So what do you do all day?  I'm always interested in the ins and outs of various jobs.  Is anybody willing to tell us all what you actually do on a day to day basis?

I'll go first.

I'm a secretary for the health and driver's ed departments of a school district.  I LOVE my job.  No day is ever the same and I do a variety of things all day long, so I am never bored.  I get to work at 8, and normally just check email.  Our voicemail system is also on email now, which is SOOO nice, so I can check those on email as well.  I also check our interdepartment mailbox in the office...just generally see what has happened in the district since I left the day before.  I do all kinds of different things on a monthly basis - Payroll for our teachers, balancing my bosses credit card statements, managing all of our different budgets.  And then there's just a million different things I do on a daily or weekly or just occasional basis - handing out all kinds of materials to teachers, scheduling meetings, conferences and workshops for teachers, typing letters, and talking to parents and past students about their classroom requirements - looking up past records - we have all of the records for every school in our district going back to 1966.  I talk to at least one parent and one past student every day. 

So that's it in a nutshell.  I'm happy where I am but unfortunately I am going to have to leave it soon because it's only a part time position with zero benefits.  :(  I just hope I can find something half as awesome!! 

I am the National Payroll Manager for a Mining Company. I manage 8 staff and ensure that the various payrolls for the Mining company and subsidiary companies run efficiently (and on time)...as well as ensure compliance with various legislative bodies (tax office, auditors etc).

Basically, I sit back...boss people around, listen to people whinge about not getting paid...and then I go home.  Oh...and I hope I help the same people to their jobs and resolve payment issues quickly. I always try to put myself in the callers shoes and give them a fair hearing. Nobody should have to beg for what is rightfully theirs.

I am either the most popular person or the biggest villain on any given day.  ;)  Sort of like here.... ::)

I'm currently a service clerk/bagger at Marsh Supermarket. Pretty much just a standard help customers, get carts and cleaning job.

My shifts vary abit, some are evenings, some mornings, some midday. Part of my days off tend to vary as well, although Mondays and Thursdays are usually my most common ones.

Somedays it's like I need to be in two places at once. :D

Job? What's that? Don't know the meaning of the word.

Ok, ok. I retired from the U.S. Air Force at the ripe old age of 26.  :o :o :o (Because of my vision-or lack of.) I did have my teaching certification for K-6 but only really used that to sub once in a while. I have since let my certification lapse because I will never use it again.

Right now, Carlos & I basically buy junk & sell antiques. We started out on eBay until they became "Greed Bay" and now we have a booth at Vermont Antique Mall in Quechee.

http://www.quecheegorge.com/vermont-antique-mall.php

We don't really do it to make a living (it is a good thing because we would be starving and homeless if that was the case) but we do it because it is fun. We will stop doing it when it stops being fun (like it did when we were doing eBay.)


Cat

For years I worked in banking.  I started out as a bank teller and worked my way up to Manager of the Credit/Debit card department (I hated that job), so I quit.  I got a job at a department store and then I got pregnant.  I worked up until a week before my daughter was born and I've been a stay-at-home mom since then (I would have been working just to pay child care costs). 

So now I am the cook, the maid and the nurse.  I'm on-call 24/7 and I never have a day off.  ;D

Actually, now that both kids are in school all day I'm thinking of finding a part-time job. 

nothing to say at this time as our place will be closing.  ::)

I'm just a silly cartguy!  :P

nothing to say at this time as our place will be closing.  ::)

I'm just a silly cartguy!  :P


No, you are not a silly cartguy. Once your place closes down you will find a better job. :)

I work for Royal Mail and have done for over 8 years. I sort millions of pieces of letters and parcels from all over the world that is difficult to read. I have recently taken on extra duties to become a coach so should hopefully get a temporary role at Christmas and then see how it goes from there.  :)

No, you are not a silly cartguy. Once your place closes down you will find a better job. :)

I work for Royal Mail and have done for over 8 years. I sort millions of pieces of letters and parcels from all over the world that is difficult to read. I have recently taken on extra duties to become a coach so should hopefully get a temporary role at Christmas and then see how it goes from there.  :)


What's a coach do, Bobby?  Is it the kind that has something to do with sports or I think I've heard busses called coaches before...  Sorry for the stupid question.

As some (most?) of you already know, I've been working for an accountancy firm for the past 10 (plus) years.
For the largest part, my job consists of proof reading. I have to make sure all letters, reports, email and other stuff that we send to our clients and other relations (i.e. banks, tax office, Social Security et cetera) meet the required standards. The good thing is: I've basically set the standards myself. :D (Although as a respectable accountancy firm, we are also bound by law and legislation of course!)
In a way, I've a staff of about 45 working for me, though one could also argue that I'm working for 45 people. It's an 8 to 5 job, 40 hours a week, the pay is good and I've no troubles with my co-workers.
Some days are hectic, other are slow. Some days I get 35 emails to process, other days it's down to 12. Some days it seems like everyone wants their letter or report sent that very day. The most difficult part of my job is to keep things under control. If something's coming my way that really needs to be mailed that day, I'm in no position to say no. The most annoying part of course is that those rush jobs always come at the most inconvenient of times (when I'm already working on like a dozen other rush jobs). But somehow I've always managed. 8)

What's a coach do, Bobby?  Is it the kind that has something to do with sports or I think I've heard busses called coaches before...  Sorry for the stupid question.


It's not a stupid question at all.  :)

A 'coach' is basically an assistant to the manager who completes day-to-day admin duties and managing the quality of the team. A coach doesn't make the big decisions or taking the flack when things go wrong like a manager does. I am in a team of 50 so it will be pretty interesting how this works out. My manager says he is really liking my progress so far...So watch this space.  8)

So that's it in a nutshell.  I'm happy where I am but unfortunately I am going to have to leave it soon because it's only a part time position with zero benefits.   :(  I just hope I can find something half as awesome!! 


If you were paid for that....then... heaven on earth  :D

Ash, what a pitty !!  you need to eat besides to serve to the others,
All around you see the same thing, jobs to eat or jobs to please
to me the best is that which complete both verbs.

But where is it ? ::)

I am the National Payroll Manager for a Mining Company.

I am either the most popular person or the biggest villain on any given day.  ;)  Sort of like here.... ::)


I'm gonna send you my account wage number Gibbo, I hope you show me your popular side  ;)

By the way, when is the payment day ? 

