Is your job boring?

[YY1]

I wish it had been boring at times, but it was always interesting. 55 years is enough in the plumbing & waterworks industry for me, 32 years with present company who has been great to me.
37 days till retirement and looking forward to traveling without deadlines, no schedules, and no more 60 hr work weeks.
I’ll no longer be Under Pressure.

I'll have 31 years in my "day job" at year's end and 20 years in our "second job".
In negotiations to work one more year IF I can have Fridays off.
After that, it will be nice to work only on our schedule, and only for us.
That property management gig is the best "second job" ever.
It's about 3 solid weeks a year, if you add it all up, but pays like a 30 hour a week "second" job.
Plus, what other second job gives you a piece of real estate when you are done with it?

 

[icetech]

Wow.

In my last job, where I interacted with people who had masters degrees and doctorates, some even in the education field, writing IT project documents and procedures...

...I'd have killed for an average reading comprehension level of "middle school".

I tried to write docs for my crew at the high school level and docs for "other stakeholders" at middle school level.

I was amazed by who didn't/couldn't understand and when some of those same people tried to accuse me of "writing over their heads".

Come on, folks....you have a masters/doctorate and I have a high school education.....

I'm not throwing terms out, I'm talking about procedures- I will do this, and you need to do that. That sort of thing.

Try to keep up.

Fair enough.. i deal with a lot of engineers and half the time they are much worse (due to no real world experience and just reading books).. I just find people frustrating a lot of the time now..

 

[YY1]

Fair enough.. i deal with a lot of engineers and half the time they are much worse (due to no real world experience and just reading books).. I just find people frustrating a lot of the time now..

Interesting you say that.

I worked with one degreed engineer and interfaced with several vendor engineers.

I found most of them to be extremely rigid in their beliefs and difficult to persuade/dissuade until actually proven...

...which was a fair amount of time spent at that job- proving engineers wrong.

...again, from a guy with a HS education.

 

[icetech]

Interesting you say that.

I worked with one degreed engineer and interfaced with several vendor engineers.

I found most of them to be extremely rigid in their beliefs and difficult to persuade/dissuade until actually proven...

...which was a fair amount of time spent at that job- proving engineers wrong.

...again, from a guy with a HS education.

haha yeah, i worked in a factory making heads for caterpillar when i was younger and i loathed the engineers.. all our machines were made in house and all their ideas to make things better just made stuff way worse.. every time

Now in my current job they come in and cause they googled something they know they are right, my 40+ years of experience means nothing

 

[YY1]

haha yeah, i worked in a factory making heads for caterpillar when i was younger and i loathed the engineers.. all our machines were made in house and all their ideas to make things better just made stuff way worse.. every time

Now in my current job they come in and cause they googled something they know they are right, my 40+ years of experience means nothing

I hear that, too.

I literally had to think up worst case scenarios and play them out for the employee engineer and his supervisor in order to keep things form being unnecessarily overly complex and difficult to work on and keep running.

 

[YY1]

"You realize you're adding 38 mouse clicks to this task that 148 people do almost every day and currently takes five clicks....in order to add a feature that saves you one click every month on "the back end".

 

[icetech]

"You realize you're adding 38 mouse clicks to this task that 148 people do almost every day and currently takes five clicks....in order to add a feature that saves you one click every month on "the back end".

I ran like 3 machines that would take the heads from first cut of surfacing and drill like 20 7/8" holes for head bolts at once (big *** national machine, thing was great) and then move them down a line into gun drills that did the long oil passages and would twist the drill bits half the time.. they were hollow with carbide tips and like 28" long and they would make changes that would jam up the whole line and never work right

 

[gtx6970]

I aint got no job no more

But when I did.
Boring it wasnt

I got to work on a lot of different stuff
From Airport Firetrucks, Sweeper trucks , Crack sealer machines all the way down to both gas and electric weed eaters

 

[icetech]

I aint got no job no more

But when I did.
Boring it wasnt

I got to work on a lot of different stuff
From Airport Firetrucks, Sweeper trucks , Crack sealer machines all the way down to both gas and electric weed eaters

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That's some cool stuff

 

[gtx6970]

That's some cool stuff

Thanks, It was fun and never boring at any time

Part of me misses it , albeit a Small part

 

[69conv]

I was at my job for 44 years (total) & when I took over the business from my dad in 1997, I was excited as it was a new challenge.

