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lucander
May 12, 2006, 6:13 PM
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Umass Ph.D. Candidate
Seasonal Ranger at Crater Lake N.P.
Part-time fire fighter/emt and substitute teacher in rural MA
I broke 20k for the first time last year and managed 100+ days outside
Just took a pay cut to work at the Gunks this year.
You'd think I'd be good by climbing so often...
"My pockets are empty but my heart is full, and I don't need money to give my life value. You can buy the land but you can't buy the sky...." TREE
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svilnit
Jun 6, 2006, 5:15 PM
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I sell dead fish full time, and work as a porn star part time... so you can imagine what I go home smelling like :D
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sawtooth_ridge
Jun 6, 2006, 5:44 PM
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Umpqua National Forest Botany........I chase weeds, do restoration work, etc. Pay is ok. But I probably spend 140 days/year (guess) outside. Climbing abounds.
Problem. I'm laid off for 2 months or so in THE WINTER!! AAAAGGGGGHHHH! And the job really gets intense through the summer....
Of course, I'm a family man too.........so just busy....
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hirvimaki
Jun 6, 2006, 5:44 PM
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Marketing Coordinator and Graphic Designer for a civil design firm. I also do free-lance graphic design and custom airbrush. It's a cushy job, it pays a lot and I go home smelling as nice as when I left, but I don't get out to climb much. I haven't figured out how to get the same salary and benefits just climbing all the time.
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nmt252
Jun 6, 2006, 6:11 PM
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Structural Engineer for a company in Golden, CO. Taking full advantage of the Colorado rockies and Coors beer year round, all while paying back my porsche sized student loans.
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chanceboarder
Jun 6, 2006, 6:24 PM
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I'm an assistant in a business management firm in Santa Monica, CA. I pay the bills and manage the money of people who are too rich and lazy or just too rich and too dumb to pay their own bills and manage their own money. :roll:
Boring as hell but I don't work weekends, the pay is good, and I have excellent benefits. I'm also still in school working towards my environmental science degree.
Jason
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watchme
Jun 6, 2006, 7:30 PM
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Community college teacher. School ended May 12th, and I don’t have to be back to work until the end of August.
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mcfoley
Jun 6, 2006, 9:20 PM
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Healthcare EDI/IT- Long Beach, CA
I work from home, make my own hours, make good $$$.
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el_guapo
Jun 6, 2006, 9:28 PM
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I'm the target of mid-management frustration!
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tcantor333
Jun 6, 2006, 9:29 PM
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Living the cube life, making sure that the machines keep running (IT Guy). Not bad considering that it leaves some time for climbing and I can even afford to take a few roadtrips in my gas guzzling pig of a 4X4. I figure if I use the ORV capabilities a few times a year in the desert southwest somewhere it makes it worth it, and I don't get stuck in a ditch 100 miles from the nearest gas station. :-)
But I do like my job and I do climb at least 2 routes a year 10+ pitches over 500 miles away from my home so it all seems good to me.
Come to think of it I would much rather go on the never ending road trip and live out of a van.
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petsfed
Jun 6, 2006, 10:46 PM
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I'm a quality control laboratory technician for Halliburton.
I miss my soul. But I do get 4 day breaks after every 5 days working. And the pay's good.
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ktetomcu
Jun 7, 2006, 12:50 AM
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Ranch in the middle of nowhere but lotsa climbing Colorado :D
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hossjulia
Jun 7, 2006, 1:26 AM
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Lifestyle over money, baby, all the way!
I work at a cool little resort in the middle of the Sierra's. 3 hours or more from a major city.
Never went to college. Have always worked near or related to outdoors play. Have learned a ton of things over the years as well. Mostly useless, but what the hey.
Don't have a ton of possesions, and have decided owning a home is way over rated and a lot of work. I sold me 16' travel trailer for that reason.
I love sleeping in the back of my truck.
And I even own a horse!
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perionychium
Jun 7, 2006, 2:06 AM
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As a student I often am faced with the decision whether or not I can afford food or climbing gear. I mean, who really needs food anyways?
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johnnybird
Jun 7, 2006, 2:21 AM
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working at a climbing gym - and loving it. enough money to get by and we all pretty much take turns taking time off for climbing trips. :D
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glightning
Jun 7, 2006, 2:24 AM
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I sell rims and tires at a local shop while I put myself through college. It pays the bills and buys the chalk.
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gogo
Jun 7, 2006, 2:29 AM
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Working as a coach/junior program instructor/routesetter at Edgeworks in Tacoma, and ambassading (is that a word?) for Statik Mountain and Mad Rock.
Though right now I'm off in Colorado for a few weeks to chill in Rifle, Telluride, etc before going back to work in Washington in July.
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the_shoe
Jun 7, 2006, 2:39 AM
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I am the monitor engineer for Cypress Hill and PA Systems Tech for Bonnie Raitt. I get paid to travel the world, listen to good music and climb alot of different places. Not bad actually.
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rmoxygen
Jun 7, 2006, 2:52 AM
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I'm half way through a geology degree. When I'm not at school I work part time at the local gym. I'm spending most of my summer (and the next few summers) in some remote place carrying around rock samples and other menial jobs for the real scientists. It seems like a pretty good deal. I can exploit the rocks underground so I can climb the ones above ground.
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thatnameisalreadychosen
Jun 7, 2006, 2:53 AM
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Criminal Defense Attorney in Los Angeles
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grover
Jun 7, 2006, 3:00 AM
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Been slavin away at the local Lego factory for the last 62 years.
Have a bitchin deformed Lego collection, with a monetary value beyond my counting abilities.
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spreadpanic
Jun 7, 2006, 3:08 AM
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I work as a photographer for a local University out here in the valley of the sun. I'm also finishing up my degree. I try to go out and climb twice a week but it's getting too hot to move.
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lewisiarediviva
Jun 7, 2006, 4:38 AM
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This must be one of those threads where only the first and last pages get read.
I work for myself. Which has great flexibility, sometimes.
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phang_nga
Jun 7, 2006, 4:46 AM
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I own and operate a kayaking, mountain climbing, mountain biking and rock climbing company in Southern Thailand. I also run whitewater trips throughout Laos. I've been here for over 13 years... cool, eh. 8^)
Yes, I'm a lucky bastaad.
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pink_chalk
Jun 7, 2006, 4:54 AM
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i sell real estate in oregon. my manager considers me high risk :? i love having to explain to clients why my hands look so thrashed or when i go to a regular gym... people see my bruises and are convinced someone is beating me.
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