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[TomInCincy]

Retired from the postal service in June '09. Just been taking care of all the honey do's and I now have more time to dedicate to the missions of the Marine Riders and Patriot Guard.

[NVTHIS]

I run two businesses, first we own a Mobile Dog Grooming Service called "Doggie D'Tails" and then second I'm the GM of a Ice Skating Rink. I work 8 days a week and sometimes it's just to hard to find riding time. Anyone that has ever worked with the public know that it sucks. I was in the printing business for 22 years until I got up on November 17, 2001 and told Karen I'm done. So we sold that business that was sucking the life out of me and my family and called it a day.

[cuttinhorse]

Great.....you and Don  (isellbulls) have something in common.  He sells bull semen to the dairies (so all the contented Calif. cows are his step children).  But don't ask me how he gets the bull's semen.....I don't want to know.

Calif cows grazing on huge lush green pastures crack me up!  Those milkers are stacked in deep on dry lots just like every dairy operation I've ever seen.

Update to what I do: Last night I bought a Yearling out of the great stud Color Me Smart at the NCHA Futurity Western Bloodstock Sale in Ft Worth. Hope to show him next year in the same and make a good bit of cash.

[The Bolvine Gigolo!]

Calif cows grazing on huge lush green pastures crack me up!  Those milkers are stacked in deep on dry lots just like every dairy operation I've ever seen.

Update to what I do: Last night I bought a Yearling out of the great stud Color Me Smart at the NCHA Futurity Western Bloodstock Sale in Ft Worth. Hope to show him next year in the same and make a good bit of cash.

The area they do all the happy cows commercals is in the Petaluma area, and all but three months out of the year they are in lush green pastures, it's only the cows in the valley area that are in small dry lots. I before getting started in cattle, I owned and bred quarter house myself.

[Trapperdog]

The area they do all the happy cows commercals is in the Petaluma area, and all but three months out of the year they are in lush green pastures, it's only the cows in the valley area that are in small dry lots. I before getting started in cattle, I owned and bred quarter house myself.

Hey  "Sperminator" (Don), what's a "quarter house" and you actually bred them yourself?  What size ladder did you use?   

[miker]

No wonder he got so much money!   

[rlavigna]

Hey  "Sperminator" (Don), what's a "quarter house" and you actually bred them yourself?  What size ladder did you use?   

Watch out for those splinters!

[Dan_Lockwood]

The area they do all the happy cows commercals is in the Petaluma area, and all but three months out of the year they are in lush green pastures, it's only the cows in the valley area that are in small dry lots. I before getting started in cattle, I owned and bred quarter house myself.

You didn't have a stud for that?

 

Sorry about that, you left the gate wide open.      

In a previous life, included ex, my ex had been into horses all her life.  When I met her in high school, she was doing the 4H thing and then she eventually got in to the AQHA circuit.  My son, now 31, grew up on horses and did the 4H thing as well.  About that time was when we split and I thought that as soon as my son had to do the poop scooping and horse cleaning himself, he'd drop horses like a hot potato.  Fortunately, or unfortunately, he didn't.  He's married and lives in De Moines IA and has his own training stable.  He's been doing horse training since college.  The only problem with the horse business is that this is all discretionary money for his customers and when times get hard, they quit the "extra" money stuff.  He still has paying customers, but at one point he had all 18 stalls full, albeit I think three of them were his.

    

[cuttinhorse]

You didn't have a stud for that?

 

Sorry about that, you left the gate wide open.      

In a previous life, included ex, my ex had been into horses all her life.  When I met her in high school, she was doing the 4H thing and then she eventually got in to the AQHA circuit.  My son, now 31, grew up on horses and did the 4H thing as well.  About that time was when we split and I thought that as soon as my son had to do the poop scooping and horse cleaning himself, he'd drop horses like a hot potato.  Fortunately, or unfortunately, he didn't.  He's married and lives in De Moines IA and has his own training stable.  He's been doing horse training since college.  The only problem with the horse business is that this is all discretionary money for his customers and when times get hard, they quit the "extra" money stuff.  He still has paying customers, but at one point he had all 18 stalls full, albeit I think three of them were his.

    

I bred a house once, spent the night in jail for drunken disorderly conduct for it too.

Cattle business has it's ups and downs. Never a whole lota ups. Tough way to make a living. Price of a good steak keeps going up but the price of beef on the hoof never seems to budge.

Horse business is funny. When times are bad, average horse flesh becomes a liability to have around. Really good horses with a proven track record always seem to hold value. I've been to all the sales at the NCHA Futurity this past week and you can't believe what yearlings out of the top studs/mares are bringing.

[The Bolvine Gigolo!]

Hey  "Sperminator" (Don), what's a "quarter house" and you actually bred them yourself?  What size ladder did you use?   

Boy! this is a tough crowd  Well now you know why I got out of the business Hell if you can't spell them how in the hell can you raise them. 

[Hawg]

Supervisor for a mechanical service company my specialty is boilers

[bandit]

Studied IT and Business-Organisation in Vienna, went
to Switzerland for my first job in 1985 as a programmer.
Actually System-Admin for a national transport-company,
with about 100 trucks and 4 remote locations in Switzerland.

Bandit

[Dan_Lockwood]

I bred a house once, spent the night in jail for drunken disorderly conduct for it too.

Cattle business has it's ups and downs. Never a whole lota ups. Tough way to make a living. Price of a good steak keeps going up but the price of beef on the hoof never seems to budge.

Horse business is funny. When times are bad, average horse flesh becomes a liability to have around. Really good horses with a proven track record always seem to hold value. I've been to all the sales at the NCHA Futurity this past week and you can't believe what yearlings out of the top studs/mares are bringing.

I worked for a guy back in the '80s that had a bunch of very good cutting horses.  His stud's breeding eludes me know, but I know it's daddy was a World Champion.  This guy's name is Jack Marvel and he lives in Rodney Michigan.  I'm not even sure if he's still around in the cutting biz.  He used to have Michigan events at his place back then too.

All I know is that when, in that previous life, we would go to the Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus every year, I'd always have to go watch the cutting and reining horses.  In my mind this was more horse based than political.  Although I'm sure some politics played into the reining but cuttings was more black and white, did the horse do it's job or not...

During the time I was around horses, I rode a bit and was Michigan Amateur Champion one year in reining (trust me I say my competition was worse than I was and I wan't very good).  When I left that preious life I didn't want to ever sit my arse on another horse.

My son is keeping his head above water right now, but I can't see him every really getting rich doing this.  But he does love it very much and I guess if you can do something you're great at and love it at the same time, I'm not going to rain on his parade.

    

[bikerbum11]

I work at a technical paper mill and we are the publishers of motorcycle guides.. so yes, my office is the seat of my CVO

[Chains]

General Manager of a metal stamping plant, previously owned a tool and die shop for 19 years.