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10-08-2021, 04:08 PM | #1 | ||
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Having several sections of road widening happening over here and watching the guys who monitor the speed signs etc, I got to thinking ...yeah its important but fair go boring as bats-hit.
what can you think of?
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10-08-2021, 04:09 PM | #2 | ||
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10-08-2021, 04:11 PM | #3 | ||
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10-08-2021, 04:21 PM | #5 | ||
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10-08-2021, 04:27 PM | #6 | ||
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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10-08-2021, 04:34 PM | #7 | ||
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I sit in court cases and listen to things id rather not. Its very dry and i often get asked “How do you do it….. it must be so boring”. Yes it is, but it’s also cruisey clean work. If I’m not in court I’m down stairs operating the xray machine (like the airport….. but we’re more friendlier
Been doing it 10 years nearly. Im 40 and could comfortably retire there. Stressful jobs…. Yeah they pay well but send you to an early grave
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10-08-2021, 05:02 PM | #8 | ||
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10-08-2021, 07:10 PM | #10 | ||
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10-08-2021, 07:13 PM | #11 | |||
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10-08-2021, 07:21 PM | #13 | ||
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10-08-2021, 07:28 PM | #14 | |||
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but this guard would have to have the most boring job and all he has is the news paper for the day
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10-08-2021, 07:36 PM | #15 | ||
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Worked on an automated potting machine in a nursery, occasionally you'd get a dead seedling, highlight of the day.
We'd listen to Metallica all day long, if you hadn't met the quota they'd turn the machine up and put on a faster Metallica album
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10-08-2021, 07:43 PM | #16 | |||
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10-08-2021, 07:48 PM | #17 | ||
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10-08-2021, 08:40 PM | #18 | ||
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Heh heh this immediately hit home.
I kid you not but on my trip across Oz in 2019 on the long 90 mile straightest section of road on the Nullarbor before Caiguna in the distance I could see something odd. I then came across this poor bugger all on his own in the middle of nowhere holding his stop sign with a fly net over his head that wasn't really working. After 5 minutes I got out and whilst holding my arms out I basically asked WTF I can't see anybody or any machines why am I having to stop. They are further up he replied. I said mate I'm going but don't panic as I will drive slow when I see them. I crested the horizon but the road still disappeared in the distance with no sign of anybody. I did 5 klm and there they were sitting around a grader having a break for who knows how long. I wanted to go back and tell this poor dude he was getting screwed. At least he was gone when I came back 2 weeks later http://members.iinet.net.au/~ozrunne...ics/Nulla1.jpg Last edited by ozrunner; 10-08-2021 at 08:51 PM. |
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10-08-2021, 09:42 PM | #19 | ||
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I once had a job gluing on labels for paint tins. Also another that involved riveting plastic blocks to metal strips and threading on a rubber strip. At least being a traffic controller in good weather you'd be outdoors and maybe see something interesting maybe - not standing at a factory bench seeing nothing but a pallet of work to do and hearing nothing but an air compressor. |
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10-08-2021, 09:56 PM | #20 | ||
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10-08-2021, 10:11 PM | #21 | |||
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10-08-2021, 11:09 PM | #22 | ||
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Heinz canning factory in Dandenong when I was a Uni student at Monash Uni- watching the can runs in the graveyard shift and waiting for a can to flip over.
Hour after hour just watching cans run through the machines.....Jesus I looked forward to operating the magnetic press after that- at least with the magnetic press every 1 minute you had to co- ordinate your two hands to press 2 buttons at the same time which after 6 hours became as skilful as operating a demanding manual gearbox....
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11-08-2021, 06:22 AM | #23 | |||
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11-08-2021, 06:38 AM | #24 | ||
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Back in the early 70's worked the arvo/night shift 8 hrs at a Salt company, then go to my day job as a boilermaker.
Standing at a Shute under a hot hopper filling plastic woven bags with 50kg of hot salt, stitching em up and slinging 10 high on a pallet, best part was the rock salt pile was hard as rock and 60 foot high, once a week about 4 am a hole was drilled into it and a stick of gelignite set off!..geez it blew sh.t everywhere, yeh that was boring except for the gelignite day. Cheers Billy. |
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11-08-2021, 07:19 AM | #25 | ||
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after spending a few years as a HV driver trainer, I reckon the most boring job is a side lift garbage truck driver, you know, they ones that pick up your wheelie bins out the front of your house
5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop - turn left 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop - turn left 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop 5 metres stop - turn left
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11-08-2021, 07:52 AM | #26 | ||
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When i worked on the Trans Line across the Nullabor for ANR operating track recon. machinery in the late 70's.... set up machine, then kms of throttle, stop & press 1 auto button over & over, wks into months.......huge turnover of interesting co-workers though
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11-08-2021, 07:55 AM | #27 | ||
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Any job involving an office, desk and paper.
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11-08-2021, 08:00 AM | #28 | ||
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11-08-2021, 12:57 PM | #29 | |||
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Waiting first in line on a rural road, the guys having an animated conversation over the two way, next thing he throws the bat in the bushes, hops in the ute and speeds off in the opposite direction Wondering whats going on I kept waiting, another ute come down the road and the guy hops out and asks me which way he went. I point that way and your bats in that bush
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11-08-2021, 01:38 PM | #30 | |||
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yes still (as money n time permit) doing the rebuilding the zh fairlane with a clevo 400m 4v heads injected whipple blown with aode 4 speed trans to a 9" ....... we'll get there eventually just remember don't be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark...Professionals built the Titanic! I have taken up meditation... at least it's better than sitting around doing nothing !! |
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