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    Megan Waldrep
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        We would love to know more about you. Let’s share! Answer one or all of the questions below, and feel free to open the conversation to what matters most to you now.

        Prompt: Besides being POCF, who are we? Kids? Pets? Jobs?

        Prompt 2: What do you hope to get out of being in the private forum?

        Prompt 3: What challenges are you facing today that you’d like more support in?

        #11772
        Jeanene Gwin
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            I dated a long liner, while I was a bartender in a harbor bar. He was gone a couple of weeks at a time. When we married he was a day fisherman and I became a stepmom. I decided to go back to school  and became a teacher. We bought a home and had 3 sons. Time flew by and we have now been married 32 years, raised 3 sons ; 2 have graduated from college one still in college. I have retired after teaching 30 years and we ran a retail seafood business for the last 3 years. A fishing friend died last year so , of course we bought his boat. We now have a gillnet boat and a pot boat. My middle son is trying his hand at fishing and learning the ropes. He was my partner in our retail business so we closed that down and I am back teaching a few hours a week. I am happy with my 2 labs, 2 cats and 5 chickens. We live 5 miles from the beach. It has never been an easy life, but it is pretty good right now.

            #11791
            Megan Waldrep
            Keymaster

                Hey, Jeanene! Thank you so much for sharing more about you and your family. What an incredible adventure it has been! Congrats (and thank you!) on becoming a teacher. I’m sure that was a game-changer in many respects. Glad to hear life is calm waters right now for you and yours. You mention that the fishing life has never been easy – so relatable, and I feel that deeply. If you’re open to sharing, what areas were the most difficult for you? The family?  So great to chat and learn from a POCF who not only gets it but has been there for 32 years!

                #11927
                Dawn
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                    I’m a legal admin at an IP law firm where I’ve been for 20 years, definitely the main breadwinner, but he’s definitely the harder worker.

                    I’ve been working from home since March 2020 & they just gave us the notice it is permanent (they closed my branch office), which I LOVE LOVE LOVE.

                    I’m an avid reader and a co-founding member of a quickly-growing book club going 3 years strong. I play Dungeons & Dragons every other Saturday with a great group of friends. I was an avid runner, hitting about 30 miles a week, but arthritis has slowed me down, and I’m barely logging five slowww miles a week now.

                    We also LOVE to travel, which we’re finding difficult with his schedule, but we did manage to schedule a trip to Disneyworld during Christmas and Greece next April/May for our honeymoon <3

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