Working Life: The Eternal Grind (4 Viewers)

[Thomacetti]

FUCK THAT!!! You done bumped your damn head on your keyboard when you dozed off. My ass is retiring!!!

But best of luck on your adventure though!!

^^ I'm with bubblehead ^^

2023 was the last full time year, 5 more years and i'm fully done....
Guys like @k9dr @inca911 @ekricket showed me the way, less work and more meet-ups & vegas trips

 

[cpac54]

^^ I'm with bubblehead ^^

2023 was the last full time year, 5 more years and i'm fully done....
Guys like @k9dr @inca911 @ekricket showed me the way, less work and more meet-ups & vegas trips

Sounds like a helluva plan. Where do I sign up?

 

[cpac54]

I don't know why, but after reading through this thread, I have a sudden urge to go watch "Office Space"

 

[chippitydoodah]

How can you tell that someone is retired?

Spoiler

Dont worry, they'll tell you

 

[Lil Tuna]

^^ I'm with bubblehead ^^

2023 was the last full time year, 5 more years and i'm fully done....
Guys like @k9dr @inca911 @ekricket showed me the way, less work and more meet-ups & vegas trips

I’m with you @Thomacetti.

 

[detroitdad]

I turn 55 next week. However, I am going the wrong direction. I took on a second, part time gig last year. For a few reasons, I am guessing that I will never be able to retire. At least I mostly enjoy what I do.

 

[Sparkynutz]

Been there. Accepted the fact that company I worked for came first and basically had no life for 18-1/2 years. Then after 120 years the place was open they shut the doors and moved the operation 3 hours south into a big crime filled city. I was offered the chance to keep my job and relocate. No way in hell I was doing that to my family 2 years after buying the house of our dreams in the quiet town I grew up in. Job hopped a few times and realized there is more to life than work. Losing the job I thought I'd be at my whole life was a blessing in disguise. I never woulda left otherwise. I didn't know any better. I wish everyone the same misfortune turned fortune I've had.
You are not your job.

 

[FordPickup92]

I love my job, I also hate my job.

It's rewarding and it motivates me to be successful, but it's stressful and aggravating at times. I will never be a person that sits behind a computer screen for hours, I just can't. I often fantasize about retirement, but really I'd be bored more than anything. Although I guess I could invest in cooking and horses, both of which are skill sets I'm very good at, and "work from home". But I have no clue how the taxes work on that front.

I've worked a grueling outdoor job year round, and I've worked an indoor job for several years now. I loved my outdoor job, but no benefits, PTO or OT sucked. My benefits, PTO, and OT are awesome now... but there's days when I wish I was back to working on the farm and not in a shop. I really don't mind working, I enjoy it, even when I'm complaining about it lol but it pays for the things I enjoy when I'm not grinding so to me it's a fair trade. No matter how you earn it, taxes still suck though lol

 

[abby99]

I love seeing my working years in the rear view mirror of my life.

 

[LowerBama1714]

I get to travel around North America and teach people about glue/tape and glue/tape related accessories….sometimes people ask for pictures with me. I like that.

Sometimes they threaten to sue my company based on my suggestions.

I could do this forever…seriously.

It keeps me away from family just enough for us to realize how much we like each other.

I could retire…but Lou makes it sound shitty.

 

[ekricket]

I could retire…but Lou makes it sound shitty

You just have to get used to the idea that nobody needs, wants, or expects anything from you. You are apart from a running world of expectations, demands, successes, and failures, and that world just doesn’t need you anymore. Time is no longer something to be wasted and frittered away until the quitting bell rings, it’s now a treasure of opportunity for you to use how you see fit.
Some people can’t adjust, and bind themselves back to the world of schedules and deadlines. Some people fly free as birds, and some people just literally die of boredom.

 

[LowerBama1714]

You just have to get used to the idea that nobody needs, wants, or expects anything from you. You are apart from a running world of expectations, demands, successes, and failures, and that world just doesn’t need you anymore. Time is no longer something to be wasted and frittered away until the quitting bell rings, it’s now a treasure of opportunity for you to use how you see fit.
Some people can’t adjust, and bind themselves back to the world of schedules and deadlines. Some people fly free as birds, and some people just literally die of boredom.

I don’t have to do anything but talk and tell people how to solve their puzzles…but I see your point.

I type more on PCF that I do on my work PC.

My life is one big episode of “How it’s made”…paper making is boring, for sure.

 

[ekricket]

I don’t have to do anything but talk and tell people how to solve their puzzles…but I see your point.

I type more on PCF that I do on my work PC.

My life is one big episode of “How it’s made”…paper making is boring, for sure.

You’re a professional mansplainer? Excellent! That’s another thing retired people do, explain to anyone how it really works and what they are doing wrong.

