getting to know me in Life of a Coal Miner

Revised: 08/31/2014 7:01 a.m.

  • Aug. 31, 2014, 6 a.m.
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so this being my first entry i thought that i would go over a little about myself. i am 32 years old and married to the most wonderful woman in the world. she complets me and keeps me out of a lot of trouble. ok lets be honest now, im not the kind of person that gets into a lot of trouble, i uaualy like to stay out of it. I work in an underground coal min in SW wyoming in the control room and love doing so. i wasnt too sure when i first started this job if i would like it or not, but i have found out in the short year i have been here that this is the place for me now. i have 2 beautiful boys one 7 and one 3. they, along with my wife, are the love of my life. i would and will and have done everything i can to make sure they have everything they need and most everything they want. i am working on getting them some of the finer things in life (horses, truck, house and a dog). Im an easy going guy and usualy will sacrifice my happyness for the happyness of those around me. it makes me happy to see those around me happy. im just a giver i guess.

my life is actualy pritty normal and somewhat quiet. nothing really happens to me too often and for that i am greatful. i am a little reluctant to change and i have a huge fear of the unknown. i have a few little querks to me. one such thing is i have to know what is in the mail all the time. i have even been known to call during the day to find out what, if anything, has come in today. ever since we have moved back up here to Wyoming we have been working on getting out of the hole we dug ourselvs into the past 8 years or so, which is another story for another time. Since then every so often things would come in the mail that would rock our world and set us back and cause a little bit of pain. ever since then i have developed this issue with the mail. i have tried to calm down over it, but some times i cant help it and it will get the best of me. God bless my wife for having to put up with that day in and day out. She is wonderful and is the love of my life and the light that keeps me going.

so with all that being said most of my entries might be a little dry and for that i appologise. i will try and spice things up every now and again, but lets face it im kind of a boring kind of guy.

here recently i got another tattoo. this will make 6 for me now. up untill now all of my tattos have been about to be covered up. this one however is out for the whole world to see. it is what you would call a job breaker. it is on my left forearm and it is an ambigram of my sons names. i have wanted to get this done for a while and now that i have the money to do so and work in a job where tattoos run rampid i figured what the hell, why not. i am loving this tattoo and cant wait to get another one already. i have one that i will need finished and i think i might try and get that one done for a christmas present or something maybe.

also very recently i had to re-interview for the job that i am currently working. i work as a contractor and as a contractor i dont make a lot of money nor do i get bennifits. i am hoping that all of that will change here in the very near future. working in the control room sounds like a boring and cushy job and compaired to the rest of the work that happens out here in the mine it kind of is. we are only required to go underground 2 times a year and there isnt a lot of heavy lifting andother such strenuis activitys that we have to do on a daily basis. but instead of that we have other things others dont have to deal with. when i am in this room i am looking out for every singel person that is under ground. i moniter them and their movements, the air and direction of the air underground, water conditions as well as being their contact to the surface shoudl anything happen to anyone or anything under there. it is a vert stressful job and not too many people see it that way. even though we have all that going on i love it. i get to work with a lot of different kinds of computer systems and porgrams and soon we will be programing them ourselfs. i am really looking forward to that.

well thats a little glimps into my every day life. i will try and be a better writer on this sight compaired to the other journal sights i have tried. hope you all like reading this as much as i like writing here.

R


Last updated August 31, 2014


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