In the 22 years iv’e had my cruiser, Iv’e been a woodmachinist/fine furniture maker, shopfitter, carpenter, welder and fabricator, mechanic, antiques salesman, tour guide on Fraser Island, and a plumber.
Damn son that’s a lot of different professions. I’m in the same boat, since owning my cruiser I’ve been a college student, teacher, BnB manager, hard wood flooring on the side, and now working on boats. I feel like I’ll end up being decent at a lot of things but never really excel at one profession. I gotta stop jumping around! Have you ended up choosing one profession to stick with or do you see yourself continually trying something new?
It’s really nice to be able to drive out to sites while driving past everyone else who has to walk in. Everyone used to love riding out in my 80 series with air conditioning at the end of the day.
Thats sweet. I do toyota parts. We had a guy come in for service a cpl times. Staying in hotel, was bored so he just hung out with us. He did search n rescue for northeast usa. Had awesome stories. He was the only guy i ever met that had a LC because he needed the suspension capability. Your the 2nd.
There is probably nobody hated more in modern archaeology than Indiana Jones because most people see him as a tomb raider and looter. It just rubs a lot of people the wrong way. I love the movies, but I can see where people have disdain for the stereotype.
Dr. Jones represents two things that go completely against everything you want to work towards in archaeology; raiding artifacts and doing so in a haphazard way.
Back in the day, the rules weren’t well established and a lot of people were in it for adventure and to gather artifacts. They were known as Antiquarians, Naturalists, and eventually, Archaeologists.
These days, it’s all about documentation, painstaking review of every little detail, and ensuring that the provenance and interrelation of all of the artifacts on the entire site is preserved. Once you dig something up and displace it, all of the information is lost forever unless it’s recorded in detail.
I also do IT work. I got an mcse and ccna back in the day but have slowly shifted to the repair side of the business since it's more like being a mechanic than being IT and a whole lot less stress.
I own 3 businesses, and owning a Land Cruiser is one of my rides I enjoy. Before anyone's like oh must be nice making all of that money with all of those businesses, I grinded for 15 hours a day for over a decade to build them. Probably took a decade off my life from the stress 💀
I own an oil well, and am my one and only customer. Thinking about buying another well, since the output from this one one well is not enough to cover my commute in a Land Cruiser.
1995 HZJ80R Standard Wagon. If you're unfamiliar that's the 1HZ diesel, 80 series, right hand drive, base model. So it's got a vinyl interior, barn doors, manual transmission, and manual locking front hubs. I've had it for about 15 years, and I'm very happy the original owner paid extra for A/C.
For work I drive trucks. So the Landcruiser kinda feels like a sports car when I leave work!
I own a V8 4R, similar to a 100 series mechanically, but follow this page because I love the LC.
If you're wondering how I afford daily driving it, I'm a RN. 1 shift covers my gas expenses for the month. But I work a lot, too. The only reason I still have my vehicle is because of my job, otherwise I couldn't afford it.
Same can be said about owning a 100 series if I had one.
I’ve got a half-million km 200 Series (one of our old work vehicles that I bought cheap) a 400K km 60 Series (my toy/resto one day) and a company supplied 200 Series with 140K km on it. I’m an Agricultural Field Technician/Sales guy and have to nearly live in one all week to afford them all…
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