PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Here is my baby girl getting rid of some Rifraf from the yard.

 

Is that a poisonous snake?!?!

 

I don't think so but the damn thing was at least 6 feet long and was striking at her, she was bee-bopping and hopping around trying to get at the back of the snakes head.

 

One time in 1999, when we were living in Virginia Beach, we had a water moccasin in our front yard and the damn thing was standing it's ground...

Our neighbor, a former Navy SEAL, came over and made short work of it with a shovel!

 

Wow those damn things are mean, I don't like snakes!

 

Luckily, Navy SEALs are meaner!

 

Indeed!!!

 

@shakerhood

Our neighbor Dave, the former SEAL, indeed did NOT talk with that snake...

 

By looking at the dash, I am guessing this is a 40's or 50's vehicle.

EDIT: Looks like the floormats say 1951.

 

That's not bad...

 

@shakerhood

 

I’ve got a date this Saturday!

 

Awesome, where are you taking her?

 

@ColoradoTJ
@disconnected
@El Duderino
@Running Man
@shakerhood
@Taco critter

I’ve got a number of things on my mind this morning, so please scroll down and read; Some of them are very worthwhile!

 

Most importantly, I feel like my life has dead-ended and I feel a bit depressed.

I am at a cross-roads with regards to whether or not I want become an HVAC technician or stick with my dad’s company long term.

I am almost 30 and...

• I’ve never had a relationship with a woman that’s lasted more than a few months.
• I’ve never had a job that I would consider a career.
• Really don’t know what I want to do with my life.
• Have hardly any money at the moment.
• Have never been in debt beyond a few hundred dollars on my credit card (that’s probably a good thing; my credit score is great!)
• Still live my parents, rent free (All of my friends who have rent or a mortgage say I should milk this arrangement for all it's worth).

 

@Running Man was saying that his job sucked...

Before I got my current job, I was seriously considering a job at AutoZone.

James, why do you think your job sucks?

I don’t know enough about AutoZone to form an opinion, from what I found out through online research, it would seem that starting pay is less than $10 an hour. I haven’t made less than $10 an hour since I worked at Dunkin Donuts in October 2013, and I seriously just quit that job after like three weeks.

In the job descriptions on their website, Autozone emphasizes providing “Wow! Customer Service”. WTF is that? I can provide excellent customer service, but what is “Wow! Customer Service”? Sounds like an obnoxious gimmick to me. They also expect you have a flexible work schedule. The older I get, the less and less appealing that sounds to me. When I was working at Puck, I’d work practically every weekend (even Sunday) unless I had a family gathering or a car show to go to. My boss was very big on spending time with family, so she’d never hesitate to give me up to a week off to spend time with family.

I’m sure there were times she’d rather I work at Puck instead of galavanting off to car shows for entire weekends, but I put in a lot of hours and was blindly loyal to the business, so I think that’s a big reason why she was so willing to let me go to car shows during the summer.

One of the things I hate about retail is that the schedule isn’t structured. I prefer a job where you know what your hours and schedule are, but they can ask you to come in and work an evening shift or a Saturday shift at a moment’s notice!

 

As I’ve said before, I routinely worked evenings and weekends at Puck, but 99% of the time I always had something to do and shifts went by quickly. Very rarely is there ever a dull moment working at a bar! There were also times when my boss would let me clock in and sit around for two hours or so just to wait for a UPS delivery!

The problem is that unless you own the bar and really know how to make it profitable, there isn’t a career in the bar business. My boss herself even says that the service industry is a dead-end job. Working at a bar will always be a good side gig though. My former boss's fiancé is a high school gym teacher, but he still bartends on Fridays and weekends to make extra money, and makes a fortune doing it! Ditto to barbacking if you really know what you’re doing! One guy I know is probably making close to six figures at his engineering job, but for a time he’d come back to barback at Puck on weekends for extra money. Ain’t nothing wrong with that!

 

Why do you hate your job, specifically?

 

Dude, you’re what? 19? You’ve got plenty of time!