I am at my job for 53 years now. Took over from my Dad in 95. I was excited at the new challenge. Took the business from below average to all new heights.. I thrive on the opportunity to beat others at their own game. So far we have put 19 competitors out of business who tried to move into my back yard. But now my hands are sore at the end of the day and my eyes aren't what they used to be. My son has been there 16 years and although we don't see eye to eye on everything he is well equipped for the next leg. Looking at going down to 1-2 days a week after the first of the year. Wish me luck.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I am at my job for 53 years now. Took over from my Dad in 95. I was excited at the new challenge. Took the business from below average to all new heights.. I thrive on the opportunity to beat others at their own game. So far we have put 19 competitors out of business who tried to move into my back yard. But now my hands are sore at the end of the day and my eyes aren't what they used to be. My son has been there 16 years and although we don't see eye to eye on everything he is well equipped for the next leg. Looking at going down to 1-2 days a week after the first of the year. Wish me luck.

My dad & I also didn't see eye to eye & I really think that he thought the business would fail when I took over. I'm sure your dad had concerns when you took over from him. It's time for you to step back let junior spread his wings.

 

[Kern Dog]

My job was often quite fun.

I miss it almost every day lately.

Framing houses was a blast. It was hard work but I loved it.

The smell of fresh lumber, the sounds of saws spinning and music on the radio, the snap-snap-snap of the nail guns....

I am still in good shape and can still do the work, I just got tired of the long commutes and the type of work I was doing near the end. Commercial work wasn't as fun as residential construction.

 

[69conv]

You are right. My Dad didn't want to sell me the business but there was no one else interested. Paid off the 15 year land contract in 3 years.

 

[Rick@Laysons]

Been here at Layson's almost 20 years.......

Maybe......just maybe.......someday it will get boring.

 

[YY1]

Funny. My old job did go in the toilet after I got canned by new management for not having a degree.
That county government entity supported a workforce of 10,000 people.
Every now and then I run into someone that I helped support with IT.
To the person, every single one of them brings up the fact that IT at that organization SUCKS now, and started going that way right after I left.
They say things are too difficult, no one gives them any instructions that work, or are not missing steps, and that "they" (the IT department) are making it more and more increasingly difficult to contact/communicate with them.
The person that replaced me got a promotion for simply having a masters degree.
They didn't last 3 years.
I was in that job for 14.

That department recently dissolved their helpdesk phone contact.
Now you have to put in an electronic work order if you have a problem.
Even if that problem is that you can't access their electronic work order system!

I mean- that is literally one of the first IT jokes ever- "if your email doesn't work.....just send me an email".

 

[padam]

My various jobs have gotten boring over the years. But when it got boring I made it interesting by learning stuff or developing stuff, or moving on.
My current job is very interesting to me since I developed most of it, and there’s always something to improve.

Things I still can’t stand?
Meetings
Paper work
Trying to get other people to do their jobs

 

[Unkle Krusty]

I do not have time for a day job, but I did work full time for 52 years. I also have no motivation for a day job.
It is possible I will get most of my retirement jobs done this winter. The ticking sound in the mighty 318 is one of my winter chores.

 

[YY1]

What's even funnier is that I still occasionally have to deal with them at my job at a "stand alone" county entity.
...and my "internal" email doesn't work.
It's ben "reset" four times and still doesn't work.
If they would let me talk to them, I could point them in the right direction, but they won't.
I am 99% sure it's because when I was there, I was a "super" network admin in their system...
...and when I left, "someone" didn't know how to correctly handle that and put an "explicit deny" somewhere in my account.
Oh, well. Less work for me, and more frustration for them.

 

[RemCharger]

"Is your job boring?"

It was... until I finally got promoted to honing.