Define yourself!!!

[PowerBass]

18 years old and been outta high school since June. I work all the time. Looking to get involved in the trades, either carpentry, heavy equipment, or something along those lines. Drive a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4x4( soon to have a leveling kit and tires put on). I have a Bass tracker boat. Consider myself a pretty simple person. I like my Skoal Wintergreen as well. I like big American trucks, hunting, fishing, guns, and having a good time with friends. Known to get rowdy at times when Im provoked, but usually im laid back and just enjoying life. I hate the rich snooty arrogant people in this state of new jersey(probably over 80% of this state), as a matter of fact I just plain hate this state.

[flbassman]

PB, you gotta head on down South.....I think you're a misplaced Dixian

[MississippiBoy]

Took the words right outta my mouth, FL...

[PowerBass]

I want to get out of this state and my move will most definitley be down South when it happens

[woody]

Powerbass, I would look into getting into a local operators union or carpenters union. Most apprenticeships are for 5 years, with some class time and the majority of your training will be on the job. I'm a union sheetmetal worker here in Indiana and apprentices start out at around $11 hr. and you would top out at $29 hr. with good benifits like Paid for health insurance and a pension plan. Just keep in mind that the unions are not as strong down south, for example journeymen union sheetmetal workers in the state of South Carolina make around $21 hr. Give em a call and get into an apprenticeship, it was one of the best decisions that I ever made.

[JB]

We got online in fall of 96 on webtv and the first people we chatted with were from NJ, and everyone of them for years complained about hating Jersey. Stills hold true today, many comment on it.

[bamabassman]

well guys, the pay ain't what it is up there. alot less really. around here i am making about top dollar, 10.33 ph. so if you think you are gonna make the same money, check it out real good first. labor jobs are a plenty in some areas, others not. insurance is hard to find along with the job, and very costly. i guess i got lucky, i work for a city and make about the best there is for all the above. benifits are a MUST HAVE. trying to get into a local jr college and get a 2 yr degree to increase my options. they are SUPPOSED to open the nuclear plant in a couple of years, hope to get in there. and they are gonna open a VW plant in chattanooga,tenn. non union, but still a great job. by the way, 15 degrees this morning here. high of 53, tomorrow morning, 30 low, 60 high.

here you have a humid cold, different from a dry cold. always wet.

[flfireman]

Well, 38 y/o, Married for 2nd time(always the best one), 4 kids 17,12,3- girls, 5 y/o boy. Im a firefighter/paramedic, been in fire service for 15 years. Drove a truck for a few years, spent time in my beloved Corp. I fish when I can, hunt less every year(no time w/ both jobs and kids), ride the motorcycle every chance I get. Go to church every Sunday(except when on shift). My toys: 2004 Chevy 2500 crew cab 4x4, 2003 Chevy Trailblazer, 2001 Roadstar Silverado, 2008 Basstracker Pro Team 190. I drink every now and then, dip snuff way to much and listen to most music. Still love my classic rock and country, cherish my music from the 80's and can't live w/o my punk from the late 70's and 80's. Can't stand snotty people. Like to tell people how it is, but usually end up tempering my comments. Love a good debate until people get offended and become rude. Will stand up for the underdog as long as they are truthful in their fight. Have seen a lot and learned a lot in a short time, I try to use this info everyday to bring my kids up right. They are far from perfect, but they are respectful. Sorry rambling. GO GATORS or GO FISH!!!!

[hookup]

Originally Posted by woody

My life is being defined by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

yeah, I'm a Jesus freak...

Jesus don't make freaks out of people, he makes people out of freaks .....


I'm old, gotta teenage boy, brew the best beer this side of the mason-dixon line, have a beautiful fishing widow who understands my need to fish, build jigs, spinnerbaits, inlines, rods, and tinker with just about every bait out there. Wear my baseball hat backwards so that my neck dont get any redder, like to put holes in paper far far away, try to be active and have an obsession for floating rivers chasing small mouth. Own 4 kayaks, one pontoon boat, a canoe and a jon boat, and to dang many rods to count.

Yep, I'm a gear 'ho.

[1/4 stick]

Define myself... hmmm, let's see....

Not all there, odd, some call me crazy. I like to think of it as thinking outside of the box. Odd pretty much sums it up.

