Parker Schnabel’s job poses challenges in his life on and off the mine web site.
The Gold Rush star sat down with PEOPLE because the present heads into its fifteenth season to debate the affect it has had on his life. At simply 30 years outdated, Schnabel has spent half his life as a gold miner on tv, and he jokes that he nonetheless doesn’t the best way to describe his job to folks unfamiliar with mining.
“I attempt to clarify it in a means that does not sound like Mad Max,” he laughs. “It is laborious to clarify that with out it sounding like some dystopian insane world. I’m within the woods and also you’re dwelling in a f—-ing bunker washing rocks, on the lookout for little shiny rocks.”
“Then it makes relationship extremely troublesome,” he provides. “They’re like, ‘What do you do?’ I am like, ‘I do not know.’”
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Schnabel went on to say that his life primarily revolves round his profession, however he seems to be ahead to having a household at some point.
“I do hope to have a household and a life exterior of TV ultimately,” he admits. “I do have a life exterior of TV, however the present will finish fully I believe earlier than I’ve children, I might suspect.”
As somebody who realized all the pieces he is aware of about mining from his grandfather, Schnabel says he has no intentions of passing the legacy on to his personal kids until they need to go into the identical area.
“I believe that that is 100 years outdated,” he explains. “Top-of-the-line issues about my upbringing is my mother and father did not push me in any course. My dad ran a development firm and there was zero stress to be concerned in what you’ll contemplate the household enterprise. My grandpa was operating mainly a pastime gold mine. Most years they discovered 100 ounces of gold. It was a money-losing enterprise for 20 years.”
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“I believe it truly actually bugged my dad that it was not an economically viable enterprise that I used to be concerned in as a teen, however he by no means stated something,” he continues. “He simply needed me to be blissful. That is the very best factor you are able to do for a child, in my view.”
Now in his 30s, Schnabel says he doesn’t know precisely the place he shall be within the subsequent few years, however that doesn’t scare him.
“I sit up for the subsequent chapter of my life. I actually do not assume that it will be one thing the place I am like, ‘Oh, my glory days are behind me,’” he shares. “My dad and I simply began one other enterprise and he is 69. He is dwelling his greatest life. My grandpa did not begin gold mining till he was 65 or one thing. So I am similar to, man, age is totally only a quantity.”
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Gold Rush premieres Friday, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. ET on the Discovery Channel, with the complete sequence streaming on Max.
