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    Quote Originally Posted by barty5 View Post
    who my own automotive workshop (kinda wish i didnt sometimes) but it dose have some perks. all bike parts and gear are now saftey equipment and spare parts for all the bike we work no (nooooot). Hours can really sux owning own co 10 12 or 14 hr days to make sure all is done.
    And besides all of this...Barty is a part/full time Good Samaritan... helping guys like me who are noobi's with small fuel cans and no trailers...

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    I work at the Frankton Model Shop, basicly speend most of the day fixing any thing R/C.

    Also speend work time on KB

    Here is one of the buggys i service hiting a FMX Ramp.
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    LOL did it survive!!

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    I work in the industry! Professional Dirt Bike Rider....
    sounds great eh.... NOT!! I spend all day dragging idiots out of bogs, untangling balls of tiedowns, washing bikes, replacing brake pads and answering dumb questions from overseas enquiries!

    But I do get to ride at least 3 days a week in the most awesome places and get paid for it!
    Retired- just some guy with a few bikes......

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    Quote Originally Posted by cave weta View Post
    I work in the industry! Professional Dirt Bike Rider....
    sounds great eh.... NOT!! I spend all day dragging idiots out of bogs, untangling balls of tiedowns, washing bikes, replacing brake pads and answering dumb questions from overseas enquiries!

    But I do get to ride at least 3 days a week in the most awesome places and get paid for it!
    Wanna trade jobs??
    Kinky is using a feather.
    Perverted is using the whole chicken.

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    Here is one of the buggys i service hiting a FMX Ramp.[/QUOTE]

    Ha haa, classic, i hope the client had already paid for it

    Quote Originally Posted by cave weta View Post
    I work in the industry! Professional Dirt Bike Rider....
    sounds great eh.... NOT!! I spend all day dragging idiots out of bogs, untangling balls of tiedowns, washing bikes, replacing brake pads and answering dumb questions from overseas enquiries!
    But I do get to ride at least 3 days a week in the most awesome places and get paid for it!:
    That sounds fukken mint

    Quote Originally Posted by cheese View Post
    Electronics Tech/sales/2 IC for a electronics company.
    Always been either pulling something to bits or fixing it - so I sold my suzuki and got a honda and just spend more time riding LOL!!
    Quote Originally Posted by krad_nz View Post
    Embedded systems engineer at F&P Appliances.
    Desk rider baby
    Definitely not in my immediate family's blood.
    [QUOTE=SpikedPunch;1735579]None taken! It's my first bike, and I'm pretty short so I wanted something little I could reach the ground on and pick up. I've only been out once, to the bombing range (exhausting and frustrating, but fun at the same time!) so far but keen for more.

    Yeah mate i remember getting really frustrated with certain things and so fukken tired but as soon as you finnish riding for the day you wanna go back! It's wierd aye?

    Quote Originally Posted by theblacksmith View Post
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    As for what I do _hm where do I start?
    Firstly am self-employed,
    I have a 3ton excavator and truck
    I am an engineer(I have worked on printing machines (upgrades to register advance,duct dividers etc) in the past)
    I am a certified welder(NZS4711 Low Hydrogen all positions)but can weld all steels and alloys. These are the things I do now mostly,
    However in the past Ive been a sheep shearer (300 a day- this is what first brought me to this wonderful country)a steel erector(my familys business back in the UK)
    Be interesting to read this thread as more people post.
    Heya mate, did you have a good ride up there? bet they don't have trails like that in GB~! Far out what a wide ranging set of skills you've earned the title "theblacksmith"

    Quote Originally Posted by cr125nz View Post
    well i own my own construction company and a spill response company with 3 branches in the north island and it sux long hours so riding in the weekend is bliss as take my mind of the taxman lol
    Sounds like a good money spinner, heaps of self employed folk in here aye?

    Quote Originally Posted by soundbeltfarm View Post
    dairy farmer here.
    and when time allows i go out contract fencing.
    love the out doors and i could never work indoors.
    Cool mate where's the farm? bet you've got practice space to die for

    Quote Originally Posted by laserracer View Post
    automotive appearence tech,,, hahaha .. ok im the head dictator of my own mobile car and bike valet business
    10 years of cleaning other peoples dirty shit... i must be crazy... but i work my own hours so can ride whenever i like
    Lucky you, there's so many self employed peeps posting it's amazing. Making me jealous, might have to get out of my trade...yeah right...only 20years of mortgage left to pay

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    i run my own roofing contracting bussiness,get to work and play outside and dictate my hours,SO I KEEP TELLING MYSELF,
    GO THE WARRIORS!!!

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    i sell motorcycles and accessories for the shop i own with my brother and law, (Mr Motorcycles) , only full time job's i have ever had have been in the motorcycle industry, this one for 7 years, and before that Northern Accesories for 4 years,

    did study to become and accoutant, how boring would have that been???

    i do not get to ride as much as i would like, but shoudl be able to get out and do some mid week riding this summer hopefully

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    Ha haa, classic, i hope the client had already paid for it
    Yea he was out with me was a good day nothing broke. Only sell good quality lol

    Here is my favirote shop demo toy currently with a broken diff due to a woop section at a mx track. 23cc 2 stroke motor
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    im still at high school, and wash dishes at a restaurant on friday nights..

    but im keen to become an engineer, been looking at the navy..

    Think my dad used to ride back in the day, but we live on a farm so thats the main reason i got into it! Cant get enough now!!
    My choice is what I choose to do,
    And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.

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    im a full time high school student
    we may just go where no ones been

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    Life for me is a mess.
    Until a year or two ago (well maybe a bit longer)I was a good looking light weight sports fanatic that had heaps of time on his hands.

    Now I manage the NZ ops for an overseas company that makes me freakin work till dark each night.
    Also have a couple of thousand xmas trees that I grow as a part time thing (no not in the forestry). That old house that we brought is nearly 45% re-furbished and will take another three years to complete, but don't tell the missus that.

    My how things have changed. Now I'm a fat old prick that has no time on his hands.

    OK, I run a motorbike park but hey, trying to get time to ride is a mission. I think I've done 30 hours in the last 6 months and most of that is stop start pruning tracks.

    I want Kezzafish's job. Whats a kezzafish anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ktmboy View Post
    Life for me is a mess.
    Until a year or two ago (well maybe a bit longer)I was a good looking light weight sports fanatic that had heaps of time on his hands.

    Now I manage the NZ ops for an overseas company that makes me freakin work till dark each night.
    Also have a couple of thousand xmas trees that I grow as a part time thing (no not in the forestry). That old house that we brought is nearly 45% re-furbished and will take another three years to complete, but don't tell the missus that.

    My how things have changed. Now I'm a fat old prick that has no time on his hands.

    OK, I run a motorbike park but hey, trying to get time to ride is a mission. I think I've done 30 hours in the last 6 months and most of that is stop start pruning tracks.

    I want Kezzafish's job. Whats a kezzafish anyway?
    and who was it that said $$$ dosnt grow on trees!

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    A kezzafish is the biggest fish in the ocean, it's a bottom trawler but only because it's massive cock weighs it down... ha ha noooot.
    It's my name abbreviated, Kerry Fisher. And who wants my job? i started at 1 pm today and don't finnish till 1am tomorrow morning!

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    I wanna be a high school student launching RC cars off kickers

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