, the patron saint of lost causes! Whatcha gonna do when they come for you!

But when I had a real job, I was a automotive technician. (I don't miss that job at all)

I work for Saint Michael, the patron saint of lost causes!

 Ah-Men Brother... ... I can Relate... Mutants Broad Deep Out There!!!!

I work for Saint Michael, the patron saint of lost causes! Whatcha gonna do when they come for you!

But when I had a real job, I was a automotive technician. (I don't miss that job at all)

Mahi Mahi is actually a "Super Trooper"....meow 

I rarely get out now a days due to school/work.  But with Summer coming up, I hope to get out more.  To pay the bills I am  a banker with Wells Fargo and do some design work on the side.  Majoring in Marketing/design at Sac State.

Old pic, but you get the idea:

My job is keeping women happy throughout the country...I am a cut rose grower.  That makes me more endangered than a San Lorenzo spring run steelhead.

To pay the bills, I am a Senior Field Engineer for a company that makes large multi-million dollar money counters. I spend way too much time behind the scenes in casinos and banks watching other people's money being counted.

My second job is running a wildlife habitat restoration company. Strictly a work of love because it is absolutely non-profit. Mostly paid for by my real job along with lots of volunteer labor.

Unfortunately, between the two, I don't get out on the water as much as I would like to.

I know this is an old thread, but I couldn't resist. Fishing for a living, eh?.  For the last 22 years I have been a Sportfish Biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. I spend a lot of time in the field.  I get to retire to full time yakfishing in 3 years. I will be moving back to the California coast for obvious reasons. I plan on becoming a dedicated Man-Ho to the first lonely lady I meet who has a place near the coast  .  See you all at Elk.  

I'm in retail sales (mattresses and bedroom furniture) In a recent survey we ranked 199 out of 200 in a list of things people least like to buy.  200 was tires.  So as you can imagine I REALLY love my job.  Everyone who walks in hates me.  Oh well, 10+ years doing it... can't be too bad.  PM me for the real scoop before you buy another bed and get screwed at one of the big chains!

Funny, this job was just to pay the bills while I went to school, but I managed to scratch enough extra together to buy a house before the housing boom.  However, once the mortgage needed paying, school went on the back burner where it has stayed ever since.

I now work for my wife and kids but to pay the bills I work for a national construction specialties contactor as  project manager.

My previous resume' listings are:

House Painter - paid for the roof over my head in college
t-shirt designer/printer - paid the beer bill in college
Civil Engineer - (BS @ Sac State) Paid for my loans
Structural Designer/Structural Engineer - finally using my degree for something
Project Manager for a Cuirtain Wall Company doing High Rises/high end buildings

I turn wreches, sail, restore wood boats and just started brewing beer recently.

Jack of all trades yet master of none.

I retired one year ago after thirty years with the Santa Barbara County Park Dept.  I did everything you could imagine doing in a park department.  I progressed from dumping trash cans in parks to retiring as a Deputy Director.

My new job is spending time kayak fishing, PB fishing with a good buddy, swimming in a masters program, entering the occasional ocean swim, and if there's waves, I'll be bodysurfing.
And, probably like most of the rest of you guys, if I run out of the above things to do, my wife has a list of things to do a mile long that I occasionally find time to work on.

Jim

I manage a fisheries program for a 180,000 acre tree farm near Fort Bragg.  My biggest claim to fame is that I've trained my runty dog, shown below, to find and point at spawning salmon during spawning surveys.

Figure 1:  Yoshi - fish terrier