Re: O-T how many differant job,

Posted by Mike (WA) on January 12, 2006 at 17:43:03 from (209.213.153.155):

In Reply to: O-T how many differant job, posted by old on January 12, 2006 at 08:30:02:

Worked for a neighboring farm during high school- 1962 to 1966- haying, general farm work, then helping cut and wrap meat when the farmer "vertically integrated". Summer jobs in college- shearing Christmas trees, engineering tech for state Highway Department. Best summer job during college was for my dad, building fence, etc.- he could only afford to pay me for about half time, so the other half was devoted to building a hot rod- put a Chevy 283 V8 in a '36 Chev pickup. That was my best summer- that sucker would sure get sideways in a hurry when I was trying to impress the girls in the local park. After third year of college, Vietnam was calling- so joined National Guard, did Basic Training and Infantry AIT in summer and fall of '69 (Woodstock happened on the weekend of my 21st birthday- I spent that Sunday driving grunts to the Visitors Center in a military bus). Went back to school and got a degree in Oceanography- not realizing that there were no jobs available in the field- so started a fish farm with 4 others similarly situated. Starved out of that and got a job as a Deputy Sheriff in '73 for a year- then got on as a Loan Officer in local Production Credit Association. Did that for 10 years (until 1984), then PCA was about to go broke because of all the bad commercial fishing loans we had made- I was working with an attorney in Seattle on foreclosures of boats, and he commented that I seemed to have a knack for the law. Quit PCA and went to law school, graduated in '87, passed the Bar and went to work for the same attorney. After 3 years, I was disgusted with law in general, and living in Seattle in particular. Went back to Farm Credit System in 1990, and stayed 5 years- until farming in our area completely tanked, and I was layed off in a "downsizing". Unable to find honest work, I opened my own law practice in 1996, and am still at it. I found the law isn't so bad, if you're working for yourself and don't have to answer to greedy "partners" who think only of billing. I don't make big money, but can run it as I like. I do only real estate matters, and get a lot of referrals. Buy, fix and sell some tractors as a hobby. Have made some pretty good real estate investments. Wife of 35 years (as of coming February) has been a dental hygienist since 1971. She raises Paso Fino horses, and has made some money at it. I have an excuse to have lots of tractors, and slip in a few old cars as well. Life is good.

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