Duckhammer_77

Im in the A/E/C industry and was living in Florida at the time. They way development was running crazy, cities building infrastructure and intersections in BFE b/c a developer had filed development permits for 2,000 homes five yrs out...I thought all that was a telltale sign of something bad on the horizon. I hated living there and was ready to get the hell out anyway. Told my wife that I cant put my finger on it, but we need to sell our shite and move to Nola ASAP. Summer of 2007 we moved, sold our house in the market frenzy.

Then six months later the house of cards with mortgage backed securities started to crumble....started in Las Vegas and Florida, then spread to rest of country. I'm sitting in Nola with more recovery work than we could handle and the resume's started piling up on the boss's desk coming from all over the country. Insurance money, private equity and development was flowing and it was the wild west! Word was out that Nola was the only place left still hiring, developing, and building. I had former classmates - that were so smug b/c they moved to NYC, Chicago, DC, etc after college - are now flat on their asses calling me to ask who was hiring in Nola b/c they couldnt find work.

I don't know about other industries, but if you were in construction related or adjacent fields, the work was there in the Katrina zones. The joke around the office was, "LOL what recession !?!?" Also helped that Katrina kickstarted some major moves in the healthcare markets. My biggest client started buying out hospital facilities from the corporate providers that left town. I spent 10 years building new or renovating old medical facilities and never slowed down until I changed companies and moved to BR.

I've bought guns and scopes from them.
They are legit and good deals can be had.

Also look at optics plant and their close-out website DVOR. No guns but they're like an Amazon.com for everything outdoor related (but guns)

save me 18 minutes pls, what is the clear winner? Do you have an amazon link?

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One thing if this happens in rural Arkansas

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Most rural hospitals have "Doc Pops" that's been there for 40 years doing "country medicine" waiting to retire...or they have Siddhartha Mukherjee or Kunta Ok'weego working through a loan forgiveness program. No one else wants to work in Ferriday or Tallulah.

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what to do with the other two and a half hours.

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are you Mormon or something?

1st gen Tikka T3s were going for $500 to $550 on Europtic one afternoon a few yrs ago. My regret is that I just only bought one that day instead of four

Trying to read the Sadvocate and Clarion Ledger is like swatting flies. Try this:

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buddy of mine is a judge. He told me that "they need you; they just don't want YOU." I was dismissed.

wait till March, get a bag of white salt and bag of red salt from Tractor supply. Couple tubs of DiCal Phosphate. Mix well and pour deer cane juice all over it so the deer will find it sooner than later.