I long for it

Good job boy

Paco

Job? What's that? Don't know the meaning of the word.

Ok, ok. I retired from the U.S. Air Force at the ripe old age of 26.  :o :o :o

Right now, Carlos & I basically buy junk & sell


We don't really do it to make a living (it is a good thing because we would be starving and homeless if that was the case) but we do it because it is fun. We will stop doing it when it stops being fun (like it did when we were doing eBay.)


Cat


What kind of junk, Cat  :o :o :o

I'm just kidding,  :D just a little 8), if you don`t mind girl  ::)

Shipping old woods and goods is a job to let you off the hook, so good for you  :D

Recently it came to me a glaucoma on my left eye, what shrank my vision camp at half. Fortunately I mannage a tug not a jet plane.

So now I am the cook, the maid and the nurse.  I'm on-call 24/7 and I never have a day off.  ;D


For all that job is a great amount to pay off.

Some way, housekeeper is the ideal job to fulfill oneself in family and save some dimes up for raining days.

It befell me for five years in the slipway far from sea. I took care of children and home.
Ever since then I really appreciate what it means A hard eight days a week of word.  ;)

Paco

nothing to say at this time as our place will be closing.  ::)

I'm just a silly cartguy!  :P


Heck, no  !!  But if some day it comes I wish and hope you soon find another cart to push and ladies to release from teir load ,  you real gent of mall.

Cross my heart.

No, you are not a silly cartguy. Once your place closes down you will find a better job. :)

I work for Royal Mail and have done for over 8 years. I sort millions of pieces of letters and parcels from all over the world that is difficult to read. I have recently taken on extra duties to become a coach so should hopefully get a temporary role at Christmas and then see how it goes from there.  :)


I give  my word for it

Maybe have you ever had to answer some order from my little country Spain ?

This kind of job could drive me crazy just in a week, I'm sure  :P

The most annoying part of course is that those rush jobs always come at the most inconvenient of times (when I'm already working on like a dozen other rush jobs). But somehow I've always managed. 8)


Now it makes sense to me the way you sort threats out inthe00s  ;)

I'm gonna send you my account wage number Gibbo, I hope you show me your popular side  ;)

By the way, when is the payment day ? 

I long for it

Good job boy

Paco


Okay...I'll do you a deal. I'll set you up on our payroll ..but you have to split the payment 50/50 with me.  ;)  Hey...wait a minute...when the cops come (to investigate the fraud) ... they'll only get me!!  :o

Sorry, Paco....nothing for you!!!  :P  ;D

Still truckin'.

Got a nice local driving job now, for the most part it's a piece of cake though sometimes I have to unload the trailer by hand, which can be quite physical sometimes.

The biggest drawback is that I have to go in between 3 and 6 in the morning, so I'm not much of a night owl anymore.

The best part is, I have weekends off now, which is pretty freakin' sweet. Plus, the warehouse which my company is based out of is located in an underground cave, which is also kind of cool.



Just do me a favor and don't tell my folks, they still think I'm doing this:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/whorehousepianoplayerjpg.jpg

;)

My currently job is ship berthing. For those from inland who have never seen a ship looking for a place to rest silent and safe, for them I write this down.



One of the most difficult tasks a Pilot ( an expertised sea captain ) faces inside harbours is the very last moment of berthing a ship alongside a dock. The size of the ships makes them extremely difficult to slow down or stop and this is made even more difficult by the winds running around  the dock. Any hard contact with the dock may cause millions of dollars in damage to either the vessel or the berth or even to our tug. To assist in safely berthing the ship, the Pilots utilize the services of ship berthing tugs, that's ME. We've got powerful tugs that can fasten a line to the ship to pull the ship away from the berth, or push with their bow or stern against the side of the ship move the ship towards the berth ( this is the very hard part of the dance ). Some times difficult to resolve, therefore high risk of crash involve. I lucky never went into a hull in violence, but a week ago I kissed one of them too much passionate and my gunwale took a bend in a whine, without significant damages
We make shift work, some times 12 hours, some 24, all year long. By the way, I have to work on Christmas night, a hoot !

My hand is the rope which pulls the ship and gets her spinning around. Somehow I dance with her, from sun up to sun down, and all night long. You know, I see poetry almost everywhere.

This tug is for hire,
you can't start a ride
without a powered tug
My shove is to help ya

Cuz you can't quit the yards without a burst
Even if we're dancing in the docks.

I could stand talking about this job for hours....if  my Enligh let'd me do.

This a hard job for me indeed....talking about my job.

Still truckin'.

Got a nice local driving job now, for the most part it's a piece of cake though sometimes I have to unload the trailer by hand, which can be quite physical sometimes.

The biggest drawback is that I have to go in between 3 and 6 in the morning, so I'm not much of a night owl anymore.

The best part is, I have weekends off now, which is pretty freakin' sweet. Plus, the warehouse which my company is based out of is located in an underground cave, which is also kind of cool.



Just do me a favor and don't tell my folks, they still think I'm doing this:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/whorehousepianoplayerjpg.jpg

;)




It's in a cave?  No way!  That's so cool.  I would like to hear more about that!

My currently job is ship berthing. For those from inland who have never seen a ship looking for a place to rest silent and safe, for them I write this down.



One of the most difficult tasks a Pilot ( an expertised sea captain ) faces inside harbours is the very last moment of berthing a ship alongside a dock. The size of the ships makes them extremely difficult to slow down or stop and this is made even more difficult by the winds running around  the dock. Any hard contact with the dock may cause millions of dollars in damage to either the vessel or the berth or even to our tug. To assist in safely berthing the ship, the Pilots utilize the services of ship berthing tugs, that's ME. We've got powerful tugs that can fasten a line to the ship to pull the ship away from the berth, or push with their bow or stern against the side of the ship move the ship towards the berth ( this is the very hard part of the dance ). Some times difficult to resolve, therefore high risk of crash involve. I lucky never went into a hull in violence, but a week ago I kissed one of them too much passionate and my gunwale took a bend in a whine, without significant damages
We make shift work, some times 12 hours, some 24, all year long. By the way, I have to work on Christmas night, a hoot !

My hand is the rope which pulls the ship and gets her spinning around. Somehow I dance with her, from sun up to sun down, and all night long. You know, I see poetry almost everywhere.

