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bajadock
Super Nomad
Posts: 1219
Registered: 12-20-2006
Location: Punta sur de \'Nada
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Enjoying Baja and new friends here.
The question is "What do you do for a living?", which took me a few decades to differentiate v. "What is your job?".
Some think I'm lazy. Others think I'm lucky. All are welcome to share the dream I'm living, as well as my beverage collection.
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Mexray
Super Nomad
Posts: 1016
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: California Delta
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Mood: Baja Time
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Time Share, Condo, Used Car Salesman...
...just thought I'd get your attention....
Actually, I used to run the Parts Dept at the Kenworth Truck Dealer in the SF Bay Area...got to crowded over there!
As the family needed more 'breathing' room, moved out to the San Joaquin Valley and now co-own a small Battery Specialist Shop in Stockton...almost
pays the bills, so when things are slow, I try and sneak away to Baja to live on the 'cheap'...but it's a challenge, these days...
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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airmech
Nomad
Posts: 184
Registered: 9-2-2006
Location: Murrieta Ca
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Mood: Expeditionary
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
hey Airmech - is that a bellanca viking , your avatar?
where is it parked?
nice planes, one of my friends in the flyin sams has one, 300 HP and fast!
you should try and make to BBP whales I or II or both next month. there will be so many planes at serenidad over 2 weekends that you can make enough
fixing the enevitable problems that crop up to pay for your stay!
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Yes, that our Viking at Los Frailes last year. It's a great little baja plane, has great short field takeoff characteristics and has a good range for
fuel. Some day we would like to have a shop south of the border. The insurance after 9/11 is killing us up here. Been looking this weekend at
property in BOLA. We're charter members of the BBP but miss the old time trips of camping out at some of the more secluded spots in baja.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Phil S
Super Nomad
Posts: 1205
Registered: 10-28-2003
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Mood: After 34 years. Still in love w/ my wife
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Retired 10 years now. Background is finance, insurance, real estate broker, and property investing. And former Boy Scout, DeMoley, Lions Club,
Optomist Club, Chamber of Commerce, Elks Lodge & Moose Lodge. (One must also 'give' besides being a 'taker'!!!) What have you done in "giving"
during your life time?
[Edited on 2-22-2008 by Phil S]
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vandenberg
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5118
Registered: 6-21-2005
Location: Nopolo
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Mood: mellow
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| Quote: | | What have you done in "giving" during your life time? |
Dished out a lot of BS. 
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bajadogs
Super Nomad
Posts: 1066
Registered: 8-28-2006
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Full time milk man and part-time liar.
really - graphic artist
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EMAM
Nomad
Posts: 149
Registered: 2-2-2008
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My wife and I used to own a restaurant/bar before we sold everything we own, and started traveling fulltime.
We figured we needed to do it as young as possible before we would have to go back to work. 
Now you could call us travel writers/photojournalists/ fulltime partiers!!
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vgabndo
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3461
Registered: 12-8-2003
Location: Mt. Shasta, CA
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Mood: Checking-off my bucket list.
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Ex-Marine, radio and TV personality, motorcycle mechanic, community college instructor, 26 years in construction, (retirement?) real estate home
inspector until the compassionate conservative fixed the economy!
My fault for not hooking up with the military industrial complex.
Well, my hands may be dirty, but my conscience is clean.
Baja in 16 days!!!!
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Mood: Just dancing through life
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Not sure how I fit.......here
Sure hesitated in adding to this thread……….Reason, not sure how I fit
I remember starting working full time when I was 12 (yep! right here in the liberal state of California—folks journeyed from Oklahoma to get away from
that crap.
Anyway got married most early to a fantastic lady who stayed at my side for a bunch of years—worked as a truck driver, a heavy equipment operator—left
to become a cop because most of my peers, while senior, were mostly alcoholics and I wanted a good paying night job so I could go to college and raise
a family—never realized that cops drank a bit too.
Spent some years there and found that I loved people—no that is not unusual for a lot of cops. Spent 15 years as a Captain. had a Real Estate office
with my Lady who was a broker Bought a bunch of stuff and became a property manager. Retired from the PD with a bad heart. Built three houses in
Baja, The Lady and I danced up and down Baja Norte for many years.
Oh! yeah--I died a couple of time when my heart didn't corporate
Wrote three books on Baja and a ton of poems (no one cares for poems anymore) a bunch of short stories. Just finished my fourth book on Baja…for
family and Nomads only.
Now I guess you can say that I am retired…………..but working like hell to keep from getting that label. Guess you can say that I am just an old dog who
don’t have the sense to lay down and………………..
