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| i'm a chemical engineer. being 23, single, and sharing rent makes it easy to buy things. |
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| I never answered the question.
I draw stuff (CAD). I also sing, play guitar, piano, and teach voice on the side. If it wasn't for the fact that my parents are generous people and let me live in their house, I wouldn't have a pot to whiz in. Unlike Hopeful, I planned ahead. When I thought I was getting married I KNEW my wife to be wouldn't let me buy a boat if I had nothing to tow it with, so I bought a truck. Then I realized that you can't drive a full sized truck everywhere, and that I would need a car too. When I bought a car (instead of an engagement ring) the wife-not-letting-me problem went away completely. So I took up muskie fishing, figured it was cheaper than a wife. (Boy was I wrong)
On the plus side, muskies don't care if I leave my socks on the floor. They also don't care if I drink beer, fart, belch, scratch myself or say ####. Like my ex girlfriends, they are unpredictable, they like expensive shiny things, they're mean, they pretty much do what they feel like when they feel like it, and when they open their mouth you better watch out.
Like Kevin, I need a boat. I REALLY need a boat. I even know where to get one, but the guy selling it named it after a panda. I'm afraid he might paint it black and white.
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| I'm 31, married and have two kids (3 year old Lhasa Apso & 9 week old German Shorthair Pointer). I'm a Cadd Tech (I too, draw stuff) and my wife loves to fish as much as me. It was her idea to buy the new Alumacraft Dominator last fall!!!! And she bought me/us the GSP. We aint rich, but we aint poor. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Been in the auto repair business going on 40 years. Never going to be rich, but it kept me employed no matter where I moved to, and for the first 20 years of my married life I moved a lot. Was able to support a stay at home mom and 2 boys.
The key for me was to NEVER buy toys on credit. Always had a 'fun' savings account to support my puchases. Like Norm, built up equity, and bought what I could afford, not always exactly what I wanted, but enabled me to pursue my passions.
A lot of young people today are too impatient and that can lead to financial problems. You learn how to make do with what you can afford. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | 44 years young, 4 kids, and ex-wife ... lived on water growing up and boats and fishing have been a part of life. i'm a chemical engineer with an mba and a masters in life experience so have learned that the "play-hard" side of the coin is equally as important as the "work-hard" side so i've invested in hobbies and included my family along the way. first boat after being married was an aluminum river boat with a 75hp outboard ... duck-hunted and bass fished with that one which was pretty innexpensive, went to a boston whaler for safety reasons and made it work for fishing when the kids were young, went to the current boat as they've gotten bigger but also use it for entertainment purposes for my business either taking customers out for pleasure cruises around the midwest or out to fish ...
boating is a lifestyle choice that i've made ... it limits choices in other areas, but for where i live (minocqua area) and what i like to do it's a pretty logical choice.
all that being said, if i couldn't afford the boat i have i'd still have a boat and would be out there on the water. boats are only as expensive as your expectations, beyond that .... they all float |
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| 35 this month. 6'1" full figured brunette, well what's left of it anyways.......errrr....I digress.....
Been married almost 6 years now, no kids yet, two cats. Recently moved to KY from FL and made out bigtime on our house which allowed us to upgrade our living quarters significantly for reasonable cost. Plus cost of living is cheaper too. She's got a good job and we moved with her promotion. I've been in residential construction (i.e. build what some CAD tech draws) for the last 10years and made a good amount of cash and spent most. Luckily found a good job here building apartments, around the country so I have some travel. Bought a '02 Corvette Z06 for cash while in FL, had it less than a year and sold it when we moved so I could buy a boat('05 Basscat Pantera IV) since I'd be near musky water! We're fortunate and have a great life. Anxious now to have a little one though. I grew up fishing in a 14' Mirrocraft with a 9.9 Evinrude usually fishin' four guys! Now I'm in a 19.5' glass boat that'll do 70mph. Saw the same model boat I grew up in on our second trip out and commented to my wife how unbelievable it is to have such nice things. |
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Location: Wheeling, IL. | hay slamr, pretty tough getting th at ride from Aruba to Chicago yo fish isn't it? |
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Location: Sandusky, OH | I'm a fisheries biologist as well, working on forage fish and habitat related issues on Lake Erie's western basin. Its a great gig, but a little too far to get to muskies for my taste. No boat currently, sold my 15' Cajun bass boat just before leaving grad school in South Dakota; didn't figure it would be all that safe on Erie! Want a good fishing boat and tow vehicle more than anything right now, but with a stay at home wife and two little ones, I think I'm going to have to keep being a boat bum for a while. Wouldn't trade my girls for Slamr's whole fleet!
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Location: Palos Hills IL / Conover WS | 33 / 1 baby / and i wife who actually understands my obsession. I'm the UPS man and she's my RN. I actually got lucky. I built the vacation house first then bought in the City. Just lived with the in-laws for a few years and saved. Last Sept. i purchased my first Ranger. Used but still a very nice boat. What can i say Musky fishing is my life. Boxes and Ski's .... |
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Location: milwaukee | Age 42, AAS in Industrial Electronics. I work for a consulting engineer designing water and wastewater treatment systems. That allows for a modest home in a modest neighborhood, 8-yr old truck pulling a 15-yr old Tuffy. Just checked the balance sheet the other day, and considering everything, me, wife and two daughters are comfortably in the black. But, that's on paper of course.
It's easy to be envious of the folks living in big houses, driving new trucks with new boats in tow. They're all over the place. Then I think about their balance sheets and decide it's better to live modestly, pay cash for good used stuff, take care of it and keep it a long time.
