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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Creamo on February 13, 2005, 10:06:53 PM
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Just your typical work day... What did you do?
Not to promote unions, and not to discount them, nothing like that. Just wondering what you did today to bring home the bacon.
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Im on welfare wanna share my fries?
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It's Sunday, you retard. Thanks for almost giving me a heart attack.
But seriously.... I make pikturs.
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Just kidding I work at verizon cellular. I can tell you everythig you would want to know about cell phones then talk you into buying one even though you already have one. Thats how good I am of a cell phone salesman.
:)
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Heartbreaker Nash, Im off Sun-Mon-Tue.
So a day making pikturs goes like?
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I come in, sit down, and check the Aceshigh web board.
Then I check my email.
Then I log into the support mail system and see how many escalations our first level support as sent up to us. I proceed to plow through them.
At some point I stop this, depending on how many voice call backs I have. Some are even from unhappy people who wrote our CEO, those are FUNNN!
I then do voice call backs and or go back to email escalations.
If I get them before the end of the day I log into our consumer web board and try and answer questions there, while I log what seem to be common questions and problems so we can get engineering on them or write an FAQ.
I check this damn board way to much and need to cut it out. SO starting Monday, I am only checking on my lunch.
Mix in long boring meetings that are a huge waste of time I don't have much of anymore, and conversations with a boss, who though is a great guy and good to work for, has trouble knowing when to shut up. Also mix in trips over to see the engineers that on occasion result in the need for long walks around the parking lot where no one can hear me yell **** **** F******* **** ****!!
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I'm VP of IT Project Management at a really really big bank. In the morning I will arrive around 9am...there will already be 15 emails and 3 voicemails waiting for me. I will begin reading emails while I listen to the voicemails.
I'll then begin my meetings...if they are teleconferences, I will listen while finishing the morning emails. In the meetings, people from Operations will try and convince me to agree to things they know they can't have. I will refuse them and they will pout...I will console them and explain for the 50th time why the process is the way it is (which is pointless, because they will still try and circumvent the process).
Later, I will go to the cafeteria and get food to bring back to my desk. I will eat while responding to more emails. I'll send all calls to voicemail during that half hour so that callers don't have to hear me chew.
After lunch I will check on my local employees to see if everything is OK and generally make nice. Remote employees get a call. Some will whine and vent...I will commiserate and fix the things that I can and try to explain why the unfixable will remain the way they are.
Later I will have meetings with the boss. I will hope that I have not done something that will get me yelled at while I watch others being dragged over the coals.
Late afternoon I will begin to work status on projects and fire off a stream of emails asking why the project manager has not done what he/she was supposed to do. Some will call to whine and complain and I will yell at them and ask why they are screwing up my process. They will cower and do what they should do for a short time.
Early evening, I will run some reports and finish up reading/responding to the 60+ emails that I received during the day. I'll send emails to my peers on takeaways from meetings that impact them. And send emails to Operations on projects of high interest... status changes, prioritization requests and generic reports or ad hoc reports (as necessary).
Pack-up and head home between 7:30-8pm.
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
I come in, sit down, and check the Aceshigh web board.
Then I check my email.
Then I log into the support mail system and see how many escalations our first level support as sent up to us. I proceed to plow through them.
At some point I stop this, depending on how many voice call backs I have. Some are even from unhappy people who wrote our CEO, those are FUNNN!
I then do voice call backs and or go back to email escalations.
If I get them before the end of the day I log into our consumer web board and try and answer questions there, while I log what seem to be common questions and problems so we can get engineering on them or write an FAQ.
I check this damn board way to much and need to cut it out. SO starting Monday, I am only checking on my lunch.
Mix in long boring meetings that are a huge waste of time I don't have much of anymore, and conversations with a boss, who though is a great guy and good to work for, has trouble knowing when to shut up. Also mix in trips over to see the engineers that on occasion result in the need for long walks around the parking lot where no one can hear me yell **** **** F******* **** ****!!
sheesh, why do you guys put yourselves through all the crap just for money???
Typically
I wake at around 0800. I stretch fairly thoroughly. I walk 15 paces to the BR. I walk 20 paces to my office I log on either this BBS or straight into AH mess around on here until traffic dies down usually 1030-1100. Drive to the shop where my foreman assures me work is on schedule. 1200 go home eat lunch log on again. Check message book for interesting leads. return phonecalls. 1400 go out and make a sales call or two typically by 1600-1700 I'm done for the day.
On days when the shop is swamped I work like a beast of burden, often times shaping, forging or welding.
Those days are up at 0500, stretch thoroughly and get to the shop asap.
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I am good at it, it pays ok, and sometimes the job is fun, though the day my boss leaves is the day I leave lol.
Hell this place used to be mega fun, we would have fights with stress balls, and play jokes on each other.
I have also found, that other companies are the same or much MUCH worse.
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Last night I checked an overnight 757. The big check is tires and brakes for wear, and impossibly they were within limits. Yaaaah for me.
Then changed a coffee maker in the fwd galley that wouldn't brew, tried to repair a tray table but had no parts in stock, then pulled 3 chip detectors off the #2 engine, which resulted in no obvious engine failure type metal peices.
Then I was supposed to change a line on the APU surge valve that was chafing, but that part wasn't AOG'd. More yaaaaah for me stuff. Then locked out the auto carpet in the aft cargo bay because it had a 3 foot tear in it.
Finally, we had to play rampers and push out the jet, so some retard mech could get 757 taxi training. Pulling the jet bridge, I found out it's limit switch was broke, and it would punch a hole in the aircraft if you were not careful. Terrific.
After all that, a Captain called us out for the first departure, and said his emergency lights on the P61 panel didn't work. We put in new bulbs. As much as I like to goof on Toad, it's always fun to talk to these guys.
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I work on a drilling rig off of the coast of Brazil. I'm two days into a twenty-eight day hitch. I work 28-on and get 28 days off. If you think that sucks, while I am here I work from 6pm to 6am. That's twelve hours a day, seven days a week, weekends and holidays included. It's all nights too.
So, listen to your Mommys and Daddys little kids. Stay away from the oil field and anything related to boats or you could end up like this.
And all the rest of you, enjoy your beds, no matter how bumpy and your wives, no matter how lumpy. I'll see you all in the skies around the middle of March. Until then, have another bowl of black beans and rice. It's on the house.
Storm7:aok
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Just a few posts in and this thread already completely rocks.
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I am the general manager for a company that restores and maintains ww2 aircraft. We are located in Colorado Springs, CO, and at current are waiting to move into some new facilities that are being built.
My Monday will compose of checking emails around 8am, start returning voice calls by 8:30 for the east coast, 9:30 for the west coast. Then I spend the next hour playing construction project manager and get whatever needs to go to our contractors, planning, or owner on their way. Sometime during the day I fit in time to manage one restoration project we have going, and start setting scheduling for the next. If I am lucky, I am on the shop floor by 1pm, then I get to work on my current projects which are a quick engine change stand for a Corsair, and I am getting ready to start to build a fixture to rebuild AT-6 / SNJ wings in.
Atleast once a month, usually more, I get to go on parts hunting trips, and see what we can turn up. They are fun, but tiring, and require loads of prep time and multitudes of hours trying to set it all up.
The company owner says I have the best job in the world. I have to agree.
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Originally posted by Creamo
Just your typical work day... What did you do?
Not to promote unions, and not to discount them, nothing like that. Just wondering what you did today to bring home the bacon.
It's Sunday, retard.
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Originally posted by Nash
It's Sunday, you retard. Thanks for almost giving me a heart attack.
But seriously.... I make pikturs.
Holy crap, I posted before I saw yours. Great minds etc.
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You're both homos.
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Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side
door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta
space out for about an hour.
Yeah. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that
for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a
given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
School Days (M-W-F or Tu-Th alternating each week)
0730-0800 Get ready for class, check mail, etc.
0800-0930 Teach Advanced Drafting / Architecture
0930-0940 Urinate, relax
0940-1110 Teach Beginning Drafting
1110-1200 Lunch, usually about 50/50 eating and working.
1200-1330 Teach Advanced Drafting / Technology
1330-1530 After school tutoring, take care of administrative or district business, lab upkeep, grading, etc.
Example of 90 min teaching period:
5 min - Take roll, answer questions.
