making a living in the outdoor?
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 320
One thing I haven't read yet is if you get into the police aspect of the outdoors you may as well give up hunting. Being a regular city cop or a consercation officer you are either working all the time and don't get to hunt or you are working every day during the deer season. Trust me on this one. I know what I am talking about.
#23
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 110
they probably crossed paths somewhere along the way. im sure both of them worked to make themselves a brand. you meet the right people that way.
#24
True about working outdoors. It's is work and not always fun. As an outfitter and guide I spend all the hunting seasons every year dealing with people more than hunting. I love scouting land and stand sites and meeting new hunters. I don't mind helping them secure lodging and tags and picking them up at airports and showing them my leases and walking some of them to stands in the early mornings. Going out after dark to haul in deer in bad weather sucks, but I like to see their deer and know when and where they got him. I don't sleep deer season anyway so a couple weeks not sleeping and working full time plus hunting is normal. But I hate that I do all this work for them, so that they have a great hunt and I seldom have time to hunt. I am happy for them when they tag turkeys and huge deer, and proud that I did my job well. But a little jealous still when they get to have all the fun while I work. The compensation of coarse is cash for me, but I wonder sometimes if it's worth it. My goal now is to hire more guides an be able to quit my 9-5 someday to take the pressure off me, so I can hunt more. But first there has to be enough money.
So if you love to hunt, don't pick a hunting job or any job that makes you unavailable to hunt. Take a job, any job that allows you the time and money to hunt.
So if you love to hunt, don't pick a hunting job or any job that makes you unavailable to hunt. Take a job, any job that allows you the time and money to hunt.