Working Stiffs

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by solaria2k
There seems to be more of a call for ichthyologists these days too. I\'d love it if my daughter went for that kind of career.

Really? More of a call for ichthyologists? It\'s funny; because I never pursued it because there was no work in ichthyology. Those that I had spoken to all ended up working on trout or koi farms.

Mind you, it was many years later that I had opportunity to work with an ichthyologist who was tracking whale sharks. A hell of a guy, but he smelt of fish.

Originally posted by DragonsreachWhat I dislike about it is the politics , one-upmanship, user ignorance, user non-ingorance and general disregard that IT professionals like my staff and I have to put up with from a few A*******s...

I might be one of those arseholes, Mike. For me, IT lost credibility when every Tom, Dick and Harry with a MCSE or MCwhatever thought they knew it all. The people who truly did know their stuff got a bad reputation, even while paying big money (and learning almost nothing) for a valueless certification in order to stay ahead. I\'m not sure whether our rant is the same, or whether we\'re at opposite corners.

 

[dauber22]

Can\'t hate my job. I work with pretty good people and, like Airhead said, where else could I get paid to spend most of mly day here ??? lol

 

[Sturmhalo]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
I like IT, it\'s put money in my pocket for 30+ years.
What I dislike about it is the politics , one-upmanship, user ignorance, user non-ingorance and general disregard that IT professionals like my staff and I have to put up with from a few A*******s, who, because that hold a position as a teacher, think that they are better than everyone else who gets their hands dirty occasionally.

:flame: /Rant over.

Sorry about that. I feel much better now.

When I was at university it was the IT staff who were the stuck up arseholes! Swings and roundabouts I guess.



And I still love/hate my job

 

[Duende]

Originally posted by Sturmhalo
And I still love/hate my job

Sturm, I get this feeling that everything in your life is a love/hate relationship.
So what\'s you job anyway? Or do we have to guess?

@ Dauber and Airhead- Must be nice to get paid to be here. Got any applications for posting freaks?

@ RedDawn - apparently we are long lost twins seperated at birth. Am I the good or evil one? (and sure we can go to the barns when you visit, no problem!)

@Wiccanpony- I was thinking of you when I wrote the original posting, that you\'d only of the few to appreciate it! That\'s a reall cutie you have there!

@ TAB- at least your ouside work is already in a place where it warm. I can wait for winter here, with blowing snow and frozen water buckets, ugh!

@ Airhead again- Nope, The young college ladies do their own saddling and riding. And grooming and bathing--- of thier horses! Maybe this should go in the Innuendo thread....hmm..

 

[ipaintminis]

See mom and papa cant say the \"M\" word (mow) around me...i dont like it very much


right now i am a full time student...and I love it!!! :flip:

 

[Sturmhalo]

Originally posted by Duende

Originally posted by Sturmhalo
And I still love/hate my job

Sturm, I get this feeling that everything in your life is a love/hate relationship.
So what\'s you job anyway? Or do we have to guess?

I paint figures!

And if ya ain\'t got love, ya gotta fill the void wi a little hate

 

[dauber22]

So, Ms. Pony...

... Just to settle an arguement, if you took a picture of the opposite end of your frined there, would it look more like Finn or Supervike???
lol lol lol lol lol



Of course, if it\'s ears were longer, it\'d look a lot more like me.

 

[freakinacage]

i love the pay. i just hate the management. and a lot of patients (would you come into a+e at 5am with a small cut on your finger?!). oh and i hate most doctors too

 

[dauber22]

Wait! Duende! You work at Wilson College - and it\'s an all girl school It must be fate! (my last name is Wilson) I\'ll trade jobs with you lol:innocent:lol With the amount of horsesh#t I\'ve shovelled in my life, I MUST be qualified

 

[frenchkid]

well at the moment I\'m unemployed, just finnished high school and still not signed up for next year But unemployment suits me just fine
As for ideal job, I thinl an ambassador somwhere would be nice

 

[wiccanpony]

Originally posted by dauber22
... Just to settle an arguement, if you took a picture of the opposite end of your frined there, would it look more like Finn or Supervike???
lol lol lol lol lol



Of course, if it\'s ears were longer, it\'d look a lot more like me.

hard to tell......but I have cleaned that ponys back end many a time.....wonder if Finn or Vike is into \"fisting\"lollol

 

[WurzagUdUraZahuba]

I HATE my job!!! Fencing is the most exhausting and repetitive job in the world. The only thing that ever changes is the weather, from pissing rain to scorching hot. All do is pound row after row of posts into the ground with a 80ish pound chunk of metal, or nail mile after mile of boards onto said posts. And to top it off my boss can can be the most condicending childish person you have ever met. He has never fired a single person in his entire career. Every one of his former employees has quit. I really want to do something else but the problem is I just don\'t know where to begin, and I\'m scared to go out on a limb and then get stuck

 

[Shawn R. L.]

