What kind of terrible father am I? I just talked my two eldest sons, who are both recent college grads, into not looking for a permanent job until after Sept. so we can go elk huntin! It wasn't real hard to convince them either, imagine that. Cant wait, looking forward to this trip more than any other.
Making memories!!! You can support them for another couple of months. LOL
Good luck on your hunt.
bretto
You sound like a great Dad to me. Sounds like a memory maker to me.
Tell them to get a job and take me instead....
I think your advice could be one of the most valuable lessons they ever learn.
Also, I never heard anyone start a story by:
"remember that time when I was training to do my job..."
I often hear, " remember when we were hunting..."
Will you adopt me?
You are truly an ogre.
I see a #1 Dad T-Shirt for you in the very near future!
Fantastic advice!
Sounds like pretty good advice to me!
Bisch
Enjoy them while you can all get together, there is never enough time! Take them everywhere.
Use my big son to " fetch " my elk a few years back. Bad or just smart? You go, dad!
Hope all three of you score.
They got the rest of their lives to work. Go hunt.
I dont blame you. I took off half of september myself.
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There will be lots of time to work
That is awesome!
Sounds like your a true father that loves to spend time with your kids well done sir
That's great, I don't blame you. Mine just graduated as a fish/wildlife biologist and I'm trying to convince him not to take a position until after the archery season is over....the heck with student debt....they'll be plenty of time to pay that back, since much of the debt is owed to me.
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Great Advice! I'll do the same one day, plus you'll want them focused during a job interview rather than day dreaming about the woods!!
Priorities Man.
You can be my Daddy!
QuoteOriginally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
I think your advice could be one of the most valuable lessons they ever learn.
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homebru
Plenty of time for work, not always time to hunt. Sounds like a good choice to me.
Tell them to marry women with good paying job who don't mind if they are gone for a month at a time!!! :clapper:
They have their whole lives to earn $$$ but only your time together to make memories. Have a great trip.
time spent with your boys will ALL Ways be with them....jobs will come and go...... :clapper:
Ya know. . if you like your kids, and being around them, you sometimes need to think different. Once they get a job, they will likely be bottom guy for a while and last in line for leave, meaning . . who knows WHEN you will get to do this, and once they start a home and family, then the money matter gets in the way.
I look up to your wisdom.
ChuckC
Jobs (especially today) come and go.
Memories last a life time and you only get one life to make them!
I graduated with degrees in both Forestry and Wildlife management. The odds of finding jobs in these two fields (1977) were 33% for Forestry and 20% for Wildlife. Thankfully, I was looking in mid-May and there was no conflict with my bow seasons (started work July 1 - Forestry).
I didn't stop bowhunting in college but I could never have passed up a job with the outlook so slim in my chosen field. Of course my "jobs" these past 30+ years were oftentimes almost as much fun and rewarding as bowhunting.
I'm assuming these young fellows have chosen fields where there are ample employment opportunities. My dad told me in High School not too worry about taking a job then (I was a cross-country and track runner) that once I started work it would last a life-time.
When I left forestry work for wildlife work in 1979 I did forgo a Wyoming mule deer hunt because of a job change. The boss didn't require it but I thought it a poor move to go hunting the month I was to report to the new job. WY Game and Fish even refunded the license fee! Thinking back, it wouldn't have hurt my career at all to have taken that WY hunt (it would have been my first mule deer hunt).