Success outside of farming?

sheebadog

How many of ye have achieved success in hobbies or business or life ??? Etc.

sheebadog

sheebadog wrote: »

How many of ye have achieved success in hobbies or business or life ??? Etc.

Just got me thinking and I'm NOT taking from Stan or Rancher's achievements!

exercise is the antidote

Won many county medals with my local clubs. In GAA and soccer.. My best achievement the one that gave me the most joy was collecting sports person of the year award in front of the whole school in my last year there. I was trying to get it since my 1rst year there and I was chuffet to pieces

sheebadog

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

Won many county medals with my local clubs. In GAA and soccer.. My best achievement the one that gave me the most joy was collecting sports person of the year award in front of the whole school in my last year there. I was trying to get it since my 1rst year there and I was chuffet to pieces

Nice one.

darragh_haven

Wona couple of junior 3 west cok championships and the craic after would be unreal.it may the lowest grade but proud out of it. A good few of the senior player came along and were great support. They went on to win the county the same year. Some session's had.

But my best achievement would be my job (part time farmer here sheebadog) I started off as a site engineer for a German company setting up a base in Ireland and UK, now I am in charge of the whole construction department.

sheebadog

darragh_haven wrote: »

Wona couple of junior 3 west cok championships and the craic after would be unreal.it may the lowest grade but proud out of it. A good few of the senior player came along and were great support. They went on to win the county the same year. Some session's had.

But my best achievement would be my job (part time farmer here sheebadog) I started off as a site engineer for a German company setting up a base in Ireland and UK, now I am in charge of the whole construction department.

Windmills? Just a guess.

darragh_haven

sheebadog wrote: »

Windmills? Just a guess.

Anaerobic Digester

sheebadog

darragh_haven wrote: »

Anaerobic Digester

Outside chance, but did I meet you in Rules restaurant in Covent Garden???

grazeaway

All depends on what you define as success I suppose.

Was a handy enough soccer player in my teens and had the chance to join a club in England as a youth player. Didn't take up the offer (thought I was too young). Picked up a serious injury a few years later and never really played much after. Got back to a level where I could play junior hurling and football and 5 a side with my mates. Have a few junior B models and they mean a lot to me.

Managed to go to college and have an engineering degree.

Met a girl and after settling down so I suppose that's my biggest achievement if I'm honest.

moy83

Not overly successfull at farming or outside that but I did fall a few years and it was touch and go wether I'd walk or not , but luckily enough I got motoring again . Herself was pregnant with our first and I had just started building our own house when it happened so I went from feeling pretty depressed about what would happen if I was shagged to feeling pretty successful to be able to get out and start working again

whelan2

grazeaway wrote: »

All depends on what you define as success I suppose.



Met a girl and after settling down so I suppose that's my biggest achievement if I'm honest.

having 3 smashing kids, nothing beats the feeling of them calling you mammy or giving you a hug

darragh_haven

sheebadog wrote: »

Outside chance, but did I meet you in Rules restaurant in Covent Garden???

No. Definitely not me

Genghis Cant

grazeaway wrote: »

Have a few junior B models and they mean a lot to me.

You sound a bit like Hugh Hefner :-)

frazzledhome

sheebadog wrote: »

Outside chance, but did I meet you in Rules restaurant in Covent Garden???

I'd say there's a greater chance you met him in the Windmill strip club in Soho!!!

Ate in Rules once, enjoyed the experience. Yorkshire puds the size of the plate and the most gorgeous Stilton I've ever had

sheebadog

darragh_haven wrote: »

No. Definitely not me

Pity. Nice restaurant. Twelfth of August is special there.

darragh_haven

frazzledhome wrote: »

I'd say there's a greater chance you met him in the Windmill strip club in Soho!!!

Ate in Rules once, enjoyed the experience. Yorkshire puds the size of the plate and the most gorgeous Stilton I've ever had

Now now frazz. I have been know to venture into the upper echelons of society...... on the way to the strip club

Damo810

darragh_haven wrote: »

Now now frazz. I have been know to venture into the upper echelons of society...... on the way to the strip club

Only to ask for directions! :pac:

frazzledhome

sheebadog wrote: »

Pity. Nice restaurant. Twelfth of August is special there.

Grouse?

sheebadog

frazzledhome wrote: »

Grouse?

Oh yea. Yuuumm!!!

