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Location: Blaine, MN | Truth of the matter is, no one gets off this ride alive... do what's right for you and those important to you to make the ride the most enjoyable. Take into consideration the advice given here (and more importantly, advice given to you by trusted figures in your immediate circle) make your decision, and then own it. Whatever decision that may be, just F%*ing own it.
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Location: Aurora | hooked - 8/20/2017 7:16 AM
Go. Play.
X2 on above but i'm biased due to several family members falling ill with inoperable brain tumors, becoming disabled due to a stroke, or dying unexpectedly all of which, including several weddings, has been keeping me from playing this season and reflecting on how lucky i'll feel once i'm able to.
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| ToddM - 8/30/2017 11:44 AM
Get a job thats gets you a future. Pension, benefits after retirement.
Pension lol those are rarer than 60" muskies
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| There's some good advice given here. I'd say your decision depends upon your situation, and without knowing some details, its not possible to tell you what is necessarily right and wrong. Will you be entering a field where job opportunities are quite limited and/or highly competitive? If so, do the responsible thing and heed some of the prior advice and do everything you can to secure a good job.
On the other hand, IF you aren't really all that worried about your future job prospects, and IF you feel that your future is rather assured regardless of your decision, well then....my friend, you have a helluva opportunity. If that is the case, then absolutely and unequivocally, take the time and fish until your heart is content. You're probably in your early 20's and believe me, those are years that will pass you by quickly. You have 40+ years of "work-life expectancy", and that will begin soon enough. If there is a brief moment in time that you can be carefree, before beginning the inevitable, trust me, it'll be a period of your life that you look back on with very fond memories and which i doubt that you regret.
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| Get ahead in life, then enjoy. You are setting a precedent in your life: play first or work first. Fish first, or family first, etc. Make some money, then get a good boat or go on that trip. or you can spend now pay later. You can still fish. That's my two cents worth. |
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| Go play. Don't work. When you are 75 you won't say, #*^@ wish I had worked instead of going on a fishing binge.
Camp to keep it cheap. I went to canada for 23 straight days when I was in similar situation and have zero regrets. |
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Location: The desert | madfish - 8/31/2017 9:36 AM
Go play. Don't work. When you are 75 you won't say, #*^@ wish I had worked instead of going on a fishing binge.
You might if you're still working at 75
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i would have taken this to heart ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuI6GTY9eVc |
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Location: Blaine, MN | If you're still working at 75, you either 1.)really like to work, or 2.) did more things wrong than go fishing for 3 months fresh out of college. I just don't see a 3 month hiatus as the end all, doom and gloom of your potential career earnings, savings, retirement, or success. It's 3 friggin months... 90 days. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Only takes about 30 seconds to knock up some unsavory skank. That'll put you back 18 years. Or more. |
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| Flambeauski - 8/31/2017 10:57 AM
Only takes about 30 seconds to knock up some unsavory skank. That'll put you back 18 years. Or more.
Hahaha! |
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Location: oswego, il | Flambeauski - 8/31/2017 10:57 AM
Only takes about 30 seconds to knock up some unsavory skank. That'll put you back 18 years. Or more.
Dont have to be a skank to take everything. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Flambeauski - 8/31/2017 10:57 AM
Only takes about 30 seconds to knock up some unsavory skank. That'll put you back 18 years. Or more. so......3 seconds to knock up a bombshell? |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | short STRIKE - 8/31/2017 10:27 AM
If you're still working at 75, you either 1.)really like to work, or 2.) did more things wrong than go fishing for 3 months fresh out of college. I just don't see a 3 month hiatus as the end all, doom and gloom of your potential career earnings, savings, retirement, or success. It's 3 friggin months... 90 days.
Yeah, and no. You can tell yourself that, and you might be right from a lot of standpoints. BUT, if I'm looking for an entry level X or Y at whatever company I am recruiting for and there are two resumes on my desk....one did an internship right out of school or got a relevant job, and the other went fishing....guess who I'm calling? |
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Location: Blaine, MN | that's great... does your hostility end at the applicant who went fishing, or does it encompass all hypothetical potential employees that took a few months to themselves to see the world, travel, knock off some bucket list things, etc?
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | short STRIKE - 8/31/2017 12:47 PM
that's great... does your prejudice end at the applicant who went fishing, or does it encompass all hypothetical potential employees that took a few months to themselves to see the world, travel, knock off some bucket list things, etc?
It's actually not prejudice, it's business. As much as I DO love giving people an opportunity, employers would much rather have a more ready-made product versus having to train someone from scratch. Is that fair? Probably not, but life isn't fair. We can all bemoan the unfairness about this and other things when it comes to our "work lives" but at the end of the day unless you have a way to not have to work, it's the game you have to play. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | I make as many or more doors open via hobbies as I can with products. In my world of "work" they are a complement |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Slamr - 8/31/2017 12:35 PM
short STRIKE - 8/31/2017 10:27 AM
If you're still working at 75, you either 1.)really like to work, or 2.) did more things wrong than go fishing for 3 months fresh out of college. I just don't see a 3 month hiatus as the end all, doom and gloom of your potential career earnings, savings, retirement, or success. It's 3 friggin months... 90 days.