15-20 min - I sketch some examples of drafting concepts on the board, explain it to them, make it as interactive as possible.
15-20 min - Show them how to execute the concept in Autocad or Inventor.
60 min - Give them an assignment using the concepts we just covered. They work independently and ask for help as needed.
During this period I also meet with the Juniors and Seniors who are working on individual projects, e.g.:
3D animation of paintball gun assembly and function.
3D model and full set of engineering drawings of a Toyota starter.
Foam board model of a 2-story hotel.
Non School Days
Consulting engineer on a contract basis, working with a 2-4 person team.
Typical day of that goes like this:
0800-0830 Breakfast meeting near job site. Discuss design changes, obstacles, etc.
0830-0900 Hit the job site, carry materials and tools into building, log into building automation system and see what's cooking.
0900-1300 Wiring, installing electronics, programming same, updating as-built drawings, etc.
1300-1400 Wash up, eat, etc.
1400-1530 Finish up installation/wiring.
1530-1630 Back to the basement control room "boiler room" to reprogram system to accomodate new changes, debug programs, monitor performance.
1630-1700 Clean up tools and materials, get water and an ice cream from the vending machine, quick meeting with project mgr.
When we aren't on site I do drafting and design stuff from the home office, and I use a modem to monitor and reprogram systems at the job site.
Also I do most of my grading and lesson preparation from my home office, something like 2 hours a day.
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Wow, excellent posts.. very interesting stuff!
I own a small business; a medical transport company in the Phoenix area. Basically, we transport non emergency patients to various locations for assorted reasons. I am contracted w/ a large hospice here and another one is trying to get me to expand so I can take on their business as well.
Since I have just 4 employees(started in April w/ just me) I "work" 24/7/7. I may get a call for transport at 3AM(rarely after 4 PM though), or may get no calls at all on any given day. Most of my day is spent driving or here in my home office.
I also broker refurbished office cubicles. I was previously in the office furniture business and when I quit to start my business several people in the industry offered to support me if I'd stay in for refurb work stations.(have many contacts nationwide so I make things easy for them).
It's not nearly as sexy as what others have posted.. but it's all mine!
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No day is the same, but i usually get somewere between 10-15 pages done depending on how many pictures and stuff there is. I also do about 10 payments to various companies and answer some calls and other mondane tasks. If you compress it all, I work about 4-6 hours a day.
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Although today was monday...it's my last day off, however last Thursday night was a fairly typical nightshift...
Works Safety Officer, Sydney KFS airport...
start 2200, briefing on assigned works...check notams, weather radar.
Grab keys out of the keysafe, head downstairs and run through a vehicle check of my truck (we use Mitshibishi Triton 4WD turbo/diesel dual cabs) ie. check servicibility , radios/strobes/beacons etc.
That thursday I was assigned to the de-rubberising the RWY 07 threshold works.
Head out onto the airfield by 2230 to meet up with the works group by 2245.
Brief works group on the safety requirements of working on the field, discuss the extent of their approved works and what their needs were. That night it was an american contractor assisting an aussie crew spraying de-rubberising chemical onto the RWY and using a large wire brush roller (towed by a ute) to scrub the surface. Tankers would then dump water to wash off the chemicals into the grass of the RWY.
2300hrs call sydney ground to close the RWY, and escort the works party onto the RWY itself. Then the rest of the night is spent supervising the works group...keeping a listening watch on sydney surface movement - escorting the tankers across the taxiways etc. till about 0430. Then as the works party start to pack up - start the inspections of the RWY works areas, and the surrounding taxiways. Escort the works party off about 0500, and then hand back the runway
...then contact base to see if anyone else needs assistance with their works parties (we're in the swing of A-380 upgrades, and RGL installations).
Head back to operations at 0545 for debrief and leave at 0600
Tronsky
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I came in a 7am waited until 7:30 for instructions from my 'superiors'. Didn't get any so went and loaded 160 Sasquatch into an oven and started it. Then I tried to get the Puma going but it wouldn't until I put it into another oven. Then I moved on some Chinook. After that effort I took 45 minutes of my 15 minute morning break. Since then I've been here posting. Later I expect I'll have to mark some Galaxy, Elvis or even Comet. But who knows.
It used to be so different. I ran an area with between 10 and 20 people and never stopped working. I did so well that I was moved to a new project which slowly died along with my so called career. Now I'm just winding down until I move on to better things as a flight instructor.
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My Boring Day!
Most Mondays, Like today. I go in at 445 AM EST, to put food order away, Two Hours later I come home, and try to get some more shut eye, But today is different, have to run some errands before I go back to work at 1PM EST.
I go in at 1PM EST, Help Finish Lunch Dishes which usually takes an hour, Do a crapload of prepwork for Dinner and Breakfast the next day, which usually takes two Hours.
If I have time, I also file Diet Orders, Or organize Meal Cards for New Residents. At 4PM EST I get a half hour lunch, usually I walk home and check the boards, Then I head back to work around 420EST.
When I get back to work, We serve supper which usually takes a little more than an hour. Then I help with the Supper Dishes, which usually takes about an hour.
Then I clean up, And sit for about a half hour :D then clock out and go home around 8PM EST.
So for most of the day I'm pretty busy, But theres a few minutes of the day where I get to be a slacker.
Man I need a real job.
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I do level 4 support for a large Multinational (UNIX, Windows & Hardware), The team I am assigned too covers Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Get up around 06:00
quick shower & breakfast
hit the gym for 45-60 min, shower
and head to the office,
A normal day:
E-mail & check voice msg etc...
Bring up the call Queue to check for new calls.
Start working the calls that are assigned to me.
this can entail anything from simple answers to setting up a complete test system to duplicate the problem. or may require the I go on site.
we also cover the following:
Complex Installations of new system.
Complex merges of systems.
Performance tuning.
System recovery.
Political Problem with Customers (normally sales promised something that can not be done, or under priced it so bad that that the customer is very PO'ed when he see what it will cost keep in mind the entry level for these system is around $500,000 and the High end can be in the range of 15-20 million.)
Setting up classes and training the field support teams.
Review & approve or disapprove changes to the system configurations.
That's about it :)
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Get to the office around 7:30 am. Check e-mail. Usually around 9:00 I get a call from a Principal or teacher about smells in the class room, or mold, or some such indoor air quality issue. So I'll schedule a meeting with whoever the responsible person is at the school for that problem. In the meantime I'm working on a set of project specs for either a mold removal, or asbestos removal project.
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Normal day:
8:00 PM check markets to see if any orders got filled (grains and energies)
12:00 AM check markets, asian grains and update currency and metals
6:00 AM check markets for overnite closes
7:00 AM go to office
7:30 to 9:30 make opening calls to client base, do a couple of conference call about marketing plans, check truck logistics to see what did not get deliviered the previous day. Check on rail logistics, cars placed-grades-billing-settelments. Pick on people in the office.
9:30 to 1:30 Grain markets open, take orders, fill orders, call back fills, pick on people in the office, sell cash grain (truck/rail)
1:30 to 3:00- Lunch, work out or bike or screw off.
3:00 to 6:00 Do afternoon stuff, do my charts, futures and basis, do the afternoon conferece call with 10 other offices in the company, check truck schedules, do records for accounts, come up with some wild bellybutton idea to make money for clients. Put in orders for the nite session. Go HOME.
6:30 Make dinner for the family, see what my kids did at school, watch them do home work, get a glass of wine and start all over again at 8:00 Thats a normal day.
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My work day?
Don't have one. I get paid to enjoy myself. I get up when I want, have my coffee and breakfast and do whatever I want to the entire day. Some days I move the house to another location and see what's there.
Did you know that work is a 4 letter word???:eek:
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Hmm.. .okay:
9:30: Wake up. How the hell did that happen? Swear a bit.
9:45 out of shower. Log on. Discuss meeting with export lawyer to make sure we're not going to be branding international arms traders.
10:00 breakfast. At the table, talk to a couple of hippie musicians from San Francisco promoting peace through chamber music. Field complaints about extreme quantities of meat and the relative merits of a US embassy attache'.
10:20 Director of the Institute comes up to harass me into watching "Hannibal" at his house on Sunday. I tell him there's been political sniping between the department of antiquities and my department over a lecture he talked me and my colleague to give in May.
10:40-11:00 Walk into work -- saw the hippies drive off in the direction of the DMZ.
