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[hairy]

Is it wrong to get drunk in the early afternoon, instead of looking for a job ?!

 

 

Nope, but it is wrong to get drunk in the early afternoon if you're at work!

[Nev]

Ooopsie, I've had a little lie down in bed and now it all seems better !

[ditonics]

Its all rock n roll in here today

[Nev]

Phewpf, a little drunken and I've receivied 5 emails !

 

 

Edited by Nev, 22 November 2017 - 08:36 PM.

[Nev]

 

. <-- Too drunk, had to delete that one.... or Cocopopos would have blown a fuse...    

Hate to tell you Nev, but mods can read deleted posts 🤓🤓

 

 

Ha ha, it would only concern Cocopops and the the Spanish Inquisition (if my addled cerebellum recalls correctly). Hopefully he is distracted by being obsequious to his betters on the Lotus forums. Oooh and BTW... the Spanish Inquisition has been disbanded.  

Edited by Nev, 22 November 2017 - 09:00 PM.

[Bakazan]

This is not a loaded question Nev, but how come you can spend months on end climbing and making exhaust systems without going to work?

 

Did you do well and sell a business or inherit a fortune?

 

Sorry if this is covered earlier in the 200 pages in this thread, and to be honest it's none of my business (so feel free to tell me to wind my neck in) but your post about looking for a job prompted the question.

[ditonics]

He's a rent boy  

[siztenboots]

He models jumpers

[Nev]

This is not a loaded question Nev, but how come you can spend months on end climbing and making exhaust systems without going to work?

 

Did you do well and sell a business or inherit a fortune?

 

Sorry if this is covered earlier in the 200 pages in this thread, and to be honest it's none of my business (so feel free to tell me to wind my neck in) but your post about looking for a job prompted the question.

 

No inherited money at all, no dole money, just my own hard work. At the moment I've been off work for 2.5 years, but am starting to look around for jobs locally, I am determined to get one that I can cycle to, so I can win the battle of the bulge.

 

The key to it was learning a complex and high demand skill that is well paid, in my case some specific IT stuff. Perspicacity granted me a good brain to do this, and my parents kindly polished that with a great education. All I do is use those 2 things and work contentiously (which employers always love). I also don't spend (waste?) a huge amount on all the clap-trap that the marketing wheels try to involve us with, so for example my mobile phone is 10 years old and can't run Facelark (on which I've posted up some of my Spain trip pics if you're interested). I semi-retired when I bought my first house with cash at the age of 31, and now I only work about 50% of my life (maybe less if I can get away with it).

 

Most people can do it really, so long as you engineer your life with a bit of discipline and foresight, rather than just let it evolve. For example, after I graduated at uni (before the days of the internet), I went into the careers room and startled the woman who ran it by spending 3 days solid in it, pouring over company books and info. She ask me what I was doing, which was seeking out what industries pay the best for my IT skills. Armed with that info I went to work in the City for 5 years (which was ranked #2 on my list) and earned a great salary (working very very hard) and bought my house with the proceeds.

 

Talking of discipline, I should have exercised a bit more of it on the Whisky last night, as my head is a bit squiffy!

 

 

Edited by Nev, 23 November 2017 - 09:14 AM.

[Nev]

He's a rent boy  

 

You wish  

[SteveA]

Cisco (CCIE etc.?)

Edited by SteveA, 23 November 2017 - 09:35 AM.

[KurtVerbose]

He pimps his mum out to Joe.

[siztenboots]

knITting patterns

[Nev]

knITting patterns

 

It's important for me to be fashionable in the garage.  

[Nev]

Cisco (CCIE etc.?)

 

Nope, I specialise in so called "Business Intelligence", which is just fancy pants talk for management reports (and coalescing the underlying data). It sounds simple, and it should be, but with all the different computer systems that an average big company has now the process of knitting all the data together is immensely complex.  

Edited by Nev, 23 November 2017 - 10:19 AM.

[SteveA]

ESB's?

[Nev]

ESB's?

 

Don't think I even know what that is, let alone used it!  

[SteveA]

Enterprise Service Bus, its the generic term for the middleware technology that knits systems together. Things like Mulesoft etc. Are you more process oriented rather than technology focused?

[Nev]

I mainly manage/program the software that stores and coalesces the data (eg SQL server, Oracle etc) and the BI reporting software (eg SSRS, Microstrategy etc). I started off programming (which I used to love as it's so functionally pure (like pure maths) and creative), but now I do more strategic type work, which determines how a company can best glean useful meaning from the (over) abundance of data they usually have.

 

It's all very specialised really, much the same as many quaternary sector job these days, once you are in it it is hard to cross train. At times I've wanted to get out, I even thought of becoming a fireman at one point!

 

One of the reasons I did my VX220 project was to simply use my hands for once, to create something physical and usable. The problem with my sort of work is that it is fundamentally ethereal and has no physical presence to see/use/measure it by. Instead, it's nice to shape a piece of metal and bolt it onto another piece to make a machine that snarls and breathes fire, something that you manifest your work in by controlling/driving it. And ultimately car work you do is very consequential, failing to do up a bolt or use the wrong strength metal (for instance) could end up have a life changing effect, and knowing that you did it right has reward (to me anyway).

 

 

Edited by Nev, 23 November 2017 - 11:31 AM.

[SteveA]

Ah so more on the ETL and Qlikview type front.

 

I do a fair bit of coding, mainly Powershell and Javascript (for automation) and do really enjoy it. It's better than the project management stuff I find myself increasingly involved in lately