Most people with a strong work ethic seem to always stay busy, it is amazing how few people actually do the majority of work and have to cover the less ambitious.
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Most people with a strong work ethic seem to always stay busy, it is amazing how few people actually do the majority of work and have to cover the less ambitious.
I don't work no more
but
I don't work no less.
I was at work yesterday, just not doing much actual work.I'll take a break now and then but avoid talking about guns and almost never log in here on a work computer. I have a job I still enjoy after 36 yrs but I've got a few more years to go. I prefer to stay focused; hanging out here, casting, loading or shooting is how I enjoy my time off. Working is how I keep a roof over my head and food on the table....and it pays for the fun stuff too!
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I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it. -Woodrow F. Call, Lonesome Dove
Some of my favorite recipes start out with a handful of depleted counterbalance devices.
My job requires me to sit right here in front of these computers for 12 hours a day. I am also required to be available at any time of the day or night to troubleshoot problems with the equipment. I live and work right on the rig location and only get away from the rig when they are casing a completed hole. With operating costs at $67 a MINUTE, they aren't real keen on the idea of waiting while someone tries find me to fix my stuff when there's a problem. As the senior field engineer in the rocky mountain region for my company, I'm also the guy who gets called in the middle of the night by panicked junior engineers on other rigs who need help figuring out how to make their stuff work. I sleep with my cellphone in my hand. (not a euphemism, I REALLY do) I've been doing it for 8 years now, and still love what I do. I've got 2 more years of this, then I am going to work on contract and only work during the winters.
I'll be a nice to you as you'll let me be, or as mean as you make me be.
Polite society started dying the day it was no longer necessary for rude men to physically defend themselves from the consquences of their actions or words.
During the great depression my late father was trying for work and obtained assisted passage to Canada.When he got there the situation was as bad as here in the UK as it was in the USA.He actualy rode the rails by jumping into railway box wagons from town to town only to find the legend on each factory No Work Available especially to foreigners.Hard times for those who later went to War.
Say don,t you remember they called me hal,it was Hal all the time,say don,t you remember I,m your pal,buddy can you spare a dime.
Work and farm , you will not see me too much after Mayish until August or so. Then I'll be working 7 days a week way too many hours. Average slow week about 50-60 hours a busy week 80-90.
My day starts at 03:30 and ends at 15:00. I post after work or at zero-dark hundred before heading to work. I won't get on this site at work as we are monitored.
I work construction. It's overtime or my time.
Lately it's more my time.
I'm just the welder, go ask him>
My last day of work after 36.5 years. I do have plenty to keep me busy though.
Yep, I. R. an Engineering Manager. Trouble is, all my engineers got laid off during the big down turn in 2008-2009 in automotive parts manufacturing. Aluminum die casting in volume. Now that business is on the upswing again, they decided to not hire back any engineers to help me out, so I am still doing it all myself. In addition, they laid off a few accounting folks, so I am doing that as well in addition to engineering work. Guess I have pretty good job security even during rough times in the economy, as the brass have always decided I was worth keeping, as they work me into an early grave.
100,000 BC: stone tools. 4,000 BC: the wheel. 900 AD: gunpowder — bit of a game changer, that one
Peter Weyland, 2023
Nothing to worry about, because for once, I have the proper tool at hand. Looking for a little heat?.......Any questions?
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Used to pull some 90+ hour weeks at the casino. Worst was 5 days no sleep during a massive construction project that was way behind deadline. We had 600 slot machines to install in 2 weeks with a crew of 5. As the casino grew so did the crew so 70 hours was about the worst right before I hurt both shoulders and my spine. That was redoing the slot machine communications room to make it easier for changes to be implemented. I could not have anything offline longer than a week without the state gaming board getting cranky and wanting an answer why the accounting system was only partially up. For the computer tech nerds the slot machine spoke RS232 to a converter board that output RS422. 10-16 slot machines were daisy chained and spoke to a data collection unit that translated comms BACK to RS232 then that went to the server that had a fiber connection to the accounting computer. Yes it was a nightmare...
School part-time, work part-time, at home taking care of wife and grandparents and the house the rest of the time. No rest for the weary, you know.
Lead Forever!
The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. -Ken Konecki, July 27, 1992
John Galt was here.
"Politics is the art of postponing an answer until it is no longer relevant". (From the movie 'Red Tails')
Full time retired since 29 March 2014. I'm just hear to learn since no one I know locally reloads cast bullets. I never knew how much I didn't know about reloading until I started reading here.
"Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." Mark Twain
Congrats on your retirement. 3-5-11 was my retirement date, just getting into a routine myself.Originally Posted by Groovy
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
“At the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat”--Theodore Roosevelt
My main job is as a Stay at home Dad. I get up at 6 to make breakfast for my wife and I. A bit later while the kids are eating their breakfast I will get on here in the morning for a few minutes and try and beat Brass Magnet out of some deals. Check my e-mails and answer customers questions about whether can I do a certain leather item or not. After taking them to school I sit here and do my leather work, holsters, belts, whatever. Around 3:00 after I pick up the kids from school I help them with their homework, do the dishes, maybe some other cleaning. Then off to either Karate lessons, or Piano, or singing lessons, depending on the day. After the wife gets home from her job at 6:00 I go out to the shop and either cast, size, or pack a few thousand bullets for customers. Maybe sneak in a personal job on one of my guns, or load for an upcoming Cowboy shoot that we all 4 do. Bout 9:30 or so I will come in and eat dinner, talk to my wife about the day. Check back in here to see what has happened during the day. I used to have a "real" job but now I am my own boss, so if something goes wrong I know exactly who to go to to complain! Right now I have a complaint with my bookkeeper(me) about why I have to pay so many taxes. Was easier when someone else did them for me. And we are almost out of boxes, have to get on the USPS site and order some more. And need to order some holster leather soon, getting low, and they have 3-4 week backlog so can't wait until I am out. Get to bed about 11 pm. Typical day. I am 58 this week, and my kids are 10 and 12, and I hope I can do this until I (hopefully) collect some Social Security, but doubt I will ever be able to not work at something. My 401k from my former jobs just isn't that big, and I still need to get my kids through college.
Due to an injury I was forced to stay home for a bit until I could rehab back. It was the greatest time of my life as "I got to grow up with my kids". Wouldn't have traded it for anything including the pain I am still in and my kids are now 22 & 20. Enjoy them while you can.
Springfield, could I ask who you buy leather from? Just getting into learning leather work and I know I can buy from Tandy but their prices tend to be a tad high...
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