Well you sounds like the only option is to move.

 

hmmm, I looked on a map thinking surely this guy can take the misses to the next town down the road... holy schikes batman you live 2 weeks from nowhere.
Does the misses like to go out... romantic dinner little spaghetti, red wine - I know it sure makes me feel a heck of a lot better when things aren't workin out right.

 

Oh I totally would, except I haven't found her yet. I know it can happen anywhere, but Sheridan isn't helping. Most people here are at least 10 years older than me, and most of my generation left after graduation (about 90% of the youth does, at the time I had just moved here before finishing out high school, that was over a decade ago.)

Yeah, the lack of everything is really on it's last straw. It's great if all you want is to do nothing ever again, but if you want to do anything, you can't. Hell, we have the movie theater and the bowling alley, that's it. The bowling alley closes in the fall till the spring. People go up on the mountains, which is fine, but thats ALL they do. Every weekend. Every month. Every year. I grew up in the Phoenix area among other cities, so it becomes frustrating when I know what's out there and can't find what I want.

Just waiting on a door to open up somewhere. Can't leave without work, can't get work in Sheridan (it's 10 years behind the times with everything, including the economy, lol), so I'm basically stuck burning my tires and going no where, cause everything I need right now needs to be given. The hamster in the wheel feeling is probably what put me over the edge today to rant about working on my truck.

 

I've been stuck in that spot since 2001 - Your just a Pup at the I can't do squat until---- business.
Now get outta my yard.

 

I don't know what to say other than I'm in very much the same space. No room and short on funds. Lately I've done a lot of sweeping and making notes and taking pictures of the truck. When I look back at it though and think about what progress I have made I guess that takes the sting away a little bit. I'm doing a lot more fishing lately too.

 

Yeah, winter sucks up here......I am extremely thankful I have a nice big shop. One of my better decisions. I don't have any money to DO anything, but anyhow....
Sit back and think about the positives.....maybe that will help cheer you up.
Don't feel too bad, it took me about 20 years to finish my truck!

 

Hey Stephen,
What's keeping you there in Sheridan? There are a lot of places
out there where winter isn't really bad, there are girls, people can find reasonable work, etc. As my dad always used to say to me - " What's the plan?" It's hard to make forward progress without a plan -
What do you like to do? What are you good at? What education do you need? Where's the best place to live for that kind of work?

Hang in there. If you came to Wyoming from Phoenix ... Arizona isn't bad in the winter... (now summer is another story)...

Ben in Austin

(90 days over 100 degrees this summer but there are lot's of girls - avg age here is 28).

 

I can totally relate x10. I mean 10 different projects all in the same boat, lol.

 

Come up to the "Great White North" I'll get you a job, Let you use our shop, help you find a nice cold Canadian girl to keep warm. You can taste some of our fine Crown Royal: made in Manitoba. REAL beer! and a Sh@t load of hockey EH! Trucks in the summer (was still 50 deg here today) snowmobiles and hockey in the winter. I know winter is very intense in Wyoming, but up here it's a dry cold lol:

 

I've been a lot of places. Born in MT, moved around in AZ, spent 4 years in CO, saw OR, and now WY. I've been here for a lot longer than I ever thought I would, 11 years (a big record for me), but it was from extenuating circumstances. Part of the problem is I only want to go where I'm supposed to be, and right now I need an opening somewhere else before moving there. I'm just beyond sick of moving and having to completely start everything over, it gets old being broke and trying to find work, there might be no work here but at least I know people sorta thing. This is a rather different move for me with a lot more behind it. The past years have really been one thing after another after another after another till I some how lost a decade. I've always felt I was supposed to be where I moved to and just left when I was to be somewhere else, this time around it's very different, it's time to go but I have no direction at all, and I think because it's such time it's really pushing that need to leave. Doesn't help that the sun goes down at 4pm in the winter here, -20 plus a wind chill (I've ripped door handles off), hell it drops 70 degrees in a single day, 90 to 20 is not fun, lol.

I don't want to get too much into it on here cause the story is a bit much, but basically all of our lives got put on hold for a very long time and now I'm just looking to finally get one. And it's not just me that's needing to move. We basically have 3 families that all need to move (Myself, my brother and my mother. One family but three families as well).

My mother use to work with my father before he past in their dental lab (make crowns or false teeth). She did that for 30+ years.

I'm honestly open to doing a lot of things. I love doing my work but if I can still do it regardless of how I make money I'm open to different routes. This is the last thing I made, finished about a month ago:
Alice by ~Stephen67 on deviantART
Alice closer by ~Stephen67 on deviantART
Alice opened by ~Stephen67 on deviantART
Stephen67's deviantART Gallery

I do all sorts of stuff, and I enjoy it quite a bit, but like I said if I have to do something else to make money, as long as I still get to make things that I want to, I'm fine with that. Though I'd love to make a living doing this too, I'm just open to a lot of directions at this point, lol. This town just makes it difficult because it doesn't want any change, and it's full of people who don't want anything different, it's like a retirement home, everyone just wants it how it was and they don't want anything to change and they'll string you up if you suggest otherwise. But I've been happy here, I'm just not supposed to be here anymore and thus I grow more frustrated. Usually by now I'm long gone, but this is a very different move.

I had actually looked into moving to Austin before. But right now I need more than a shot, I need an open door somewhere else, an opportunity already there, not one I have to struggle to find to make it work. Got to happen soon, no choice about it. Not making enough here by any stretch. Most people make about 70% of what they need just to pay the bills, the other half comes from money so it doesn't matter to them, it's a town of you either have it or you don't, and you can't get up if you don't. Generations of family history here though, the blood line moved around a lot, but my great great(?) grandfather moved here from Denmark and talked his brother to coming here as well. Use to own a lot of the buildings around here, hell he use to put Buffalo Bill to bed at the SHeridan Inn everynight that he was plastered. My father grew up here, his dad was chief of police here. Lot more history, and it's a lot of history for a town of 15k.

But it's time to go. So if anyone has an idea or a great job I'm all ears, lol

 

hang in there , for some of us this is normal ..I still think you have a neet truck ,and life goes on ,good to hear you are still planing ,that mean's you are still alive ..hope you get outa the rut ..I'm gonna go out an' chip some more rusty paint off my truck ..what do you need to fix your beast ?? I might have some part's if you want ..

 

You are definitely a talented artist in metal forging. Did you do the prints also? And the wood work on 'Alice' is beautiful from what I can see. I wish you luck in your search for a place to light.

Your situation reminds me of myself at age 28. I was dead-ended in Denver and had a chance to move to AK and grabbed it with both hands. No job, no promise of anything except a ride to Anchorage. Left on a wing and a prayer and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. That was thirty years ago. Now I am in OK and a lot closer to my grandbabies.

Trust the process. Seek God and be happy wherever you find yourself. You are right where you are supposed to be for the moment. It will turn out the way it's supposed to.

 

Hey Stephen,
Venting a bit can be a good stress reliever. I like Griz's thoughts.
You will develop a plan - it needs to be your plan - not your mom's or your brother's. You can't take care of them if you don't have your stuff together first - do what's right for you. I always said if I was flipping hamburgers I'd be flipping them somewhere warm with a beach.

Austin is a nice town - "Keep Austin weird" is our town motto.
Hang in there & keep working on that truck!

Ben in Austin