11:00: brew up, check emails, start this post.
11:20, resume translating (Latin-English) Averroes' comment 83 on Physics I, on the scope of first philosophy, and whether one can prove the existence of immaterial beings.
11:30 another phone call into the director. Lecture now on. Ball kicked to DoA's court
11:50 DoA Archaeologist agrees to give lecture with us. Crisis resolved.
12:00 Downloaded image file of 1498 edition of Latin translation of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)'s De prima philosophia.
12:05 hunted reference to Peter Lombard's discussion of the Eucharist as requiring wheat bread.
12:45: finished translation, shifted to Book I of Aristotle's Physics
13:00 walked down to old city with book one of the Physics. Had lunch at a place up against the perimeter wall of a former OESA convent, now a mosque. Lots of working class old men were having lunch there with their asian mail-order or wage-slave mistresses. Some guy came through with a roulette wheel hidden in a briefcase. A dutchman and a danish woman showed up, and started talking to a recently retired official in the communications ministry who had been reading a book about a pezevengi. Big Tomcat parket at my feet, expecting me to share some meatballs with him.
on the way back, picked up a head of garlic and two artichokes.
14:00 back in the office. Screw around for half an hour.
14:30: spent a half-hour doing Customer Support kind of stuff, including fielding the ever popular email along the lines of "Hi, we had a discussion on the forums earlier; you said it couldn't be done this way, and I was rather rude and said it could. Now I've seen your stuff, and it's really good, and I can't do it the way I thought. I've got this great idea, see (insert stupid derivative idea taken from watching Band of Brothers too many times), and you can have it if you write and test the 200 lines of code necessary to implement it."
15:00 CEO in Doncaster comes online. Talk to him for 20 minutes on organizational matters.
15:20 More Aristotle
16:15 Colleague swings, by, we go to his house
16:30-:work with colleague revising my translation of an article on Thomas Aquinas, Christology and Hylomorphism from French to English.
20:15 leave
20:30 return home. Spend 30 minutes filling out and uploading company paperwork. Do some laundry, cut some eggplants.
21:00 Talk to CEO
21:15 Chat with project leader about "going into phase II" of his project, which means "get dinger to write the code to make it work"
21:30 Chat with someone who thinks he's a project leader. Tell him he's not.
21:45 pull the plug on the conversation. Get laundry out of basement.
22:00 fry up some artichokes and eggplant.
22:25 post this.
22:30 went to the corner pub with australian housemate to play pool.
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I get up at 4am Thursdays through Mondays (Tues/Wed usually noon). Don my spiffy uniform, eat a muffin or granola bar, pop a vitamin and ripped fuel combo, and head off to the airport...
-Arrive, say hello, punch in.
-Pick up flight schedules.
-Sit for 10-15 minutes in the ready room getting... um ready.
-Head out to truck line, get in a tanker (anywhere from 2000 to 10000 US gal capacity).
-Do the routine checks
-Fueling madness! I do 757s, 737s, MD80s, occasional DC10, A300s, CRJ-700s, EMB170s, various other Embraer/Canadair regional jets, various Beeches, and the occasional charter. I may hit Midwest, Northwest, AirTran, United, US Airways, Fedex, UPS, Funjet, America West, Frontier, American Airlines, Delta, and whatever else might be on the schedule. I BS with the Creamos, pilots, and ground handlers on occasion. Whoever drives a tug with more than 3 carts is automatically a moron - period :)
I'm out on the flight line throughout the day, and depending on the schedule, I think we do maybe 3 hours of actual work throughout the shift. I get loads of reading done, which is nice :)
-Head back, top off at the fuel farm, park da truck, punch out, run like hell to the car and fly home around 1400.
-Eat something quick, head off to class on various days.... stinking like Jet-A.
-Come home again, do whatever.
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Dinger, are you Buckaroo Bonzai?
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
It's Sunday, retard.
Not everyone in the world gets weekends off retard...:D jk
Well Monday through friday I am at the University learning things like Gas laws, phisics, chem, A&P. ect. I sit next to a Rodeo Queen, tough life..
Sat and Sunday I work as a Telemetry tech. I gave up on the paramedic thing, wasn't going to blow my back out for $9/hr. (after 12 years in ems thats all the local slave driver, I mean ambulance owner would pay me when I moved here, hence the school) I work 12 hours, 7A-7P. I watch the monitors for ICU (ekg, art lines, cvp lines, ventalator paramaters ect) and shuffle paperwork for $5/hr more than I made as a medic... HA!!!!! I get a day off later this month,,,
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souds like you have a realy nice job oct :)
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It's... tolerable, hehe. Atleast until I finish my degree. And I get to see the sunrise every freakin day, so thats a plus. I have yet to bring my camera .
Going for PPL this spring/summer :cool:
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The majority of my days go by travelling to the clients. Then some days I just spend on my home office answering e-mails or doing videoconferences.
I really don't have a typical working day as it can be anything from 500 miles of driving and 16 hours spent on the work and road down to answering a couple e-mails and doing basically whatever I like. Oh and those quiet days I never wake up before 9, usually try to hang on untill 10. I'm a night person. :)
Lots of hotel nights, expos, conferences and customer training sessions. It's a life for a single person really, you kinda start to miss the family if you have to live a week in the hotel.
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I passed on this job to a buddy of mine since I'm going to be all over the country for the next month.
Wake up between 3-4 am and play alittle AH during the wee hours of the morning while drinking some juice and having a cereal bar.
5:00 head to the airport...5:15 arrive (5:20 if I catch that damn train) and preflight the yellow 172 I call an office. 5:30 the radio personality shows up and we chat in the FBO office till about 5:50.
5:55 engine start and wheels up at or before 6.
Fly for 2.5 or so hours inside I-270 (Runs a ring around Columbus) every few minutes changing back from approach to another local tower. Dodge police helicopters and blimps if they're in the area. Keep an eye out for folks who get speeding tickets.
Land between 8:30-9. Leave the airplane out of it's hangar to be fueled. Go home. Nap and/or do school work (I've got no school work left except for my CFI classes which are no factor since my writtens are done, so I typically nap now) until 2:30
Head back to the airport for a 3:15 preflight and shoot the breeze with my buddies who are still working the line. Help an old crusty banner tower build banners in exchange for Citabria time and so nothing until 4:00.
Take off again, tell approach we're "Goin around" and talk to the other traffic airplane while keeping the dirty side down.
Land around 6:30 and head home. Work on various things, practice some geetar for a bit or go out with the girlfriend to the movies. She works at a theater, and does not tire of movies...I don't get it. Either way, no shame here getting into all the movies for free.
At some point I will log into AH and see how its going. Often I'm not on long, kinda burned out lately. I'll spend time in the TA helping the new guys.
That's a day...pretty boring. Wx is too wet to ski, too cold to do any wet IFR work and too crappy for golf or anything else. I can't wait for spring.
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I handle the store inventory for an air museum, occationally researching and ordering items to sell in the store that are aviation and/or space related. I also handle the inventory for the American Fighter Aces and am on the board for the NW Friends of the Fighter Aces. We do 3-4 symposiums per year where we get a few aces to come to the museum and talk about their experiences. I'm also responsible for coming up with new ideas for the Aces to make money and to impliment those ideas. Once a year I go to the Aces' reunions and am responsible for security at their signing sessions(i.e. making sure only authorized people are going into the session). Even though I've talked to many aces about their combat experiences, it hasn't seemed to help my AH flying(lol).
:)
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Hmmmm
Well lets see how it has gone today.
5:45AM Wake up and eat egg white and turkey bacon on whole wheat and make breakfast for the rest of the family.
6:00 Check email from German office (+7 hours) and respond before the rest of the family gets up. Also check voice mails on cell phone from customers and German HQ.
6:15 Wake up Parrish (oldest boy who is 8) to get ready for school and to make his bed and take out the dog before breakfast.
6:30 Have the lunch ready for my 8 year old before he sits down for breakfast
6:45 Check email from German HQ once more and then go get in the shower.
7:20 - 7:30 Leave the house and take Parrish to school.
7:30 - 8:00 While driving into work make a few quick calls to customers asking what the issue is so I can jump on it when I get into the office at 8.
8:00 ~ 8:15 Walk in to a barrage of phone calls and responses to my response to emails from Germany. Get ready for the Monday morning production meeting at 8:30. Check the AH BBS and see whose up to what.