This tug is for hire,
you can't start a ride
without a powered tug
My shove is to help ya

Cuz you can't quit the yards without a burst
Even if we're dancing in the docks.

I could stand talking about this job for hours....if  my Enligh let'd me do.

This a hard job for me indeed....talking about my job.


I have been on cruise ships before and I have always loved watching the tugs.  I can't even IMAGINE what it must be like guiding a huge ship like that in.  What a huge responsibiliy!

I'm really enjoying hearing about what everyone does!  :D

as most of you know I'm a police dispatcher... what some of you know... much to the chargrin of 5 of the 7 dispatchers below me... I'm the lead dispatcher for my agency.

this means that in addition to regular dispatching duties:

    answering 911 calls
    answering business calls

helping people who walk up to my window for directions
          advice
          file a report
          get a ticket signed off

answering the radio for
          police
          student security
          ambulance
          fire department
          and monitoring radio traffic for the neighboring agency because we are their closest back up

and doing data entry on citations and reports...

I also have to monitor the consistency of the work of the other dispatchers so I have to:
          check their log entries
          field complaints about them from officers
          train
          update contact information for other agencies and call out services
          update all the manuals
          compile stats every monday of the weekend activites
          make sure the schedule is free of coverage issues
          make sure we have enough employees working special events
          fill as many shifts without using Over Time (because of the stupid budget)
          make sure all equipment is functioning properly and all supplies are stocked
          and about 100 things I can't think of right now...

nothing to say at this time as our place will be closing.  ::)

I'm just a silly cartguy!  :P


Nothing silly about being a cartguy Howard.  Every job is important!  :)

as most of you know I'm a police dispatcher... what some of you know... much to the chargrin of 5 of the 7 dispatchers below me... I'm the lead dispatcher for my agency.

this means that in addition to regular dispatching duties:

     answering 911 calls
     answering business calls

helping people who walk up to my window for directions
           advice
          file a report
          get a ticket signed off

answering the radio for
          police
          student security
          ambulance
          fire department
          and monitoring radio traffic for the neighboring agency because we are their closest back up

and doing data entry on citations and reports...

I also have to monitor the consistency of the work of the other dispatchers so I have to:
          check their log entries
          field complaints about them from officers
          train
          update contact information for other agencies and call out services
          update all the manuals
          compile stats every monday of the weekend activites
          make sure the schedule is free of coverage issues
          make sure we have enough employees working special events
          fill as many shifts without using Over Time (because of the stupid budget)
          make sure all equipment is functioning properly and all supplies are stocked
          and about 100 things I can't think of right now...






Deal with INSANE parents who can't handle their kids going to college...

Answer 911 calls about dog doo on the sidewalk...

;)

Deal with INSANE parents who can't handle their kids going to college...

Answer 911 calls about dog doo on the sidewalk...

;)



yeah... that too!  ;D  I'm totally going to upload the dog poop one to youtube.. once I figure out how...

Deal with INSANE parents who can't handle their kids going to college...

Answer 911 calls about dog doo on the sidewalk...

;)


I seen some silly ones, it might have been Jay Leno, like where a guy called 911 about some pigeons flying over his parked car(you can guess why).

I was a librarian nearly 1/3 off my life.  Both places I worked were small town libraries (5,000 residents or less), although the library that I worked longest at, I was there for the year of expansion (which doubled the size of the building;)  Which basically meant moving and inventorying every last one of the 50,000 books in the collection (twice). 
http://www.bellaire.lib.oh.us/imagesv3/Library/Staff%20and%20Board/PattyNewspaperv3.jpg
This is a picture of me (at work) that was in the newspaper in 1999.

I also created the website from scratch but once I left, the next person responsible for it, more or less, just put everything on a new background and credited herself with creating it.  (Nah, I'm not bitter about it at all.  ;D )  Oh well.

When I left, I knew it was time to move on, two people who had been employed there half the time I was jumped over me in promotion and I just felt stagnant.  About six months later I got married again, and became just a housewife.  I've given a half-hearted attempt at looking for work in the library field but the federal budget for this service is quickly depleting and alot of libraries are closing or letting people go. 

I guess I haven't figured out what I want to do when I grow up yet.  :D

Heck, no  !!   But if some day it comes I wish and hope you soon find another cart to push and ladies to release from teir load ,  you real gent of mall.

Cross my heart.




Don't bet on it.  ::)

Nothing silly about being a cartguy Howard.  Every job is important!   :)


I know,I guess I feel down at this time.

I work as a residential counselor with individuals with developmental disabilities. Basically, we are their hands and feet...we do everything for them. I work at a geriatric house, we have quite a few more responsibilities (more meds to pass, straight cathing, etc). I love my job because it feels good to be able to help people. I am planning on going back to college to become a registered nurse...I can't wait! I am going to be specializing in geriatrics, especially dementia/Alzheimer's patients. I can't wait to start my new journey!! :O)

Great pic patty!


Good luck Erin!

What kind of junk, Cat  :o :o :o

I'm just kidding,   :D just a little 8), if you don`t mind girl  ::)

Shipping old woods and goods is a job to let you off the hook, so good for you  :D

Recently it came to me a glaucoma on my left eye, what shrank my vision camp at half. Fortunately I mannage a tug not a jet plane.





We buy whatever junk we can.  ;)  We go to auctions a lot and sometimes they sell boxes full of stuff and sometimes we can get it for a good price. One time we got a box full of brass "stuff"-bowls, boxes, cups, bookends, etc. all for about $35. We also got a box full of Japanese/Chinese Buddha statues for $10. One of the statues I saw selling on-line for over $100.  :o :o :o  I hope we can get that much for it. One time we bought a box of Native American stuff for $5. There was an Iroquois mask in it and we sold that on eBay for over $100.  :o :o :o  Not bad profit. Like I said, it is fun-especially going to the auctions. It is also fun when we sell stuff-but unfortunately, sales are not as good as we would like.  :\'( :\'( :\'(


Here are a couple of pics of our booth and you can see the kind of stuff we buy/sell.


http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww64/CatwomanofV/002.jpg

http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww64/CatwomanofV/007.jpg



Cat

A large range of pieces and someone else memories .