Muckit

My biggest success outside of work or farming...... now how do l say this without sounding like a pompous ass....
It would without doubt be setting up a S Olympics soccer club with a good friend 10 years ago. My success has been their success.

We have had players from our club play for Ireland in China, Poland and Greece. It's putting the hairs standing on the back of my neck now just talking about it.

When we started out we didn't even have money for a kit. The rules state that all players must have a number on their 'jersey.' So l got them all to wear a white t shirt and drew the numbers on with a black marker!! I think the next game we got posher and l laminated the numbers and stuck them on with safety pins! We now have two proper kits.

We've met and had pics taken with Mary McCleese, Pakie Bonner, Katie Taylor, Ian Dempsey to name but a few.


The funniest thing about it all is that l don't even follow soccer, premiership or otherwise!!!! I couldn't tell you who plays for who or what teams had played the previous Saturday.

But put me on that sideline and tell me I'm not passionate about the game, l nearly need to be restrained sometimes l get so hyper!

Zr105

Muckit wrote: »

My biggest success outside of work or farming...... now how do l say this without sounding like a pompous ass....
It would without doubt be setting up a S Olympics soccer club with a good friend 10 years ago. My success has been their success.

We have had players from our club play for Ireland in China, Poland and Greece. It's putting the hairs standing on the back of my neck now just talking about it.

When we started out we didn't even have money for a kit. The rules state that all players must have a number on their 'jersey.' So l got them all to wear a white t shirt and drew the numbers on with a black marker!! I think the next game we got posher and l laminated the numbers and stuck them on with safety pins! We now have two proper kits.

We've met and had pics taken with Mary McCleese, Pakie Bonner, Katie Taylor, Ian Dempsey to name but a few.


The funniest thing about it all is that l don't even follow soccer, premiership or otherwise!!!! I couldn't tell you who plays for who or what teams had played the previous Saturday.

But put me on that sideline and tell me I'm not passionate about the game, l nearly need to be restrained sometimes l get so hyper!

fair play muckit! certainly something to be proud of!

Nekarsulm

Captain of the 2nds Rugby team for a year. Only junior3 in the Ulster league but was a great year. Made friends for life in that team. Remember standing showering in a communal shower somewhere in east Belfast, surrounded with more UVF and UDF and union flag tattoos than you could count, when our hooker remarked ,"mac, do you think there are many Seamus's in here?" Broke our holes laughing!

Timmaay

Hmm not success, but I started doing a PhD afew years back, it didn't hugely go the direction I wanted it to so I bailed back to a masters, thankfully got that. On hindsight it would have left me as the most horribly overqualified farmer ever ha!

Still very heavily involved in athletics now, both completing, coaching and I've a small business on the side timing races. I can definitely see myself taking all of that more seriously in the future once I get the farm ticking over more smoothly.

frazzledhome

Lol

frazzledhome

Timmaay wrote: »

Hmm not success, but I started doing a PhD afew years back, it didn't hugely go the direction I wanted it to so I bailed back to a masters, thankfully got that. On hindsight it would have left me as the most horribly overqualified farmer ever ha!

Still very heavily involved in athletics now, both completing, coaching and I've a small business on the side timing races. I can definitely see myself taking all of that more seriously in the future once I get the farm ticking over more smoothly.

Often played in Belfast, similar situation and our prop asks one of the opposition does he play hurling for the summer?

Nekarsulm

Brought a GAA friend to Ravenhill to an Ulster match once. During the dead silence of a crucial kick at goal, he tur ns around and says loudly "I suppose a scrum is much the same as a throw in, in Gaelic?"

sheebadog

Muckit wrote: »

My biggest success outside of work or farming...... now how do l say this without sounding like a pompous ass....
It would without doubt be setting up a S Olympics soccer club with a good friend 10 years ago. My success has been their success.

We have had players from our club play for Ireland in China, Poland and Greece. It's putting the hairs standing on the back of my neck now just talking about it.

When we started out we didn't even have money for a kit. The rules state that all players must have a number on their 'jersey.' So l got them all to wear a white t shirt and drew the numbers on with a black marker!! I think the next game we got posher and l laminated the numbers and stuck them on with safety pins! We now have two proper kits.

We've met and had pics taken with Mary McCleese, Pakie Bonner, Katie Taylor, Ian Dempsey to name but a few.


