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Are You Into Hunting? Hunt Safely With These Tips

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The excitement of chasing down a twelve-point buck or nabbing a prize-winning turkey sends millions of hunters into the woods annually trying to find that prize kill. Searching is exciting, but it can also be even disastrous and unsafe if hunters are not educated and consistently exercise hunting security measures.

The Basics

Prior to your hunting trip, prepare yourself well. Never ever go to an unexpected location and let others know where you’re planning to hunt and when you’ll most likely return. Try to return home as close to your planned time as possible.

If utilizing a rifle or shotgun, clean and check the weapon after every use. Prepare a small first aid kit to carry with you while you are hunting.

In The Woods

Once you reach your chosen hunting area, make certain to wear your safety equipment together with orange-colored clothes on your head and/or chest to help other hunters in the area determine you from the game. While camouflaged equipment is great to assist you to being undiscovered by the animals, it can also confuse other hunters if they see motion from a distance without recognizing the orange color.

Throughout The Hunt

If you are hunting deer and discover yourself tracking an injured animal, always be cautious. Other animals in the area may end up being stressed at the scent of one of their own running wounded near them. Always have a tactic of escape in mind ought to the animal attack.

It is likewise vital to be familiar with and on the lookout for other animals like bears and snakes that could be encountered while searching. Being aware of your surroundings is a vital step in staying safe while searching. Make use of some caution and good sense to ensure you’ll enjoy many more years of happy wild animal hunting.

If you’re into bore hunting and would love to travel in Abbeville, you might want to check out Gum Log Plantation hunting retreat in Georgia. Many hunters had wonderful reviews at this place and dubbed it as the best boar hunting in Georgia.

“I’d like an iced, grande, triple, soy, skinny, dirty Chai-tea-latte….to go.”

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If you see your local barista on the verge of tears, it’s probably because they just got an order for a drink that takes longer to say than it does to make. I work in a coffee shop, and while there are a few “purists” who still order just an average cup of coffee, the increase in the number of “coffee divas” has made my job a nightmare.

On a daily basis I hear more specifications for already overtly frilly coffee beverages than most people would think. Some customers will even ask to speak to a manager if their tall, skinny, caramel-macchiato isn’t PRECISELY 143 degrees. You’d think their tongue was the world’s most exact thermometer.

In any case, despite my attachments to my regular customers and the perks of free coffee, this job is slowly burning me out. It is absolutely no wonder I, like every other barista I know, have turned to straight espresso just to make it through the day.

Service Industry Blues

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Waiting tables night after night seems to be the go-to job for most college students, but it has got to be one of the most stressful jobs out there. Most students, like myself, become servers at restaurants/bars so that they can make fast cash. I have come to the realization that there is really no more money to be made in the current restaurant I am in leading to even more stress. I spend 8+ hours standing on my feet waiting hand and foot on people who cannot even remember my name (it’s on my name tag). I do agree with the fact that it is the perfect job for students who are in college because of the flexible hours, but the added stress is simply not worth it.

Restaurant Manager

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Yeah, I’ve got more than a few stories to tell.  I spent a lot of time around restaurants through college.  I believe I worked most every position that someone can in restaurants.  I eventually ended up managing at a few restaurants.  The expected 80 hour work weeks for a restaurant manager notwithstanding, some things definitely fell under the “I do not like this job” category.

Restaurants - does ANYONE like their job?

Restaurants – does ANYONE like their job?

I was managing a restaurant in Wilmington NC for a local chain – we’ll leave the name off for legal reasons MUCH as I would like to mention it – they seem to be a little on the litigation-happy side.

One of the front counter girls – I think her name was Crystal – was a little country girl.  She was real friendly, got along great with the normal blue collar crowd that piled in at lunch time, was a great worker.  Granted she wouldn’t have been an ideal hostess person for the Angus Barn in Raleigh or anything, but she was a great fit for that restaurant and customer-base.  She was very helpful and always did what she was asked without question.  Great employee.

One morning about 1 am, I got a phone call from her amazingly.  She was at the police station – of course, that’s NEVER a good thing to hear. But she was there NOT for being arrested for anything, but because her boyfriend, who had always been a little suspect, had beat her up.  She was at the police station giving her statement or whatever they take there when something like that occurs.  I told her how sorry I was for her and take a deep breath and all that.  She was very shaken – I could hear that in her voice.

To make it worse, for whatever reason – it actually eludes me now – she was now without a place to live. The trailer in which she lived was owned by the boyfriend’s mother if memory is even close, and she was now out.  I guess that is about par for domestic abuse – even if it wasn’t her fault.  Felt bad for the girl.  Told her it would be fine.  Why did she call me at 1 am?  Because she was cocerned about getting someone to cover her shift at 9 am. Now THAT is the kind of employee ANY restaurant manager (or any other manager actually) wants.

Longish story short – she didn’t make the shift as expected and we could not find a replacement for her.  It was fine – it certainly wasn’t the first time we’d operated short, though it was the LAST time *I* operated short staffed at a restaurant.  The president of the company happened to call that day and I told him what had happened – mistake.

I was directed to fire her because she missed her shift.  I refused to fire her. Made my case to deaf ears. Of course, the president and I never particularly got along well anyway.  Two days later, I found the district manager waiting for me when I got to the store.  And I was fired.

That was the last of my days in the restaurant business.  That was probably a great thing for me. 80 hour weeks take a toll on someone – particularly in that kind of business.  I’ll be back here – there were a lot more underhanded antics by that particular management team – in particular that president/owner.  I do hope karma gets a chance to come around on him.

We all have good stories

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I do not like this job sometimes...

I do not like this job sometimes…

I’m a web developer. And web development is fun – until you get customers involved LOL. “Sure I can rank you for that site!” You get a beautiful little plan developed, you pick out your keywords and your pages. You carefully assemble content. You pick out a perfect theme for them, get some nice looking graphics created – sometimes paying someone to do the “perfect” little graphic for the site. You buy several stock pictures because as you know if you’re in web development, customers never will pick up a camera to just take a few shots of their own work to let you use – aaaargh.

You then carefully assemble the killer site. Keywords just perfect, every picture lines up, perfect flow. It’s beautiful. Then the customer looks at it and they like it, but could you move this over here? Mmm.. I don’t like that wording, can you change it? Sure I know the site is about my pest control business, but I’d like to have a page on there about my church, can we do that? And family too – want to have a page on there for my daughter. She’s doing real well in gymnastics and…

What? You DO realize this is a business site, right?

Sometimes, I do not like this job.

So How Do You Feel About Your Job?

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So How Do You Feel About Your Job?Some jobs are great, some are middling, and yet others, well, not hitting on much. This site is devoted to those stories of what people think about their “not hitting on much” type jobs. I had a long background in the food service industry when I was going through college and for a few years beyond. Anyone who has ever worked in the food service industry as a server, bartender or more will likely have some “I do not like this job” stories. From rotten customers to bad managers, the food service industry is rife with “I do not like this job” fodder.

Some people work in the corporate world. And I bet more than a few have experienced the joy that is micro-managing by managers not qualified to even work in your industry, say nothing about trying to manage someone. I’ve seen more than my share of corporate shenanigans that have left me more than once thinking not only did I not like this job, but I absolutely hated it.

After I personally left the corporate world to follow the solopreneur path, I discovered that although while one can choose who to work for and who not to work for, there were still things that aren’t always a lot of fun. No matter how much one loves their job, there are always things that people don’t like about their job.

You are invited to share your I Do NOT Like My Job stories here. Get it off your chest! I expect some great stories on here as it grows. I’ll be kicking off with a few of my own as I get this page fired up.