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Ronwayne posted:Just a side note, if you go electrician, avoid those underarmor/ polymer shirts, cotton only. I can confirm that as the guy in the ambulance who took one of those folks to the hospital. Any fire can do it -- anything hot enough to melt it. Silk is safe, too, and makes a good underlayer. Not terribly durable though. raton fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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I changed careers in late 2007 after realizing that finance is total bullshit, and again in 2014 because I'd moved countries, it took a while to get my residency and be able to work, and because my last career was in TV broadcasting and there isn't much of that going on in my current town. I would like to get back into TV or theatre sometime but in the meantime I'm pretty happy saving animals. Every different job I've done I've learned some interesting things. I don't ever want to go back to corporate work though, office life was not for me and it did nothing good for my body, being sat down all day and wearing heels. I know dudes don't have to wear heels in corporate work, but that requirement permanently changed the shape of my feet and caused long lasting issues with them.
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Jul 31, 2015 03:58
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Sheep-Goats posted:I can confirm that as the guy in the ambulance who took one of those folks to the hospital. Any fire can do it -- anything hot enough to melt it. After working construction I got a job selling insurance to construction workers. Oh my loving god, roofing. I don't think the phrase used on the report "Full skeletonization of the arm" adequately covered it.
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Jul 31, 2015 04:06
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Shithouse Dave posted:I changed careers in late 2007 after realizing that finance is total bullshit, and again in 2014 because I'd moved countries, it took a while to get my residency and be able to work, and because my last career was in TV broadcasting and there isn't much of that going on in my current town. heels eh.... keep going.....
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Jul 31, 2015 07:41
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do you actually have to wear heels i don't think they can force you that sounds like not a good thing imo sounds like a good legal case anyway i'm gonna be an aircraft avionics engineer next year i hope it's gonna be friggin cool as heck! when you are licensed you get a six figure salary and also get to be around super awesome planes and stuff and travel around heaps it's super neat!
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Jul 31, 2015 09:04
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Goonbatte.
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Jul 31, 2015 09:10
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krampster2 posted:do you actually have to wear heels i don't think they can force you that sounds like not a good thing imo sounds like a good legal case sounds like one of those things where you don't play the game you're passed up for advancement and are just bitch erica from accounting look at what she's wearing today ugh
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Jul 31, 2015 09:31
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take up full time bugchasing
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Jul 31, 2015 09:31
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oh i know! you should be a music teacher op and teach all the kids about the good tunes 
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Jul 31, 2015 09:43
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Ronwayne posted:After working construction I got a job selling insurance to construction workers. Oh my loving god, roofing. I don't think the phrase used on the report "Full skeletonization of the arm" adequately covered it. Roofing is one of the worst jobs and if it were 200 years ago or 200 years in the future there would be no freemen doing it.
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Jul 31, 2015 09:48
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why don't you work with trains?? you could be a conductor or, even better, get to set all the schedules
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Jul 31, 2015 09:50
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i always thought htat in another life i would be an awesome cop and would definitely solve a lot of crimes, however i was born to rich to pursue that kind of occupation
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Jul 31, 2015 09:50
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i want to start a plumbing apprenticeship while i'm in school to teach so i can have two practical, career choices available. plumbing sounds hell of chill
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Jul 31, 2015 09:54
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i will probably just die
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Jul 31, 2015 09:59
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krampster2 posted:anyway i'm gonna be an aircraft avionics engineer next year i hope it's gonna be friggin cool as heck! when you are licensed you get a six figure salary and also get to be around super awesome planes and stuff and travel around heaps it's super neat! Is it really that much travel? Seems like a lot of office work interspersed with customer visits or short stints living on a ship while testing in rough conditions. You may be involved with cutting edge pilot assistance systems and autonomous murder machines, so there's that at least.
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Jul 31, 2015 10:04
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Palicgofueniczekt posted:Is it really that much travel? Seems like a lot of office work interspersed with customer visits or short stints living on a ship while testing in rough conditions. it depends which sector of aviation you work in if it's general aviation there's definitely some travel you have to do out to smaller places but also if you work in a big company you might get sent to an overseas place if they have to same licensing systems like our system in australia is compatible with new zealand and canada's systems and sorta with europe's
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Jul 31, 2015 10:11
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Ah, so you get like a uni degree AND something like an FAA A&P license. If you are going to stick with it a while, companies that offer expat opportunities are where it's at.
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Jul 31, 2015 10:34
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At the ripe age of 32 I still have no career path and have been loving around in security work for the past 5 years, the pay is good and the shift pattern rules but the job is poo poo so my plan is to keep it up until I can buy my flat then do something I enjoy possibly even going back to college to learn a trade. I'm one of those fuckers that has a useless art degree.
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Jul 31, 2015 11:39
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cams posted:i want to start a plumbing apprenticeship while i'm in school to teach so i can have two practical, career choices available. I never heard anyone say that plumbing is chill. Most people are forced to retire because of back problems in their early 40s. Many consider it to be the most hellish trade of them all.
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Jul 31, 2015 11:55
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I'm gonna guess that if your 'Career' was a priority in your 20s you were either a bookish nerdlord or some sort of business suit sociopath
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Jul 31, 2015 11:57
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In a short stint selling industrial pumps I met a guy named Wolf who specialised in septic tank clearing. He was barely literate but had made millions. He told me about one job where the 3 decade old airport's poo poo tank was completely full and needed to be emptied, but his quote was double the second highest who were a generic large scale plumber, so he didn't get the contract. The guy who did get it tried to clear it by throwing this massive Gorman Rupp pump in, but a crust of poo poo had formed on the surface and the pump just landed on top. So the guy climbed down the ladder on the side wall, and tried kicking the pump through the crust. After several minutes of trying, he moved on to a two footed approach while clinging to the ladder. The crust did give way, the plumber lost his grip on the ladder and he went into the hole with the pump. His assistant on the ground managed to rescue him, but only after being submerged in 30 years of sewage for more than a minute. Wolf got the contract that afternoon. TL;DR become a septic tank technician
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Jul 31, 2015 12:09
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Something outdoors that makes a lot of money like petroleum engineering.
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