The funniest thing about it all is that l don't even follow soccer, premiership or otherwise!!!! I couldn't tell you who plays for who or what teams had played the previous Saturday.

But put me on that sideline and tell me I'm not passionate about the game, l nearly need to be restrained sometimes l get so hyper!

Thanks.

grazeaway

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Captain of the 2nds Rugby team for a year. Only junior3 in the Ulster league but was a great year. Made friends for life in that team. Remember standing showering in a communal shower somewhere in east Belfast, surrounded with more UVF and UDF and union flag tattoos than you could count, when our hooker remarked ,"mac, do you think there are many Seamus's in here?" Broke our holes laughing!

Good to see how things have changed. Used to wear my "lucky" shorts when I was younger (gaa club colours), one of the lads I played with used to wear his local gaa jersey under his jersey and another had a massive Celtic cross across his shoulders and we were playing in a tournament in Belfast and were swapping jerseys at the end of the game and needless to say there were a few choice comments. 'Twas in mid 90's and things were very different. One of the northern lads was on the same trial as me a few months later in England and we got on great. Couldn't be from a more different background with a cathloic farm boy from east cork and and a loyalist lad from South Belfast. Take us out of Ireland and the differences didn't matter a ****e to us, wec were both just seen as a couple of paddys in England. Still keep in touch.

farmersfriend

whelan2 wrote: »

having 3 smashing kids, nothing beats the feeling of them calling you mammy or giving you a hug

Nothing can top it.

GRASSorMUCK

darragh_haven wrote: »

Anaerobic Digester

Not to pry too much much but would ye be involved in the maize fed mega units in east anglia(cambs,norfolk,lincs,suffolk mainly and now the welsh borders(hereford,shropshire)?

darragh_haven

GRASSorMUCK wrote: »

Not to pry too much much but would ye be involved in the maize fed mega units in east anglia(cambs,norfolk,lincs,suffolk mainly and now the welsh borders(hereford,shropshire)?

We don't do mega units really. Mostly 500kw. Have plants running im Cambridge and Shrewsbury. Plants under construction on Hereford, Shipshire, Banbury etc. (& Scotland and NI)
So I don't know if the company I work for is the one your thinking of

Base price

I would agree with Whelan, my children are my best success.
I have two happy well grounded sons, one is working full time in a profession that he enjoys and the other is just after finishing first year in college doing what he wanted to do since he was 5 years old.

GRASSorMUCK

darragh_haven wrote: »

We don't do mega units really. Mostly 500kw. Have plants running im Cambridge and Shrewsbury. Plants under construction on Hereford, Shipshire, Banbury etc. (& Scotland and NI)
So I don't know if the company I work for is the one your thinking of

Not that i know of any companys/size of digesters just lots being built in these areas by the germans thats all, and am led to believe maize is main feed stocks so usually for larger units over say animal waste and whole crop cereals mixes? iykwim

On a personal note making farm manager on an arable estate, most importantly winning div1or2? of wexford u11 ground hurling champs! was never much good at sports far too awkward.

keep going

Was thinking about this morning and at first I was disapointed with my list. in sport I tended to get alot of second andthirds and lose alot of finals and working off farm I was doing ok without being the talk of the parish-plenty work and never had any problems getting paid and never had to compete for a job and got every job I went for.on the other hand I haven't had major negative incidents, didnt go broke no major accidents and things have ran ok for my siblings and all children are healthy and no disabilities. its a case of not many highs and not many lows so ill take that any day

Farmer Pudsey

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Brought a GAA friend to Ravenhill to an Ulster match once. During the dead silence of a crucial kick at goal, he tur ns around and says loudly "I suppose a scrum is much the same as a throw in, in Gaelic?"

I be in agreement with him, a match that ends 33-12 where the scores are 4 wide ball which you get a '45 for (except it is nearer the posts) one of which you missed and two frees and the other side could only score four frees. In GAA parlance pretty poor scoring. Even if you treat the wide ball as a goal it is 4-5 to 4 points and all the points from free's.:D

keep going wrote: »

Was thinking about this morning and at first I was disapointed with my list. in sport I tended to get alot of second andthirds and lose alot of finals and working off farm I was doing ok without being the talk of the parish-plenty work and never had any problems getting paid and never had to compete for a job and got every job I went for.on the other hand I haven't had major negative incidents, didnt go broke no major accidents and things have ran ok for my siblings and all children are healthy and no disabilities. its a case of not many highs and not many lows so ill take that any day

I be a bit like that I am pretty successfull in the day job but would not have a huge list of achievements.

joe man utd

darragh_haven wrote: »

Wona couple of junior 3 west cok championships and the craic after would be unreal.it may the lowest grade but proud out of it. A good few of the senior player came along and were great support. They went on to win the county the same year. Some session's had.

