The I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Snow and Now I Want Cocoa Complaint Thread
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I wouldn't mind making you dinner or folding your laundry. Wait, I don't know how to cook. lol Take care. Sounds like you had a really long day today.
vikings s1 ended ridiculous. family betrayal plot tired old hack. grrr
**crickets**
tucks everyone in for the night shh
My day was okay, pleasantly warm until it will not be, soon. Nice sunny skies until they cloud over, also soon. Body not too bad, just retaining a bit of extra fluid weight, was told to watch for that one. Doc visit for that, soon. The pain will come again with the cold and wet, soon. Found a folder on my Main Backup drive in plain view that holds 100% of my not installed Rendo stuff, all my Rendo stuff really. I've been hunting it in much deeper folders for some reason. Will install all that stuff, soon. Have a cool idea for a render. Will not bother with that until my evening meds kick in, soon.
Hmm... after reading that again it seems soon is mostly bad. Think I might wonder off and do some stuff now before soon catches up with me.
feel like a wiz?
With your back all the way down there, how do you manage to walk?
*mental image of a Franklet with non-articulated legs* (`.`)>... ;-)
Thanks for spoiling it!
Dana
...well I'm 60 already. For me climbing the corporate ladder is a younger man's/woman's game.
What employable skills I have are even somewhat compromised by my arthritis. As I mentioned on my other thread last week. I took a skills speed evaluation for one position and pretty much flubbed it. I'm down to 1/3 the 10-key rate most data entry jobs demand, while my typing speed has dropped significantly from about 55 wpm to between 30 - 35 (and that is something I keep up with everyday). My "by touch" ability is gone thanks to how messed up my right hand has become ( I can usually use only one finger on the right hand when typing).
I don't see myself fitting into the business management/executive world as I don't have that aggressive cutthroat nature required to survive and advance in it. Having to acquire that quality and live with myself being that type of person is the kind of angst I really don't need in my life, especially at this stage. Personally I don't care for that kind of lifestyle as I tend to appreciate the simpler things in life. Going to the corner pub to talk sports or music with my mates while enjoying a couple pints on a Friday evening is more important to me than "keeping up "appearances" on the golf course or at fancy overpriced clubs and discussing the latest buzz from Wall Street.
...just not in my ...ahh..."idiom".
I personally don't buy all the emphasis on "upward mobility" anyway. Just because someone is content in their position and shows no interest in becoming "the boss" doesn't mean they have no goals or ambition. Maybe this person sees success as being something different than a promotion. Maybe to them always being at work on time, rarely being absent, applying themselves 100% to the task at hand, and making sure what they do is their very best everyday is enough.
For myself, it's all "off the clock" pursuits like putting on a "killer" sport kite performance at the nationals that makes the audience's and judges collective jaws drop. returning to Europe to hear the great organs that are centuries old as well as walk in the places were my favourite composers spent their lives, and of course, to finish my little Leela's story. Those are goals that mean a lot more to me.
As to home ownership never made enough to consider it, so don't know the feeling.
Gee, I never played golf with the boss or went to high end nightclubs or discussed Wall Street. Yet for the first few years (until mergers caused a cut on all raises) I was getting 9%, 10% and 11% raises to my salary. Plus I got a huge bonus as leader of my team on the Y2K Readiness project. It isn't always like you portray, you just have to find a good company. I was never the brown-nosed type, either.
But if you don't have that kind of ambitions, so be it. However, I don't think you'll get to tour Europe's antique organs on a minimum wage job. I understand the simple life ideal. I don't live extravagantly. Even when I was making really good money, I didn't drive a Lexus or eat at $100/meal restaurants. (well, maybe once or twice) We vacationed where we could drive inside a day. I just lived in apartments and projects growing up and in the one apartment from the day we got married until we bought this house. We got married in 1974...we bought the house in 2001.
By the way you describe your situation, I really think you should start to try for SS Disability. You seem to have painted yourself into a corner as far as job possibilities. You won't do some things, you can't do others. It doesn't seem like you have much choice, especially in such a limited area, with even more limited public transportation options. And with all the pain, you sure seem to be a candidate for disability retirement.