I really want to do something else but the problem is I just don\'t know where to begin, and I\'m scared to go out on a limb and then get stuck

I had job that was an absolute hell-hole. I was scared to leave for the same reason you stated. Finally the disgust got the best of me and I punched out for lunch one day and that was the end of that job. I literally wept upon leaving. I was scared of not finding another job and overjoyed to have the nightmare end. Sometimes you just gotta take the plunge. Everything worked out fine. I found another job almost without trying.

 

[RedDawn]

Originally posted by Duende

@ RedDawn - apparently we are long lost twins seperated at birth. Am I the good or evil one? (and sure we can go to the barns when you visit, no problem!)

@Wiccanpony- I was thinking of you when I wrote the original posting, that you\'d only of the few to appreciate it! That\'s a reall cutie you have there!

@Duende - I\'m definitely the evil twin - just ask Grumb!

@WP - good looking horse! I used to show one that looked like yours, but was even more chestnut/brown. My cousin used to say she\'d get lost in a crowd of two because she didn\'t have a speck of white on her. lol

 

[wiccanpony]

RedDawn...that was the late, great \"Tuff Cookies\" aka. Tuffy, yellow dun QH gelding...finest little (14 hands) trail horse that was ever foaled, passed away at the ripe age of 30. I do miss the little bugger

 

[Duende]

@ Wiccanpony- we certainly have a thing for Quarter Horses! Here\'s a old pic of my little (14.1 hands) mare, Canjo. I had her waaaaay back when I was 16 and still miss her to this day.

@ Red Dawn- I don\'t know.. I think I could qualify as the evil twin, ...maybe we\'re just \"bad\" and \"worse\" lol

@ Dauber - Well, Wilson college used to be an all girls school but they do accept male students now (to be PC of course), but I\'d say 99% of them are girls.. maybe you should consider enrolling??

That is another bonus to being a college employee, a tuition waiver if I want to take classes! But oh, what to choose?? So many courses look interesting...

Ok, here\'s my little ole mare:

 

[wiccanpony]

Duende...a very nice little mare you had, I prefer the “old type”, small but quick with some brains...the modern QH’s topping out at 16 hands with washer woman butts and ballerina hoofs aren’t worth the feed.

Speaking of feed, what do you feed at your stables??
I’ve always boarded at a military stable and they are into pinching pennies.. Pellets, Am and Hay Cubes, Pm.

I’d buy my own Timothy grass hay so Tuff could have something to chew on during the day ( the fat fart could live on air).

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by wiccanpony
Duende...a very nice little mare you had, I prefer the “old type”, small but quick with some brains...the modern QH’s topping out at 16 hands with washer woman butts and ballerina hoofs aren’t worth the feed.

Speaking of feed, what do you feed at your stables??
I’ve always boarded at a military stable and they are into pinching pennies.. Pellets, Am and Hay Cubes, Pm.

I’d buy my own Timothy grass hay so Tuff could have something to chew on during the day ( the fat fart could live on air).

That\'s a really weird series of mental images to have cope with.

 

[Duende]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
That\'s a really weird series of mental images to have cope with.

And oddly enough, I understood every word!

@ Wiccanpony- Well, the college stables aren\'t so stingy, the horse get AM grain (either pellets or sweet feed depending on needs) along with regular baled timothy hay, then a lunch of some more hay, then dinner of grain again and hay. No skinny horses here, of course, they are mostly tall breeds to begin with, a lot of thoroughbreds, the \"appendix\" QH\'s which are the tall ones you mentioned, along with some drafter crossbreeds and warmbloods (Hanovarians, Trakhaners and such). Below is a pictue of Archie, a full Percheron.

But my Canjo, was a \"tradtional\" QH, she was bred and born in Oklahoma as cutting and reining horse. I got her when she was 18 years old but she was still a spry ole gal!

Archie:

Look, I\'m hijacking my own thread!

 

[marineboy]

Originally posted by Duend

Look, I\'m hijacking my own thread!

Civil disobedience, Duende, very good!