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Old 09-25-2015, 01:41 PM   #1
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What do you do to support you RV habit?

LOL...

RVing is expensive. Big rigs, big trucks, wanting a bigger truck (trying to talk the wife into letting me buy a new GMC 2500 Denali Diesel..only 60 some odd K..lol)..maybe in a year or two.

Anyway..I see some people that post in here are in the construction field.

I am in Aircraft Maintenance, work for a regional airline in Maintenance Control. Have been in Aircraft Maintenance for 30 years, have worked management for 13 years but took a break from that to ride the desk for a while.

What do you do for a living to support your habit?
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Old 09-25-2015, 01:55 PM   #2
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Retired police officer and some per diem work for FEMA. Wife retired law enforcement also. Life is good.
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Old 09-25-2015, 02:17 PM   #3
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Retired police officer and some per diem work for FEMA. Wife retired law enforcement also. Life is good.
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Nice!!
I know Roselle. I live in Carpentersville from 2005 until we moved to AZ in 2013
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That's a fair question, and a good topic...

I'm retired air traffic control. After doing nothing for 2 ½ years, I came out here to AZ a couple of months ago for what I thought was going to be some part-time work to pad the pension a bit. Well that didn't last long, as the position quickly turned into a full time job with possible obligated overtime... so I bowed out quickly. Already been there, done that!

I may try to find something else eventually... but for now I'm simply living on the pension.
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Old 09-25-2015, 03:07 PM   #5
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My nephew just hired on to Carpentersville PD this week. We are going to spend the winter in the RV in Florida this year and then next in AZ unless we decide to shoot out that way in March before heading back up north. Not ruling out a townhome as a base in either of those states. All I know is I'm sick and tired of Illinois and Chicago. Nothing but taxes, crime, and snow.
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Old 09-25-2015, 05:14 PM   #6
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Great topic! :

My job title is Construction Risk Specialist aka Safety Guy. I have been in the construction business for over 35 years, the last 20+ have been industrial. I am naturally inquisitive so I am always figuring out how things work, and how to make them better, if possible. Currently working for a national roofing and siding contractor, we only do industrial and commercial. Licensed in 46 states.

My bride is a 30+ year survivor of the no longer friendly skies. Her non PC title is Senior Sky Mama aka Stewardess aka Flight Attendant. Started out with Piedmont Airlines, back when it was THE glamorous job to have.

We are working towards retirement, 5-10 years from now. No plans to full-time, just head out for a month or so at a time.

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Old 09-25-2015, 05:41 PM   #7
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. All I know is I'm sick and tired of Illinois and Chicago. Nothing but taxes, crime, and snow.
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Great topic! :

My job title is Construction Risk Specialist aka Safety Guy. I have been in the construction business for over 35 years, the last 20+ have been industrial. I am naturally inquisitive so I am always figuring out how things work, and how to make them better, if possible. Currently working for a national roofing and siding contractor, we only do industrial and commercial. Licensed in 46 states.

My bride is a 30+ year survivor of the no longer friendly skies. Her non PC title is Senior Sky Mama aka Stewardess aka Flight Attendant. Started out with Piedmont Airlines, back when it was THE glamorous job to have.

We are working towards retirement, 5-10 years from now. No plans to full-time, just head out for a month or so at a time.

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My wife used to be a flight attendant. She lost a good gig with NorthWest after Sept 11th happened. She didnt have enough seniority to hold onto that job. She moved on to Retail and Merchandising management
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Old 09-25-2015, 08:46 PM   #9
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Old 09-25-2015, 08:59 PM   #10
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Retired 12 years ago as Fleet Manager 33+ years county & city here in the desert. Working full time as Service manager for tractor dealership. Wife just starting on-line sales after 17+ years in thrift shop management.
My two pensions pay just about twice what my full time job does.
Plan for me is to retire again at the end of next year.
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Old 09-25-2015, 11:22 PM   #11
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I 'm a 35 year IT guy. Started as programmer in 1979. Been with AAA IT Ops now for last 10 years. Glad you started this.. We know what it takes to do this right. My wife and I also run a small heavy-duty lubricant company, Alco-Metalube.
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Old 09-26-2015, 02:04 AM   #12
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Me, 35 years as a Mechanical Engineer for a large electric utility. Got into power house turnaround coordination, then planning, then managing...years of OT and per diem. But I think there are three things that did it for me:

1. As Dad counseled, go to work for a big company so that you can move around some and the job doesn't go away.

2. Put the max in the 401K, even if you actually take a bit of a take home pay cut some years...put in the max. Started that in 1984.

3. Lastly, first wife wanted absolutely nothing to do with children. So we had none. That makes a lot of money available for retirement savings.

