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Offline skernsk

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« Reply #30 on: December 15, 2004, 08:45:03 AM »
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Nash..



Skersk...

 I was wonderin, if I wanted a stint up in the Ft McMurry area, is there an agency doin the hiring up there? and is it still booming?


 


It's still booming up there.  Trades are what is needed most from what I have heard.  Try the list of contacts here    - I'm sure one of these will work

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« Reply #31 on: December 15, 2004, 08:46:07 AM »
I'd be Superman, or a pirate.
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« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2004, 08:51:18 AM »
Nash, please give your mother a big hug.    Its amazing what potential she saw in you, isn't it?    Not to take anything away from your talent, which is considerable, but she saw it and gave you the push you needed.   What a great thing she did for you - you should remind her that you know it.

I wanted to be a professional athlete, but my coaches told me I lacked three things: strength, stamina, and coordination.

Lots of interesting stories here.    Capt Apathy, I wish you the best.    I recently ended a twenty year career in IT with the same company, and I'm searching for direction myself.     I think I'm pretty much done with IT in a large company setting, and I'd like to spend the second half of my working life doing something really different.    Habadasher, maybe?

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« Reply #33 on: December 15, 2004, 09:24:57 AM »
A lifer Air Force guy. Almost joined in 1979, went to take my physical and ended up smoking a joint on the trip down to the physical facility. Changed my mind before I arrived, and 7 days later I came west to hire in with Boeing.

1981, after I was laid off from Boeing, I again went to the recruiting office but my G/F at the time begged me not to join. I ended up bartending and paying for my college that way.

Had I joined the service, I wouldn't have the wonderful children, wife and life I have today, however I feel a certain emptiness in my life having not served..

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« Reply #34 on: December 15, 2004, 09:32:43 AM »
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It's still booming up there.  Trades are what is needed most from what I have heard.  Try the list of contacts here    - I'm sure one of these will work


Thanks Skernsk, btw, what dept in Alberta is responsible for inter provincial journeyman cards?
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but that part of me died.

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« Reply #35 on: December 15, 2004, 09:47:55 AM »
If I weren't me I'd be somebody else, doin somethin different, prolly.:lol

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« Reply #36 on: December 15, 2004, 11:41:01 AM »
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Nuff said...



Beutiful...LOL...:aok :aok :rofl :rofl

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« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2004, 11:57:46 AM »
"They" kept telling me that I was going to be a Lawyer some day. I gave them the finger and joined the Navy.

When I got out "they" told me that I was going to be a lawyer. I gave them the finger and got a degree in IR.

"They" told me to go to law school. I gave them the finger, and started studying for the GRE.

So anyhow, now I'm in law school, and I seem to have run out of fingers, while everyone else laughs at me lol.

I'm not sure why I fought it so hard all my life. I guess I was just being contrary to everyone else who just expected me to become a Lawyer.

The only other things I could see myself doing are staying in the Navy for 30 years, or Getting my PhD and becoming an IR Professor. But those are two choices that I specifically didn't make, so I'm pretty comfortable where I am.

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PS: "They" are my friends and family, and pretty much anyone who knew/knows me.
You: Blah Blah Blah
Me: Meh, whatever.

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« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2004, 12:00:40 PM »
I never quit being amazed at the amount of truly quality people who post here. When I first posted here years ago I thought everybody was a schlep like me, and granted, there's a few schleps, but the vast majority of people here are more impressive than the vast majority of people I deal with every day.

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« Reply #39 on: December 15, 2004, 12:24:29 PM »
hmmm guess maybe I'd be a piercing so I could see what Nash's inerds look like :rofl

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« Reply #40 on: December 15, 2004, 01:45:54 PM »
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I never quit being amazed at the amount of truly quality people who post here. When I first posted here years ago I thought everybody was a schlep like me, and granted, there's a few schleps, but the vast majority of people here are more impressive than the vast majority of people I deal with every day.


you were better when you were a bungie jumpin champion :)
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« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2004, 02:02:13 PM »
I'd be on of those hot little half naked Japanese College girl/ Mecha pilots with a giant robot with a ninja sword and a particle beam cannon. Then I would open a can of whoop bellybutton on NK and Kim Jong Il for threatening my peaceful homeland. Unless of course NK has tentacle monsters:eek:
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« Reply #42 on: December 15, 2004, 02:03:25 PM »
Wolfala...why are you so jealous of Kieran?

Nash...Gin and Catatonic...LOL  That's brilliant.  Shows how much I know about art though I guess.

Anyway...me?

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried.
I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
"No, oh no not me,
I did it my way".

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way

Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain

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« Reply #43 on: December 15, 2004, 02:08:51 PM »
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I wanted to be Rockstar. I am still working on my version of the "cucaracha" ... some of you have had the pleasure to hear me sing it on proxy channel. If not... ask my squaddies.


Just for your information Rockstar often die young and violently.




Especially the one "singing" on squad channel :p

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« Reply #44 on: December 15, 2004, 02:09:33 PM »
I always wanted to be a catholic preist.
But I was born a jew.
J/K Always wated to be a race car driver.

But here is a list of jobs I have had

Farmhand
Prodution line worker at Marmon motors
Motorcycle mechanic
Motorcycle service manager
Car salesman
Emergency medical tech
Retiered.