Each and every piece sould have a story to tell,
you won't get bored in this lifetime
as long as you find stuff to buy and sell
so it will probably take a cold day in hell  :D


Thanks for sharing, I like to see and know about penguins's life, as much as they show me. ;)

Okay...I'll do you a deal. I'll set you up on our payroll ..but you have to split the payment 50/50 with me.   ;)   Hey...wait a minute...when the cops come (to investigate the fraud) ... they'll only get me!!  :o

Sorry, Paco....nothing for you!!!  :P  ;D


Com'on Gibbie, try again !! and don't worry about the heat you can fly and hide across the sea, I can make room for thee  :P

We buy whatever junk we can.  ;)  We go to auctions a lot and sometimes they sell boxes full of stuff and sometimes we can get it for a good price. One time we got a box full of brass "stuff"-bowls, boxes, cups, bookends, etc. all for about $35. We also got a box full of Japanese/Chinese Buddha statues for $10. One of the statues I saw selling on-line for over $100.  :o :o :o  I hope we can get that much for it. One time we bought a box of Native American stuff for $5. There was an Iroquois mask in it and we sold that on eBay for over $100.  :o :o :o  Not bad profit. Like I said, it is fun-especially going to the auctions. It is also fun when we sell stuff-but unfortunately, sales are not as good as we would like.  :\'( :\'( :\'(


Here are a couple of pics of our booth and you can see the kind of stuff we buy/sell.


http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww64/CatwomanofV/002.jpg

http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww64/CatwomanofV/007.jpg



Cat


you have a very neat collection.  :)

I am a data entry babysitter supervisor. 

I train and keep track of keyers and their schedules.  I also do data entry for whoever decides they want to hire our company.  We have no shame, we will take any work as long as they pay. ;D

Despite the annoying ones in my office, I love my job.  :)

I don't wanna say what my job is as it would put truth to what some already say is common knowledge about the type of job it is.  lol

Let's just say it's similar in subject to a new fall show on NBC.

Earliest vision I ever had of my career was this guy, back in 1979, some time shortly before I touched my first computer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4

And it's home again, eat again, watch some TV,
Mock Christine O'Donnel at 1:33, ((c'mon, I missed it by less than three minutes!))
I dream the same dream when I'm sleepin 'at night,
I'm trollin' on the '00s like an eagle in flight...

Funny thing is that I ended up enjoying something pretty close to the White Collar Holler.  Spared the wife and kids by skipping both.  Love the work.  And found a place that will never require me to wear a necktie.  Been there for longer than I've been here, and I've been here a long time.  To riff off Joe Walsh, life's been good to me so far.  

But I still miss the music of Stan Rogers.  Flip a coin - heads you get off the plane, tails you die in a fire.  At age 33, Rogers got the raw end of that bet, and I still wonder about what songs we've missed out on during the intervening quarter-century.

Still truckin'.
Plus, the warehouse which my company is based out of is located in an underground cave, which is also kind of cool.

Just do me a favor and don't tell my folks, they still think I'm doing this:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/whorehousepianoplayerjpg.jpg

;)



I bet there's a piano in a corner of that cave where All Bee's playing tonight

I love the way this guy is staring at roof
as if he never made in his whole life a goof
:)

Earliest vision I ever had of my career was this guy, back in 1979, some time shortly before I touched my first computer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4

And it's home again, eat again, watch some TV,
Mock Christine O'Donnel at 1:33, ((c'mon, I missed it by less than three minutes!))
I dream the same dream when I'm sleepin 'at night,
I'm trollin' on the '00s like an eagle in flight...

Funny thing is that I ended up enjoying something pretty close to the White Collar Holler.  Spared the wife and kids by skipping both.  Love the work.  And found a place that will never require me to wear a necktie.  Been there for longer than I've been here, and I've been here a long time.  To riff off Joe Walsh, life's been good to me so far.  

But I still miss the music of Stan Rogers.  Flip a coin - heads you get off the plane, tails you die in a fire.  At age 33, Rogers got the raw end of that bet, and I still wonder about what songs we've missed out on during the intervening quarter-century.


I can't still pick it up what you do for a living but I agree with almost everything you stated, above all refusing to wear a necktie  8-P... at job.

Great to know about Stan Rogers, I never heard him before, that's not strange being from Spain, but from now on he's between my songs and I'll be a white Collar Holler at docks.

Thanks a lot Foo Bar

and  you deserve a yummi karma nectar for not to wear a crummy necktie in your freaky whole life ;)

Here comes my ghost again, well I'll be damned, but this is not unsual if you manage a tug  :( 8)

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0974.jpg


Pretty  "hard, bold" as facing the cargos.
Great crash-risk involved

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0976.jpg


But someone sent me an angel

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0979.jpg

To keep me from bumping to the docks

Here comes my ghost again, well I'll be damned, but this is not unsual if you manage a tug  :( 8)

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0974.jpg


Pretty  "hard, bold" as facing the cargos.
Great crash-risk involved

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0976.jpg


But someone sent me an angel

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0979.jpg

To keep me from bumping to the docks



Wow that is such a nice ship. :)

Here comes my ghost again, well I'll be damned, but this is not unsual if you manage a tug  :( 8)

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0974.jpg


Pretty  "hard, bold" as facing the cargos.
Great crash-risk involved

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0976.jpg


But someone sent me an angel

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0979.jpg

To keep me from bumping to the docks



Paco is that your actual tug?  It's so cool!

That is ! You can say I spend plenty of my time dancing in the docks inside such a machine ox.

The worse thing is the noise, we hardly hear each other on the cabin and also the pilot's voice coming from transceptor, but I love spinning tones and tones of iron in the midle of the dock.
Take her by the nose while closing to harbour mouth, and make her go towards her quay.

I think it's gonna be my last job after a lotta works changes.

Which I'm willing to share, Ash.

Only time, I need some time to improve ways to say, explain and tell. ;)

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/MSCRosaria20-6-096.jpg

You can count yourself lucky when the sun touch on your deck  :)

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/AquietmomentTug.jpg

You can count yourself lucky when the sun touch on your deck  :)


That is a beautiful scene.

Thanks Howard, how about your occupation ? it's going well ?

Still truckin'.

Got a nice local driving job now, for the most part it's a piece of cake though sometimes I have to unload the trailer by hand, which can be quite physical sometimes.

The biggest drawback is that I have to go in between 3 and 6 in the morning, so I'm not much of a night owl anymore.

The best part is, I have weekends off now, which is pretty freakin' sweet. Plus, the warehouse which my company is based out of is located in an underground cave, which is also kind of cool.