Looking forward to a month in Baja Sur in March and April when I can meet a bunch of Nomads that I have only talked to……………Lera and Longlegs top that
list…………With Sara….topping everything.
If you have not noticed this old motor is still running!
[Edited on 2-22-2008 by Baja Bernie]
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Paulina
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3810
Registered: 8-31-2002
Location: BCN
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lizard lips
Im a Father and a Husband. I still work but that is secondary. |
Two of the four most important jobs one could hold in their lifetime. If done correctly, the pay off is much higher than any paycheck received.
P<*)))><
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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mulegemichael
Super Nomad
Posts: 2310
Registered: 12-24-2007
Location: sequim,wa. and mulege
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Mood: up on step
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Twenty years as a Washington State Park Ranger burned me out so 13 years ago started a lavender farm up in my pueblo of Sequim. Had over a half
million folks visit it last summer so we're busy fending off the tourists. Five months in baja makes it almost bearable going north for the summer.
Only two more days then back to responsibility. Waaaaa!
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BajaRob
Senior Nomad
Posts: 722
Registered: 9-15-2003
Location: Bahia Santa Maria y Newport Or
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Mood: Life is good
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Retired to Baja in 2002 after 3 years of Air Traffic Control and 30 years of General and Mechanical Contacting mostly with the Department of Defense
and other Federal Agencies. That provided the opportunity to get even with the government for the terribly low Army pay.
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Mexitron
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3397
Registered: 9-21-2003
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Mood: Happy!
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Landscaping in OC mostly for 30 years, 20 with my own company, but just got offered a job at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden...so still working with
plants but giving the ever creakier body a respite from digging ditches and laying flagstone.
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bajalou
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 4459
Registered: 3-11-2004
Location: South of the broder
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Congratulations Steve - sounds like a great opportunity for you. Of course, might not give you the vacations you would like.
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
And in the San Felipe area - check out Valle Chico area |
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BajaGeoff
Super Nomad
Posts: 1727
Registered: 1-11-2006
Location: San Diego and Campo Lopez
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Mood: Heading To Baja!!!
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I have been selling Mexican auto insurance for the last 5 years.....before that I worked at a production company doing mostly sports and corporate
video.
Can't wait to have my own casa in Baja.....
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Shimmer
Junior Nomad
Posts: 69
Registered: 11-29-2005
Location: Todos Santo BCS
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Mood: In the Question
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Wide spectrum.....outback, fringe dwellers the lot.
I have been a designer/builder of customs homes for 32years Oregon, California Wyoming,Hawaii......now living full time in Todos Santos. Thought I'd
be able to retire but the economy has proven differently. Currently we are managing over 20 properties and rentals in TS. After spending two years
here, studying the climate, lifestyle and shelter needs....... I am designing and overseeing construction projects. Grounding in yet another
chapter. Baja is my home.
I wish I could slow the growth........hopefully TS will lag far behind Cabo and LaPaz
Steve
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Sharksbaja
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5814
Registered: 9-7-2004
Location: Newport, Mulege B.C.S.
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Steve, I don't get it. You wish the growth is slow yet you are actively increasing the population and growth factor. Can't have yer cake and eat it
too amigo. 
I saw the "plan" for the area. Good luck controlling growth along that corridor.
end of pant
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
Nomads\' Sunsets
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fishbuck
Banned
Posts: 5318
Registered: 8-31-2006
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sharksbaja
Steve, I don't get it. You wish the growth is slow yet you are actively increasing the population and growth factor. Can't have yer cake and eat it
too amigo.
I saw the "plan" for the area. Good luck controlling growth along that corridor.
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I was thinking the same. But everyone who goes to Baja contributes to growth and developement in some way. Especially if you try to make a living down
there. Pretty much the only way is to invite new people to come there and bring money to spend. Some will want to stay and they will need homes etc.
Can't really be stopped. The free market will decide the pace of growth.
If I had the money I would be a land speculator/developer. Maybe sell timeshares in my spare time. And build golf courses too.
Then maybe move to some island in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Just kidding.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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ccholder
Junior Nomad
Posts: 35
Registered: 9-15-2007
Location: Oregon/Los Barriles
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I work at Oregon State Hospital... where they filmed One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest. Just lovin it!
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David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 64859
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
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Mood: Have Baja Fever
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Let's not get off track, this thread is asking Nomads what they do for a living and is not meant for anyone to get judged on what they do. I thank
Shimmer for sharing with us... What he does will be done by someone so isn't better if that person is a Baja Nomad?
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