The same but different? Design trade off

On its current course they never will. In my adult life there has been maybe a 5 year span where it was a viable career path, so 75% of it I was better of doing just about anything else. For my parents generation it was flipped, and my grandparents in the post war Era made a good living.

It's been tough to see the old life go, it's a good clean life even if it's not a great living....

I'm caught somewhere in the middle, didn't inherit anything but knowledge. But the knowledge did give me an inside track on getting further ahead than my peers who started in college. As the ladder starts to be cut and folks are eliminated, I'm a bit higher up but not in the clear.

Coastal communities really have suffered the one two punch, thr value of their jobs has declined steadily while the land they live on has increased in value from urban expansion to the coast. Especially hurt the young, doesn't matter if it's homer, kodiak, Tillamook or Newport.

My last year harvest was a number my grandfather couldn't imagine in the 70s or 80s. For a dollar value equivalent to what he averaged, adjusted for inflation it would be brutally below his average.

Gonna have to figure out a way to get more efficient and that probably means stepping up to a larger platform, as I've pushed the old one as far as it will go.

 

I feel the same about my body. 59 years old. Still a wood-butcher. Still on the tools...