 

[Thomacetti]

That’s another thing retired people do, explain to anyone how it really works and what they are doing wrong.

 

[LowerBama1714]

You’re a professional mansplainer? Excellent! That’s another thing retired people do, explain to anyone how it really works and what they are doing wrong.

Precisely.

 

[LowerBama1714]

Precisely.View attachment 1274192

Hands on hips…power stance.

 

[ekricket]

Precisely.View attachment 1274192

Is a pillow included with your lectures?
Do you glue a hard hat to a crane and have it lift you while wearing it?

Seriously, do you have any glues that are pliable at room temperatures but thermoset when heat and pressure are applied?

 

[LowerBama1714]

Is a pillow included with your lectures?
Do you glue a hard hat to a crane and have it lift you while wearing it?

Seriously, do you have any glues that are pliable at room temperatures but thermoset when heat and pressure are applied?

I specialize in one-liners and zingers, so bring a pillow to mute your hysterical laughter.

And yes…I have all types of glue. But, do not expect a heat cured thermoset to soften (much) once it’s been heat cured…PM for details. I don’t have any jokes for this topic…but I can use spaghetti analogies if needed.

 

[ekricket]

I specialize in one-liners and zingers, so bring a pillow to mute your hysterical laughter.

And yes…I have all types of glue. But, do not expect a heat cured thermoset to soften (much) once it’s been heat cured…PM for details. I don’t have any jokes for this topic…but I can use spaghetti analogies if needed.

I was thinking along the lines of mixing barites and fibers with it and pressing it into a circular mold at moderate temperatures and pressures.

 

[LowerBama1714]

I was thinking along the lines of mixing barites and fibers with it and pressing it into a circular mold at moderate temperatures and pressures.

I like where your head is at…you could do that with a very small amount of thermoplastic to bond the matrix. PVC is cheap…

 

[ekricket]

I like where your head is at…you could do that with a very small amount of thermoplastic to bond the matrix. PVC is cheap…

Send me some. I have everything else.

 

[Thomacetti]

My boss in 2020

Me in 2020

My boss (2024)

Me (2024)

* some exaggeration could be in effect

 

[Irish]

Time is no longer something to be wasted and frittered away until the quitting bell rings, it’s now a treasure of opportunity for you to use how you see fit.
Some people can’t adjust, and bind themselves back to the world of schedules and deadlines. Some people fly free as birds, and some people just literally die of boredom.

This line in particular hit home for me - you don’t need to be retired to embrace a mindset that you likely have more control over your time than you realize. Maybe it’s not 100% freedom like retirement, but you don’t need to be a complete slave to emails, meetings and the grind. And this is coming from someone with a fairly ridiculous work ethic in the corporate engineering world. For those that enjoy a good thoughtful read, I’d highly recommend “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman, it may help to change that perspective.

Kevin, not really responding directly to you, but as usual you eloquently replied to a theme that I think a lot of corporate/working America struggles with, just adding on.

 

[Irish]

And no minivan here, but my baby Chevy did turn 20 last year. I’m way too fat for a vette but hoping a nice new Silverado or Colorado (or maybe they’ll bring back my beloved Avalanche) is in my “further than I’d prefer but hopefully not toooo distant” future.

 

[LowerBama1714]

Minivans rule…had to replace the tires after this run on US-129 (The Dragon).

 

[louBdub]

I made this is in 2017…. Printed it, and pinned it to my desk space at my old job. It hits just right nowadays.

Sorry craigy, don’t wanna derail your thread with all of this retired talk

BACK TO WORK! (now that’s punny)

 

[rowlin]

I’m ready to charge the gates of Minas Morgul.

Also, the retiree punchline will work with “How can you tell if someone is vegan?”

 

[louBdub]

Lou makes a goal.

Craig hates Lou’s goal.

Lou works his entire life to accomplish said goal.

Lou reaches goal at an age that makes craig mad.

Craig big mad.

Lou stands up, raises hands in victory. Lou is proud.

Craig, still climbing - looks up, and cries out in hatred, throwing salt and tears typed out in monologue form.

Lou goes to brunch.

The End.

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

As one of the few true Blue Collar workers here I truly appreciate the spirit of this thread.

Like my uncle Les used to say "When the money is gone, it's time to move on." So enjoy it, you secret handshaking assholes...

 

[Josh Kifer]

Lou makes a goal.

Craig hates Lou’s goal.

Lou works his entire life to accomplish said goal.

Lou reaches goal at an age that makes craig mad.

Craig big mad.

Lou stands up, raises hands in victory. Lou is proud.

Craig, still climbing - looks up, and cries out in hatred, throwing salt and tears typed out in monologue form.

Lou goes to brunch.

The End.

Are you sure you are living in Craig's head, or is Craig living in yours?