But my best achievement would be my job (part time farmer here sheebadog) I started off as a site engineer for a German company setting up a base in Ireland and UK, now I am in charge of the whole construction department.

What company you work for? Any jobs going, have a degree in civils cant get work in any line of it.

bogman_bass

Have 2 national debating titles with Macra. lost 3 finals so they were hard won and mean a lot to me. Won some other national titles but the debating ones mean the most.

Played ultimate for Ireland twice once at a European championships and once at worlds. Setting up a club team in rural Ireland was a big achivement too

Viewtodiefor

Started at the bottom of a company about 12 years ago and through keeping the head down a bit of work and a bit of luck I became manager there and then owner. As for sport was never any good at it except for watching it! Got married and kid on d way

onyerbikepat

Under 21 county hurling medal.:D Doesnt sound like much, but we never won anything up to that and it was my last game at underage. A lot of the lads have moved away or emigrated. One sadly passed away.

GrandSoftDay

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Under 21 county hurling medal.:D Doesnt sound like much, but we never won anything up to that and it was my last game at underage. A lot of the lads have moved away or emigrated. One sadly passed away.

Have a stack of medals from underage football up to u21 but I kinda stopped playing then. Always preferred hurling but I'm at the wrong end of the county for it. Wouldn't consider them a great success now as some of them were at a low grade but at the time they meant a lot to me and have great memories coming home through all the villages with horns blaring

blue5000

I can relate to keep going. I feel sometimes I am a jack of all trades and master of none. I got a degree as a mature student, but a bit like Timmay post grad stuff went wrong for me. I do a bit of amateur drama, good enough for Patrick Bergin to say 'I like your work'. But I only want to do it for a bit of fun.

milkprofit

bogman_bass wrote: »

Have 2 national debating titles with Macra. lost 3 finals so they were hard won and mean a lot to me. Won some other national titles but the debating ones mean the most.

Played ultimate for Ireland twice once at a European championships and once at worlds. Setting up a club team in rural Ireland was a big achivement too

Macra all Ireland champion tractor handling champ---loader --backing trailer --balancing many years ago

Miname

I wouldnt have any sporting achievements. The nearst would be i never lost a good old pub brawl. I set up my own business at 21 which is still going; thank God. I also proved a lot of nay sayers wrong which in itself gives great satisfaction.

Reggie.

My daughter easily my best achievement to date. Other than that it was getting best shot in my recruit platoon. Also I always like to make my own stuff let it be barriers or machinery. Great feeling knowing you built something with your own two hands while it's out working.

Genghis Cant

I currently hold an Irish record in a sporting discipline I compete in.

My eldest son also holds one so I must be stamping my progeny :-)
The younger lad is making shapes too.

Reggie.

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I currently hold an Irish record in a sporting discipline I compete in.

My eldest son also holds one so I must be stamping my progeny :-)
The younger lad is making shapes too.

Acorn doesn't fall far from the tree

Timmaay

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I currently hold an Irish record in a sporting discipline I compete in.

My eldest son also holds one so I must be stamping my progeny :-)
The younger lad is making shapes too.

Ya have me curious now ha, do ya mind saying what sporting area, like T&F?

Genghis Cant

Timmaay wrote: »

Ya have me curious now ha, do ya mind saying what sporting area, like T&F?

Much more F than T :^)

Timmaay

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Much more F than T :^)

Ha I may keep the ear to the ground about a farming father son combination both with records in the same event I'd be alot more T myself, most certainly nowhere near any national records unfortunately ha.

Genghis Cant

Timmaay wrote: »

Ha I may keep the ear to the ground about a farming father son combination both with records in the same event I'd be alot more T myself, most certainly nowhere near any national records unfortunately ha.

I PM'd you there to take ya out of your misery!

Kovu

Fs and Ts? Is footing turf a sport?