Yeah, and no. You can tell yourself that, and you might be right from a lot of standpoints. BUT, if I'm looking for an entry level X or Y at whatever company I am recruiting for and there are two resumes on my desk....one did an internship right out of school or got a relevant job, and the other went fishing....guess who I'm calling?
I might (probably am) be in the minority here, but if I came into a interview for my current employer (I run cad and design bridges) and told them I took 3 months off after school to go fishing and hunting I would have been hired on the spot.
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Location: Blaine, MN | I Edited my post because prejudice wasn't the proper word to convey my point... I hear ya Slamr,, I, personally, just cant grasp what makes someone that took a few months off less desirable in the hiring process. Success in business can be measured and achieved in a lot different ways... I just happen to not agree completely with the straight and narrow, perceived proper sequence of events (born, school, work, retire, die). Go chase some adventure, go have some fun, if it costs you a job because of it, did you really want to work there anyway? ( I mean part of you did, because you submitted your resume, but you get my point kind of, right?) |
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| The first 21 years of your life is basically a vacation. I'd be more inclined to hire the person who hit the ground running after college than the person who decided to extend their vacation another 3 months to do what is perceived by most people as "the closest thing to doing nothing at all..."
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| I'm 43 and I like to say "I'm living retirement in reverse." I obviously work, but also spend a lot of time fishing, snowmobiling, hunting, etc. I am self-employed so I have a lot more freedom that a typical employee.
I'm saving of course, but I am not super focused working my tail off saving for retirement. I've seen too many people close to me get sick and or die before retirement or right after.
I always say I would rather enjoy what I can now (fishing, snowmobiling, etc.) before my body breaks down and I cannot enjoy it when I'm older.
I will work when I am 70 if I have to. I would rather enjoy the things I can do now, than be 70 sitting on the porch in a rocking chair sipping lemonade and too old to musky fish!
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| I'm sure if I am working when I am 70, I wish I would've worked harder and saved more when I was young.
Double edged sword.
But there's no guarantee that I will be here tomorrow, let alone 30 years from now! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | short STRIKE - 8/31/2017 1:36 PM
I Edited my post because prejudice wasn't the proper word to convey my point... I hear ya Slamr,, I, personally, just cant grasp what makes someone that took a few months off less desirable in the hiring process. Success in business can be measured and achieved in a lot different ways... I just happen to not agree completely with the straight and narrow, perceived proper sequence of events (born, school, work, retire, die). Go chase some adventure, go have some fun, if it costs you a job because of it, did you really want to work there anyway? ( I mean part of you did, because you submitted your resume, but you get my point kind of, right?)
i totally agree with you ... my oldest is a Zip Line guide turned Safety High-Line Belay Rescue Certified, Confined Spaces Rescue Cert, HaZMat Cert and heading off to Colorado to work Customer Experience as a Snowboarder in Colorado at Beaver Creek before returning as the GM of the Northwoods Zip Line in the Spring. Based on how he's saved, invested and lives he will have more money after paying his bills than a lot of people who think they do. he's 22 ... my guess is, knowing him ... his "story" will be a pretty cool one once he hits 44 and 54 and 64 because he's driven from within. i've always coached him to "have a story" ... and to live for life experiences. to me those are the really interesting people and the ones i'd never bet against.
if i interviewed you i'd ask you how you funded yourself, where you went, what you did, what problems you faced and how you overcame them.
once hired a young guy based on how he handled an unplanned pregnancy during his college years. he was just 3 years out of school when this happened. when i learned how he took care of his daughter (without a continuing relationship with her mother) i knew i wanted to hire him. i went on to hire him again when i got a big promotion to another gig. he's a senior vice president now and his daughter graduated from College not long ago. they are close and still speak with him monthly and consider him one of my best friends in life. the interview was about 19 years ago.
i'd rather train my own too ...
only good thing to do with a rule book is to throw it out ...
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| I am totally with Midget on this one...Seen too many people be incapacitated at an early age . Got a Flexible schedule, Great job and fish as much as I possibly can while i am healthy and my body is intact.
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Location: Smith Creek | jonnysled - 8/31/2017 2:24 PM
if i interviewed you i'd ask you how you funded yourself, where you went, what you did, what problems you faced and how you overcame them.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Flambeauski - 8/31/2017 3:32 PM
jonnysled - 8/31/2017 2:24 PM
if i interviewed you i'd ask you how you funded yourself, where you went, what you did, what problems you faced and how you overcame them.
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What if the interviewee told you he or she spent their time back-trolling muskies and road hunting?
that would be telling ...
now, when Aaron Wiebe fixed his impeller at a rustic Canadian landing McGiver style to stay in the competition? ... i'd hire that kid to be my boss!! |
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Location: MN | If I could do it over I'd travel Europe (or wherever interests you) for the summer after college. You can fish your whole life. You probably won't be able to spend a few months traveling and bumming around until you retire....or possibly ever. I think you will make much better and lasting memories doing that than chasing a stupid fish all summer. And that statement is coming from a guy who spends way too much time chasing these stupid fish. |
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Location: Ashland WI | I interview and help hire at my place of employment.
I don't think whether someone went fishing for 3 months after school would weigh into my decision making process either way. Now if someone was more qualified because he served and internship/training/more schooling, that quite possibly makes him more valuable. Still not a guarantee I take that person over the guy who went fishing though. I believe there is so many more important things to look for in a potential hire. |
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| This is all a moot point if you just marry rich. |
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