[Rockhounds] new guy

[Jim Askeland]

I just subscribed today and look forward to future rock talk.  I studied geology in the 70's and had no other goals than to be a fulltime rockhound.  By the time I got my MS, I was enticed to the oil industry as a geophysicist and was office-bound thereafter.  I rockhounded remotely, looking for slabs of oil-bearing sandstones via their seismic reflection signal.  I left the oil patch in 1991 when oil dropped to $18 per barrel.  I worked and retired at the US Postal Service while retraining as an accountant.  I've often joked about being indecisive about what I wanted to be when I grow up, since I've been an engineer, a soldier, a geophysicist, postal worker and a CPA.  Now I'm looking forward to retirement and can say that I want to be a fulltime rockhound ( doesn't pay much, but is a lot more fun than my other pursuits!) I'm getting my granddaughter interested in the earth sciences and plan to take her on numerous field trips in the near future.
 
Jim A, Jonesboro, Arkansas

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