What do you do for work?

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Ellsworth1943 said:
While I agree with you, one must also buy food, and we are to do that with the sweat of our brow.
And I have done that!
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I can assure you, after going from cleaning woman to working at a drug rehab program, for most of my working life sweating wasn't part of the job description. (And I still think air-conditioners was one of man's more brilliant ideas.) The four things I insisted in having when I worked:
-- heat in the winter.
-- air-conditioner in summer.
-- a seat to sit in.
-- a pay check.
 
Laish said:
I mostly work on automatic swiss lathes and some CNC machines I like the old style cam machines though.
the look like these . No cameras allowed in work so these are from the net
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They are cool machines and actually much faster than the newer computer controlled ones
Blessings
Bill
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Wow, packed machinery. Ours was much more spread out. And, yeah the Cad Cam was fun to watch final product. But I was more jealous over the welder, (unless it was summertime. No a/c in the factory.)
 
i once had a temp job at a landfill doing litter pickup.

they gave me a truck, bags & PPE, and literally told me my job was to rove around picking trash up all over the landfill and putting it back in the same landfill i found it in.

pay was good, for what it was. irony was priceless
 
i was a sign spinner for liberty tax in a costume

did roofing for awhile

in retail for a few years

culinary for about seven years

cnc operator for the last 3-4 years
 
I've worked in a nursing home. And I've also worked for the state of Vermont, in it's state house, which is just down the street from me.. lol
 
I'm a mailman who has 4 years, 7 months, 18 days, 17 hours, 32 minutes and 5 seconds left before retirement (not that I'm counting) :o
 
mailmandan said:
I'm a mailman who has 4 years, 7 months, 18 days, 17 hours, 32 minutes and 5 seconds left before retirement (not that I'm counting) :o
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Wait! Mailmen can retire at 55? Is that to make up for the fact that you can't call in sick for more than five days a year, and better not call in sick for any of those five days either?

I just realized an old friend of mine gets to retire young. lol
 
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Wait! Mailmen can retire at 55? Is that to make up for the fact that you can't call in sick for more than five days a year, and better not call in sick for any of those five days either?

I just realized an old friend of mine gets to retire young. lol
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I'll be 52 in January. I will actually be 56 years and 4 months old when I retire on May 29th in 2022. That is my retirement age under FERS retirement. I will have a total of 32 years.

I've actually had perfect attendance for most of my years. :o

I'm curious to see if one of the newer (been there about 1 year) CCA's is still there today. On Saturday, he was really upset because he is one of a few newer CCA's who always gets stuck with a heavy work load, while certain other newer CCA's get a light work load and even get to go home early more than they should. Deja Vu! :eek:

He was yelling at the supervisor and was taken off the clock and sent home. All I can say is, "WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL!" :p
 
My friend was delivering in South Philly. It's not an easy job, since most of our blocks have 25 houses on one side of the street. (Rowhomes.) And since they keep the mail in the truck until they can get to it, that means delivering to 50 homes before getting back to the truck.

He was rewarded for his good work by being sent to 30th St. Station. (The big post office in Philly.) And then he was "rewarded" again, by being in charge of 19103 -- our downtown/skyscraper section of the city.

After all that "rewarding," his wife had a complication with her pregnancy. Her thyroid produced a goiter big enough to stop her from breathing. (It's rare, but it was related to being pregnant.) He had to take two days off to be with her for the surgery, and then two days off when she delivered a couple of months later. He was scolded and threatened with loss of job, if he used one more sick day ever.

And that's why they moved to Buffalo, so he could be a supervisor up there instead. lol

I have a FB/writer friend who works for the post office in Ohio. Some of her other friends work with her. I maintain that the medical field is one place I would never work for. I keep forgetting about the post office. Not sure which one I'd hate more.
 
I am a director of a tour operator.
I am the director of Finance, Health and Safety and Personnel.

I am also respsonsible for regulatory compliance.
 
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My friend was delivering in South Philly. It's not an easy job, since most of our blocks have 25 houses on one side of the street. (Rowhomes.) And since they keep the mail in the truck until they can get to it, that means delivering to 50 homes before getting back to the truck.

He was rewarded for his good work by being sent to 30th St. Station. (The big post office in Philly.) And then he was "rewarded" again, by being in charge of 19103 -- our downtown/skyscraper section of the city.

After all that "rewarding," his wife had a complication with her pregnancy. Her thyroid produced a goiter big enough to stop her from breathing. (It's rare, but it was related to being pregnant.) He had to take two days off to be with her for the surgery, and then two days off when she delivered a couple of months later. He was scolded and threatened with loss of job, if he used one more sick day ever.

And that's why they moved to Buffalo, so he could be a supervisor up there instead. lol

I have a FB/writer friend who works for the post office in Ohio. Some of her other friends work with her. I maintain that the medical field is one place I would never work for. I keep forgetting about the post office. Not sure which one I'd hate more.
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They named a whole syndrome after it.... "going postal".....
 
mailmandan said:
I'm a mailman who has 4 years, 7 months, 18 days, 17 hours,
32 minutes and 5 seconds left before retirement (not that I'm counting) :o
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Three boys were bragging on their fathers.
First kid says, "My dad's a mechanic, and he's so fast he can fix ten cars a day."
Second kid says, "Well my dad's a doctor and he's so fast he can do fifteen operations a day!"
Last kid says, "That's nothin'! My dad works for the post office
and he's so fast that he gets off at 5 and he's home by 4:30."
 
it really shouldn't be about the 'work', but about what we gave/give to it, heart-wise' -
before and then after 'conversion',..

in our lives, we both saw quite a difference, this was 'one way' that Christ began
to teach us about really 'caring' about what He expected of us...
it was slow and fast, at the same time: He really gave us a good look at our 'old-selves',
and then He began to teach/show what He expected from our 'new' delivered selves'...
 
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