30 and younger thread

I love firefighting, but do I want to get a degree and move up to chief and all that? idk haha

 

Just saw the flatbed thread and remembered there's an old late 70s or early 80s pickup with a flat bed on like 38s up the road

 

I'll try to get some this weekend. A girl I know is having her truck SAS'd there

 

We had a thing but I "took too long"(2 weeks is too long apparently) But she's been talking to me more lately. Very cool, only redhead I've ever liked haha

 

If she gives puts it out there, and this other girl doesn't, I'll be on it like white on rice haha

 

Her truck is going on 43inch TSL's. I convinced her to go coils now I gotta convince her to let me drive it again haha

 

x2
I'm very happy i was able to work in the auto body shop for 3 weeks.

 

Morning Everyone

 

Morning bud

 

that's why I did mechanical engineering. You can do pretty much anything with that degree.

 

x2, same major here

I don't know why you guys all are in a rush to get out of school, then you just have to be an adult and shit

I think I could probably cram my degree into 4 years even with taking this semester off to work, but where's the fun in that? Graduating in 4 years is like leaving a party at 10 PM haha

 

Fuck work blows today

 

I went to school for civil engineering and I am civil engineer - I don't hate my job but I don't "love" going to work every day. At first this job was the tits, I made what I considered good money and was learning how to be a worker; fast forward 4 years and I am just like every other shmuck who has to drag themselves out of bed at 5:30 to just go on auto pilot for 10 hours (sounds a lot more depressing when typing it out than it really is).

I do enough to stay off the radar but in all honestly, I could work A LOT harder than I do. I found a happy medium where I live for my two day vacations every week. Everyone who I talk to says the same thing, "after a while, no matter what you do, it becomes a job that is just a means to an end".

While in college, I couldn't wait to graduate and get a job. Now that I have a job, I wish I could go back to college. Classes and exams sucked, but being around people my age who were going through the same things was a blast - now all my buddies are focused on trying to find a girl to settle down with (if they aren't married like me) and working on advancing in their careers. "Hey, you want to hang out next weekend? Sorry man, I got plans with the girl friend or I have to work saturday to get this report done".

Funny how it seems the previous "term" in your life was always the best. Highschool was awesome when I was in college, college was the best while I have a job. Here's to hoping working was NOT the best when I am retired!

 

I've had two internships like that now, weren't awful but I have definitely found two things I DON"T wanna do after I graduate haha. The good thing about them though is that there's always an end in sight where I get to go back to school. I'm just not looking forward to sitting down at a desk or whatever some day and realizing "well , I guess this is the rest of my life now"

I was hauling ass through my degree before and this last semester of my first "hardcore engineering" classes really kicked my ass. I like to say I "Forrest Gumped" my way through it, after an unfortunate hard drive crash and finding out Google Drive wasn't working like I thought it was for backups, I lost all my notes from the entire semester. At that point I said "Fuck it, I'm winging it from here" and did the best I could to teach myself from the books. I got it well enough to get by and got straight up lucky on a few exams late in the semester/finals and still ended up with like a 3.3 for the semester.

I'm definitely slowing down when I go back in the spring and enjoying things a little more, Van Wilder style

 

School is just a roadblock that has to get done to me. It doesn't teach you everything you need to know to do a job properly, but the degree shows that you are capable of learning and working through a lot of problems and scenarios quickly. There are plenty of people that could be an engineer or business man or auto repair tech without any formal schooling. I've gained 10 times as much engineering knowledge from hands on in the field compared to the classroom. I don't care for the college life. I don't go out much, I don't drink much, and I don't try to fit in a clan. I'm just here to get that piece of paper to keep on working.

 

Oh I agree 100%. Luckily I worked for a civil engineering firm since I was 14 and knew a lot of material before I even went to college. As for the stuff I was taught? It will be amazing if I ever use any of it. The first year of working post college is a shocker for many graduates - it really opens a lot of their eyes to how much they don't know.

The biggest gripe I had with college was that it is all theoretical. Spend two days deriving an equation through intense calculus only to realize that it was all for nothing, we just need the equation and know how to use it in a practical aspect. My school only had one AutoCAD elective; thank god I had 10 years behind my belt using it when I got my first job. How to they expect students to have all the tools they need when they don't even prepare them to speak the language needed in their profession?

I am in chage of hiring entry level engineers at my company and the amount of resumes I look through with no experience in AutoCAD is dissapointing at best. How can you be prepared to be a civil engineer (entry level requires knowledge of this program, senior to mid level engineers don't do much design work) without knowing how to design a site on a computer? Blows my mind that these gradutes either A: did not have enough foresight to learn how to use CAD, or B: were never taught that a civil engineer will most likely use AutoCAD in their career.

 

I disagree with one thing and that's when you say "after a while, no matter what you do, it becomes a job that is just a means to an end". I do not feel like my career is a means to an end. I love going to work every day. But in my defense I also get 4 days off every week. I have been doing my job for 8 years on a few different departments but I love going into work. But it was a job I dreamed of doing growing up and now that its a reality I could not be happier. And as for the hanging out part that's not due to a job. I work a random schedule that changes every week and I'm married with a 1 year old and I still party with my friends every week. It's all in what you make time for.

 

Interesting. I think it comes to a choice of if you are going to do something you want to do and love or something that will pay good. I went to school for EET and it just wasn't my cup of tee. Now I am more about getting a trade i.e. welding. It is directly related with the things I love. Not saying that I can't hack it at real school but I rather do something I love then not. I can weld at work but then I am looking at getting more into fabrication. I don't like jobs where I feel like a zombie doing the daily. But then again it is all about your prerogative and how you handle the work load.

 

Not getting the promotion at work that I was promised

Might get a promotion with my other boss though and if that happens I will be quitting this job.

 

I got fired from Amazon this summer

And no I need a Boss that isnt so scatter brained