I wish you the best in your quest.
Dana
Oh yay, swirly magic looks great :)
Isn't that Zeno's paradox, the more you think about soon the less likely it is to arrive? :lol:
Thanks for spoiling it!
Dana
Can recommend Two Headed Shark Attack on the syfy channel :lol:
Dignity of work you do well provides its own reward I reckon :)
...apologies, did not intend those comments to reflect on your position. Computer tech based occupations tend to generally pay fairly well compared to most other positions. However that is an area I have zero skill and training in, or aptitude for.
I was simply mentioning that the area where my background and experience leads is pretty much business administration, something I have little interest in. I always hated being placed in a supervisory or management role as it always ended up taking over my entire life whether on or off the clock.
I feel I paid my dues of long hours, no weekends, not able to take vacation time I earned (and losing it), and having to come into work so sick at times I almost should have been in the hospital. In my last position, I was directly answerable to the firm's founder and CEO who ran the company as if it were a military unit. That is a million pound drekhammer of stress. Five times the pay wouldn't get me to go back to that kind of situation again.
Surprisingly on what I earned (which was only about 2.50$ above the state's minimum wage), I was able to put money away for things, like building my workstation and vacationing at Long Beach WA every August for the week long International kite festival (basically the only chance I really had to relax all year).
SSD will not be of much help in the interim as it is such a long drawn out process that will wind up costing me even more in the end for attorney's fees (for benefits I paid into all these years that I rightfully should receive). I still need to find something to get by on now. Something that doesn't leave me a physical or emotional wreck every night.
Dignity of work you do well provides its own reward I reckon :)
...yes it does, and it goes a long way to what I consider being job satisfaction.
I'm lucky I'm working when so many aren't \m/
Um speaking of work I might be absent for a couple of days, I'll be back :)
i guess i shouldn't complain how boring my dayjob is, beats flipping burgers or shaking fries baskets - hmm, wonder if is free food for working theres
Can recommend Two Headed Shark Attack on the syfy channel :lol:
woulda been a spoiler if they'd done the opposite.
poor lil goats.
hamlet is one of the 7 plots
i guess i shouldn't complain how boring my dayjob is, beats flipping burgers or shaking fries baskets - hmm, wonder if is free food for working theres
No you don't get free food. You get an employee discount which is like 10%-20%
well thats not much incentive. the outfits they wear aren't exactly fashionable :lol:
i have to go out in the cold with my granny cart to buy food. the cubbards are bare. woes. feels like 22F out there.
...unemployment bad there as well?
...unemployment bad there as well?
It's around 11% here. Like I said before, its more than that just the people aren't being counted that aren't collecting. They aren't a part of the government figures
...and you have to usually pay for them on your own.
Fast food is a total racket of a business. For example that ice loaded drink costs them almost nothing for the cup and ingredients. They pay their employees as little as they can get away with, charge them for their food on lunch break (I do remember when you didn't have to pay), and today often hire a lot of part time workers so as not to have to provide benefits. They also often use the lowest grade of meats and ingredients allowed. Don't even ask about how things like chicken tenders and nuggets are made, you won't want to eat for the rest of the day.
It's around 11% here. Like I said before, its more than that just the people aren't being counted that aren't collecting. They aren't a part of the government figures
...here in Oregon, the "real" rate is somewhere between 14% - 15%.
Two of the three big corporations based here outsource all their assembly and manufacturing overseas and the third one is in the midst of yet another round of layoffs locally.
It's around 11% here. Like I said before, its more than that just the people aren't being counted that aren't collecting. They aren't a part of the government figures
...here in Oregon, the "real" rate is somewhere between 14% - 15%.
Two of the three big corporations based here outsource all their assembly and manufacturing overseas and the third one is in the midst of yet another round of layoffs locally.
and on top of that is a general descrimination against the unemployed. some places descriminate on your credit rating.
Yes that has become increasingly true. They want to run a credit check on you to see if your in dire enough to steal from them.
morale crisis needs coconut cream pie.
i forgot to buy liquigels again, but haz pie and wine to get by t'nite :)
Oh, yeah. Let's not give this guy a job...he needs one! :blank:
Dana