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | What the He## am I the only hourly worker on the site?
59 and retiring Jan. 1, 2008 after mannnny years at an American icon, Harley, good wages, and good benefits. I was a full time union rep for a few years and decided not to run for re-election when I decided I was going to retire. I became a widower after 32 years in 2001 and remarried just last Dec. she also has a very good paying job.
A condo near Madison for sale and a very nice cabin in the U.P. for sale as we plan to purchase a home in the Minocqua-Eagle River-Rhinelander area so I can devote alot more time to fishing and the outdoors.
I have had three boats in my life and my current one, which I bought new, is 10 years old and has less than 100 hours on it. 17 ft MirroCraft 115 Mariner and all the rest of the goodies needed to hit the water.
Made enough mistakes early in life with finances just like everyone else, but was able to get my head straight and turn things around, things sure turned out better.
Live within your means, and you will always be ok, and if you save a little at a time, it sure adds up.
Look out fish, here I come!! |
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Location: Nebraska | Forty year old Sales Manager for a CNC machining and plastic injection molding company. Wife is a RN. No kids. Live in Nebraska where you can still afford to buy a house. Have put 15% of my and my wife's salary into 401K until it is capped each year plus capping the Roth each year. We will be able to retire in 10 years when I am 50 and she is, well, just a bit over 50.  |
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| "What do you guys do?????" Answer- Work 7 days a week and answer the phone A LOT! Steve |
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Location: Willoughby, Ohio | 43 years old. Never married. Came close a few times. No kids. Just me and the dog (12 year old Irish Terrier). BA - University of Texas (Hook 'em Horns!)1986 , MBA - University of Houston 1990. Earned my CPA license in 1993. Moved back home to Ohio in 2000 after 25 years in exile in Texas. Work as a Financial Analyst for the local Caterpillar dealer |
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Location: oswego, il | I am divorced too. I bought a boat when i was 16 and drove up to southern wisconsin and fished alot of the lakes around there. Got married, had three kids and worked and equitized(a word?) by rebuilding and selling the three houses we bought. Had a huge old farmhouse on some acreage too. Divorce, fighting to keep my kids in the state all the way to the supreme court left me without so much as a savings account at 40. Am 43 now but 32% off the top will keep me from owning a house anytime soon, so I can live with my parents and musky fish, and do fun things with my kids when I have them. Date, yeah, women love 43 year old guys who live with their parents,lol, and not fish, or live in an apartment and do none of it. Need the job, need the 5 weeks vacation. I have 30 muskies so far this year, want to guess what plan I picked?  |
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Location: Plover, WI | 29 years old, wife and one beautiful baby girl. I am fortunate enough to have a job I love, working in the sign industry. I'm lucky and had parents whom taught me to be responsible with my money. I finally saved up enough to buy my first boat this past year. It is not new or big, but it is what I could afford at the time. More importantly, is I am very happy with it. I agree with ESOXER..."live within your means"... He nailed it on the head.
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| Well, seems Im of a younger hair on here. Im 26 yrs old, I operate a laser for a cutting die manufacturer, I also draw stuff with cad, usually making musky baits, etched designs, gov. work to say the least.
I own a house, have a 2 yr old daughter, not married, (came really close!) wasn't the one for me.
Went through many little 14 ft junker boats, lots of leaks, crappy motors, always fixing them up and selling them. Eventually I bought just a creastliner 16.5' plane jane boat, put a floor in it, customized it to my liking, added a brand spankin new 50hp tiller, and for the last 4 years, been putting extras on it like a new trolling motor, lots of musky slime, and just this year finally bought myself an Lcx-27c, man do I wish I fished as much as I did a few years ago!
If you have it bad enough for this sport, If you eat, sleep, breath, and dream muskies, you will find a way to make it happen..... bottom line, when you want something bad enough, you have to make it happen for yourself, or, just marry a rich girl and have her buy you one!
Those guys still can't catch muskies though...... |
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| Grunt Lures - 7/13/2007 11:53 AM
I used to be the head bartneder at Club Shagnasty's, Jokers, and Wild E's in the early and mid 90s (6 yrs). Went to UNI. Small world!
James
Now that is funny!!! 97 UNI Grad - you had to pour me more than my share! Back then I was trollin for somethin besides skies! |
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Location: north west wisconsin | Im a stay at home dad (carpenter by trade) my wife is a rn we got 3 kids all under 6 im 30 this year and have a 14 foot mirrocraft with a 35 on it got a nice trolling motor and some cheap electronincs but it floats and dosent leak so life is good. dont have alot of money but the cost of kids going to daycare if i got a job i would make maybe 3 dollars an hour so i just stay home and fish when she dosent work!! I would have the life if the county i lived in had more than 3 lakes!!!!! I am a jack of all trades there is nothing i can't do and if you tell me I can't im going to fail trying to doit there is more to life than money and God will provide everything you need if you are living the way He wants.
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Location: Southeast Wisconsin | I get most of my money from my girlfriend. The rest I make guiding and washing windows at stop lights..
Nice truck, nice boat, nice stuff..Dont own a house. No kids, credit card bills, drug habits or gold diggin lake lucys pulling at my pockets either..
Life is good!!
Edited by Ben Kueng 7/17/2007 10:16 PM
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Architech............no, wait..............marine biologist well now I'm a Latex salesman working for Vandelay Industries. |
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| KARLOUTDOORS - 7/17/2007 9:51 PM
Architech............no, wait..............marine biologist well now I'm a Latex salesman working for Vandelay Industries.
http://www.stage-fright.com/sevaint.html |
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