How do you guys finance your lives and PrepHole activities? Some of you talk of spending a huge amount of time PrepHole, but presumably have some kind of income going as well. Do you all do short term remote work?
How do you guys finance your lives and?
Brother I am a shameless weekend warrior. I plan outings during the week and then spend the weekend PrepHole. Some people in my position probably request off time to go PrepHole I imagine.
Same.
I’m get 15 days of vacation time. Generally I take one long trip a year, often to a further destination. This year was GSMNP. So if I take 5 vacation days for that, the trip can be up to 9 days with weekends. Those trips are usually 5 days of hiking. I’ve done longer but logistics get tougher and there’s less time to unwind at home afterward. But with the weekends bookending the vacation time I can fly to the PNW or California, both of which have multiple ways of getting from the airport to the trailheads in iconic places.
That leaves 10 vacation days for hiking local places, and I usually spread them into three day weekends throughout the year. Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Mardi Gras give the option for four day weekends.
I think this is pretty typical.
I'm a software developer and I live in a shitty house in a shitty neighborhood. I work a couple years, save half my income, then frick off for a couple years.
Does having a couple years absent in your resume not make it difficult finding work?
just tell them you were trying to start your own business and it didn't work out
Kidnapping and harvesting the organs of solo hikers.
Almost got one recently but he got to the normie button on his Garmin Inreach before I could nab him. Kept crying about wanting a helicopter like a little b***h.
And I didn’t have any way to eat my food either! You didn’t have to wait three days to call me back either!
By living in the woods and working remotely
What remote work? I'm trying to get into it without taking too much of a paycut.
Mostly Java/c# with some sql. Only at 85k, I could push for more or another job, but then I’d have to work a lot harder.
I'm a NEET and my family owns a 200 acre plot of land in rural Alabama, I keep up the land and they let me live on it and pay me a small amount per month to maintain the trails. I have a cousin that's a doctor and she has been through hiking the AT for the past couple of years, but she's scared to go alone so she pays for me to go with her.
>claims to be NEET
>describes jobs he has
Just kidding anon, sounds like a sweet way to get by
I don't even consider it working because it's something I would be doing where I live either way.
No, she's mine.
> Neet
> Rural Alabama
> Hiking with cousin
Roll tide. Share the nudes.
>Roll tide
Roll in a hole lmfao
Nice, yeah I used to hide / walk more. Even as a fit guy there are places I'm not going on my own due to predators or deranged humans.
What a comfy life mashallah
Nice bro i have a similair situation in florida. Live on the land and putz around every few weeks building a house on it. I throw out bread and sometimes even leftovers every few mornings for the meth heads and they seem to respect me enough not to rape me and steal my stuff. Its a comfy life but i will probably need to make a game plan for about 2 years from now so i can buy more land
some use social welfare. i choosed sports. i wone the batoning cup last year.
Made a bunch of money on stocks
retired at 35
Play the market a few weeks out of the year
>Technology degree, contacts that do research, basically insider trade
What did you work before you won the lottery?
Material Science, aerospace, and computer technologies. The next decade of technology is all planned obsolescence and as soon as you decode the release schedule, the companies involved, the emerging technologies selected as the replacement tech, and the small firms that are fast tracked for acquisition, it all becomes boringly predictable.
> neet
> hiking exclusively on weekdays
feelsgoodman.
>Money
Full-time work, savings, investment proceeds from stocks that I bought in 2008-10
>Time
5 weeks of annual vacation time + weekends + holidays
Nothing too fancy
worked out a schedule with my boss:
>4 day week, 12 hour shifts
>3 day weekend
>wageslave for >40 hours a week to have an extra day off
jfc that's horrific
Sounds like you're being cheated, especially if you're salaried.
I do remote admin work for a family that owns a few different businesses. Usually only work a few hours each morning from my laptop. Living intermittent van life. Doesn't pay much, but it covers everything and I put a little bit in savings (around $2000 per month).
Litrally mostly just go day or half day trips.
Did alot while a student.
Work in the outdoor industry if youre a poorgay or have any basic marketing or business skills. You get industry discoutns and access to the outdoors that normies pay out the ass to get.
what kind of jobs specifically are you talking about?
https://www.backdoorjobs.com
I took a paycut for my current job. I'm a traffic technician for a municipality. My schedule is 7-3. M-F. With like 15 paid holidays a year. And we acrue a ridiculous stupid amount of paid vacation and sick time. Like right now. My department is rotating taking random days off because we have so much vacation we have to burn before the New Year.
The job is cool. It's being an electrician. Mixed with being an IT tech. Half my day is spent at my desk with dual monitor set ups. Meetings with traffic and civil engineers. And the other half is field time. Wether it's a call out or just preventive maintenance at intersection cabinets.
Stress free most of the time. Pay is still good. And I live in an area with absolutely wonderful outdoor selection.
