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Offline Jim134

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #60 on: June 17, 2010, 11:42:24 pm »
Diesel Mechanic and been keeping bees since 1957



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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #61 on: June 17, 2010, 11:45:39 pm »
Obstetrician/Gynecologist in a large private group practice. Kept bees at age 13 and 14 with my dad. He died a couple of years ago and I started having fond memories of that time in my life and started beekeeping.  It always makes me feel like he is watching!

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #62 on: June 17, 2010, 11:57:38 pm »
Police Detective.......... The bees keep my mind off of the drama of People. They allow me to fully concentrate on them and stop thinking about The Burglars, Rapists, Child Molesters, Robbers, and Murderers..........
that are always out there.


Its a great past time..... ;)
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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #63 on: June 18, 2010, 12:03:14 am »
Cossack, I don't even wanna hang with you dude!...yes I do...you know what I mean :)

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #64 on: June 18, 2010, 03:20:07 am »
Stockbroker  :)

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #65 on: June 18, 2010, 10:41:55 am »
aircraft mechanic for large express air carrier in memphis and honey do'er

Hummm...me thinks we have much in common, the word FedEx comes to mind!!

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #66 on: June 18, 2010, 01:52:06 pm »
that would be correct,14yrs on the flight line,and the purple don't course through my veins like it used to.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #67 on: June 18, 2010, 07:00:14 pm »
Copier Tech/Network Tech

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #68 on: June 18, 2010, 07:31:41 pm »
aircraft manufacture cnc programmer/engineering. Dr said I needed a hobby to destress but I dont think he had 40 hives of bees in mind :-D
never take the top off a hive on a day that you wouldn't want the roof taken off your house

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #69 on: June 18, 2010, 10:34:48 pm »
I'm a beekeeper, chicken farmer (very small scale), fisherman, etc.... My hobbies are my obsession.  and in my spare time I'm a mechanical engineer for a tier 1 auto parts supplier.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #70 on: June 18, 2010, 11:17:44 pm »
Machinist / Electrician for Brentwood Industries. A thermal forming business that makes plastic products that are used in cooling towers that range from the commercial evaporator coolers that you see on large air conditioned buildings to nuclear power plants and waste and drinking water treatment plants.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #71 on: June 19, 2010, 12:21:38 am »
Rad-Tech
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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #72 on: June 19, 2010, 01:57:58 am »
Retired Medic of 20 years.
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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #73 on: June 19, 2010, 07:03:22 am »
I work in a distribution center for a major sporting goods retailer.  I also mow lawns and do odd jobs for the elderly who can't afford to have a "professional" come in and do it.  Besides beekeeping, I also do living history programs, demonstrating colonial life circa 1750.  (How fast can you light a fire with flint and steel?)

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #74 on: June 20, 2010, 08:30:40 pm »
Entrepreneur of a geo-spatial data company, and a training company that teaches GIS.
Part time meteoriticist, recovering meteorites around the world. Website is www.outofabluesky.com 

Amateur videographer, mainly making beekeeping videos. Those are at www.learningbeekeeping.com

Formally trained as a electrical engineer and petroleum engineer.
Here is my new book on Swarm Trapping at http://learningbeekeeping.com/beekeeping-articles/how-to-swarm-trap/ and follow me on youtube at OutOfaBlueSky

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #75 on: June 20, 2010, 11:15:05 pm »
Work in the Film Industry. Thirty years.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #76 on: June 21, 2010, 12:06:24 am »
Full time firefighter/medic for 22 yrs. Last ten as a lieutenant in an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland, OH that runs about 4,000 calls per year. Also own a small garden-plant sales company; both home-grown and resale. Wife works 3 days a week on my days off.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #77 on: June 21, 2010, 12:28:41 pm »
At my real job I am a police officer aka The Law,Cops, The Fuzz, Pigs, Po Po, Five-O etc. My off time is spent at various baseball parks coaching my two sons. (Best times of my life) However ,I am a farmer trapped in a polyester uniform.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #78 on: June 21, 2010, 12:37:33 pm »
Police officer here, for the past 14 years. Done quite a bit in that 14 years to include being a K9 officer.

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Re: Just curious, Beekeeping as a hobby, what is your full time job?
« Reply #79 on: June 21, 2010, 12:41:38 pm »
Forester for a major paper company which produces 'product packaging'.  I get paid to drive the company supplied 4x4 to the mountain and walk in the woods all day.  Thank God I have the bees to calm me down after such hard work.   :-D


For all of you that are cops-
My Alma mater also hosted a police academy.  My two roommates were in that program.  At dinner they talked about what evidence could be found on a dead body & having to be exposed to mace. A third roommate, the guy taking the fireman program, talked about having to find his way out of a cargo container filled with smoke but without his mask.  The most I could ever offer was the difference between Pitch & Slash pine!  You guys, & gals, Rock.  Thanks for what you do.
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