Lets Go To Work!

[AU24K]

Let's Go To Work!

Just wonderin'
what y'all do for a livin'....
Me? Guess you can say I'm a locksmith, a college student and an all around good guy!

How 'bout you?

How is your day spent?

Best to All,
Scott

 

[spartacus53]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

Until future notice my day is spent hijacking posts that I find interesting. Sorry if you posted this before you read my message AU, so all replies should be directed toward me going forward.

The real deal on me? To be revealed at a later point.

 

[AU24K]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

Until future notice my day is spent hijacking posts that I find interesting. Sorry if you posted this before you read my message AU, so all replies should be directed toward me going forward.

The real deal on me? To be revealed at a later point.

Sorry, Spartacus, no mystery here....

We all know that your day is spent as a Court Jester!

I'm through laughing...

So, for real, how do do spend your day?

Best,
Scott

 

[Smee]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

Depends on the day . . . today, chasing down deadbeats at their homes . . . yesterday, skiptracing and building computers . . . tomorrow, who knows.

This weekend, my side job . . . website design.

 

[spartacus53]

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After that, you deserve a truthful answer. Like many other Americans I am what you call in-between jobs.
Well not so much in-between as there are few to no jobs available in my area, so you can say my backs against the wall, waiting.

What I did do is quit a trucking company I built from a small one, to one that was able to successfully compete against the "big boys". Within 3 years I took a company and increased it's capacity by just over 5x when I joined. Having been told I was to be a partner kept me there to share in the profit, but my buddy sold the company and told the new owners it was all his doing.

I surely didn't have great timing when I decide to strike out on my own, but I will never regret leaving. They had plans to lay me off and maintain my business, without the proper compensation. I am in the process of building my clientele again and it will be a tough road, but then again I like a good challenge.

So for the most part you can say I am a sales consultant covering the efficiency of directing domestic and foreign cargoes.

And yes, I do have an attorney that will be filing suit against them :P

 

[BigDan]

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I am a grinding specialist for a large manufacturing corporation. Two years ago I wore a bone out which keeps my left thumb working. It was replaced with a tendon. Upon "healing" I was put through a two week evaluation to determine if I could do a certain, specific, job, then went back to work and put on the wrong job...where I used my left hand more than ever!

Something akin to tendinitis was the result...only where a bone should be, so things went really haywire. The result was permanent restrictions of no repetitive motion at all on the left hand of over two hours a day. The surgeon, my family doctor, and the company doctor all issued that restriction.

Now, I am on W.C. until they find a job for me, or I have some vocational rehab to get another job, or I take a crummy settlement and accept having no job.

They would express that the job I was placed on matched the criteria from the study. I would express that they don't know what they are talking about. You take your pick.

In the meantime, I should be happy to sit on my rear and collect pay...but I'm scared as heck and just want a job. And, if I can express a thought....DON'T ever believe getting hurt at work is in anyway a good thing. W.C. is not fun. The settlements are a joke. The lawyers take a huge chunk. About the only good thing I can say about it is that it is better than just getting tossed onto a pile of other injured workers as like what happens to carpenter ants.

 

[AU24K]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

COME ON!
Does nobody work for a living?
I've been employed in many occupations..
Is everybody so into Government handouts?
What do you do to put food on the table?

Scott

 

[paratrooper]

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Retired long haul truck driver .

 

[Mighty AP]

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OK, Im a welder, pipe fitter, fabricator extrordinaire. I repair & rebuild valves & pumps, I run heavy equipment including cranes & front end loaders. I pretty much do whatever needs to be done for my company, the last 3 days I disassembled & moved a huge 3 lane batting/pitching cage & just finished reassembling it for my CEO...........miles of netting. I hope I NEVER see another one of those again. Rumor has it that we will be getting major funding very soon & will be building 4 new units in a years time in California which means a year in a bad hotel, a year of bad food & worse TV. Ive been promised that I will be able to retire a wealthy man in about 3 years, thats what keeps me pluggin' away. I'll be a "full time detectorist" then!

