What did you always want to be when you grew up?
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flyingS
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The only thing I can remember wanting to do growing up was become a World Champion Header. I started roping steers at the neigbors roping club when I was 6. I started heading steers when I was 8. At that young age I was extremely focused. I don't remember a set time that I roped a dummy, but I would rope until I could rope that dummy 100 times in a row without a miss. Sometimes it was the first 100 loops, sometimes it was all afternoon. I was fortunate enough to have a good mentor, Paul Cleveland, he helped me a ton when I started heading steers. Somewhere in there I spent an afternoon with Bronc Cury. My dreams where kind of shattered when my dad told me I didn't have the talent, when I told him I wanted to rodeo. Without any support I didn't pursue it. I always wanted to ranch, but was always told there was no future in it. After going to school to be a diesel mechanic, I worked a couple of years and then moved back to the Sandhills. I have ranched for the past 10 or 11 yrs. Now I order buy and day work. My wife and I own some cows and continue to try and buy some every year. I finally decided that the worst that could happen is to have to go back to work for someone else. Every opportunity that I have found I have at least asked about, some that weren't even opportunities I have pursued. You never know unless you ask. I guess my goal in life is to present my kids with the opportunity to do whatever they want to do with their life and pursue their dreams full heartedly. Being a father and a husband has surpassed anything that I have ever imagined accomplishing in my life. Now all I have to do is figure out how to put my 4yr old through medical school and pay for a ranch so she can be a cowgirl doctor. 
Thank God our son, James, at 2 just is happy being James and our youngest, Addie, isn't old enough to talk yet.
Thank God our son, James, at 2 just is happy being James and our youngest, Addie, isn't old enough to talk yet.
DustDevil
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Good thing I haven't grown up yet. I'm still a pipeline operator. Haven't even got to be a parttime cowboy in years. There's still a chance.