[bamabassman]

1/4 stick...... you mean that you're outta da box? WATCH OUT WORLD, he's out!! hahahahaha. odd? well........ YEA! but you're ok man. really you are. as i am looking over my shoulder quickly walking away. hahahahahahahaha. kidding buddy.

[Buzz Wing]

Hey Guys,

Haven't been on in a while, but I've been talking with WTL and we decided I could post sparingly if I don't bring up the problems of the last posts. I've really looked at life a lot differently since that experience and feel I'm a lot better person since then.

Anyway, I'd just like to say this was a really good post. It's cool to see how each of us live. Great idea, Moose!

-Buzz

[JB]

wb buzz!!

[bamabassman]

BUZZIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY MAN!!! glad that you are back pal. welcome and thanks for talking it out. that is showing us that you are on your way to becoming a real man pal. facing your troubles and overcoming them is truly galliant of you friend. gonna pm ya later pal.

[Jim80]

Buzz glad to have ya back man .

Jim

[Buzz Wing]

Thanks guys! Hopefully this time around everything will work out. Thanks for having me back...

-Buzz

[bassintom]

Old fart here..56.3 daughters,2 grandsons,1 granddaughter,great wife.Retired(quit-too much pressure after 16 yrs) GMC truck parts mgr.Now a school custodian.Bass addict.Build,mod and play guitars.Like the occasional beers.Just living the simple life.

[Bob Smith]

Well I hit the speed limit last March at 55, I am Quality Procurement Specialist for Boeing Aircraft Cormpany and manage quality at a number of critical defense suppliers here in Georgia. I am also a "subject Matter expert" on several critical processes, so the job is always interesting (sometimes moreso than I care for! lol). All in all, I enjoy my job and work for a great company (20 years now).
I have a wonderful family scattered all around the country with two children from my first marriage and three that I inherited in my second/current wife (there will be no others, she is my soulmate for 28 years and going). Between those 5 kids we have 7 beautiful grandbabies ranging from 9 years old to 8 months! Two of those babies (with thier mommy and daddy) actually live at home with us. A little crowded but it's working out alright.
My hobbies are Fishing, this computer, and my yard. Mostly fishing, bass-fishing specifically. I have been obsessed with it since I was 10-11 years and it will continue as long as this old body will let me!
When I watch TV my preferences are fishing shows. When those aren't on I love the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, The Military Channel.


Pig n Jig, I admire someone that can turn thier life around as you have. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
I also believe in God and think the comment made earlier about, "Jesus makes people out of freaks" is about a true statement as it can get! Amen!

i am from ky,will be 40 years old the 17th of december.and like others here i live pretty simple,been married for 16 years with 2 kids-a 12 year old daughter and a 9 year old son.my wife is great,lets me do bout anything i wanna do.i did discover fishing a little later in life than some of ya,really my son kept wanting to go so i bought a couple wal-mart combos and we joined the local private lake and boy has it grew from thier.we are very fortunate to live 2 miles from a great 8200 acre lake in which i have grown to be very fond of.kinda funny this was brought up as one of my co workers was telling me the other day i had really changed the last 5 years or so,he told me i had mellowed out and seemed to enjoy life more and i have to believe fishing is the reason.oh yea,i work for the city in which i live,im the supervisor of the sewer dept.and i also enjoy grizzly long cut straight and have been known to enjoy a miller lite once and a while.

[barkelypup]

Even though the wife says I'm a Redneck I'm really a 33 year old Hillbilly. Married 8 years on Dec.
28th to the greatest wife a man could have. I have always said I made 2 decisions in 1 by getting married. My best and my last. 2 yungens girl will be 3 on Christmas day and a 10 month old boy that don't even sit still when he sleeps. Work for the USDA/NRCS. Kinda funny since I grew up on a farm and swore it off as a kid since we worked tobacco all my life but once I got to college its all I knew so got my Degree from Morehead State in what else. Ag. Heck I now even on my own farm. Cows and strawberries help pay my bills. Dip grizzly long cut wintergreen. Kodiak got to expensive. Fish from a 195 Monark King and a 14' sportsman both v bottoms. Would rather be hit by a swarm of killer bees than get on an air plane. (God didn't give me enough feather to fly). Try to spend every free second I have in the Great out of doors either in the woods or on the water. Dart the Church doors on Sunday's and Wednesday's. Will fight for the underdog as long as underdog fights for themself. I too love a good debate and if I can make em mad love it that much more. Steady as a rock with the world falling around me but fall to peices if a wheel falls off the lawn mower. Have a real hard time getting mad at people. (unless thier name ends in Motherinlaw). Just kidding about mother in law. She's OK a little bit of the time. My kids and wife are my life and everything else is just a bonus. I like talk radio, country music and Bluegrass Gospel. Vote Conservative. Sewed all my wild oat in High School and College. Early riser. Overly cautios. Former High School Tight End and Line backer, 3rd baseman and Catcher. I was like a vacum cleaner at 3rd but couldn't catch a pop up if my life depended on it. Only things that scare me are my God, My wife and my mama.

