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!!!  

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......  

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).