9:00 Start call backs and check email once again. Also being putting in new orders from customers and sending those to Production. Check on new projects from the shop and go over purchase requests for materials for shop use.
10:00 Grab my mid morning snack of protein shake and almonds with dried cranberries.
10:15 Call the manufacturers of the truck mounted concrete pumps that we supply pipes and elbows to and go over updates on their PO's to us.
12:30 - 1:15 Take lunch preferably away from the office where I can have some peace and quiet and leave the cell phone on the desk as a "mistake".
1:30 - 2:15 Come back from lunch and get right back on the track of returning emails and listening to voice mail.
4:00 - 5:00 I leave the office with the ball and chain close to my body and go coach my oldest son in either baseball (spring/summer) or football (fall).
Several times in this time frame we are dealing with trouble from the customers such as elbows or pipes failing ahead of time. Also have to deal with OEM's who are fussing about back orders due to delays in shipping.
Also talking with customers and potential customers while setting up my next trip out of the office. As well as helping the engineers at the OEM's figure out the best way to do what they want to do.
Occasionally I leave this job and go to the part time job for the fun stuff like hunting and fishing.
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4:30 am - Get up and get ready for work, have to be on the road by 5:15 or forget it, traffic will be a nightmare (unless its a holiday).
6:00 am - Start work for the day. Open the loading docks and the front doors of the building, turn on the A/C, walk the lobby and loading area and make sure everything is working ok, make notes for the Building Engineer to take care of when he and his assisstant come in.
6:30 am - Morning paperwork. Mondays I take care of payroll for my guards and send it out to have checks printed, all other days I read through the logs they left, make notes to add to my morning walkthrough for the Engineer, make notes for myself for things to check on. Print out copies of the patrol logs from the previous day's guard shifts and check to make sure they are doing their jobs. Call vendors and/or repairmen for any work needing done (elevator/escalator repairs, water leaks, landscaping, etc) and email the Property Manager.
7:00 am - Make the rounds of the property, talk to the tenants and keep an eye out for anyone who doesnt belong.
7:30 am - Take care of contractors coming in to the building to work, make sure they sign in, make sure the subs are on the approved list. Advise contractors of move-ins and major deliveries that will tie up loading docks and freight elevators, coordinate timing of deliveries so they dont overlap. Email property manager who is doing what. Will call on the phone if I need to double check a contractors insurance status or "boot-off-the-property-on-sight" status.
8:00 am - Talk to the parking manager or his assistant and give them notes left from last night of issues they need to take care of and deal with any problems they have. Also inform them if I have any problems with security access into the garage after it closes.
8:30 am - Break. While I have a few minutes here and there through the morning, this is where I get to sit down, check my email, grab a drink or a snack, return phone calls that didnt get forwarded to my 2-way, etc.
9:00 am - Generally use this hour for making changes to building access program, setting up elevator controls and programming access cards for tenants. Fill out paperwork for the cards, file it, take forms down to Parking office if they also need access to the garage. Normally, most of this hour is used to extend my break. :)
10:00 am - Walk the property again, make sure everything is still operating smoothly and no one is complaining about anything. From here until 2:00 pm my day is spent making rounds, dealing with tenant complaints, helping and/or booting out contractors, directing deliveries and handing out directives or posting things for the Property Manager.
2:00 pm - Pau work, go hang out at Ferguson's Pub for an hour or so, play darts, have a couple of beers. Then head home and either log in for some AH time or take a nap until the missus gets home. :)
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Crikey I'd probably die if I had to wake up 4:30 regularly. 4:30 is the time to go to sleep for me. :D
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crowMAW,
VP, Jacksonville, by any chance BofA? I'm and AVP BofA datacenter in San Francisco.
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I'm a nurse.I'll leave for work about 1750. Don't know where I'll be working, 70% med surg or oncology, maybe er, maybe iccu, incu, won't know unitll I get there. Sometimes work is good, sometimes it's bad. Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's busy. Somedays I won't have time to eat. Somedays I'll get two breaks. I'll get home around 0815 unless they really, really need me to work a double.
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Originally posted by Creamo
Just your typical work day... What did you do?
Work.
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Wank.
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Welp, I'm the Night Operator for a bank with 12 branches.
4pm Leave for work
5pm or earlier, arrive & sign in. On Mondays, clean the tape drives on the Unisys mainframe and get all the cartridges I'll need through out the night.
5:30pm or so, begin the check processor. All the checks that the scanner scans gets SQL'd. While that server is doing that, have the mainframe run a daily log for maintenance history.
6pm Maintenance cycles done, await the results from the check processing folks and run file space checks, datesets and teller updates. Do tape backups of the printjobs, security settings then run backups on the PIN code passwords.
7pm The games begin! Close of business day, run the ATM stuff, transactions, fees, etc. Electronic banking stuff.
730PM Disable core systems so the evening update process can commence.
745pm The updating begins, on our mainframe, takes about 4 hours.
8pm - 1230am Monitor the process. No error messages is a good thing. Check Web forums, cook some supper (full kitchen at this facility) and maybe watch a DVD on my laptop. Sounds easy, but when things go to hell, as anyone in banking can tell you, it goes to pot fast.
1245-130 give or take, Im done for the night. Usually, this time of year, its crappy snow/ice weather so the 25 mile commute takes an hour. Listen to AM Coast to Coast and discover aliens are indeed in control of banking. And a meteor will strike Los Angeles on Wednesday, at 3:01pm.
02:00 AM HOME! Feed cats, unwind...then...at 3am IRON CHEF on Food Network!
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I design and do high level support for public safety communications systems. I also design custom wireless camera systems.
Generally my day starts with about 40 - 60 emails. Once I've sorted through and answered the important stuff, I then virtually glue the phone to the side of my face for the next 3 - 4 hours. Then I remove the office phone from my ear, and switch to the cell phone during lunch. Once I get back to work I write firmware for projects we are developing, do some testing, and then reattach the phone to answer all my voicemails before the end of the day. Occasionally I get to travel onsite all around the western US for configuration of systems. It's actually a lot more fun than that sounds.
(P.S. If any of you work for America West, please surprise me next time and actually have my checked backage on the same plane as I am. Thanks! :D )
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I could tell you what I do, but I'd have to kill you.
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Monday:
06:30 Get up, get daughter up and drop her off at Poppa's. Wife has already left for nursing school.
07:30 Drive to school
08:30-10:00 Class - Library Science
10:00-11:00 Drive to work
11:00-12:00 Work at a fab shop. I could be cutting material, drilling holes, tapping holes, running the CNC, pushing a broom or even welding. I've been learning how to short-arc and TIG. I absorb everything I can like a sponge. Next will be the lathes.
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-15:30 Work. Although sometimes I stay until 17:00
15:30-17:30 Home. Wife should already be home with daughter. Take shower. Check email and BB's. Wash dishes by hand. Start dinner. Pick up in living room. Usually start drinking beer.
17:30-20:00 Watch daughter while wife studies. Log on BB's. Drink more beer and start cleaning up from dinner.
20:00-22:30 Study for school. If I am procrastinating then I post on bb's. Drinking more beer.
22:30-23:00 Pack for school. Stop drinking. Eat. Go to bed.
The other days are very similar:
Tuesday
I drop off daughter. Class starts 09:30 and ends at 20:00. Classes are Geometric Transformations, Multiculturalism in the Classroom, Geography, Logic in Math, and Literacy Across the Curriculum (Content Reading). I have a break from 15:30-17:00 to drive one hour to the next campus for my last class. I don't work on Tuesday.
Wednesday
Exactly the same as Monday.
Thursday
I drop off daughter. Class starts 09:30 and ends at 15:30. Classes are Geometric Transformations, Multiculturalism in the Classroom, Geography, and Logic in Math. 15:30 I drive home and continue like it was Monday although I pick up daughter since wife has clinicals on Thursdays and doesn't get home until after 19:30.
Friday
Friday is easy. Drop off daughter and go to work. Work starts at 07:00 but I usually get there at 08:00 since I can't drop my daughter off too early at Poppa's.
If anyone is counting my classes then, yes, I am taking 18 hours this semester. With the wife in the RN program it makes for a busy, busy household right now. I think if our marriage can survive school then we will survive anything else.