Man this is a great thread. A great way to reflect on your life.

Good thinkin Moose.

bP

[bamabassman]

mamas can hurt ya even after your grown can't they? hahahaha.

[barkelypup]

Yeah my mama still gets after me from time to time. Mostly now cause I wan't to spank her grand younens. She has whooped me a thousand times more than daddy but in her words "just can't stand to see them cry". It's kinda funny how tide's turn. No pun intednded bama.

bP

[66KingFisher]

Guess I fit the "Old fart" catagory....lol....I turned 51 this year and the wife and I will be celebrating our 25th anniversary this coming Feb. We have two beautiful daughters and a gorgous granddaughter. As a young man I used to thrive on being the center of attention, but that all changed after I had a massive heart attack in November of 95...in fact my whole life changed that day.....In ways I never imagined, both physically and mentally....I was forced to stop my 2 packs of Camels a day habit, and my likes and dislikes for food have changed drasticly which has been really strange.

Over the past 10 yrs since, I've grown to dislike the general public and I now avoid most social gatherings like the plague. I found i'm much happier alone or maybe with a small group of likeminded folks. I don't attend church....not because I don't want to...actually I do....I just haven't found a comfortable place here in our rural community....either they are large congregations with hundreds of members or they are terribly small with just a handfull of nosy members that are never happy with allowing me to just show up for a sunday morning service....they seem to want more and more, but thats another story.

The good lord gave me the ability to look at something and reproduce it....so I've always been an artist.....or at least I get accused of being one....lol. I enjoy drawing and painting, which led to me getting involved with airbrushing as a teen....now after many years of practice I do custom airbrush work on motorcycles and helmets mostly....occasionally a hotrod or racecar but mostly I like dealin with the bikes. I've been an avid bike rider since I was 15, and am in the process of building an old 70's style chopper out of an 81 Honda 650 custom.

When i'm not airbrushing or bass fishing I like to do digital artwork on the computer, and believe it or not I love to play video games.....My stepdad was a mechanic so I grew up around a garage, and having a built in love for the automobile....specially racecars....I spent several years racing motorcycles then dragracing with my brother and eventually we got into dirt track racing which ate up all our spare time and all of our not so spare money....lol. Now i'm happy to play a sim racing game on my pc or now that the kids got me an Xbox 360 for Christmas,i've started playing on that.....Imagine.....a 51 yr old guy that just got his first console game....lol....and lovin it.....keeps the old "hand-eye" reflexes in top notch workin order.

Last but not least, I mentioned I grew up around a garage,and my love for motorsports.....Since I can't race anymore for real, then second best is sim racing or watch it on tv....So I do just that,as often as I can....and not just Nascar, but Indycar...F1...World of Outlaws...Austalian V8 supercars...drag racing...boat racing...swampbuggies...motocross...four wheelers...gocarts...lawnmowers...you name it....if its got wheels on it and someones racin it....i'm in....lol

[barkelypup]

King Fisher, you need to get a game called Burnout for a PC. My uncle and I used to play that for hours. You can go on line and race against other people. If you are into drag racing you will love this game. I have not played it in a couple of years but you can build your own car and some of the guys that you race against get pretty mad (or at least they act like they do). It is a boat load of fun. No pun intended.

You can even get the steering wheel and the gas and brake pedals.

bP

[quenston]

I am a 28yr old dad and husband of my wife for 11 years and a proud dad of a 8 yr old boy and a 10 yr old girl. I am a Surveillance Supervisor at a local casino and love to fish and make jigs and spend time with my friends and family!