Make Today, Day 61 the day!
Posted on 03/02/2014 1:09:56 PM PST by Kaslin
Me, I am a 79 year old watchmaker, semi-retired and working “ONLY” 50 hour weeks and I wish I was not alone. I have my trade, but I’m sure lonely.Without the guy holding the “dirty job” this society we enjoy would come to a screeching halt.
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do you fix clocks?
If my grandson has the math skills I point him toward being a Machinist, CNC type, and another trade.
Hahahaha!
That whole soliloquy by Pietro and the response by yldstrk is an example of one of the great joys of FR: a display of hard-edged wit with perhaps some truth provided by and for everybody.
“nevertheless”
“and so am I”
hahahahaha!
Yeah and I wished they let women especially housewives design kitchen cabinets
So, design 'em .. just don't forget the joinery details, as things tend not to work/last otherwise.
Oh, and hardwood @ < 1/32" tolerances.
(and keep yer fingers outta that blurry/spinny round thing)
Got multiple degrees & use the knowledge in a well-paying job. Still, between Shop classes and helping my Dad renovate our old house I learned another whole class of skills that continue to pay off. I may take longer than the pros, but I can do wiring that doesn’t burn the house down (and is better than the pro stuff it replaced) and plumbing and carpentry and sheetrock work etc. It feels good to do something tangible too.
Me, I am a 79 year old watchmaker, semi-retired and working “ONLY” 50 hour weeks and I wish I was not alone.
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Likewise, though ‘only’ 74.
One of my ‘quips’ is “It sure is good to see people in their mid 70’s being able to work on a daily basis. The ‘problem’ is if they HAVE to work in their mid 70’s”.
My eldest grandson had his life course set by wanting to go to a 4 year Electrician School.
Was on his way to work at 6AM couple weeks after graduation and some clown ran a light and T-Boned him.
Finally recuperating enough so he can get back on track but he sure was ‘down’ for awhile, as he was laid up and UNABLE to work at anything. With his ‘mood swings’ during his laid up period, I was afraid he was getting ‘bad habits’.
Good kid, played sports, worked after school, weekends and summers, graduated on time and had(has) a goal.
I don’t really believe in law suits but feel he should be compensated for his ‘lost time’, mainly because the woman that hit him was not only wrong, but tried to tell the cops he was drunk and ran the light. Thankfully, one of those ‘pesky’ cameras on a local business picked up the entire incident.
Funny though - but probably correct for the times - EVERYONE assumed he was ‘heading home’ from a party...It was close enough to his home that my daughter etal were on the scene in a short time.
Of the iceberg, so to speak
The question here, if I understand it, is how how does a young man find his way?
I say ignore women. And I'll stand by that.
A man needs to be about something, if he's not, he's nothing.
Once he is something he can enjoy the delights of women.
That is an old-fashioned viewpoint, I would say, from an old-fashioned man—at least so I judge from your homepage and your posts.
I am not prepared to argue with you.
It is not how I have lived my life, certainly not my youth.
But I am not so proud of some of those days either.
“It’s not just that it celebrates fame and success, it’s that it celebrates them in a way that creates the idea that you can have them overnight. And so the expectations of what work was, and is, started to change.”
This is not true even of high-paying white-collar jobs. Anyone who wants to be successful in medicine, business, accounting, law, or information technology has to spend a lot of time working and learning. The guys who are successful as managers in large corporations come in at 8 AM and leave at 7 PM, and have been grinding away at it for years.
Why? It never has before.
I work with some grads of Tulsa Welding School. They make 90k, +-. Ours is a stable job with no travel involved.
Those that get a degree from TWS and are willing to travel can make up to 100k-125k AND take off summers and winters. If you’re willing to work year round, the sky’s the limit.
<insert gif of Orson Welles clapping, here>
Can I add to that even though I’m female?
1) If your girlfriend talks about being a stay at home mother, minus having a job/career before marriage, run away.
2) If your girlfriend is someone who thinks members of the working class are beneath her idea of a good husband, run away from her.
3) If she isn’t getting a husband by the time she is in her mid-twenties, her main plan is to be a stay at home mother, run away. Any woman who wants ‘just’ a husband and kids is waiting too long, she’s a user/gold-digger and someone who just wants a new lease on her adolescence.
4) If she doesn’t have a bank account and savings of her own, while living on her own and running her own functioning household, just run away screaming. NEVER let her move in with you. Make sure she can stand on her own two feet.
5) Marry someone on your level; someone wanting ot marry up is a user plain and simple.
Look man, sure I'm old fashioned, I'm over 50 yrs old for pete's sake, but don't that mean something too? I'm anti-pc, I hate that crap, I hate what feminists are doing to our young men. Say no more.
I have a daughter. She's asking me where are the men?
Speak English for the love of God.
If you're a young man take this advise; ignore what women say. They'll tell you what to be and then hate you for being that.
They love what they hate and hate what they want. It's a feminine thing.
Learn a craft; be a master.
Ignore everthing else.
Do you own a truck?
Lord knows its touch and go as it is.
Very Sorry but NO. Even at age 12, I was stubborn and wouldn’t fix anything BIG. The ONLY clock I ever fixed belonged to my grandmother. Without the chiming she and grandpa couldn’t sleep...too quiet.
The deal was-—No running clock meant NO MORE grandma’s cooking..ever. The clock was fixed before supper.
Subject: Dear RAM Owner...Dear RAM owner that has the Blue RAM 1500
"Altitude" package truck with the 6" lift kit and
5.7L Hemi,I tried to take a picture of your big ass truck with
the 4' long bed in the parking lot at the Bi-Lo today.
Unfortunately, the FULL SIZE BED on my DIESEL 2500
got in the way of the picture.Warmest Regards,
[Rodamala]p.s. Have a nice day.
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