What do VFR owners do for a living?

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  1. Hootch

    Hootch New Member

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    OK, Randy. You mention you retired 7 years ago, but what I want to know is how many years ago that picture was taken...I don't even see any gray on your head :)

    As for me..

    Internal Auditor out of college...lasted 2 years
    Fish Hippie in Alaska...salmon canneries in the summer, mushing dos in the winter
    Found woman (or she found me??...nah, I was the lucky one), left AK (the only reason to leave AK), pc tech, net admin
    Currently an IT system analyst/project mgr for local municipality
     
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    So can I blame you for the water never draining out the scuppers? I swear, everytime we had a fresh water wash down or went through rough seas the port and stbd breaks would hold nearly 10 inches of water until we rolled.

    I'm kidding but seriously, that sucked. Other than that both ships were great. Many good memories. A lot of them forever gone due to good port visits.
     
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    Photo 8 years ago. Grecian Formula is wonderful stuff. But it was getting too expensive to buy it by the
    quart. Thought I would get more respect if I went grey. Obviously Kevin, you don't agree. LOL You going to Slo 2010?
     
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    Mailman...counting down till retirement, 6 years 2 months 15 days
     
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    I worked in a Hot Rod shop for 8 years. Loved it! But after 40-50 hours per week, the last thing I wanted to do was come home and work on my own stuff.
    So I went back to school, became an EMT so I could save the world. Found out that 90% of the time I would be saving the scum of the Earth. Went back to school, thinking I could make more of a difference as a Paramedic. Unfortunately, all that did was allow me a larger scope to save the scum of the Earth. Just recently I got promoted to Communication Supervisor (I hire/fire and treat people like jerks) had to trade my morals and ethics for it... but hey, whatever it takes to have any bike I want, Right???
     
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    I evidently work for the governement. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around. Naive me. Time for another revolution.
     
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    We all work fer the guvment buddy, heared of income tax??????
     
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    With all due respect, you missed the point. No biggie.
     
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    I errrr... work for Asda as a pleb (Walmart for the USA people)

    Trained graphic designer and am a photographer when it suits me.

    edit - i forgot to say i'm a full time dad! Gave up my career to do it.
     
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    I have to agree with you there sir, sorry. Hate it when I miss the joke, damnit :pout:

    edit: Government is supposed to work for it's citizens, :duh: now my slow and super dumbass gets it :doh::doh::doh::frusty:
     
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    I am a fixed income portfolio manager (a bond vigilante).

    I started the company 15 years ago when I came back from working in Switzerland and the UK for 8 years. Now it is a substantial company!

    John
     
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    The government pays me to stay at home. But I am a stubborn shit. I take their money and still go to work. Guess I was not finished with paying taxes. I need to pay my taxes so I can collect my pension that I pay taxes on. And the goevernment wants me to file a tax return to tell them how much money I give to them. Don't they know? WTF here man.
     
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    Sounds suspiciously like my gov?
     
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    Randy, just give all you money to me here in Juneau, Alaska, USA. I'll take care of the complicated tax accounting directly with your government tax agents. No fuss, no muss for you, my friend! You won't be sorry.
     
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    New Canadian Income Tax Returns:

    Line 1:

    How much money did you make in 2009?

    Line 2:

    Send it to us.
     
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    Municipal Gum'mint as a redevelopment project manager.

    Basically, some county money (property tax) comes to us so we can build stuff (parking garages, parks, community facilities), which in turn should benefit/improve our downtown district which results in higher property tax, which means we get more $ the following year, etc. We use our powers for good. :cool:

    Oh, and I manage a small apartment building.
     
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    I remember hearing on the Art Bell radio show that there is no law in Canada or the US that specifically states that one must pay taxes!!!

    Also if I buy a 2nd hand vehicle why should I pay tax on something that has the tax already collected at the initial time of purchase by the first owner. Sounds like an unethical practice to me!!
     
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    You like that? How about this one - here in Colorado; if you get a tax refund for overpaying, that refund counts as income on your next years filing and gets taxed again. You already earned that money and claimed it one year but it's taxed again the next.
     
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    Do you by any chance have legislators that are NJ ex-pats?
     
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    i work at the one of the honda plants in ohio lol..
    only fitting i ride hondas!
     
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