Is your job boring?

[Kern Dog]

"Is your job boring?"

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

Come on, man......

 

[RemCharger]

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Come on, man......

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I'm just scraping the surface!

 

[DeltaV]

There’s a propaganda element to that film too showing the first character always glum.

The first character should be a voice-over actor for Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh.

 

[dadsbee]

Boring, never. Aggravating at times you bet. Best thing I ever did was walk out of my Plastics Plant after 20 years in 2005 and went to airplanes full time. That has never been boring and no matter which business it's been, my Wife has always been there to keep me sane and not hit trees! LOL

Best helper ever..

She listens to their stories, so I can get the work done.. LOL

How many Wives will ride the trailer through a make shift road to recover an airplane?

TREE!

 

[DeltaV]

 

[j-c-c-62]

I have been in the concert business for 52 years. In Jr High I walked by the shop class every day and always peeked in the window. The teacher often had his shop students work on his race sports car in class. The teacher was on the Chapparral team that won Sebring 12hrs in 1965.
I pleaded with my parents and school advisors to let me take shop class. They said NO, colleges ignore shop class credits.
So I went to Georgia Tech for Mechanical Engineering. Built and raced go karts at the Annual on campus Tech 200. They were in some ways the early beginnings of the now nationally College contested SAE competition. Attended a number of concerts at Tech, Chicago, Grand Funk, etc found that industry rather fascinating. I have no special fondness for music, but the rush of the raw energy from the interaction of the band and the audience when they take the stage is rather addicting, knowing all your efforts behind the scenes made it technically possible. I left Tech started my own production company, designed, innovated, built a full machine/wood shop and built most my own equipment in every facet of the industry, was always my own boss, played by my rules, traveled 37 countries, 47 states, made more money at the shows than everyone except the bands and sometimes the promoters, I have only paid to attend 3 concerts in my life, and have worked many thousands, never had two days alike, and retired with a very positive solid reputation and my integrity intact and probably have the best safety record of anybody in the industry. I likely have been very lucky and blessed. I have never been bored. Now being retired I have more projects than ever, and no concern if I finish any of them. Life is too short to worry about that.
Any secret I had, I was never afraid of failure as much as I worked to avoid it, and perseverance usually pays off, but changing direction always has to be an option.

PS, I need to add, any success I achieved was with many others right alongside me busting their butts for a shared dream, and I can never thank them enough

 

[mmissile]

What is this job thing, you speak of? Been 25 years since I had such a thing.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Never.

Pre-show, post-sound check break:

Randy Travis - amazing show. Unbelievable story. What a guy.

Mets pyro

Mets pyro, ready to set up

Local band, cool venue

My 80s band, an annual event at Deep Creek Lake Yacht Club

Great White/Slaughter

Start Making Sense - an amazing Talking Heads tribute band

My 80s band again, playing an over-capacity house (don't tell the fire marshal!). We play Ocean City MD Sunfest this coming Saturday...

Never the same day twice. And the people-watching.....wow....

 

[#41]

No it was not. That's why I retired early!

 

[kiwigtx]

I've been a Stripper for the past few weeks..... not a bad gig, and it pays well.

.....as long as the price of scrap copper stays up, I'll keep doing it.



My bud Nathan says I should hook up a VSD with a foot pedal and a three-phase motor .....for those real long teaser strips.

 

[padam]

Here’s a “reframe” from Scott Adams, Dilbert creator and the author of books including “Reframe Your Brain.”

If you’re bored, the problem isn’t boredom. The problem is that you’re not embarrassing yourself enough. Do something you would not normally do, like public speaking, or something your not sure you can do.

 

[j-c-c-62]

My job was often quite fun.

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I miss it almost every day lately.

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

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

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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.

Those are impressive builds. Done by a craftsman with skills.

 

[gtx6970]

My job, ' if thats what you want to call it ' today is MAYBE 2 days a week , sometime smore, sometimes less

Restoring a local 1972 Ford F100

Worked on it all day yesterday, and back at it today ( damn slave driving boss )

Later tthis week I'll be doing the heater box , but thats here at the house

 

[Unkle Krusty]

I was self employed from age 40 to 72, and now retired, but working on more stiff than I ever dreamed about. That includes my 77 Dodge camper van.
But every few days I ride my SV1000 around my Island. 50 corners from my place to the coffee shop at the other end. That is not boring. Driving a new cage everywhere is boring. Unless you stop at a sleazy pub.
Even riding my winter bike an 83 XS400 is exciting enough, or Lily my KE100 Kawasaki 2 stroke. But Lily only likes sunny days.

 

[copper67sat]

Coming up on 38 yrs as an Aerospace Engineer working propulsion development for DoD/NASA customers. There are moments where the work gets tedious but it is rarely boring. Stress has become a bigger problem as I have moved into leadership positions.

Developing new and evermore complex systems is HARD and predictive methods are not perfect. Expectations on cost, schedule, performance, etc. are often not well-aligned with reality. We used to have hardware-rich programs and would build it, bust it, fix it - trial by fire. Now everyone seems to expect it to work 100% on the 1st build and there's little tolerance for risk.

In the end though I have gotten to work on a lot of cool projects, many of which are our current or upcoming top-level systems from military fighter aircraft to space launch systems and tactical missiles so, no, I wouldn't say it's boring.

Here's a sampling of projects I have worked on

 

[Hemirunner]

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

I can relate. Things you can’t stand seem to be my entire day these days. I’m so fed up with the corporate retardation that rules large companies these days. When you let bean counters and HR run your business, you’re on a path to failure. My employer is on that path now. I have 38 years in. I’m gonna give it 3 more years and I’m gone…

 

[j-c-c-62]

Coming up on 38 yrs as an Aerospace Engineer working propulsion development for DoD/NASA customers. There are moments where the work gets tedious but it is rarely boring. Stress has become a bigger problem as I have moved into leadership positions.

Developing new and evermore complex systems is HARD and predictive methods are not perfect. Expectations on cost, schedule, performance, etc. are often not well-aligned with reality. We used to have hardware-rich programs and would build it, bust it, fix it - trial by fire. Now everyone seems to expect it to work 100% on the 1st build and there's little tolerance for risk.

In the end though I have gotten to work on a lot of cool projects, many of which are our current or upcoming top-level systems from military fighter aircraft to space launch systems and tactical missiles so, no, I wouldn't say it's boring.

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And your efforts help us and make the world a safer place.

Thank you.

 

[j-c-c-62]

padam said:
"My various jobs ........................

Things I still can’t stand?
Meetings......."

Three things about in the field meetings that usually quickly indicated to me that were a waste of my time:
a. No end of meeting revisit of what was accomplished at said "meeting"
b. They included government people
c. They were conveniently it seemed scheduled to end around 3PM, where it would be a "waste of time" to return to the office vs just go straight home.