Wife, the 17+ years we've been married. I provided the basics, pay & benefits. That allowed her to advance her career from "software tester" all the way to Oracle Security Analyst. More certs than I can count. Made her max out whatever 401K she was in from the time we got married. Oh, and she has five children, the youngest 16 when we met. I helped get them back on track and into successful lives.

I retired her in 2009, I retired in June 2011. So my pension, my 401K, her 401K and inheritance from her parents. Life is good. Will be better when we're both take SS at 65. Boss, 63, me 61

Life is very good!!!

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Old 09-26-2015, 03:15 AM   #13
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What do you do to support you RV habit?

Sold off my cattle herd in 1997. Don't think you ever retire from ranching. For the last 18 years my sweetie who is retired from American Airlines and I have a mobile soccer store. We travel the western states in our voltage providing service to youth soccer tournaments. We work now about 24 events a year. Just returned from sandpoint Idaho beautiful. Winter time Northern California and Nevada February off to Laughlin.
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Old 09-26-2015, 10:00 AM   #14
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Retired after 24 years in the Army and now working for the Army in the logistics field hoping to retire for real in 10 years.
The wife works security for defense companies.

I testing to read some of the things people do and have done "on the outside".
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Old 09-26-2015, 11:00 AM   #15
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Currently on my final 3 year, 8 month, and 9 day push to retiring from the Navy. The last few years have been pretty hard on us, constantly moving and deploying. Negotiated a set of orders that will let me retire in place as a Systems Engineer, then go back as a contractor after appropriate waiting periods making somewhat more than I am currently making....I plan on being completely done working by the time I am 50. Wife is an RN, has been working home health for quite some time now...we will probably roam the country letting her work 8-12 week contracts as a per diem nurse...averaging 6 months per year for work...

We are looking for some land to build a home....probably will be in the Voltage for another couple years while that is in the works, not in a big hurry right now.

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The Dutchmen Pop-Up Camper was just an item on my bucket list and something that brings back memories of when I camped with grandma and cousins as kid. I just dug into my savings and bought an 1995 801 model. We're getting the RV bug though and this could turn into an obsession.

My husband is a long-time mechanic currently working in a transmission shop, but has been a motorcycle mechanic for years as well. He keeps all of our street bikes and dirt bikes running. He'll the trailer with his Dodge Ram but I want to get a ball and hitch on my Chevy Cavalier too. I'm a full-charge bookkeeper slash whatever they want to throw my way assistant for a property investment company.
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I retired so long ago I almost forgot what I did for a living until this was posted this morning on FB.


I painted this rig when I was a volunteer firefighter, the department went full time paid and I rose to the number one position but I didn't buy into the politics so I took a voluntary demotion back to captain so I could work the line until retirement came. 20 years of getting retirement checks and I don't even have to be there or smile............
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The Dutchmen Pop-Up Camper was just an item on my bucket list and something that brings back memories of when I camped with grandma and cousins as kid. I just dug into my savings and bought an 1995 801 model. We're getting the RV bug though and this could turn into an obsession.

My husband is a long-time mechanic currently working in a transmission shop, but has been a motorcycle mechanic for years as well. He keeps all of our street bikes and dirt bikes running. He'll the trailer with his Dodge Ram but I want to get a ball and hitch on my Chevy Cavalier too. I'm a full-charge bookkeeper slash whatever they want to throw my way assistant for a property investment company.
Love the bucket list...

I have been half way keeping my eyes peeled for a 1967 Apache Raven, that was the first camper I ever stayed in. Retired Air Force guy owned a filling station on the corner in our neighborhood. Once summer he took 4 or 5 of us neighborhood kids camping at a nearby lake. He had a camper on the back of his pickup and pulled the pop up. The truck was a 1965? Chevy crew cab 4x4. We all had a blast, I think we went 4 times that summer, then we moved away the next year. I have never forgotten it. I am sure he is dead and gone, now but the memory will last forever.

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Old 09-28-2015, 12:18 PM   #19
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Retired Air Force, working for the FAA now. Wife deals in Socks. Yes Socks, not stocks. Cant wait to retire again and actually stop working.
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Old 09-28-2015, 01:18 PM   #20
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My wife and I are in a pretty good place. In our mid 40's my Wife has a job developing web based training which she can do from anywhere. We live in our house in Colorado all summer making "small trip's" to fun biking area's then in the winter we rent out our house and head to So California living in our camper. I take care of our 2 boy's (10 and 2yrs old), home schooling and run a non-profit which mainly is busy in the summer.
The plan this winter is already set. Flying to Costa Rica Nov. 10th and rented a condo for one month. Fly back home to Colorado where renters will already be in our house but the camper will be packed and ready to hook up. Stay with friends for a couple of nights then head to So Cal via Tucson AZ!
My wife keeps a blog of our adventures: pedaladventures.com
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