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TO DO OR NOT TO DO

From: UNDECIDED
Date: 20 Mar 2002
Time: 11:42:13

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Went to the west a couple of years ago had the time of my life. Got 20 oz in 4 months. Missed the family. Now i cant get it out of my mind its all i want to do.

Cant get the wife to take off travelling (yet). Am a pretty good detector operator. Hitting 50ish. My job is really getting me down, more physical than detectoring to say the least.Not that i would shirk from any hard work. You have to do the right thing they say, but what is the right(thing). Is prospecting a payable proposition? So how does one come to such a*#!~*" decision? Any ideas please!

Undecided

From: DaveUSA geologist
Date: 21 Mar 2002
Time: 14:20:54

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Twenty ounces in 4 months sounds fairly good. It sounds like you don't like your job though, and looks to me like you need to start looking for a different job which you might take a liking to, which might be closer to where you like to metal detect. What will you do for insurance if you break a leg, or old age starts really settling in? Let me bring you into others real worlds.

When I was a younger man, I thought that looking for gold would be a great full time job! So, I took off for a region called the Potholes on the border of California and Arizona. I wasn't there very long and I seen that people there weren't making it looking for gold, but they had gold fever! Some of them had gold fever so bad that they were out looking for it from sun up to sun down. Where upon they would return to their little trailer and separate out their gold. Then they would go into town in their old broken down vehicles and deposit their gold in their safety deposit box and then go down to the store and buy a 50 pound bag of dog food. The dog food wasn't for their animals, it was for them, they ate dog food. Their financial problems were getting worse and worse, they sold everything they had, and people were giving them things to sell, yet they had GOLD FEVER! On another trip out to Lynx Creek south of Prescot, Arizona were you can find gold in every pan, and I do mean every pan! I met an old guy out therelooking for the big one. The old man lived in a hassok tied between two trees with a blanket hanging above to keep the rain off of him. He relied on offerings from people to survive. I don't think he ever had a home cooked meal, because he was a couple hundred yards back in on the walking trail. He slept out there in the open by the creek, with great big grand daddy long leg spiders crawling all over him and his belongings which were few. The old man had lost a leg to make things even worse, but he had GOLD FEVER! I doubt if he lived through the year.

Gold is great, but don't let it do crazy things to your mind. Realize what it is and how looking for it should really be applied in your life! Can looking for another job, create more happiness and security for you and your loved ones now and in the future? Obviously, you might strike it rich, but so might everyone playing the lotto. Blend your life with others who care for you, and who you care for. If something happened to your loved ones which needed only a little care, yet you couldn't help or worse yet, weren't there to help; would you realize then and there that you took the wrong fork in the road in your past and now loved ones are paying for it? Can we see the future, as it is, or as we wish it to be?

Obviously, I came back from those gold fields, and I seen them for what they were. A recreational past time of being out under the giant pot of gold shining in the sky, with a clear mind and an open heart. The breath taking landscapes that you knew held mineral wealth galore, but the real wealth lay in selling food and supplies to the gold seekers.

Building metal detectors is big, big money. When I was younger, I built metal detectors and sold them making very good money. As a matter of fact I think I made about $52,000 USA money in six months one time, of course I had a lot of expenses, but not that much. But I had fun building them and selling them. Maybe you could earn extra income selling metal detectors by becoming a dealer for Minelab, Garrett, and White's and others.

The road forks many times, one road ends up being better than you hoped, and the other slowly dwindles you down.

I wish the best for you my friend. Sinceley DaveUSA geologist