Just do me a favor and don't tell my folks, they still think I'm doing this:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/whorehousepianoplayerjpg.jpg

;)




I found the song that fit you Alb

He's a drug store truck drivin man
He's a head of the piano's men
When summer rolls around
He'll be lucky if he's not Folsom pen

With some llicenses  ::)

Thanks Howard, how about your occupation ? it's going well ?


mine is doing pretty well.

Here comes my ghost again, well I'll be damned, but this is not unsual if you manage a tug  :( 8)

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0974.jpg


Pretty  "hard, bold" as facing the cargos.
Great crash-risk involved

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0976.jpg


But someone sent me an angel

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/practicosfeb0979.jpg

To keep me from bumping to the docks



So you work aboard a tugboat guiding container ships into the port? That's way cool.  :)

I've always wanted to go to one of those ports and watch them load and unload the containers on and off the ships.

I live in the Midwestern United States, which is about as far from an ocean as you can get in North America, yet I see those overseas shipping containers everywhere. Kansas City, where I reside now, is a major transportation hub and they have several intermodal rail yards with stacks of containers that go on for miles and miles.

About 10 years ago I had a job where I'd drive a truck to these intermodal rail terminals (in Omaha, Nebraska) and they'd load an empty container onto a bare chassis I was pulling and I'd get it loaded and then take it back to the intermodal yard to get loaded onto a train.



(Kind of like this:)

http://www.icl-ltd.com/App_Content/media/intermodalTruck.jpg

And of course there's always container trains going down the rails:

http://www.greenlightintermodal.info/images/bn_intermodal_pic_1998.jpg



Even though I'm not involved in it anymore, I still find the whole overseas container system to be utterly fascinating. :)

I give  my word for it

Maybe have you ever had to answer some order from my little country Spain ?

This kind of job could drive me crazy just in a week, I'm sure  :P


I am sure your order has been processed somewhere down the line, Seamermar. The job I do is not awe-inspiring but I see it as just a chapter in my life. I love the pictures of your tugboat.  8)

So you work aboard a tugboat guiding container ships into the port? That's way cool.  :)

I've always wanted to go to one of those ports and watch them load and unload the containers on and off the ships.

I live in the Midwestern United States, which is about as far from an ocean as you can get in North America, yet I see those overseas shipping containers everywhere. Kansas City, where I reside now, is a major transportation hub and they have several intermodal rail yards with stacks of containers that go on for miles and miles.

About 10 years ago I had a job where I'd drive a truck to these intermodal rail terminals (in Omaha, Nebraska) and they'd load an empty container onto a bare chassis I was pulling and I'd get it loaded and then take it back to the intermodal yard to get loaded onto a train.



(Kind of like this:)

http://www.icl-ltd.com/App_Content/media/intermodalTruck.jpg

And of course there's always container trains going down the rails:

http://www.greenlightintermodal.info/images/bn_intermodal_pic_1998.jpg



Even though I'm not involved in it anymore, I still find the whole overseas container system to be utterly fascinating. :)





that's a very big Truck Al.  :o

as most of you know I'm a police dispatcher... what some of you know... much to the chargrin of 5 of the 7 dispatchers below me... I'm the lead dispatcher for my agency.

this means that in addition to regular dispatching duties:

     answering 911 calls
     answering business calls

helping people who walk up to my window for directions
           advice
          file a report
          get a ticket signed off

answering the radio for
          police
          student security
          ambulance
          fire department
          and monitoring radio traffic for the neighboring agency because we are their closest back up

and doing data entry on citations and reports...

I also have to monitor the consistency of the work of the other dispatchers so I have to:
          check their log entries
          field complaints about them from officers
          train
          update contact information for other agencies and call out services
          update all the manuals
          compile stats every monday of the weekend activites
          make sure the schedule is free of coverage issues
          make sure we have enough employees working special events
          fill as many shifts without using Over Time (because of the stupid budget)
          make sure all equipment is functioning properly and all supplies are stocked
          and about 100 things I can't think of right now...





Just a question "Q", have you got a magic wand ?  ;)
Can you cope with the cops ? I heard L.A. Police is hard to cope with  :-\\  ::)
This got to be such a madhouse Snozberries... :o

To have to be so powerful my dear.

Paco

Just a question "Q", have you got a magic wand ?  ;)
Can you cope with the cops ? I heard L.A. Police is hard to cope with  :-\\  ::)
This got to be such a madhouse Snozberries... :o

To have to be so powerful my dear.

Paco





I need a magic wand!  ;D 

I cope with copes quite well... the best part about being a police dispatcher is we tell cops where to go!  ;D

Cops are like everyone else... there are good ones and bad ones... its not that LAPD is so bad it's just that there are a lot of cops in LA but only the bad ones get press....


karma paco.

I need a magic wand!  ;D 





Do what I did-make one.  ;)  Actually, I have to finish making mine.  :-[  When you make your own wand-the magic is more powerful than if someone makes it for you.



Cat

Do what I did-make one.  ;)  Actually, I have to finish making mine.  :-[  When you make your own wand-the magic is more powerful than if someone makes it for you.



Cat


I never thought of that... now to decide what to make it out of... I suppose breaking out the bottom part of one of those plastic hangers doesn't count?

I never thought of that... now to decide what to make it out of... I suppose breaking out the bottom part of one of those plastic hangers doesn't count?





Probably not. The next time you are in a park or someplace, see if you can find a stick. It doesn't matter what kind or how long or short. If it feels right, than it is.  ;)



Cat

Probably not. The next time you are in a park or someplace, see if you can find a stick. It doesn't matter what kind or how long or short. If it feels right, than it is.  ;)



Cat


okay...  :)

Here's my truck from my last job:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/IMG_2211.jpg

I'll have to get some photos from the cave.  ;)

Here's my truck from my last job:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/IMG_2211.jpg

I'll have to get some photos from the cave.  ;)



aw... Al-B's got his very own man cave....on wheels!!!  ;)

Here's my truck from my last job:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/IMG_2211.jpg

I'll have to get some photos from the cave.  ;)
hmmm sygma - are you delivering food to public institutions and restraunts ???

More than a cave I guess it's his vice and inquity den.
I bet there's a piano at a corner strictly tethered.
You know it even got some stairs right up to the Al-B's downfall.

