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How's your job? - Anhil8tor - 09-27-2006
Busy?
Stressful?
Long Hours?
Big Money?
How's your job? - leeman - 09-27-2006
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
How's your job? - SporK - 09-27-2006
What job?
-SporK
How's your job? - ntype - 09-27-2006
yes
could be a lot
yes
no
How's your job? - Gadonkadonk Money Dawg - 09-27-2006
Anhil8tor Wrote:Busy?
Stressful?
Long Hours?
Big Money?
Yes.
Not really.
Nope.
Decent.
How's your job? - Anhil8tor - 09-27-2006
It was more of an open ended question..
Kinda like.. we have really been busy over the last year... It shows no signs of slowing down.
I don't really deal with lost of stress.. not sure why. I just don't let things get to me.
I usually put in no less than 50 hours a week.. sometimes as much as 65 but I enjoy what I do so it dosen't get to me.
How's your job? - leeman - 09-27-2006
Ohhh
Well it has been busy the last two years and rising...
Stressful as shit but in a possitive way.
An hour is an hour but I usually pull close to 80 every week ...
Hopefully it will pay out during next year ...
Better ????
How's your job? - WoolyGoat - 09-27-2006
no
kinda
no
no
How's your job? - Blondie - 09-27-2006
Anhil8tor Wrote:Busy?
Stressful?
Long Hours?
Big Money?
Runs hot n cold.
Sometimes, there's a lot of alcohol (and other stuff) involved. But I attend award shows, parties, I've prolly been to 300 weddings, bachelorette party last weekend was $$$, the bennies outweigh the stress.
Sometimes I got to work at 4 p.m. and get home at 6-7 a.m.><
The lowest I work for is about $30.00 hr. It's way upwards from there.
Overall, I love it.
How's your job? - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 09-27-2006
My job starts about 6:30 in the morning, followed by radio calls to most of the crews, start dropping by jobsites. Most problems occur early in the morning when the crews are starting new jobs or starting something new on a job they are on. I'm real busy until about 8:30. By 9:00 I try to be in the office. Enter bills from the day before. Enter any deposits that have been made in the bank. Pay any bills that are due or any bills on jobs that we got paid on. Not much in terms of stress during the middle of the day. Lunch about 11:30, usually by myself reading the paper. Try to hit a few more jobs during lunch and back in the office by mid afternoon. Enter more bills and catch up on payroll entries and job costing close outs. Review a job or two in late afternoon that bids the next day. Make sure all foremen know where they are going the next day and that all materials are ordered. I like to be at the office/shop when all crews come in. Usually a few guys wanting to borrow some money or get a traffic ticket taken care of. The last crews usually get to the office by 6:30 pm and I leave.
The most stressful part is when I have several crews starting new jobs on the same day. Tons of questions, most that I can answer, but some that I have to get other people (inspectors, developers, etc) involved in and there may be a delay waiting for them to answer their phone. In the meantime, I have a crew of 20 guys standing around waiting. Material shortages also become stressful. Having the right balance of people and workload is tremendously stressful. In construction you try to stay a little bit overloaded so that you never have any downtime. But, invariably someone wants you on their job today and you can't get there until tomorrow. A major piece of equipment breaks down and you can't get parts. You try to explain that we aren't like firemen, where the crews sleep upstairs and wait on the bell to go off so they can fly to the next job. No one could afford the cost of a company that has so many people and so much equipment that they are just waiting for someone to call.
People want you on their job and it turns out not to be ready when they say. So you constantly have to be driving by jobs that are coming up and estimating yourself the progress. Sometimes people want you on their job "just so it looks like something is getting done". You have to weigh each customer and their value to determine which fires you put out each day.
At the end of the day it is rewarding. You got some things built. You figured out how to get somethings done that looked impossible that morning. You kept someone happy that you thought was going to no longer do business with you. You got paid on a job that you thought might never pay. You got a bid on a job that you didn't think you had a chance on.
How's your job? - Pong - 09-27-2006
With fall signifies the end of my busy season. Less hours and less work for the same pay. Good times.
How's your job? - Tribal Dragon - 09-27-2006
Anhil8tor Wrote:Busy?Always busy
Stressful?
Long Hours?
Big Money?
Can be Stressful when a large network outage occurs
Hours are usually normal
I'm compensated well.
How's your job? - Sassy - 09-27-2006
Tribal Dragon Wrote:I think there might be a few exception.Anhil8tor Wrote:Busy?Always busy
Stressful?
Long Hours?
Big Money?
Can be Stressful when a large network outage occurs
Hours are usually normal
I'm compensated well.
How's your job? - Blueeyedwoman - 09-27-2006
As I am a contract employee, I get paid only when I work. My day starts when I get my large grocery basket of balls from the guardhouse. Beneath the basket is a shelf with a few plastic baskets of things like a dozen Beanie Babies, a stack of orange cones and some special large foam balls I use for the tots. I use these toys as a fun thing to balance on a racquet for a little kid, or I stand a Beanie on top of a cone as a target for the bigger ones.
So down to my court, which is on the end, with several kids in tow like a pied piper. We start with basics, forehands/backhands, then move on to volleys and finally serves. Yesterday I gave a private to a really talented ten year old girl. The kid could be GOOD and already I sort of have to try when hitting with her instead of just standing around flat footed as I do with the younger ones.
On Monday I was teaching the seven year olds and hit one boy (not hard) in the mouth with a ball. "I said, "you okay?" and he said, "Yeah, at least it wasn't a baseball hitting my weiner."
