So What is "Backwards" in Your Life These Days?

[Sam]

So what is "backwards" in your life these days now that we can get back to our normal lives?

 

I mean things that did not happen in the past but is happening today.

 

Example: At LSU, the P-Mac is stuffed to its rafters for gymnastics while the men's basketball team attracts about 5,000 fans. Usually, this is the other way around, with basketball leading the attendance records in the P-Mac and a bunch of high school girls watching the gymnastics.

 

My wife had her spine reconstructed at Duke Medical Center three years ago that was very successful and for a lady who could hardly walk and had continious back pain, she is now working part-time at Talbots and was told by Talbots management that she was an excellent employee and they are glad she is working for them. And this is her first time working retail!!!

 

Give this topic your thoughts and let us know how things are "upside down" in your fishing, careers, sports, hunting, family events, etc. as we approach the height of our fishing season.

 

 

[Captain Phil]

I was always the youngest person in my circle of friends and business associates, now I am the oldest.  ?

[Jar11591]

I’m going to college, only 15 years after high school. 

[CountryboyinDC]

8 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

I’m going to college, only 15 years after high school.

At least you're not going to college after only 15 years of high school.

[Mobasser]

I'm taking a course on computers at a local college. Otherwise,  ready for fishing.

[gulfcaptain]

Well I'm thankful I had other options with my captain's license. Haven't been able to go back to the offshore and oil industry  in the Gulf of Mexico,  but found a home back in S. Cals long range sportfishing fleet. Good when your boss is a bass fisherman so I'm able to plan my time off for tournaments.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

2 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

I’m going to college, only 15 years after high school. 

What are you going to get your degree in?

 

Congrats bro, that's a huge change and commitment to improving your station in life.

[BrianMDTX]

I just to hunt like it was a religion, and rarely fish. 
 

Now I fish like a religion and last year didn’t hunt at all. 

[Jar11591]

11 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

What are you going to get your degree in?

 

Congrats bro, that's a huge change and commitment to improving your station in life.

Thanks. I’m going for electrical construction. I know a couple people who have done the program and highly recommend it. Great for immediate job placement when it’s over. Definitely a weird feeling that I’ll be going to college in my 30s, and probably having to put my business aside for the time being but luckily I have a really supportive girlfriend, and it probably wouldn’t be possible without her. 
This should be much better long term. The few years of landscaping has already taken such a toll on me physically, I had to change something up! I don’t want to feel like I’m 60 by the time I’m 40. 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

7 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

Thanks. I’m going for electrical construction. I know a couple people who have done the program and highly recommend it. Great for immediate job placement when it’s over. Definitely a weird feeling that I’ll be going to college in my 30s, and probably having to put my business aside for the time being but luckily I have a really supportive girlfriend, and it probably wouldn’t be possible without her. 
This should be much better long term. The few years of landscaping has already taken such a toll on me physically, I had to change something up! I don’t want to feel like I’m 60 by the time I’m 40. 

 

Work smarter, not harder it sounds like.

 

Impressive all around by you and your awesome girlfriend.   In a decade or two you'll be saying this was the best decision the two of you made together.   

 

[Jar11591]

4 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

 In a decade or two you'll be saying this was the best decision the two of you made together. 

 We both think so too, so it was a fairly easy decision! 

[Skunkmaster-k]

I used to be the smartest man alive. Now I have teenagers. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

2 minutes ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

I used to be the smartest man alive. Now I have teenagers. 

"whatever Dad" ?

[Darth-Baiter]

I have more money now. (Slightly) Less energy to use it and definitely less time to use it. 
 

 

[TnRiver46]

Same stuff different day here. Still working still broke still fishing 

[DitchPanda]

Biggest thing for me in the last 15 months is a change in schedule. I've always worked weekends and holidays since I was 17 years old. January of 22 I started doing Monday thru Friday 7-330. Had a 4 month stint back on 12hr shift but the other 11 months I've been doing the 5 day thing. To say I'm happy to be home every weekend and home from work at 345pm instead of 730 would be an understatement. Has really changed my outlook on the job.

[N Florida Mike]

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Same stuff different day here. Still working still broke still fishing 

That describes me to a T.

I did get rid of cable TV recently and started streaming after my family gave me a flat screen for Christmas…

Im going to have to figure out how to get SEC football on it before the fall though… 

 

[12poundbass]

I’m left handed so everything has been backwards my entire life!

[Bird]

I was once a workaholic and abruptly retired, a request by the wife.

Fishing has quenched the desire to work.

 

Really thought I'd hate retirement.

Does this qualify as backwards ?

 

Oh, glad to hear you're wife had successful surgery.

 

[gim]

12 hours ago, Sam said:

At LSU, the P-Mac is stuffed to its rafters for gymnastics while the men's basketball team attracts about 5,000 fans. Usually, this is the other way around, with basketball leading the attendance records in the P-Mac and a bunch of high school girls watching the gymnastics.

Do you know why this is? Olivia Dunne. She has over 10 million online followers, has received 7 figures in endorsements, and is the highest valued female college athlete in the entire country.

[Chowderhead]

12 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

I’m going to college, only 15 years after high school. 

This is great - good luck. I was in the same boat and did not have my bachelor’s degree until my mid 30’s and my graduate degree until almost 40. You can do it!

[Sam]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

Do you know why this is? Olivia Dunne. She has over 10 million online followers, has received 7 figures in endorsements, and is the highest valued female college athlete in the entire country.

Yes. Is she the LSU gymnist that recieved three "10s" in a row in the SEC tournament?

[gim]

2 minutes ago, Sam said:

Yes. Is she the LSU gymnist that recieved three "10s" in a row in the SEC tournament?

Honestly I have no idea. I just know she’s extremely popular and that’s presumably why everyone is packing the gymnastics events.

[Craig P]

I wish I had something positive to write but I don’t. I’ve worked for myself the last 20 years so my daily schedule is the same and it has remained status quo.  As much as I hate to be negative, because I have “working for myself liberties” I’ve enjoyed fishing when others don’t fish but the last couple of years, every day is a Saturday on the lakes I fish. I don’t mind pressure, the wake boats and waverunners, not so much.  I need everyone to get back to working full time, in person. 

[king fisher]

I am getting shorter, but heavier, I have more tackle, but fish less, and The bass bite best at my favorite lake in the afternoon when the wind blows hard, but the harder the wind blows, the more difficult it is to fish.