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Noon or whenever: Wake up. Eat breakfast. Watch TV or get on the net.
1-ish: (On the 15th) Walk down to the mailbox and see if my royalty check came today.
If you don't already have an oil well, get one...or 5 like me. :cool:
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Originally posted by bustr
crowMAW,
VP, Jacksonville, by any chance BofA? I'm and AVP BofA datacenter in San Francisco.
In an age where companies google their name and fire employees with blog entries that they find objectionable, I find myself unreasonably paranoid. Even without my real name showing up in this thread.
But I will say that BofA is a wonderful company and I have the utmost respect for all there.
As an extra treat today the CFO called and said that no project with over $10k invested should be cancelled without approval from Finanace. I sat is stunned silence for a moment. When I recovered I asked, "Do you really forsee a project that you would force the COO to pay to have completed eventhough Ops has said they no longer need it? And do you really want Development to continue waisting hours on a cancelled project while waiting for your approval to kill it?" Through the silence I could hear the gears turning, so I said,"Why don't I send you a report of cancelled projects with the names of the project requestor and people responsible for prioritizing the project. Then you can personally contact them about the waisted dollars."
:rolleyes:
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Wife and I finally got our California State licensing for producing tamper resistant prescription forms on Dec. 24th. Our first "real" day was the 19th of January, and we now have four of us full time plus three part timers.
We're setting it up as a turnkey so I have nothing, and everything, to do every day so I stay busy tweaking and amending our workflow systems. The idea is to develop a fool proof system because the paperwork the State requires doesn't allow for very many screw-ups, so I basically dumb down and simplify everyone else's job...in fact I'm quite skillful in dumbing down and simplification.
Before this I wrote, then later brokered the publishing, for program books featuring 49ers and Raiders players competing against local fire fighters and police officers' players associations. We produced about two books a month, more in March-April, so it was deadline intensive and very stressful. I wrote the bios, welcome letters, and designed display ads. Did it for 15 years, quit last year when life became unrewarding and moved out of the City, back to the town I'd left 20 years ago.
Between times up here in the past year I've help write two ordinance proposals before the City Attorney- one restricting panhandling and the other banning overnight camping to deal with the drug infested eyesore that has become the WalMart area. I've also worked with members of the DA's office and am helping with a draft that we hope will be a State amendment guaranteeing the rights of Californians to keep and posess firearms- it's a backlash against San Francisco's proposal to ban their residents the right to own and posess handguns. I haven't gotten paid for this, but feel it's my civic duty to better my community by arming our citizens so we can go vigilante and shoot the homeless bums.
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just awesome Airhead!
Really, just a great story and couldn't happen to a better person.
Great job Airhead.
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Originally posted by NUKE
just awesome Airhead!
Really, just a great story and couldn't happen to a better person.
Great job Airhead.
LOL WTF??? Dude, I'm months away from drawing a paycheck, much less showing a profit....my stomach is tied in knots, my sphincter is tighter than SOB's and MiniD's "relationship," my nerves are shot and I awake in fear and hit the floor running every day.
Everything we've saved is in this, and if it fails we are fediddleed beyond all redemption mon. My palms sweat, my chest pounds, and I haven't had eight hours' sleep in a row in all of 2005.
I'm lovin it. The rain feels colder, the wind is sharper and the Vodka tastes better than it ever has....it is so much better to feel anything, even if it's fear and aprehension, than it is to become emotionally numb and feel nothing at all. At least now I'm living again, and if I end up holding a cardboard sign on a streetcorner and the Cops roust me and won't let me sleep in my car anymore, or some gun nut shoots me as I beg, then I'll have only myself to blame anyway.
It's all good. :aok
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My day? You don't wanna know.
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Airhead, you are going to make it and in a big way. I admire you and wish you all the best.
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Awake at 0200, don spiffy uniform, drink half a pot of coffee so I won't die driving to work. Arrive work at three. Get searched at front door, report to Control, get keys, cuffs, OC gas and radio.
0330, open kitchen, do startup paperwork, inventory and unlock all things locked. Check in/search kitchen workers as they report and begin preparation to feed 1400 breakfasts.
0400, Count.
0500, feed work crews, late morning kitchen workers, begin lunch preparation.
0600-0615, feed general population. About 1300 meals. Clean up.
0615-1000-Continue lunch prep. Prep 1400 chicken quarters, 450# of potatoes, 300# spinach, 2000 dinner rolls and 400#'s of salad.
1000-1015, Feed kitchen workers.
1100, Count again.
1015-1200, begin dinner prep. Pancakes! 100 flats of eggs, 100#s of flour to get started.
1130 Count clear, feed population.
1145 Lock down-- 30 hispanics (gangs) going at it in one of the mods. 6 badly injured. 23 go to the hole.
No movement allowed. Staff on "all call"--means no one leaves. So much for the shift ending at 11:30. ERT responds (doods in black with many guns) --facility lockdown. Continue to prep dinner.
1530, Dinner ready. Population being fed one floor at a time, but only after being strip searched. Normal serving time 30 minutes. Today it took four hours.
Home by 1930.
Somebody shoot me.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
My day? You don't wanna know.
Hey Skuzzy, we *think* we know, but hats off to you.
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Originally posted by Airhead
I'm lovin it. The rain feels colder, the wind is sharper and the Vodka tastes better than it ever has....it is so much better to feel anything, even if it's fear and aprehension, than it is to become emotionally numb and feel nothing at all. At least now I'm living again...
Raymond...is that you? I thought you wanted to be vet but it was too much schooling.
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awake whenever
scratch
turn on computer
put on coffee
shower
pore a cupper and log on to ***** ******
check portfolio
fire up dow and nasdaq tickers
go feed the horse
feed the cat
browse various web sites
take a walk or go for a ride on the horse.
fool around
go play golf or go swimming or shoot some hoops
send "NO!" reply's to any contract offers in my email
I put in my 25 years it's up to you guys to keep things running now ;) :D:D:D
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Get up when ever but its usually by 9 am.
Make Coffee. Have coffee while playing a lil AH or go hit golf balls at the range or play 18 holes.
Take a shower.
Get ready for work.
Arrive at work by 14:30 or so. 1500 start time.
Supervise a Computer room on 2nd shift.
Get off at 23:30
Home by 0000.
Work is boring and most times I read the BBS when not much is going on. But when servers are hiccuping and stuff is going on , I earn my money. Legislaitive People don't like it when they have puter problems.
Work every 3rd weekend to get the following Thurs. Fri. off for a 4 day weekend.
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This reminds me of a book I read eons ago called "Work" or "Working", by Studs Terkel. It was just random people talking about their work for a few pages.... and it was fascinating. Much like this.
Wonderful thread, Creamo.
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Originally posted by Nash
This reminds me of a book I read eons ago called "Work" or "Working", by Studs Terkel. It was just random people talking about their work for a few pages.... and it was fascinating. Much like this.
Wonderful thread, Creamo.
Nash, I would be interested in your description of your work day. I dig stuff like this.
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6:00AM up, drive to store for paper and a super-big gulp(diet coke).
6:45ish, walk the youngest to her bus stop(100ft away)
7:30ish, Walk the oldest to her bus stop(100yds away)
After that, I monitor the 'puters and the phones, if I am in the office (home), or drive around town talking to Architects, Builders and Owners until,
3:15 walk to the bus stop, pick up youngest.
4:10 walk to the bus stop, pick up oldest.
Work until I am done, usually 5 or 7, doing drawings, proposals or answering emails.
When I am on the road out of town, it is similar, just from a motel room, and I don't get to see the family(2-5 days a month).
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
My day? You don't wanna know.
Skuzzy's day:
2am - Server beeper goes off...log in and reset. Check email quickly...20 unread...10 complain about lag, 5 with phantom bugs, 4 with "solid" evidence that Furball is a cheater, 1 email unintelligible rant.
9am - Arrive at work. Check email 30 unread. 10 say Skuzzy must be a Rook because of the reset...10 say he is a Bish because of the same...5 with phantom bugs...4 with "solid" evidence that ManeTMP is a cheater...1 email unintelligible rant.
10am - Check the BBS. Mostly unintelligible ranting...one complaint that AH sucks cuz it's unplayable on his laptop with the touchpad and no joystick while sitting at the public library stealing internet from the 56k wi-fi.
