What do you do??

I am a senior in high school and I work at Carvel Ice Cream Bakery for now. I plan on studying herpetology in college as well as business/marketing in hopes of starting my own reptile business.

Other than snakes, I am interested in soccer, racing homing pigeons, taking care of the remaining 60 or so pets, and being a full-time Boid keeper.

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Originally Posted by Melicious

I'm a full-time college student and I work at Cold Stone. Yes. I scoop ice cream. Go me.

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I LOVE COLDSTONE

I am a power electronics engineer working in research for an aerospace company. Some of the big programs I've worked on are the F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) and the Boeing 787 (Dreamliner).

I thought I'd go into more detail about my life; I work 40 hours a week as a "PPA" collector for Pioneer Credit; my job basically is to negotiate payment plans with debtors who have already grown tired of being called repetitively by our collections department, and want to pay :) I know that there are a lot of lowlifes who have no desire at all to pay for good items they received, but most people I talk to sincerely want to get their stuff paid off and get on with life with better credit.
In my nonworking hours, I spend time keeping house, laundry, cleaning, mowing 3 acres with a tractor, etc. I also am pretty much the sole caretaker of our four horses; cleaning stalls with a mom and foal in them is tough work! Luckily we keep them outside most of the time.. I also help out my longterm live-in boyfriend and hopeful fiancee, Mark, with his property-management business, doing some paperwork for them, helping paint interiors of houses, the like. We rent a farmhouse with 300 acres, and are doing pretty well; just bought our first new vehicle together. Neither of us were ever handed anything and are pretty much the only ones responsible for our happy living and advancement.
My recreational hobbies include ATVing (I am an avid Polaris Sportsman chick!) , painting and drawing, Photoshop photo mangling, occasional vegetable gardening, but my favorite pastime is just walking in the woods collecting objects.

Evan.. you really do falconry? That's awesome! Someday when I have more time I want to get into that.. are you a general or master class hawker? And what do you fly?

I've done a lot of reading on the subject.. it's such a cool sport.

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I'm a full-time college student and I work at Cold Stone. Yes. I scoop ice cream. Go me.

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ICE CREAM!!! MY NEXT JOB!!!! :pinkele: :pinkele: :pinkele:

I work at a vintage guitar store out here in Cali. It's fun. I get to meet lotsa famous people, and the pays good. :)

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Evan.. you really do falconry? That's awesome! Someday when I have more time I want to get into that.. are you a general or master class hawker? And what do you fly?

I've done a lot of reading on the subject.. it's such a cool sport.

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I'm a general class, and this is my third year flying a bird. I still have my kestrel from my apprenticeship, mainly because I'm so attached to the little bugger, but I'm trapping a Richardson's merlin as soon as they begin their migration next month. I'm so excited to get a merlin, but i don't think I'll keep my little Akroma around after I get my new bird, so I"m bummed at the same time :(. The best thing about my falconry experience is that my sponser is a good friend I worked with at the zoo, is my age, and also breeds reptiles. He is also trapping a merlin this season, and we plan on flying them in a cast on snipe and an occasional starling flock. He also flys an anatum peregrin, and keeps a flock of pigeons for training. I debated building a mews and trying get a mer/gyr hybrid, but I don't think I have the funds to build the kind of mews I want, or for the bird itself for that matter, so it will have to wait.

I love falconry, but you are right about waiting until you have time for it. I spend almost as much time with my one bird as I do with my entire snake collection and rodent colony combined. I always feel bad on the days I don't have time to go out and fly her, but I get out about 5 days a week. Careful though, falconry is just as addictive as keeping snakes if not more so :D .

-Evan

RVT, yay for no money :)

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RVT, yay for no money :)

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Wow Becky, you speak Russian?! I don't know any other Russian Vocabulary Testers :P. But really, not many professions in the animal world pay that well, there are just too many people that will do the jobs for squat. I have a BS in zoology and four years experience in the field, yet still make bupkis compared to others with similar credentials in other fields. I commend you for your choice of profession, you HAVE to love what you do to stay in this field for long. :D

-Evan