Yes, I do really love this big rig, my long-for-pianist trucker, if I weren't on my tug..I swear it'll be a truck the kind of machine I looked for driving.
In some way you and I keep the big wheel on turning. ::)

AL-B, just a question, is it a fifty foot rig ?, I'm not familiar with American trucks, I guess they are bigger than Europe.

Thanks for showing this beauty to us, chap ;)

More than a cave I guess it's his vice and inquity den.
I bet there's a piano at a corner strictly tethered.
You know it even got some stairs right up to the Al-B's downfall.

Yes, I do really love this big rig, my long-for-pianist trucker, if I weren't on my tug..I swear it'll be a truck the kind of machine I looked for driving.
In some way you and I keep the big wheel on turning. ::)

AL-B, just a question, is it a fifty foot rig ?, I'm not familiar with American trucks, I guess they are bigger than Europe.

Thanks for showing this beauty to us, chap ;)


Hey thanks, I'm glad you like the picture.  And to answer your question, the trailer is 48 feet long.

Still I wish I lived next to the ocean, you have a really cool job.  ;)

I'm beginning to wonder if seamermar

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/Onto%20waves/Apenguinatthetiller.jpg

is really...

The Most Interesting Man in the World!  :o :o :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ym2Jma04qo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9GYocBqGyA&feature=related

;)

hmmm sygma - are you delivering food to public institutions and restraunts ???


Yeah, that picture was taken at a Wendy's up in Lincoln.

I quit that job back in June and now have a local delivery job.

I really need to take my camera to work and figure out a way to film myself driving into the cave, it's actually kind of cool. ;)

Even though I'm not involved in it anymore, I still find the whole overseas container system to be utterly fascinating. :)



That's right AL-B, the whole world business keep on rolling by two radical invents, the wheel and......the box.

Circle and square have made trading go way fast.

Somewhere I found this about the container, it may interest you:


Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd discusses The Box.

When the converted oil tanker Ideal-X arrived in the Port of Houston on May 1, 1956, no one imagined the global change it foreshadowed. Longshoremen stopped work and ran to the edge of the dock to watch. So did businessmen who had flown from the port of origin in Newark, New Jersey. One witness said, "We had seen thousands of tankers in Houston, but never one like this. So everybody looked at this monstrosity and they couldn't believe their eyes." But it wasn't the ship itself that captured the onlookers' attention. It was the many metal boxes strapped to the deck, each roughly the size of a truck trailer.

In his book The Box, Marc Levinson tells the history of those unpretentious crates. "What is it about the container that is so im-portant?" writes Levinson, "Surely not the thing itself. A soulless aluminum or steel box held together with welds and rivets, with a wooden floor and two enormous doors on one end: the standard container has all the romance of a tin can." In fact, engineers find much to admire. From the design of the corner-posts to the stacking brackets, shipping containers display the finest elements of "here's-a-problem-let's-solve-it" engineering.

But the true marvel of the shipping container was how it changed the engineering of the world economy. Before 1956, packages were loaded by hand. As a result, ships spent weeks in port -- far more time than they spent at sea. Today, huge cranes unload a standard shipping container and return to retrieve another in under two minutes, allowing huge vessels to dock and sail in less than a day. When the Ideal-X first sailed, the cost of loading loose cargo was six dollars a ton. That plummeted to a mere 16 cents with the use of shipping containers.

Great as these savings were, we didn't feel the full impact of container shipping until it spread throughout the supply chain. Trucks and trains were quick to adopt standardized containers. Even manufacturers embraced shipping practices that capitalized on the economies of working "within the box." Industrial engineers and operations researchers stepped up with insightful new mathematics to take full advantage of the efficiencies created by containerization. In less than 50 years -- practically overnight for such a capital-intensive enterprise -- transportation and manufacturing were completely re-engineered.

Great ports that failed to see the coming change disappeared, while others grew to international prominence. Singapore, one of the world's smallest countries and the world's largest container-port, hosted 148 cargo ships per day in 2005, moving the equivalent of 23 million, 20-foot containers during the year. With thousands upon thousands of containers in port at any given time, a drive along the waterfront is a spectacle as impressive as a shuttle launch.

Shipping containers are now part of our daily lives. We pass them on highways -- count them as they go by at train crossings. They're the bits and bytes of an international trade network they created. And the true genius they represent is less the box itself than it is the genius of catching an idea whose time has come.

Sorry if you get bored,  8)

Better stay thirsty that horny my friend  ;)

And why not to say it,  I use to cook stricken chickens in my kitchen.

And nope ! I don't look kind of Hemingway at all  :(
but in time...who knows ?  8)

LoL ! http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/beerchug.gif I willingly fetch a beer to the pianist  ;)

Hey thanks, I'm glad you like the picture.  And to answer your question, the trailer is 48 feet long.

Still I wish I lived next to the ocean, you have a really cool job.  ;)


I guess trailing long roads is a very hard work. Sleep and loneliness make endless the road.
Have you ever been involved in some kind of crash-truck in your long fifty rig ride ?

I saw a lot on youtube, and I broke out in goose-pumples

As for the ocean, you should ever take a ride once in a while.

I don't know why, but I need it into my life.
Maybe cause we all come from the water we go to the beach to feel our deepest instincts.
My life is a turnaround from sea to higher ridges.

I don't wanna say what my job is as it would put truth to what some already say is common knowledge about the type of job it is.  lol

Let's just say it's similar in subject to a new fall show on NBC.


You sell novelty items from India?  :D

Without going into too much detail, I'm a client service rep for an investment company.  No sales.  Just service and guidance.  I'm still in training for my new position.  :)

Here's my truck from my last job:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/IMG_2211.jpg

I'll have to get some photos from the cave.  ;)



Wow,that is some big ass truck.  :o

Without going into too much detail, I'm a client service rep for an investment company.  No sales.  Just service and guidance.  I'm still in training for my new position.  :)


I thought you were casting good vibes up over the clouds  :)

Then, are you a  renegade of retro-renegade ?
I think I'm gonna take a walk aroung Midas-clouds once in a while.  ::) :P

Yeah, that picture was taken at a Wendy's up in Lincoln.

I quit that job back in June and now have a local delivery job.

