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Work World is Depressing

Harold falcon

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Alcohol. It's all that gets me through the day.
 

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Originally Posted by harvey_birdman
Alcohol. It's all that gets me through the day.

Yeah so far my Friday/Saturday's have consisted of copious amounts of liquor drinking. Now I understand the term "working for the weekend".
 

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Originally Posted by Dakota rube
How cool is that!?!
I always loved playing with my train sets.


Electrical Engineer with an oil drilling company...(onshore drilling, no BP).

I'll be working outside of the city in a small office building, making frequent trips to the drilling sites to deal with rig pigs.

=\\
 

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Originally Posted by MetroStyles
ftfy
I think Douglas actually enjoys what he is doing and the fact that, AFAIK, it involves producing something instead of being a master of powerpoint presentations about proactive synergies probably helps. In other words he is not "so fucked" like the OP.
 

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Originally Posted by 1up
Yeah so far my Friday/Saturday's have consisted of copious amounts of liquor drinking. Now I understand the term "working for the weekend".

I hate Loverboy, but I have to admit that song is pretty catchy.

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Originally Posted by harvey_birdman
I hate Loverboy, but I have to admit that song is pretty catchy.

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Yeah, I swear it somehow gets stuck in my head everyday Friday afternoon and I chant it until I am released from my 9-5 shackles and can inebriate myself into a drunken stupor.
 

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Originally Posted by Fuuma
I think Douglas actually enjoys what he is doing and the fact that, AFAIK, it involves producing something instead of being a master of powerpoint presentations about proactive synergies probably helps. In other words he is not "so fucked" like the OP.

I was just projecting my own frustrations onto Douglas.
 

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I am enjoying this threak.
 

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Originally Posted by 1up
Electrical Engineer with an oil drilling company...(onshore drilling, no BP).

I'll be working outside of the city in a small office building, making frequent trips to the drilling sites to deal with rig pigs.

=\\


Oh.
Well never mind, then.
 

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Originally Posted by Dakota rube
Oh.
Well never mind, then.


Yeah...it's not the most ideal position...I live in a pretty redneck province too, a lot of the rig workers are jackasses..

What do you do?
 

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