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Community Conversation / Re: Happy Hollidays ^v^
« on: December 25, 2015, 10:28:21 am »
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Community Conversation / Re: Jobs and Careers
« on: August 20, 2015, 09:02:16 pm »
Currently, and for the last decade or so, I've had my own machine shop. I get to use all that trig that everyone always complained about back in high school on a daily basis. I get to set my own hours and don't get assigned all the crap jobs just because I happen to be the low man on the totem pole. I do those jobs, now, because there is no one I can pawn 'em off on. XD
I know, I know, having your own business and playing by your own rules seems like a dream come true, but there is a dark side. When you're working for someone else you don't have to take the work home with you, when you work for yourself you can't escape it. I'm tethered to it and can't just take time off to go fishing whenever I want, because someone might show up and need something fixed; something that has an entire operation and several dozen jobs depending on it. Sure, there is something about the feeling of taking a machine part that is no longer available and beyond repair -- making it better than original and seeing the customers jaw hit the floor in amazement, but then I have to deal with all the headaches associated with self employment. All the extra paperwork and planning for the future so that so that I don't become stagnant and have to close the doors like so many others have done.
Don't get me wrong, I love what I do, but self employment is not for the "faint hearted" or those that want to take it easy. Most days, it's from the minute you drag yourself out of bed until you fall back in at night in total exhaustion. I wouldn't trade it, though, for anything else I've ever done.
I know, I know, having your own business and playing by your own rules seems like a dream come true, but there is a dark side. When you're working for someone else you don't have to take the work home with you, when you work for yourself you can't escape it. I'm tethered to it and can't just take time off to go fishing whenever I want, because someone might show up and need something fixed; something that has an entire operation and several dozen jobs depending on it. Sure, there is something about the feeling of taking a machine part that is no longer available and beyond repair -- making it better than original and seeing the customers jaw hit the floor in amazement, but then I have to deal with all the headaches associated with self employment. All the extra paperwork and planning for the future so that so that I don't become stagnant and have to close the doors like so many others have done.
Don't get me wrong, I love what I do, but self employment is not for the "faint hearted" or those that want to take it easy. Most days, it's from the minute you drag yourself out of bed until you fall back in at night in total exhaustion. I wouldn't trade it, though, for anything else I've ever done.
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Introductions / Re: Salaam
« on: August 20, 2015, 02:29:28 pm »
Hey there! Welcome to where all the cool kids hang out. 
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Community Conversation / Re: Community Conversation
« on: July 30, 2015, 03:06:47 pm »
Well, let me preface this by saying that I am in no respect an expert in this, but I am the oldest of six. It took me about a decade to get up nerve enough to say that enough was enough. For some reason, my siblings either couldn't hold onto a job or they just couldn't afford to live on their measly earnings. They weren't all like that. In fact, the youngest of the lot, a sister, worked her way through school while supporting her children and their deadbeat father while he sat on his lazy butt playing video games and refusing to watch their children or help out in any way around the house. (When she finally booted him to the curb, it was a changing point in her life and I felt so proud.)
Anyway, back on topic: While I was helping the rest pay their bills -- while they had cable TV, a decent vehicle, went out to eat, etc, while I would be eating beans three meals a day and walking to work to save money, doing without a phone and electricity sometimes -- it slowly dawned on me that I wasn't doing them any favors by letting them remain immature. I decided that it was time they stood on their own two feet. It was a very difficult decision, because two of them had kids, but they needed to learn to be adults. They could make it on their own, they just never had to. While I kept close tabs on them (just in case) even though I was the last person in the world they wanted to ever see again, they managed to struggle through and learned that it wasn't that difficult. Not only are they fully capable of taking care of anything that life throws at them, but they are fully functioning and contributing members of society.
Now, I have a better relationship with them than I ever had previously.
Anyway, back on topic: While I was helping the rest pay their bills -- while they had cable TV, a decent vehicle, went out to eat, etc, while I would be eating beans three meals a day and walking to work to save money, doing without a phone and electricity sometimes -- it slowly dawned on me that I wasn't doing them any favors by letting them remain immature. I decided that it was time they stood on their own two feet. It was a very difficult decision, because two of them had kids, but they needed to learn to be adults. They could make it on their own, they just never had to. While I kept close tabs on them (just in case) even though I was the last person in the world they wanted to ever see again, they managed to struggle through and learned that it wasn't that difficult. Not only are they fully capable of taking care of anything that life throws at them, but they are fully functioning and contributing members of society.
Now, I have a better relationship with them than I ever had previously.
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Community Conversation / Re: Happy Hollidays ^v^
« on: July 04, 2015, 12:42:13 pm »
Just gonna BBQ some steaks and take it easy...
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Community Conversation / Re: Community Conversation
« on: June 13, 2015, 04:18:28 pm »XD no way! I have a bright green car too XD so great for finding in parking lots.
I bet mine is even easier to find. It's such a rattle trap that everyone is afraid to park too near it. It's almost like having private parking wherever I go.
But, at least it's old enough that I don't have to hire a mechanic when something goes wrong, I can fix it all myself.
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Introductions / Re: Hi, All!
« on: February 05, 2015, 10:59:07 am »Well, it aint pretty as it used to be around here.
Welcome to BHB.
Nice one.
Thank you.
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Introductions / Re: Hi, All!
« on: February 04, 2015, 06:21:46 pm »
Great! And it's nice to be out of the shadows.
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Introductions / Re: Hi, All!
« on: February 04, 2015, 06:08:22 pm »
Thanks.
I'm still trying to figure it out.
I'm still trying to figure it out.
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Introductions / Hi, All!
« on: February 04, 2015, 06:03:33 pm »
Hey to everyone I know, and hey to those I don't.
I've been lurking for a while now, but I finally decided to join. Hope that's okay with everyone.
I've been lurking for a while now, but I finally decided to join. Hope that's okay with everyone.
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