11am - Throw moderately heavy objects at HiTech while yelling at him to stop playing online poker and help do paper work for the quarterly tax filing. Listen to voicemail...10 want something impossible...5 want Skuzzy to give general PC advice...5 general wha-wha complaints about one online child making another online child feel bad...1 unintelligible rant.
1pm - Check email, 40 unread. 20 complain about lag...10 phantom bugs...5 general wha-wha complaints about one online child making another online child feel bad...4 with "solid" evidence that Ezeepkns is a cheater...1 unitelligible rant.
2pm - Call ISP and threaten to pull contract because they have hosed the DNS once again.
3pm - Pet the new programmer...call him nice names and offer to bring him a soda pop and crackers for making AH 2.02 pretty.
4pm - Check email, voicemail and BBS. 20 suggestions for impossible improvements...15 BBS posts to edit because of naughty posters...15 general wha-wha complaints...10 general PC support requests...4 with "solid" evidence that Stang is a cheater...1 unintelligible rant.
5pm - pack for home...makes post-it note to remind self to find out what the hell MacMaw was saying in his unintelligible rants.
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:rofl
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lol craw :D
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LOL ... i hope its not like that Skuzzy :D
however here is mine...
i wake up around 9-10 AM.
Turn on computer, check few servers.
Mostly everthing is fine so i run for shower, then eat some food.
Then im checking 15 mins last logs on some servers.... its almost 11 AM
Then i find myself boring so i watch the sky.
12-13Am i try to stop looking form my window at home and i go for lunch.
Then i have basicaly nothing important to do untill everything is working fine, so i usualy study something or play with some new piece of software, whitch could make my work easier.
15AM I start to hope that nobody else will call me on my cell phone today
16AM If i have some maintance of some server i usualy leave my home and im going to do it.
18AM dinner
20AM im usualy done and RTB
after 21AM ... sometime i play AH, OPF, or im trying to improve¬ destroy some of my servers.
Well during average week i have to leave my house 2x a week, for 4 hours or so.
its damm hard job to be at home and waiting for something to become Fubar :D
but last week one HDD in one of the servers burned out so i hade to work from 1AM to 6AM. Bloody Western digital ;)
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Ok. Octavius is now in second. Lada now has the best job here.
Need an assistant lada. I have to be able to do the "job" from here tho. I can view the logs for you to make your life easyer :lol
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Ok. Octavius is now in second. Lada now has the best job here.
Need an assistant lada. I have to be able to do the "job" from here tho. I can view the logs for you to make your life easyer :lol
yeeep i needed assistant.
I already got one 1 month ago. It is nice to earn 8x more that is an average income over here, but i had problems to carry out that huge responsibility... so i took one guy who work for me and cut down my income by 40%.
At least now i have someone to bore with :D... naaah im trying to keep that guy bussy, i hope to expand a littla bit more now.
Well Nilsen if everything will go as i planed it in next year , i will need salesman.... some proper playboy... i will kep you in my mind :cool:
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Playboy you say!
Thats me :D
Just remember that i cant be bothered to leave my house. Can you send the clients to me or have them call me?
Thx
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Playboy you say!
Thats me :D
Just remember that i cant be bothered to leave my house. Can you send the clients to me or have them call me?
Thx
sure... but you must have video phone or web cam :cool:
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no problem, i have an iSight connected to one of my macs and a creative cam on my wintendo :cool:
But only send me the good looking customers please. i usualy vomit when seeing ugly people. Needless to say... i have no mirrors in my house.
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Originally posted by Nilsen:
Lada now has the best job here.
I beg to differ.
;)
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Originally posted by Horn
Somebody shoot me.
Heh, Your job sounds similar to mine, Only I feed the elderly/very ill and you feed criminals, And you have about 12 times the population I have.
So maybe its not so similar :D, I was considering taking a job at the Industrial home for Youth here, I know its a lot of work, And I'm sure I could do it. But Something in the back of my mind says Is it really worth being shanked in the Kitchen by some Thug?
to you.
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Wake up at a different time everyday.
Go to the range.
Go to capture insurgents - get to kill insurgents on the really good days.
Fill out paperwork for the guys we've killed or captured.
Get some sleep (my higher thinks this part is optional)
Repeat
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Originally posted by Nefarious
I was considering taking a job at the Industrial home for Youth here, I know its a lot of work, And I'm sure I could do it. But Something in the back of my mind says Is it really worth being shanked in the Kitchen by some Thug?
to you.
Thanks.
Control of tools. Knives/blades/sharp things are cabled/padlocked to the prep tables with three foot cables (gives you a "danger zone" to stay the hell out of).
I personally supervise 25 - 50 cons for hours at a time alone, so if they wanted to overwhelm me, they could and wouldn't need weapons-- but there is quite a bit of psychology involved: peer-pressure, institutionalization, recrimination, personal fears etc.--you can use a lot of that to keep yourself safe. Though it may be obvious, I should mention folks in prison aren't that smart either-- so humor goes a long way. If you can get them to laugh, joke and sing you have a happy (read: non-violent) kitchen. Sounds weird but it works.
Personally, I get more concerned with (and watch more closely) the young, skinny, sullen, tattooed gang bangers more than the old, enormous, power lifter cons--the kids today seem to have no grip on what the future will bring them--and they don't seem to care.
On the flip side, I use huge industrial cooking machinery which by themselves are pretty cool. Hydraulic tilt skillets 10 feet long, 100 gallon urns and kettles that move, turn and pour, combi-ovens that you can walk into, coolers and freezers larger than apartments I've rented, etc.--large scale stuff. It is sort of a unique experience.
If you decide to go into something like this, I would *highly* suggest hanging out at the job for a couple of shifts to watch how it is all done before making a decision. Best of luck!
h
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Originally posted by Horn:
I should mention folks in prison aren't that smart either--
When you start thinking like this, that is when you're going to get in trouble. Never underestimate anyone, no matter what environment your in.
I agree about the gang bangers. They don't give a crap and are dangerous. I have a friend that's a counselor in a juvenile institution and he said they scare him more than the adults.
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Airhead,
Are you claiming that RV'ers at Walmart are a drug distribution situation?
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0500 wakeup
0530 showered & dressed. try to be quiet to avoid waking up g/f.
0531 get the evil eye from the g/f
0532-0625 run away, get coffee, chew down some concerta-e, fire up the laptop. check emails, gather up incoming faxes, check AH BBS & PlanetSide outfit BBS, check fax server to make sure it spammed all night, sort paperwork, fax out orders & offers from the night before.
0630 Pack up laptop, refill cofee, bundle roommates/carpool buddies into the SUV. Play slalom the stupid, unattended children on the way out the neighborhood.
0630-07?? Try to survive Houston traffic and supress urge to batter other vehicles into submission.
07??-0800 Get to my desk, make sure my deliveries are on the trucks and ready to go out. Bicker with co-workers. Log into my terminal, fire up the laptop. Glare at the phone so it understands my disdain for it.
0800-1600 Absolute chaos. Answer the phone, take & pick orders, answer the business cellphone, keypunch lists that the OCR software can't read, think about lunch & give up on it, work on PHP & MySQL scripts, glare at the phone some more. This goes on for 10 hours straight. Thankfully I'm only subjected to 8 of it.
1600 see 0630 driving entry...
16?? eventually make it home. Fire up the desktop, write more PHP code, tinker with MySQL, spend an hour in AH or PlanetSide (more PS than AH lately). Special exceptions behing outfit or squad nights (thurs & sun) where I'll spend more than a few hours :)
That's my average day tues - saturday. Sunday I sleep in, do some chores, write some scripts, play more video games. Monday I play a whole lot of video games & do laundry.
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Originally posted by 2stony
Originally posted by Horn:
When you start thinking like this, that is when you're going to get in trouble. Never underestimate anyone, no matter what environment your in.
Not underestimation. It is truth.
I'm not saying there are no smart people in prison. There are. Many of them. Some of them scary smart.
However, one must cater to the common denominator occasionally in a penal supervisory setting--and with humor, anyone can relate, smart or not-so-smart.
Perhaps I didn't state the point well enough the first time--with few exceptions, it takes work to be sent to the state penitentiary system. One must screw up on multiple occasions--not only screw up, but get caught multiple times and eschew the chances the state gives you to reform.
Most folks there deserve to be there.
