BOAS_N_PYTHONS
02-01-05, 06:33 PM
EVERYONE:
This poll is open to everyone be it from Canada or USA or Worldwide.
In the past I have had discussions with people about reptiles moslty snakes and there future as a hobby or business. The basic jazz of the discussion has always been do people have these animals for fun as pets, for fun as a collection, specific species or collection to breed for education or profit, or considering these animals as a method to earn a second income or possibly consider the collection or specific species as your future career.
In this process of talking away with many friends in this hobby I have heard percents in each area. So I thought to bring it up in a thread to see the over all view on this topic with a poll and any comments people have to share on the hobby / business and there future in it.
I myself started collecting and gaining species and morphs mostly in boas and some select pythons. Current ratio is 70/30 being towards boas of course. Although I have my day job career and always figured I would be there till I was at least 45 maybe 50, that is less than 20 years away. I enjoy my career and it took me alot to achieve it from nearly zero so I expect leaving at 50 is early but reasonable at the same time. Wow now thinking it man I am old.
My collection is just a passionate hobby about animals that always got my interest, love to grow them up from babies, the idea of getting adults and then breeding to me seems to easy and can never be claimed there was a love for the hobby, its to much like saying money doesn' t matter (being humble) yet your a millionaire, lol. Once I put anywhere from 3 plus years on a species I do want to breed them more because I want to see the 3 year result in a full circle and see little clones of the parents. Yes alot of the species and collection carries some high dollar and the end result is you can' t keep everything, some must be sold I myself do not consider this hobby a major second income. Both myself and Analisa have careers we enjoy and want our hobbies to self sustain themselves in the coming years. We just don' t see it as a reason to quit our careers or make some future plan assuming this is a gold mine.
Although in my converstions with many hobby friends the answer is different, many do state serious profit is needed, some want this as a career, others want and think there is a gold mine to be tapped, and many think its a good decent amount of coin to cover costs or future purchases and etc, etc.
So please join this thread feel free to give your 2 cents on the subject from your personal view. Also please fill in the poll above.
Thank you all for reading and adding your feedback.
Tony Pharosx
This poll is open to everyone be it from Canada or USA or Worldwide.
In the past I have had discussions with people about reptiles moslty snakes and there future as a hobby or business. The basic jazz of the discussion has always been do people have these animals for fun as pets, for fun as a collection, specific species or collection to breed for education or profit, or considering these animals as a method to earn a second income or possibly consider the collection or specific species as your future career.
In this process of talking away with many friends in this hobby I have heard percents in each area. So I thought to bring it up in a thread to see the over all view on this topic with a poll and any comments people have to share on the hobby / business and there future in it.
I myself started collecting and gaining species and morphs mostly in boas and some select pythons. Current ratio is 70/30 being towards boas of course. Although I have my day job career and always figured I would be there till I was at least 45 maybe 50, that is less than 20 years away. I enjoy my career and it took me alot to achieve it from nearly zero so I expect leaving at 50 is early but reasonable at the same time. Wow now thinking it man I am old.
My collection is just a passionate hobby about animals that always got my interest, love to grow them up from babies, the idea of getting adults and then breeding to me seems to easy and can never be claimed there was a love for the hobby, its to much like saying money doesn' t matter (being humble) yet your a millionaire, lol. Once I put anywhere from 3 plus years on a species I do want to breed them more because I want to see the 3 year result in a full circle and see little clones of the parents. Yes alot of the species and collection carries some high dollar and the end result is you can' t keep everything, some must be sold I myself do not consider this hobby a major second income. Both myself and Analisa have careers we enjoy and want our hobbies to self sustain themselves in the coming years. We just don' t see it as a reason to quit our careers or make some future plan assuming this is a gold mine.
Although in my converstions with many hobby friends the answer is different, many do state serious profit is needed, some want this as a career, others want and think there is a gold mine to be tapped, and many think its a good decent amount of coin to cover costs or future purchases and etc, etc.
So please join this thread feel free to give your 2 cents on the subject from your personal view. Also please fill in the poll above.
Thank you all for reading and adding your feedback.
Tony Pharosx