Just joined the club!

Caneyscud · May 14, 2009, 06:20:33 AM

Just joined the club with a few of you guys. Just got back from a meeting where I got cut back to 3 day weeks - with the appropriate cut in salary of course. I'm really enjoying this Change that the media helped us get - I'm basking in the glow!!! If things don't pick up soon, very, very soon, who knows! At least I still have a job (for now) - I guess that is what 31 years of experience gets you!! except it used to get you a cup of coffee also as long as you had 50 cents in your pocket (pre Starbucks). I'm sure glad I did not buy that big smoker that I had my eye on. Luckily my last mortgage payment is next month - $2.42 is all I owe anybody!

Wildcat · May 14, 2009, 06:28:13 AM

Good news on the mortgage situation. Congradulations. After 31 years, it sounds like perhaps retirement may be a good plan. I went 36 years with the federal government and retired 2.5 years ago. After enjoying the past 2.5 years, I would have to get pretty desperate to go back to work. Life is too short for that kind of frustration.

tsquared · May 14, 2009, 06:50:43 AM

Sorry to hear about your work situation, Caney but at least it's good timing with the mortgage. I'd say those local browns are in serious danger now.
T2

sherlock · May 14, 2009, 07:09:05 AM

I have a feeling you will find it to be a blessing in disguise.

Take this time to enjoy all the things you always had to put aside because time would not allow them. Life is precious and regrets are many. ENJOY what you have my friend.

nathan

Caneyscud · May 14, 2009, 07:32:56 AM

Yep, that has crossed my mind in the last hour. The only problem is that with all this global warning, we are getting record rains that is causing every hydro dam in this area to release through all available means - generators, sluice gates, spillways, flood gates, etc..... Lots and lots of water everywhere and it is raining right now on top of that. With the current rate of release and the accompanying rate of fall in the lakes above we might be able to fish for them browns in 3 weeks. Likely they won't continue with that release rate and will cut it back in a little while - so the 3 weeks will extend to longer. And that is if no more rain in the watershed. The last time we had this much water going through the dams it took a couple of years to get the fishing back. The temperature rise (because of the water coming from higher up in the water column) and the lower DO (dissolved oxygen) that almost always accompanies the big releases, tend to kill the fish (trout) or just the water washes them down stream (or the high water allows the big predatory fish to be able to swim further upstream than normal) where they are food for other bigger warmwater species - say Stripers. Not such a bad thing for stripers and striper fisherman (yes I do), but not too good for trout fishing.

Caneyscud · May 14, 2009, 07:39:34 AM

Quote from: sherlock on May 14, 2009, 07:09:05 AM
I have a feeling you will find it to be a blessing in disguise.

Take this time to enjoy all the things you always had to put aside because time would not allow them. Life is precious and regrets are many. ENJOY what you have my friend.

nathan

Nathan,
I really appreciated and needed that. Because I have been doing what I do for 31+ years, I frequently dream about doing other things that I think I would rather enjoy doing (proverbial grass is greener bit), but am too timid or chicken to try - or just afraid I couldn't provide for my family if I do selfishly try out a dream. There are definitely some ministries that have been in the back of my mind that I haven't been able to do anything about because of working all the time. This may also be the kick in the pants I need to actually pull the plug and take more steps to become a minister. My mind is reeling right now. Right now I am just worrying about how to tell the wife. This is probably the fifth time (construction, even in the office ain't a stable business) to have to tell her something like this, but it doesn't get easier with practice. I know that each time I have to tell her, a little part of her trust in me is destroyed - and that hurts!

KyNola · May 14, 2009, 08:05:44 AM

CS,
If I remember correctly you have been married for 30 years. Trust me when I tell you after reading your post about what to do for your anniversary that there is no way you can be destroying your wife's trust in you. I will have been married for 35 years in July and feel as though I have disappointed my wife on so many different occasions but you know what? She always says "it's OK as long as we're together". When I changed jobs after 26 years with the same company, I couldn't make the decision to leave. My wife made it for me. She said "I want my husband back and I'm tired of seeing you miserable". CS, they are just wired differently than you and me.

