What do you do in a workday?

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Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
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It really varies...

read and respond to client emails from the road or from home,
general labor stuff (assistant to the onsite carpenter)
pickup materials
demolition:evil:
drywall,
plumbing
electrical
painting
carpentry
help write estimates
give customers job updates
etc...


I do a bunch of thigns, and hopefully when we hire a few more guys (already done) I will shift to managerial type stuff under the head contractor such as accounting, material pickup and devliery, website adminsitration (already do it but out site sucks), tech director (ipsec/pptp vpn --already setup-- to access data from the road, rdp overssl)
 

PhoenixOrion

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May 4, 2004
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Originally posted by: VTHodge
Not all on the same day but . . .

1) Run a steam sterilizer cycle with subminimum temperature and exposure time with biological indicators in place.
2) Calculate a lethality summary from the above, based on temperature data.
3) Examine an Air Handler installation and make notes on the engineering drawings.
4) Test the wiring of control devices by having an electrician generate a signal while I observe at the operator work station.
5) Tie thermocouples to glass bottles and send them through a dry-heat depyrogenation tunnel.
6) Simulate alarm conditions to verify proper equipment set up.
7) Write Exception Reports to explain problems in all the above testing.
8) Explain to quality assurance why Exception Reports are OK.
9) Write a summary report of all of the above.
10) Hop on a plane and fly home.

Pharmaceutical Validation Engineer

/Hope more people post real stuff.

so you must be familiar with getinge, primus, kuhlman, steris, finnaqua, fedegari, kaye.
 

wasssup

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Nov 28, 2000
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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
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Lifer

That's pretty much what i've been doing for the last 4 weeks too. I'm going out of my mind waiting on permission to get onto the new project...
 

Powermoloch

Lifer
Jul 5, 2005
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1) change shift
2) wait
3) wait
4) wait
5) make coffee
6) wait
7) wait
8) wait
9) getting ready
10) close shift
 

Crescent13

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Jan 12, 2005
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I'm 14 and homeschooled so this is what I usually do.


1. Spanish class (my least favorite)
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3. Science class (meh)
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5. History & geography class (meh)
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7. Language arts class (meh, not bad)
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9. Math class (the best class ever!!!)
10. Play CS Source.
 

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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1. Drive electric pallet jack
2. Listen to same meeting every day
3. Pick up other people's trash
4. Listen to inane Spanglish blathering on the radio
5. Pick up boxes from a pallet
6. Put boxes onto another pallet
7. Shrink-wrap pallet
8. Put pallet at door
9. Eat lunch
10. Go home


Fun days at a warehouse.

Position: unknown. I was hired for forklift driving, but I never got to do that. I think mine would be "Warehouse B1tch."
 

Zipp

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Apr 7, 2001
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1. Open up the club
2. Wait for the bartender, waitress and the dancers to arrive.
3. Listen to at least half of dancers? excuses of why there late...They?ve used them all, many times over...I could compile a book.
4. Tell the dancers to get there butt out of the dressing room and onto the floor...several times.
5. Listen to at least 2 or more sob stories per day about there life.
6. Tell my Dj's to stop playng that heavy shite or that gangsta rap even though the dancers wants it.
7. Repeatedly tell the customers to watch there hands while they?re getting a lap dance. I nab them with the eye in the sky.
8. Fine the girls for letting the customers touch them without trying to push there hands away,while giving a lap dance
9. Hire pretty girls and turn away the not so pretty girls in a gentle manner.(it?s not as easy as you think)
10. Sit at my desk and monitor the whole club through my security system that I recently installed...My favorite part of the day.

I could go on for a while but I'm to tired

Manage a Gentlemen?s club.
 

jagec

Lifer
Apr 30, 2004
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1. Go down to the machine shop.
2. Talk to the eccentric machinist for a while, then do some fabrication (mostly aluminum) with his help.
3. Go back up to the lab and see if the doohickey I fabricated will work. Talk to the eccentric prof I'm working with, see if he has comments/complaints/suggestions.
4. Use a diamond anvil cell to compress yet another Inconel gasket.
5. Use the EDM machine to drill a small hole in the middle of the compressed section. This is where the sample will go for high-pressure stuff. IF the diamonds were lined up perfectly, it's a good gasket, if not, I just wasted my time.
6. Select nice-looking mineral crystals for the STP stuff. Take them over to the X-ray lab to get oriented.
6. Mount and polish mineral crystals.
8. Retrieve polished, aluminum-coated samples from other lab, put them in the mount, fire up the laser and get speed-of-sound data in 10-degree increments from 0 to 170. Give this to the guy who runs the model for fitting and fine-tuning.
9. Get assigned things that need machined -- new tilt meter, a way to hold a stand steady at any desired angle, a mount to allow the diamond anvil cells to be heated while performing viscosity measurements, etc.
10. Figure out what I plan to do when this job expires in a few months.

Lab tech, geophysics.