Colorado B.S. Thread

Oh, Forgot to post this up. I was talking to an Old bud of mine and he brought up again how hard it is to find good Machinists/ CNC Programmers. Good Machinists who can program easily clear 6 figures, even though hourly.

Could interest some of you, but I would suggest going the Community College route (A bunch of big Mfg's in area have funded Front range to offer this program) over OJT. Key point when you come out only take a job where you can continue working on those CNC programming skills, otherwise you will not make it to 6 figure land.

 

All this work talk got me depressed. I will gladly take less money to work less hours. I'm content will small checks since I work less than 40 hours a week usually and my commute is 5 miles. Although it helps when you have a combined income..

 

Post -op... 20/15 vision in the left eye and doc said all looks good.

 

Thats awesome man!

 

But can you see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?

 

it's one of the more popular marshmallow treats at the Cheba Hut.

 

I think that 70% of their sales must actually go to adults.

 

key word right there

 

I'm extremely lucky these days. My manager's view is if you are working more than 40 hours consistently you either have too much on your plate or you are working on stuff you are not skilled properly for. He will then work with you to remove the excess(get help), get your skills brought up to speed through extra training, or move you to another project that's a better fit. He would rather have quality work produced and have you happy because you are getting quality time away from work.
It's rare to come across someone like him, my last manager was the opposite but tried to act like he wasn't. "Work life balance man, that's what we do. Oh btw, we're gonna do this mass system migration over the weekend...forgot to tell you guys about that. We fly out Thursday and come back Tuesday or Wednesday."

 

I feel the same. I'm only over 40 on weeks where someone spilled something or a weeks worth of field work, but as a pm I don't get many of those. Oh and we also get straight pay over 40, so not bad as salary. I also work from home very often.

 

Um, Yeah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJCdCXFslY

 

I hope you cherish your boss for the rare and wonderful unicorn that he is.

 

I think of all my little tacoma world friends with their mountain bikes when ever i see a video like this

 

Dam on my drive into work this morning I think I heard some "ringing" coming from myrear end. When I take my foot off throttle it would go away and come back when press on the throttle again. I hope I'm hearing things last to winter girl.

 

It's ironic, all this talk of 40+ hour weeks and live to work/work to live. I did an EE at CU, worked in aerospace in Denver, 60, 70 hour weeks not unusual. Stress. Only lasted about a decade in that life, not for me. Moved to Loveland, in FRCC for welding certificates. Money might not be as good but I wouldn't be dead of an aneurysm at 50 (which is really close now, yikes) either. Maybe lung disease or crushed under a forklift, but I hopefully won't keel over sitting in some environmentally controlled cubical under fluorescent lights.

 

In my experience working in aerospace, the management likes to couch working those kind of hours as, "being flexible with your schedule", and it's a very big determinant come review time.

Strangely enough, when you bid new work based on a 'lean' workforce working those kinds of hours, it becomes the norm rather than the exception. Unfortunately, so does divorce and other sad outcomes.

 

Where I worked there was a relatively high rate of divorce. It wasn't a big place, at least when I worked there, about 200 people. But was and still is a family owned, private company. The mentality that prevailed was still that of a small start up breaking into an industry, which means the unwritten rule was you worked all the time. I guess the culture at the place is changed a little now that they've brought in lots of people over the year with experience at the big primes. It was in the space and HiRel world. Satellites don't have Thanksgiving or Christmas, so neither did we if there was an on-orbit anomaly or flight delivery pending.

ETA: We didn't have core hours at the time, so we'd follow an 80 hour week with showing up at noon for a couple of days but the total sum of billable hours was always well in excess of 40, which means you're actually putting your butt in a chair more like 10 or 11 hours a day to get 8 chargeable.

 

Defconbrix has lost it, this over his Tacoma.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZMdk23FXJR/?taken-by=defconbrix

 

I heard rumors he was raffling off the taco. Never saw any posts though.

 

It's all marketing take it with a grain of salt