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I'm a pimp and I love my job because my girls are the best looking in the region. The hoes working for my competitors ain't got nothing on my girls.
 
yh125d said:
I absolutely love my job. Simply put I am a drafter. I design piping systems, structural elements, and etc. for the natural gas refining industry and related industries.

Basically it's, for me, somewhere between playing video games and playing with legos, on the computer.
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Really? After half an hour of drafting, I start yelling some of the following:
- "Why the eff won't you snap! SNAP! No, not to that line!"
- "Damn you Osnap, is it ortho or Osnap screwing this up, WTF!"
- "Mother effing bullshit mother effer."
- "God damn engineers, do your own effing drafting. Why the eff do you need to come to me to change one damn line of text."


Meh, I bitched about it before: I hate my job. On the bright side, I finish my first master's within 2 months, and will be putting 90% of energy towards applying elsewhere.
 
I'm rather fond of about half of my job. The other half is pure BS that allows me the opportunity to work at the good half.
 
I fucking hate it. Delivering groceries for a Metro. The job itself sucks, the BS I have to deal with sucks, and the pay is terrible.
 
Accounting management is not the most exciting or glamorous work, however, I have great bosses, work with some great peers and have real responsibility. It doesn't hurt that I make enough so that my wife doesn't have to work and we still have a nice house with land. I'm not looking to change anytime soon.
 
coldmeat said:
I fucking hate it. Delivering groceries for a Metro. The job itself sucks, the BS I have to deal with sucks, and the pay is terrible.
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Wait, do you truck the shit to Metro, or do you deliver actual groceries to people?

Didn't know they did that. Wonder what happened to Grocery Gateway... can't believe that died down.
 
Imp said:
Really? After half an hour of drafting, I start yelling some of the following:
- "Why the eff won't you snap! SNAP! No, not to that line!"
- "Damn you Osnap, is it ortho or Osnap screwing this up, WTF!"
- "Mother effing bullshit mother effer."
- "God damn engineers, do your own effing drafting. Why the eff do you need to come to me to change one damn line of text."


Meh, I bitched about it before: I hate my job. On the bright side, I finish my first master's within 2 months, and will be putting 90% of energy towards applying elsewhere.
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OSNAP + Polar 4ever

Engineers can't start drafting, they paid too much for their degrees.
 
Imp said:
Wait, do you truck the shit to Metro, or do you deliver actual groceries to people?

Didn't know they did that. Wonder what happened to Grocery Gateway... can't believe that died down.
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Yes, I deliver groceries to people, mostly seniors and businesses.

It's just the one Metro store in Ottawa, I'm not sure if there are others that do it but it's something that is run by the store owner, not the franchise.
 
yh125d said:
OSNAP + Polar 4ever

Engineers can't start drafting, they paid too much for their degrees.
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We just got some new engineering grads in my office. One of them did an engineering degree at a school that didn't teach drafting: "engineers don't need to know drafting, they can get techs to do it..." is the idea.

Meanwhile, I went to a school that taught a half-semester course in drafting, and almost every office I go to in my building (except the surveying department), I'm the resident expert on AutoCAD and ArcGIS - it's sad because I only know the basics.


coldmeat said:
Yes, I deliver groceries to people, mostly seniors and businesses.

It's just the one Metro store in Ottawa, I'm not sure if there are others that do it but it's something that is run by the store owner, not the franchise.
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Cool. I'm surprised it's not more common among "regular" people. Then again, No Frills and Sobey's are popular for a reason.
 
Imp said:
We just got some new engineering grads in my office. One of them did an engineering degree at a school that didn't teach drafting: "engineers don't need to know drafting, they can get techs to do it..." is the idea.

Meanwhile, I went to a school that taught a half-semester course in drafting, and almost every office I go to in my building (except the surveying department), I'm the resident expert on AutoCAD and ArcGIS - it's sad because I only know the basics.




Cool. I'm surprised it's not more common among "regular" people. Then again, No Frills and Sobey's are popular for a reason.
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Heh, I kind of have the opposite. I have no training except on the job (I hired on not having a clue what 'paper space' was), only been here about 3 years, but still everyone around the office asks me to work autocad - senior designers with 35 years experience and 20 computer
 
Imp said:
Cool. I'm surprised it's not more common among "regular" people. Then again, No Frills and Sobey's are popular for a reason.
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They don't advertise it or anything. I'm sure if they did, there would be a lot more people ordering, since you can basically order $1000 worth of groceries and have them delivered all the way across town during rush hour for ~$10.

Of course if they started spreading the word I would just quit.
 
software engineer.

i definitely enjoy what i do, however the current job i have has really gotten bad due to the customer demands (subcontractor for government) and i'm currently looking.

but as far as actual coding and designing good software, i truly enjoy it and find it really rewarding.
 
yh125d said:
Heh, I kind of have the opposite. I have no training except on the job (I hired on not having a clue what 'paper space' was), only been here about 3 years, but still everyone around the office asks me to work autocad - senior designers with 35 years experience and 20 computer
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Ha, I was taught 3D and a bunch of other commands I no longer remember. It's "l", "text", "circle", "snap", and "trim" for me... And lots of googling.

I didn't learn "ms" and "ps" until a year after I started work when people needed stuff printed properly.
 
coldmeat said:
I fucking hate it. Delivering groceries for a Metro. The job itself sucks, the BS I have to deal with sucks, and the pay is terrible.
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I feel you bro. Spent three years driving (picking up customers) and washing cars for a rental car company. Pay was insulting, hours were ridiculous, and middle management treated us like we're retarded/potential thieves.

I've got two weeks left in that job come tomorrow. My work quality has definitely dropped big time since I put my notice in. For example, I'm supposed to do damage audits on the vehicles daily. Haven't done it in over a month. :sneaky:
 
manimal said:
Self employed and currently in the love/hate stage.


I absolutely love not answering to anyone except my customers and the bank. I absolutely hate being responsible for things outside of my control.
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same here....

I am doing quality control for my current client. All I do is go through customers returns and look at their circuit boards and the electrical stuff that fails (or even mechanical failures) and tell them why they fail on how to fix it. I am like god to this place because they do not have a full time EE. They are all mech. engineers that source work to china. It's cool, but I found this contract through a head hunter and they take a lot of my pay.
 
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I love my second job - teaching patent law. My first job (practicing patent law) is not too bad, but I would not say that I "love" it. It definitely pays the bills.
 
manimal said:
Self employed and currently in the love/hate stage.


I absolutely love not answering to anyone except my customers and the bank. I absolutely hate being responsible for things outside of my control.
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Same. Being a sole proprietor is rough but I could never see myself working for anyone else again.
 
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