But speaking to your point, how smart does a con have to be to hit you really hard with a blunt object when you are not looking? It's all pretty relative.
h
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Originally posted by Maverick
Airhead,
Are you claiming that RV'ers at Walmart are a drug distribution situation?
Yup. Up here anyway.
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Do you have a link to anything to add credence to your claim?
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Originally posted by Horn:
with few exceptions, it takes work to be sent to the state penitentiary system.
I've seen these "few exceptions". I know people that went to prison on their first offense without even having any priors, and they didn't kill, rob or maim(sp) anyone.
The thing that really gets me is that the public is the most misinformed group when it comes to what prison is really like and what actually happens inside the walls. Unfortunately, they believe what they hear, and like in other instances, it is unfortunate and detrimental.
:(
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Originally posted by Maverick
Do you have a link to anything to add credence to your claim?
OK, let me amend that- There are many "normal" types of RVers (like you, BTW) who take advantage of the Wal-Mart parking lot to spend the night; however, there's a population of people who sleep in their cars and, yes, they've turned it into a homeless camp where drug abuse is quite common.
I can't really link up anything, specifically, but c'mon up here and look for yourself...
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Plumbin!!!
New work, residential/commercial, service calls, renovations, you call, I haul,no job too big or too small! Well..sometimes their too big if Im feelin lazy!
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Originally posted by 2stony
Originally posted by Horn:
I've seen these "few exceptions". I know people that went to prison on their first offense without even having any priors, and they didn't kill, rob or maim(sp) anyone.
:(
One of the procedures that one goes through when sentenced to prison is a review/classification process. This process consists of "rating" a prisoner to properly place them within the system. In CO, it is a "point" system: gang-affiliation?, x number of points. Sex offender? x more points. Drugs invovlved? X more points, Violent crime? X more points. Any diseases? Pysch profile? a numerical rating. Taken together, these points add up to a custody level which will dictate the type and location of incarceration.
Custody levels range from I (no fences around facility) to V (23 hour lockdown). Levels three and four are usually the watchyerass prisons the public hears about. I work in a level 3 facility with occasional forays into the "minimum" center also on-site rated at a high "2"--none of them are nice places. You do not want to be sent to prison. County jail it is not.
I'm not sure what you meant by what the public believes but I can tell you that everything that happens on the street happens there. Rape, murder, violence, drug use, theft, intimidation, aggression, suicide--it all happens inside the walls. It is survival of the fittest in one of its purer forms.
h
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Originally posted by Horn:
Rape, murder, violence, drug use, theft, intimidation, aggression, suicide--it all happens inside the walls.
I'm sure those things are happening in prison, but how often on a daily basis? Murder? Probably not as often as on the outside per capita. Suicide? Also probably not as often as the outside. The other stuff is just part of society whether it's in prison or on the outside. From conversations with people that have never been to prison, the majority think that as soon as someone goes to prison, they get mugged and raped. I'm sure there are plenty of "willing" people in there that will accomodate your sexual needs without having to rape them.
;)
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Originally posted by 2stony
Originally posted by Horn:
I'm sure those things are happening in prison, but how often on a daily basis? Murder? Probably not as often as on the outside per capita. Suicide? Also probably not as often as the outside. The other stuff is just part of society whether it's in prison or on the outside. From conversations with people that have never been to prison, the majority think that as soon as someone goes to prison, they get mugged and raped. I'm sure there are plenty of "willing" people in there that will accomodate your sexual needs without having to rape them.
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With about the same regularity, per capita, as in the general population. Sorry to burst your bubble but it really happens that way. If you are the least bit punk when you get in, you are fair game for predators who are looking for some virgin b*tch.
Mugging is less common as you have nothing. However, they will take your food and many fights stem from noobs trying to defend it.
It has been my experience that the "majority" you are quoting are correct --when referring to the higher classification incarceration areas.
I'm sure there are plenty of "willing" people in there that will accomodate your sexual needs without having to rape them.
No. These folks are mostly "taken"
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As the initial thread topic boomerangs and then goes ballistic, rock on, but I gotta just ask because I kinda knew this question going it. A few guys here don’t actually work, are retired, successful enough to just pick up checks, or maybe just work from home. Maybe it’s a whole new thread, but at 37, I could not imagine NOT going to work. Could you?
As much as a pain in the bellybutton it is to get up on your Monday after a fun weekend off and go into work, it still reminds me of High School. We are all basically the same age, make the same, and therefore it’s a 5 times a week excuse to hang out and bull****, make plans for the weekend, rant, *****, laugh, joke, and gossip like old ladies in a coffee shop with 5 or 10 good dudes. I have at times more fun goofing on each other at work or fixing something I felt good about, than a day at home off dicking with a computer. Somewhere in those 40 hours, you also do stuff that makes a difference and the weekend twice as relevant and appropriate to you letting go when you get outta there. Now when I'm 65? Ok. Load the Nascar tour RV, but now it just seems no good.
That’s why I don’t play the lottery. I’d be dead in a year if I won. Pry why I have to punch a clock, as I have no vision to succeed, or the intellect that would provide me with enough success to sit at home comfortably, and not go completely insane.
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Then the Colorado system must be one bad arse place. Try walking on the other side and see if your statistics come out the same as you quoted. I'm betting they don't.
At least you can say your job isn't boring.
~>->o
;)
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Originally posted by Creamo
As the initial thread topic boomerangs and then goes ballistic, rock on, but I gotta just ask because I kinda knew this question going it. A few guys here don’t actually work, are retired, successful enough to just pick up checks, or maybe just work from home. Maybe it’s a whole new thread, but at 37, I could not imagine NOT going to work. Could you?
As much as a pain in the bellybutton it is to get up on your Monday after a fun weekend off and go into work, it still reminds me of High School. We are all basically the same age, make the same, and therefore it’s a 5 times a week excuse to hang out and bull****, make plans for the weekend, rant, *****, laugh, joke, and gossip like old ladies in a coffee shop with 5 or 10 good dudes. I have at times more fun goofing on each other at work or fixing something I felt good about, than a day at home off dicking with a computer. Somewhere in those 40 hours, you also do stuff that makes a difference and the weekend twice as relevant and appropriate to you letting go when you get outta there. Now when I'm 65? Ok. Load the Nascar tour RV, but now it just seems no good.
That’s why I don’t play the lottery. I’d be dead in a year if I won. Pry why I have to punch a clock, as I have no vision to succeed, or the intellect that would provide me with enough success to sit at home comfortably, and not go completely insane.
I have a great job, but I'm the kind of guy that would never be bored if I never had to work again. I have too many interests and hobbies.
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I used to think exactly like you Creamo. Like if I won the lottery, I'd stay. But now, no... I'd quit in a second. If you can't find meaningful things to do with nothing but the time and the money to do just about anything, then there's a lack of imagination happening.
But who knows... I've already changed my mind about it once.
Funny you say this now.... A guy at work today introduced me to his client... Turns out he made out like a bandit when cell phones were just hitting the market. He sold, and lasted 2 years without working. His biggest complaint was that it was useless to have all this free time when all yer buds are working.
He's now back to workin' his arse off.
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work does not define me and work does not make me feel like I am doing something important.
If I had no need for an income, I'd never work again and would never be bored .
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Paul McCartney said something interesting in a book I read about the Beatles.
The Beatles broke up and Paul McCartney was still only 27 years old. He basically said: you think when you are totally rich, you might think you would take cruises and see the world.....do whatever you want.....but then you realise it's just passing time and you feel the need to do something and work.
I paraphrased what he said, but I guess that's what some people would identify with.
Not me.....I'd never work again......unless I had a job like Paul McCartney :)
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Originally posted by NUKE
If I had no need for an income, I'd never work again and would never be bored .
I don't know everyone on this BBS personally, but I believe you. Tenfold.
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why is that creamo?
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Originally posted by NUKE
why is that creamo?
the sheep
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I retiredc the first time at 40. It was a bit involuntary as it involved becoming slightly disabled but more than enough to end my career. I had enough to live comfortably on and all the bills were paid with some "play" money left over.
I thought it would be great to forget about going to work, get up when I wanted, play on the computer all day, etc. That lasted about 4 weeks. By 6 weeks I was climbing the freaking walls. I went back and hit up the HR office and asked about secoondary career training since my first was no longer feasable.