Tell her. I'm confident all you are going to get in return is full support.

Be well my friend.

Larry

Kummok · May 14, 2009, 10:03:23 AM

Gonna resist the urge to say, "Soooo....How's Obama's "Change" and "Hope" working for you so far!?!? ::) :-\ Hasn't happened to me because I'm already retired but it has had a negative effect on our side business up here (my wife runs a one-cabin B&B).....many cancellations due to job loss/reductions. One the GOOD side, we don't NEED the extra income and it allows me to offer you my own Right Wing Conservative Evangelical Fundamental Christian "Economic Stimulus", Caney: Come on up and stay for free in the empty cabin and pontificate a fish lip ripping alternative to life in the fast lane....don't have a boat right now or I'd also offer to take you out for some offshore adventures, but you get up here and at least the "staying" is not cause for economic concern!! Might even be a good place to break the news to your wife....flights out are more limited than down there! ;)

Wildcat · May 14, 2009, 11:02:48 AM

Quote from: Kummok on May 14, 2009, 10:03:23 AM
Gonna resist the urge to say, "Soooo....How's Obama's "Change" and "Hope" working for you so far!?!? ::) :-\ Hasn't happened to me because I'm already retired but it has had a negative effect on our side business up here (my wife runs a one-cabin B&B).....many cancellations due to job loss/reductions. One the GOOD side, we don't NEED the extra income and it allows me to offer you my own Right Wing Conservative Evangelical Fundamental Christian "Economic Stimulus", Caney: Come on up and stay for free in the empty cabin and pontificate a fish lip ripping alternative to life in the fast lane....don't have a boat right now or I'd also offer to take you out for some offshore adventures, but you get up here and at least the "staying" is not cause for economic concern!! Might even be a good place to break the news to your wife....flights out are more limited than down there! ;)

;)

car54 · May 14, 2009, 05:02:51 PM

Caneyscud and Kummock

Both of you have sent me Pm's with messages of encouragement and I thank you for that.
Kummock , you have offered your cabin to a fair amount of people and that is a great thing for you to do.
Caneyscud, use the time to take some ministry courses if you can. Also are you able to get some unemployment?

Tomorrow I will find out if I am laided off. It is a week by week thing it all depends if work comes in. We are involved in the City Center in Las Vegas which is owned by MGM. In less then a year there stock went from a high of about $96.00 per share to about $1.90 per share. They just recently had a 20 billion dollar bailout. The other job we were doing was a new Fontainebleau casino in Vegas. They could not get financing so everything is on hold.

Thanks for your encouragement, Brad

seemore · May 14, 2009, 08:53:56 PM

sorry to hear this
seemore

Habanero Smoker · May 15, 2009, 02:26:55 AM

Caneyscud;

Sorry to hear this. I hope the situation is only temporary.

Brad;

I wish the best for you, and hope you continue to have a job.

Caribou · May 15, 2009, 05:46:43 AM

Hang in there guys!
When the world closes a door on you,
the good Lord will always open a window!
I'm right there with you all, our business income is down over 75%
Very hard to come up with the payment mortgage, too.
Thank God my folks have helped us out...they even bought me a sausage stuffer!
Carolyn

NePaSmoKer · May 15, 2009, 06:29:17 AM

I have been there for about 9 months now. Its great but it does get kinda boring at times. Yard work can wait :D But you can only smoke and eat so much ;D :D If it wasnt for my my being a Fed we would prob be hurting right now. Hang in there everyone.

Carolyn how are them sticks going?

nepas

Caribou · May 15, 2009, 06:45:24 AM

Quote from: NePaSmoKer on May 15, 2009, 06:29:17 AM
Carolyn how are them sticks going?
nepas

Hey Rick!
The meat is defrosting in the frig.
I bought my white peppa and my distilled H2O last night, so now I have everything, including the dextrose you so graciously sent me!
I'll be cranken out the sticks tomorrow, Yahoo!
So there..Sausage-Guru-Man!
That sounds like a new super hero!! :D :D :D :D :D :D
Carolyn