This is much of what comprises my work day. It's rarely stressful but it can be a grind and sometimes I'm so sweaty in the summer with the sun beating down, or FREEZING in the winter that I want nothing more than to get out of there. The only real stress is sometimes dealing with idiotic parents who think their darling is the next Federer/Sharapova when the kid can barely put one foot in front of the other.
The pay is excellent.
How's your job? - Gadonkadonk Money Dawg - 09-27-2006
Oh. More detailed huh?
I push buttons to try and avoid amber lights amidst my sea of green lights.
How's your job? - flonk - 09-27-2006
Sometimes
Rarely
Only near dead lines
It's getting better.
How's your job? - ntype - 09-28-2006
Well what is stressfull is not really my job, in fact the technical part of my job doesn't cause me troubles anymore so I tend to get a little bit annoyed from time to time.
The company where I work knewed a huge developpement since last year with an increase of personal, work and yearly incomes as well. We work into the luxury horlogery industry; means that our main commitments are quality and professionalism. This value is seen everywhere even at my "purely" technical post of system administrator.
I usually start my job around 9-9:30 am until noon (but like we have morning crews starting at 5 or 6 am in case of troubles I could awakened quite early in the morning...). At noon I lunch (usually a salad I got less to restaurant because of the $ and the fact that I need to lose some weight) then I start again around 1-1:30pm until...well there is no real end but I stay until 6-6:30 pm at least every day.
My job includes as well a lot of "quality insurance" jobs who suppose that I should go to sometimes long hours meeting where you discuss "phylosophy" ('n shit) anyhow the real factor of stress is that I am awaited nevertheless than "100 % uptime" in the people mind there is always network, internet, servers always run flawlessly and emails are received almost instantly (even if you send a 10 meb pdf to thailand for example).
What pleases me a lot in my actual work is my great freedom; in fact in don't really report to anyone apart the company owner (well we are 70 people around in switzerland a few others in portugal, India and Sri-Lanka *I do support my frrrrriends of India and sri-lanka as well but they tend to be autonomous and call me only for real troubles*), the bad part is that the company owner (only person I really report to) feels if you are unsure about something and he could nail you badly so when you deal whith him you go prepared and you forget every kind of hesitation (you as well learn that sometimes he doesn't want to hear "no" even when what he ask is impossible)
How's your job? - Sassy - 09-28-2006
ntype Wrote:Well what is stressfull is not really my job, in fact the technical part of my job doesn't cause me troubles anymore so I tend to get a little bit annoyed from time to time.How about that.
The company where I work knewed a huge developpement since last year with an increase of personal, work and yearly incomes as well. We work into the luxury horlogery industry; means that our main commitments are quality and professionalism. This value is seen everywhere even at my "purely" technical post of system administrator.
My job includes as well a lot of "quality insurance" jobs who suppose that I should go to sometimes long hours meeting where you discuss "phylosophy" ('n shit) anyhow the real factor of stress is that I am awaited nevertheless than "100 % uptime" in the people mind there is always network, internet, servers always run flawlessly and emails are received almost instantly (even if you send a 10 meb pdf to thailand for example).
What pleases me a lot in my actual work is my great freedom; in fact in don't really report to anyone apart the company owner (well we are 70 people around you see), the bad part is that the company owner (only person I really report to) feels if you are unsure about something and he could nail you badly so when you deal whith him you go prepared and you forget every kind of hesitation (you as well learn that sometimes he doesn't want to hear "no" even when what he ask is impossible)
Where are you located?
Is that a fact. I work 24 hours a day.What does "this" refer to?Your
?We have never talked about it before.
How's your job? - SporK - 09-28-2006
:apple:
Blueeyedwoman Wrote:As I am a contract employee, I get paid only when I work. My day starts when I get my large grocery basket of balls from the guardhouse. Beneath the basket is a shelf with a few plastic baskets of things like a dozen Beanie Babies, a stack of orange cones and some special large foam balls I use for the tots. I use these toys as a fun thing to balance on a racquet for a little kid, or I stand a Beanie on top of a cone as a target for the bigger ones.
So down to my court, which is on the end, with several kids in tow like a pied piper. We start with basics, forehands/backhands, then move on to volleys and finally serves. Yesterday I gave a private to a really talented ten year old girl. The kid could be GOOD and already I sort of have to try when hitting with her instead of just standing around flat footed as I do with the younger ones.
On Monday I was teaching the seven year olds and hit one boy (not hard) in the mouth with a ball. "I said, "you okay?" and he said, "Yeah, at least it wasn't a baseball hitting my weiner."
This is much of what comprises my work day. It's rarely stressful but it can be a grind and sometimes I'm so sweaty in the summer with the sun beating down, or FREEZING in the winter that I want nothing more than to get out of there. The only real stress is sometimes dealing with idiotic parents who think their darling is the next Federer/Sharapova when the kid can barely put one foot in front of the other.
The pay is excellent.
Someone willingly entrusts you with their child? And even pays for it?
People in California are retarded.
-SporK
How's your job? - SporK - 09-28-2006
Blondie Wrote:Runs hot n cold.
Sometimes, there's a lot of alcohol (and other stuff) involved. But I attend award shows, parties, I've prolly been to 300 weddings, bachelorette party last weekend was $$$, the bennies outweigh the stress.
Sometimes I got to work at 4 p.m. and get home at 6-7 a.m.><
The lowest I work for is about $30.00 hr. It's way upwards from there.
Overall, I love it.
Obviously a stripper.
-SporK