After about another month I was back in school going for a MA in ED and teaching cert. for my state. It really got to me that school was now fun and easier than it was when I was 18 - 21. After 3 years teaching I told myself, Self you STUPID idiot get outa there!!!! I then went to work directing a non profit education incentive organization basedon aviation. It was cool for 2 years then the boss got to be real hard to take. You can tell a fighter pilot, you just can't make him believe it.
I "pulled the pin" on the Army Reserves in 2000 and retired when the Wife had her reconstructive surgery from cancer. She needed me home more than the Army needed me and I couldn't have a second "bad" year in the Reserves.
I went back to school and got my A&P. School is still fun and easy but the some of the recent HS grad "kids" in the class with me were a bit hard to take. I already had working experiance and my own bird but they "knew it all". :rolleyes:
I worked in GA until I retired again when the wife retired last June. Now I am enjoying not working and can deal with it. I have plenty to do to keep occupied and there is a big country to explore. Best of all every night I sleep in my own bed no matter where I am. :D
Retiring to a porch and rocking chair is a death sentence that is being carried out slowly and with malice. Don't do that, do something that makes it worthwhile to get up in the morning.
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why is that creamo?
Maybe because you come off as someone that would say 'work does not define me and work does not make me feel like I am doing something important'.
That, and you never impress me on the BBS with your posts, and I always thought your were from like Norway and 21 years old drinking 9% beer when you post. Turns out it was some other guy I mixed you up with. You are like 40, and American?
Thank God I can now fire you from our new super duper O'Club AH squad.
Captain Funkypants, before the gusty westerly winds unrelentingly chop up the English Channel, causing ten-foot high waves to crash even more forcibly on the bow of the HMS Indefatigable, throw this retard Nuke off the frigate.
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some of my work, I have done work for over 200 publication in 6 years.
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Originally posted by Creamo
why is that creamo?
I always thought your were from like Norway and 21 years old drinking 9% beer when you post. Turns out it was some other guy I mixed you up with. You are like 40, and American?
You must be a retard if you could not figure out that I'm American by my posts.
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See?
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yeah, great point creamo.
You are not worth anymore of my time.....you are too stupid and angry.
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And this is the kinder gentler Creamo. You should have seen him before he got married. He bent the crap out of my wookie. :(
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Originally posted by Creamo
Last night I checked an overnight 757. The big check is tires and brakes for wear, and impossibly they were within limits. Yaaaah for me.
Then changed a coffee maker in the fwd galley that wouldn't brew, tried to repair a tray table but had no parts in stock, then pulled 3 chip detectors off the #2 engine, which resulted in no obvious engine failure type metal peices.
Then I was supposed to change a line on the APU surge valve that was chafing, but that part wasn't AOG'd. More yaaaaah for me stuff. Then locked out the auto carpet in the aft cargo bay because it had a 3 foot tear in it.
Finally, we had to play rampers and push out the jet, so some retard mech could get 757 taxi training. Pulling the jet bridge, I found out it's limit switch was broke, and it would punch a hole in the aircraft if you were not careful. Terrific.
After all that, a Captain called us out for the first departure, and said his emergency lights on the P61 panel didn't work. We put in new bulbs. As much as I like to goof on Toad, it's always fun to talk to these guys.
sounds like Creamo is a grunt worker ant. :rofl
I'd be miserable if I was creamo.......can't blame him.
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I'm just a intellectual young midshipman who entered Her Majesty's Navy as a bullied recruit but quickly rised through the ranks to take command of my first ship and became a hero of the seas, and the C/O of the AH "O'Club Squad" Cpt. Funkypants.
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Originally posted by Creamo
I'm just a intellectual young midshipman who entered Her Majesty's Navy as a bullied recruit but quickly rised through the ranks to take command of my first ship and became a hero of the seas, and the C/O of the AH "O'Club Squad" Cpt. Funkypants.
Can't even make a proper sentence, wtg.
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Originally posted by NUKE
You must be a retard if you could not figure out that I'm American by my posts.
And Voss shot down two Mig's and was bitten by a scorpion. :rofl
You fibber, you.
Karaya
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I... think... he's actually trying...!
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2315hrs, walk over to shower tent and take care of the three S's.
Walk back to "home" tent, dress up in nifty uniform and body armor for walk over to the work center..
Spend the next 12-14hrs doing what I do, thankful for good internet conx during lull's.
Sometime after 1200hrs, granted there are no details scheduled, head back to "home" tent, change, and think about hitting the "Gym" tent, or read a book, or break out the laptop for a game or two of Ghost Recon, or maybe just crash.
Rinse and repeat.
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I'm a contractor, Analyst/Dev currently working for the EC
07:00 wake up (sort of)
07:30 wake up again, crawl to the coffee machine, shower, etc...
08:30 out of the house, get into traffic jam
09:30 Get in the office, pour double expresso...check emails/voicemails
I then 1st check if the applications we wrote are up & working, see if there are no errors in the logs.
The rest of the day is usualy a mix (depends at what point of the project we are)
-I either write the documentations of the applications we will be building (blech)
-I code the app (less than I would like)
-Scream on the DBA because he forgot a field :angry:
-I attend various meetings, some of them are interesting, some are less...to those I manage to sit next to a nice secretary if i can ;)
-more meetings
I get to leave around 18ish... run to the pub or home, depends of the day :)
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Originally posted by Creamo
why is that creamo?
That, and you never impress me on the BBS with your posts, and I always thought your were from like Norway and 21 years old drinking 9% beer when you post. Turns out it was some other guy I mixed you up with. You are like 40, and American?
oh oooHHoooHoHoooOOO wOOt!! :confused: :lol
huh?
thx
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Originally posted by Creamo
As the initial thread topic boomerangs and then goes ballistic, rock on, but I gotta just ask because I kinda knew this question going it. A few guys here don’t actually work, are retired, successful enough to just pick up checks, or maybe just work from home. Maybe it’s a whole new thread, but at 37, I could not imagine NOT going to work. Could you?
As much as a pain in the bellybutton it is to get up on your Monday after a fun weekend off and go into work, it still reminds me of High School. We are all basically the same age, make the same, and therefore it’s a 5 times a week excuse to hang out and bull****, make plans for the weekend, rant, *****, laugh, joke, and gossip like old ladies in a coffee shop with 5 or 10 good dudes. I have at times more fun goofing on each other at work or fixing something I felt good about, than a day at home off dicking with a computer. Somewhere in those 40 hours, you also do stuff that makes a difference and the weekend twice as relevant and appropriate to you letting go when you get outta there. Now when I'm 65? Ok. Load the Nascar tour RV, but now it just seems no good.
That’s why I don’t play the lottery. I’d be dead in a year if I won. Pry why I have to punch a clock, as I have no vision to succeed, or the intellect that would provide me with enough success to sit at home comfortably, and not go completely insane.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Work is necessary, in my case if work didn't exist I would have to create it. However work is much more fun when you;
1. enjoy what you do
2. enjoy the company of your work mates
Work is best when you don't need to work but choose to work.
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Creamo, try your hand at art, painting, drawing etc if you're so inclined. You may be surprized what you can do. And it's never too late to start. Many successful artists started after retirement from regular jobs. One thing about it, you'll never be bored and may even have some success. Good luck!!!
Les
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Creamo almost took Superfly's and Natedog's jobs once. Anybody save those images?
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Originally posted by 2stony
Then the Colorado system must be one bad arse place. Try walking on the other side and see if your statistics come out the same as you quoted. I'm betting they don't.
At least you can say your job isn't boring.
~>->o
;)
CO is bad. Texas is worse. Illinois is right up there.
I don't know what you mean by "walking on the other side"--here's another frightening, relatively unknown statistic: over 80% of the prison population has one variety or the other of hepatitis. Groovy, eh?
....and no, I'm never bored. Potential danger has a way of keeping your head on a swivel.
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Originally posted by Saintaw
I get to leave around 18ish... run to the pub or home, depends of the day :)
Damm it .. first time i read your post i saw...
I get laid around 18ish .....
SAWITO !! :D
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Sorry mate, I'm not interested in knowing about your sex life ;)
I'll be late this morning, that's for sure... but it's ok, I saw my boss in a bar last night (Lululand is VERY small) he was more pissed than I was :D
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Originally posted by Octavius
I BS with the Creamos...
What's a Creamo?