1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Schweitzer Engineering. I've though of a coffee shop job, they seem to be pretty well-staffed with students, but it wouldn't hurt to inquire I guess. This weekend I just needed to sleep and recover from DLS lol.

 

Ahh yeah, I used to make parts for Schweitzer when I was a machinist

 

Bullet factory is down in Lewiston. Can't remember the name, ATS maybe? Looked biting as hell to work there, a lot of automation and high volume. A bit disorganized when I toured many years ago.

 

Oh yea CCI ammunition is the name

 

That OP, is that @Ozark_RegCab

 

Unboxed the drive shafts from Serra of Decatur Toyota. They double-box and pack parts for abusive shippers. I will change out drive shafts when I have a project that requires work in an area and keep the old parts as spares. I like how the Tundra front shaft works like a shock absorber with the boot to keep the slip-yoke clean. These are heavy axles. During one of these sales, I picked up a new front axle for the 100.

I replaced the 100 series axle a couple of years ago when I candy-caned the axle getting buried.

At these prices, it's not worth messing with u-joints and parts.



Well-packed parts.

 

But anyway yea I'm working on an escape plan out of Idaho and back to NYS or NWA, but it might be a while in this job market. I kinda have an urge to move to NYC or Chicago for some reason, I'm sick of all these two-horse towns.

 

As a former chi-town resident, moving there would be foolish

 

Idk my friend lives there and seems to like it. It'd be nice to be around people my age and not a bunch of 19-year olds and retirees.

 

Well...you do enjoy Arkansas as well so, there's definitely a place for everybody I guess

 

Taking a midterm hung over as hell 1/10 Don't recommend

 

Yea could be. When I went back to visit there was a palpable sense of joi de vivre that I just don't get in north Idaho - everyone just kinda skulks around up here. We went out to this really cool speakeasy bar, there's nothing like that here, just a couple shitty college bars. It is more expensive there though, but you get what you pay for.

 

Making good money at least? Afterall, you relocated and everything.

Could save up, move back east and get yourself set up.

 

Man, Lewiston smells like shit

 

Yeah, paper factory is brutal, after about 30 minutes there you forget about it though

 

No, that's part of the problem, I moved across the county for 23/hour. They did give me a 3k relocation bonus, but the feds took most of it, and that didn't come close to covering all the expenses of my truck breaking down and going back and forth to Bentonville, etc.

 

Ooof

Well shit dude, tough it out for a little bit and try to save up a bit

Maybe recoop some money from the Tacoma and Xterra and just sit on it

 

Yea I got into like 4k of credit card debt in the process of moving out here, so I'm trying to get out of this hole. This move was just a bad idea and has been one disaster after another. It was a mistake expanding my job search country wide in the first place, I wish I never applied to this.

 

Atleast you have a good attitude about it