I really need to take my camera to work and figure out a way to film myself driving into the cave, it's actually kind of cool. ;)




Then you were trucking the old Chisholm trail.
Maybe, you are the last cowboy from the last cowboy song,


I'm looking for taking a look at this cave
I'm sure the place is worth to make a save  ;)

I thought you were casting good vibes up over the clouds  :)

Then, are you a  renegade of retro-renegade ?
I think I'm gonna take a walk aroung Midas-clouds once in a while.  ::) :P


Oh I do that too, but I don't get paid for that.  :D  I gots to pay tha bills and eat!  ;D

I won't get a second chance to write down this below:  ;)

I bet my ass you'll do that,

to pay your bills, and eat to keep you pretty hefty  :D

Midas I think Paco just called you fat!  ;D

Back on tug, I think sometimes of you in my breaking hours, a way to keep myself from boredom during the stand-by moments at docks.

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Tightontug.jpg

We can move thousand of boxes from all over the world in a 24 hours work. Some from the East, some from the west.
And me I'm sitting on my chair behind the wheel, watching good victuals going on for some whishes to fulfill.
http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Enforcer3.jpg
Yeah I see how the big deal keep on turning, from my boat seat.
I wonder how many turnarounds are left before I stopped  ::)

Midas I think Paco just called you fat!  ;D


Damned dictionary !! I didn't mean to do so  :-[
Huuuuum, do you think I'm in trouble for that Snoz ?
If so I think I need a place to hide, deep in the countryside or so   :-\\

Damned dictionary !! I didn't mean to do so   :-[
Huuuuum, do you think I'm in trouble for that Snoz ?
If so I think I need a place to hide, deep in the countryside or so   :-\\


Nah I think you'll be okay Paco. I'm just having fun with you.

Hefty, in the US means large and durable.

I think you might have meant to say hearty  :)

You can see and know why I'm almost always in amIright. I make everything into parodies, cuz the whole life is nothing but mockery.

One evening I was at the mouth of the harbour waiting for my ship to dance with, and then I saw her.
Lovers at first sight, thinking about the chances we're berthing before falls the night.
She was so nice and the name she bore was Amy cutest ship for me to berth.
As I went ahead of her, my tug told me in a puff of smoke I should steer slowly to keep dancing for long.
And that way was how I took my last waltz with Amy to whom I miss now inthe00s.

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/MSCAmy8-5-0916.jpg

Nah I think you'll be okay Paco. I'm just having fun with you.

Hefty, in the US means large and durable.

I think you might have meant to say hearty  :)

Yes he seems so hearty to me....as well  ;)

Back on tug, I think sometimes of you in my breaking hours, a way to keep myself from boredom during the stand-by moments at docks.
http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Tightontug.jpg


Cool picture!  ;)

Back on tug, I think sometimes of you in my breaking hours, a way to keep myself from boredom during the stand-by moments at docks.

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Tightontug.jpg

We can move thousand of boxes from all over the world in a 24 hours work. Some from the East, some from the west.
And me I'm sitting on my chair behind the wheel, watching good victuals going on for some whishes to fulfill.
http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Enforcer3.jpg
Yeah I see how the big deal keep on turning, from my boat seat.
I wonder how many turnarounds are left before I stopped  ::)


Wow,pretty incredible Paco.

Back on tug, I think sometimes of you in my breaking hours, a way to keep myself from boredom during the stand-by moments at docks.

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Tightontug.jpg



Handsome man!

Back on tug, I think sometimes of you in my breaking hours, a way to keep myself from boredom during the stand-by moments at docks.

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Tightontug.jpg

We can move thousand of boxes from all over the world in a 24 hours work. Some from the East, some from the west.
And me I'm sitting on my chair behind the wheel, watching good victuals going on for some whishes to fulfill.
http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr334/seamermar/harbour/Enforcer3.jpg
Yeah I see how the big deal keep on turning, from my boat seat.
I wonder how many turnarounds are left before I stopped  ::)


So....you're a drug smuggler then?  ;)

Handsome man!


Thank You!  ::)

Thank You!  ::)


Well, I'll be damned
here comes your ghost again...
That's not unsual
it's just he's in jealous mood  ::)

Hey Aussie you're crazy !! >:(  Look at the face that man  8)

The compliment went to Spain instead of kangaroo land  :D  :P :P :P :P :P :P


By the way, by Brisbane I heard you were in water past your necks
I hope you and relatives are all safe and sound  ;) and not in a soak  :\'(

Handsome man!


though maybe you're wrong this time
cause you can't see all these wrinkles
you just put in my eyes a happy twinkle
let it go Ash and you'll turn a hobby of mine.

you're always welcome  ;)

Here's my truck from my last job:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/AL-B_photos/IMG_2211.jpg

I'll have to get some photos from the cave.  ;)


I'm still waiting for to see you behind the truck's wheel, or  at the cave typing keys AL-B  ::)

You just showed yourself up as a beer belly pirate, and no pic of you on the truck my friend  :(

Well, at least I can see you heading a m

So....you're a drug smuggler then?  ;)


That doesn't look like drugs.

That doesn't look like drugs.


people smuggle more than drugs howard...

people smuggle more than drugs howard...


yes I know that Q.  ::)

yes I know that Q.  ::)


I'm just saying sheesh.

I work as a receptionist/admin for a home improvements company.  I confirm appointments via telephone and shuffle lots of pieces of paper, both within the office and via fax to the people who are allowed to use computers!

I work as a receptionist/admin for a home improvements company.  I confirm appointments via telephone and shuffle lots of pieces of paper, both within the office and via fax to the people who are allowed to use computers!


It must be stressful over there. ???

It must be stressful over there. ???


in little bursts it can get very busy but sometimes I am twiddling my thumbs.

I am twiddling my thumbs.


I thought it was only a witch in the decades, well Karen casting spells can be a hard work as well  :) ;)

I learn there's a lotta interesting jobs over there ::)

in little bursts it can get very busy but sometimes I am twiddling my thumbs.


How many times in one day does the phone ring? ???

This isn't the cave my warehouse is located in but it's similar. This is over by Independence and I've delivered here a few times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYc_nI-yig

I'm a cartguy at The Ozone Park Pathmark.

This isn't the cave my warehouse is located in but it's similar. This is over by Independence and I've delivered here a few times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYc_nI-yig



Do they use caves because humidity is an issue back there?  Don't get me wrong - it's really cool.  It's just weird!