 

[AU24K]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

I guess, what I'm tryin' to say is that Jesus is in charge; "not a sparrow goes hungry."
I wish I knew the correct verse...
Help me out Tee and Granny...
Scott

 

[AU24K]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

OK, Im a welder, pipe fitter, fabricator extrordinaire. I repair & rebuild valves & pumps, I run heavy equipment including cranes & front end loaders. I pretty much do whatever needs to be done for my company, the last 3 days I disassembled & moved a huge 3 lane batting/pitching cage & just finished reassembling it for my CEO...........miles of netting. I hope I NEVER see another one of those again. Rumor has it that we will be getting major funding very soon & will be building 4 new units in a years time in California which means a year in a bad hotel, a year of bad food & worse TV. Ive been promised that I will be able to retire a wealthy man in about 3 years, thats what keeps me pluggin' away. I'll be a "full time detectorist" then!

Anyone who uses the word, "Extraordinaire" is "OK" in my book!

Scott

 

[desertfox]

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Retired, US Army.

HH
Desertfox

 

[Dano Sverige]

Re: Let's Go To Work!

In the vein of Sparty - I'm an ex import/export logistical vehicular operative. (or trucker.)

 

[spartacus53]

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In the vein of Sparty - I'm an ex import/export logistical vehicular operative. (or trucker.)

So you were driving a Lorry around? In the 80's I was selling for an English company here in the states. I don't know if you ever heard of Box consolidators. I would have a blast when the owners would make a trip to the USA to visit the office and make some joint calls.

 

[Dano Sverige]

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Lol,yeah i know Box Con'..they still have a depot outside Manchester.

 

[spartacus53]

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Lol,yeah i know Box Con'..they still have a depot outside Manchester.

Correct, they were the only consolidator to offer London, Felixstowe and Manchester under one roof. They even helped a friend of mine by giving free shipping from the UK to our NJ warehouse. This poor girl went on vacation in France, bought 4 antique chairs and has trying to get them back to the states. Cargo was sitting in a warehouse by the Paris airport. I was able to arrange trucking from Paris to London, so that was all she ended up paying, instead of being hit with nearly $1,000 in transportation costs. It pays to know the business

 

[Dano Sverige]

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Hmm..one day you must tell me how she thanked you for that favour?

 

[naturegirl]

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Hmmm... here's what I've done this week to put food on the table. Get to work early before it gets too hot so I can do my outside chores. That consists of using a right angle grinder on hard hydracal molds, with my head wrapped up in protective cover, way to hot! Mixing, mixing, mixing, measuring and mixing thick, ooey-gooey silicone and then painting it on sculptures. smearing a stinky, noxious smelling silicone all over a 9ft man, and teaching my boss's new wife to do this. Then encasing said man in a plaster shell, and again teaching the boss's new wife that this can be fun as well as, yes, the messiest job in the place, And no, you don't have to be all clean and pretty when you need to run to the store real quick.(couldn't convince her of that). Sharpened some feathers, attatched wings, and sculpted a tongue on a great big chicken. Actually, it's the KU Jayhawk, my boss was commisioned to do a 5 ft bronze of thier mascot. He's done a great job, but is alittle behind schedule, so I get to help out. Consulted with an artist about her new project, we will be casting the maquet of her Duffy Martin, and then "claying up" the heroic sized one. (Yay! more fun than making molds). Spent much time lamenting the nature of artists, much time laughing with my co-workers, Spent good time talking with the owner of the place about what a great museum Woolaroc is, got to throw a bucket of water on a birthday boy, a tradition. AND then with the money I make, I get to buy food and have been having a blast learning to grill on my new propane grill. We have had wonderful feasts this summer, since I got this thing, trinidaian friccasse chicken, pinapples and platanos, baked beans, corn, ect. ect. So yes, I actually do put the food on the table

 

[mainer]

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Lobsterman born and raised.

 

[deepskyal]

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Pictures are worth a thousand words.

I work in the environmental field, cleaning hazardous waste, grease and oil from a steel mill, then process it so it can be safely disposed of. I work in tunnels that I have to crawl on my belly and at heights of over 130'. I work in temperatures at minus 10 degrees in the winter with a windchill hitting minus 30 along the river, to temperatures exceeding 120 degrees in the summer. I work next to and under molten steel and in clouds of dust that would choke an elephant.
I labor hard, get filthy and it's probably killing me.
And every once in a while, I take out my crossword puzzle book and say screw it all.

Al