Retired from the military
I own my own business, when I'm actually working I work long hours but I can also frick off for a month or more at a time, like all of December this year I'm just being lazy for example.
Was really hard at the start but now it's three years in and most of the heavy lifting is handled by employees now, thank god.
By working.
>this blows the zoomer's mind
I love boomer-posting, it's always the simplest bait but zoomers take it every time.
zoomers think anyone older than 30 is a boomer
Where we as a generation as absolutely insufferable as the zoomers are? Holy shit, just shut up you naive poofy haired little shits.
>t. boomer
Yes, and?
There is no and--you are the punchline. This isn't amature hour at the improv showcase, stop expecting me to carry your weak ass shit. I have zoomer padawans and they wouldn't even throw you a dad joke with your weak shit. Do better.
>t. retired at 37.
by we do you mean millenials? because yes, absolutely. theres gotta be some sort of time capsule of all the annoying shit millenials have done so far. t. millenial
You work while PrepHole?
High income software developer with no retirement account
Careful, NED, CAREFUL!
I work for a company that averages one long "holiday" weekend per month. I combine that with my PTO so I can go be an PrepHoleist.
I fly helicopters in the gulf. It's decent pay, nothing glamorous. But I don't have kids so I don't have a lot of overhead. It's two weeks on two weeks off, so I have time for all kinds of adventures.
what's the point of flying helicopters into the ocean? seems like a waste of money to me
Lol we don't fly helicopters into the water anon. We fly passengers and cargo to the oil rigs.
>It's decent pay, nothing glamorous.
Black person those pilots make $130k, easily.
Yeah you poor.
>Have to save up 15-20 years to be a millionaire that's pretty bad. That's the bare minimum to be able to retire some day. You should strive for greater.
post proof of networth.
130k/year is great, depending on how much you can save/keep.
like seriously, by the time you hit retirement your house / land is paid off with car(s) paid off. 401k and SS (assuming it's still a thing) are kicking in.
How much do you spend each month anon?
Unless you live in fricking NYC or SF, even 4k a month without a mortgage/rent is enough to be pretty comfortable; especially if you've been smart with your money and don't need to be a rabid consoomer. i know this is PrepHole so we're all 6'4 with defined abs, a 6 figure income, and a bevy of lingerie models as fwb's, but come the frick on.
i have a job and work remotely from anywhere that has good internet. im ahead of my plan to be retired by 50, likely mid 40s. its worth a little sacrifice early to get yourself setup for life, if you can save 50% of your income you can retire in 15 years.
Job as an RN. 3,12-hour shifts a week. 4 day weekends. Pick up a lot of extra work in the dead winter season. Save up a lot of pto vacation time to use up in the summer and spring.
does being a real homie pay well?
only if you know dem streets
I work outdoors, plus I rarely have to work 5 days a week so I just go snowboard or whatever. One day I'll go back to using my degree and go remote...
cry because snow is covering all of it which means i cant touch the grass and therefore i lost the argument.
>weekends
>long weekends
>paid time off (you get 1 month's worth a year)
>long service leave (you get 6 month's worth every 10 years or so)
>unpaid time off (if you want a week off you can literally just ask your boss or switch shifts with coworkers etc)
interesting thread
>talk
That’s all it is.
How many threads do you see of people giving trip reports or posting OC after coming back from a long hike or epic hunt or really unique fishing trip or whatever? When something like that does get posted it’s routinely ignored because these fruitcakes can’t even relate to actually doing something big or special.
Did you see my post a few months back after doing the second half of the Pinhoti? ~160 miles, 11 days, and one reply to the thread.
I've switched from careers that have almost 0 in common
First I did forestry, felling and planting, lowest of the totem pole
Then I was a kindergarten teacher for 3.5 years, specialising mainly in sports and surprise! Outdoor stuff
Now I'm a locksmith
I'm a stay at home dad, wife is a nurse that makes more than enough for us to get by and cover bills. Perfect setup imho.
Merchant Mariner, which gives me large chunks of time off.
Quit my office job and started a few businesses that are doing well. Make my own schedule. Helps that most of the work I do now is also outside.
Pic kinda related.
Airline Pilot
Typically work 4 days on, 4 days off. We bid for schedules, so I can generally stack a ton of days off for a big trip, just have to work a ton of days on later in the month. Unless I use vacation time, I’ll never be able to do a massive 2-3 week sender. But it’s nice to be able to do shit at like 7am on a Monday and not encounter a frick ton of people.
I steal everything
i used to take all the most remote worksites there were and camped on site
sometimes my worksite was next to really good fishing place and i would live off the stream every week, basically i got paid to do what i love on location
got these one day during work hours when fixing old dam
what u work as
Ecologist for a park system. Get paid to be an PrepHoleist; walking trails, learning the land, managing the resources. Plus prescribed burns, research, and species inventory is all pretty fun. Pay's not great, but location is cheap and livings comfy.
I work a bullshit nightshift security position and get paid way more than I should.