Well I've been at my new job long enough to feel qualified to talk about it.  I am now the secretary for the Math, Science, and World Languages/Dual Immersion programs. And I have about a million bosses now.  I really just have 3 main ones, but then there are a bunch of people that I do expenses for, and all kinds of misc stuff, so it can get a little overwhelming.  It's been really great though.  I love working in new departments - it's really fascinating, and impressive to see what goes on in the school district.  Dual Immersion is my favorite program.  It's just cool.  They start in first grade, teaching students not only another language (either French, Spanish or Chinese) but they teach core subjects IN the language.  So not only is the student learning Chinese, they are learning math in Chinese.  It's one reason they have our departments together.  We have an Interconnections program where all of our specialists work together to teach our teachers how to implement all of this.  It's just incredible to see how much the kids learn.  Anyway, I am loving it.  It's really challenging, but really great at the same time.

That is pretty cool Al!

Sounds fascinating Ash.

Well I've been at my new job long enough to feel qualified to talk about it.  I am now the secretary for the Math, Science, and World Languages/Dual Immersion programs. And I have about a million bosses now.  I really just have 3 main ones, but then there are a bunch of people that I do expenses for, and all kinds of misc stuff, so it can get a little overwhelming.  It's been really great though.  I love working in new departments - it's really fascinating, and impressive to see what goes on in the school district.  Dual Immersion is my favorite program.  It's just cool.  They start in first grade, teaching students not only another language (either French, Spanish or Chinese) but they teach core subjects IN the language.  So not only is the student learning Chinese, they are learning math in Chinese.  It's one reason they have our departments together.  We have an Interconnections program where all of our specialists work together to teach our teachers how to implement all of this.  It's just incredible to see how much the kids learn.  Anyway, I am loving it.  It's really challenging, but really great at the same time.
Sounds awesome...one of the disadvantages to being in a small school with small budgets.  :P

Well I've been at my new job long enough to feel qualified to talk about it.  I am now the secretary for the Math, Science, and World Languages/Dual Immersion programs. And I have about a million bosses now.  I really just have 3 main ones, but then there are a bunch of people that I do expenses for, and all kinds of misc stuff, so it can get a little overwhelming.  It's been really great though.  I love working in new departments - it's really fascinating, and impressive to see what goes on in the school district.  Dual Immersion is my favorite program.  It's just cool.  They start in first grade, teaching students not only another language (either French, Spanish or Chinese) but they teach core subjects IN the language.  So not only is the student learning Chinese, they are learning math in Chinese.  It's one reason they have our departments together.  We have an Interconnections program where all of our specialists work together to teach our teachers how to implement all of this.  It's just incredible to see how much the kids learn.  Anyway, I am loving it.  It's really challenging, but really great at the same time.


That sounds great, Ash. I am very happy for you.  :)

Accounts/Payroll

I'm a cartperson,I retrieve carts as well as take out the garbage.

Accounts/Payroll


happy belated birthday, karma and yay you're still working that's great...

This isn't the cave my warehouse is located in but it's similar. This is over by Independence and I've delivered here a few times.




AL-B, I'm astonished, I have no idea about these kind of caves, they must be a little cold, and the smoke isn't a problem with all these trucks come and go ?

But I still miss the piano  ;)


T F S

I'm a cartguy at The Ozone Park Pathmark.

In some way I think you got a healthy job Howard, I guess the air you breathe is good and you'll always have some food to chew when your tummy's trumbling.

Can you have some "kit Kat " between cart and cart ? It will be hard for me not to fall in tentation Howard, I have a really sweet tooth

..........  I am now the secretary for the Math, Science, and World Languages/Dual Immersion ............  Dual Immersion is my favorite program.  It's just cool............. teaching students not only another language (...... Spanish.........) but they teach core subjects IN the language.  So not only is the student learning Chinese, they are learning math in Chinese........  Anyway, I am loving it.  It's really challenging, but really great at the same time.



Absolutely fabulous Ash.    Something new,  many people, teaching and learning, challenges, there have some of the ingredients for hapiness.

Good for you !!

I couldn't learn Math in my own languange, so I can't imagine how it could be learning it in Chineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese ! :D

Maybe some day you try to learn Spanish before Chinese  ;)

I started learning English only a few years ago, and every day I want to improve a bit more, that's the best, it makes you feel so alive, new and eager as a teenager.

So I'm glad you can cope with a million bosses  ;)
for this trade I think I'm out of aces :)

In some way I think you got a healthy job Howard, I guess the air you breathe is good and you'll always have some food to chew when your tummy's trumbling.

Can you have some "kit Kat " between cart and cart ? It will be hard for me not to fall in tentation Howard, I have a really sweet tooth



collecting carts is some excersize.

Yes +the exercice.  ;)

Yes +the exercice.  ;)


and this parking lot is quite huge. :o

I'm starting a new one tomorrow at a logistics warehouse. It pays a lot better than the retail stuff I've done before. Well tomorrow is orientation so I'll be seeing the details of what I'll be doing. Too bad it'll be a 30 mile drive but it's worth it.

^ congrats! and good luck tomorrow.

I'm starting a new one tomorrow at a logistics warehouse. It pays a lot better than the retail stuff I've done before. Well tomorrow is orientation so I'll be seeing the details of what I'll be doing. Too bad it'll be a 30 mile drive but it's worth it.
Good Luck!  I am sure it will be fantastic.  Logistics is a huge business now, we have a community college that is now devoted entirely to their logistics program. 8) And yes there is some good money in it!

I'm starting a new one tomorrow at a logistics warehouse. It pays a lot better than the retail stuff I've done before. Well tomorrow is orientation so I'll be seeing the details of what I'll be doing. Too bad it'll be a 30 mile drive but it's worth it.


Good Luck. :)

I'm starting a new one tomorrow at a logistics warehouse. It pays a lot better than the retail stuff I've done before. Well tomorrow is orientation so I'll be seeing the details of what I'll be doing. Too bad it'll be a 30 mile drive but it's worth it.


What company? (If you don't mind my asking.)

I'm starting a new one tomorrow at a logistics warehouse. It pays a lot better than the retail stuff I've done before. Well tomorrow is orientation so I'll be seeing the details of what I'll be doing. Too bad it'll be a 30 mile drive but it's worth it.


Good luck with the job Brian, cause starting a new work on Halloween can be hazardous  :D

I hope you got  treat than trick  ;)