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Marketing!

But not the glamorous side of marketing, more the operational side where I'm responsible for telling our hundreds of thousands of customers when something has gone wrong, gone right, or when there's anything they need to know. I prefer it to being someone who writes advertisements that just get deleted/skimmed by a spam filter. You can't avoid my E-mails.

But I am also a published writer with over ten 40k books with my name in the writing credits (and even more in other places). So that's pretty cool.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Nope

Well if it’s not that I’m just going to assume you are a house elf and leave it at that

Come back next time for another exciting round of “what on earth is a Mad Dok Grotsnik”!

*desultory background applause*

To be fair, it has been ages since someone gave me clothes.

I do of course buy my own!

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
So, I'm reaching the term of my contract in the army and soon back to civilian life, so I had to choose a new job to learn. Going for welding, if everything goes right. Got a year apprenticeship ahead.

Got me thinking while fooling around on dakka: what's your profession, fellow dakkanauts?

I'm a mechanical engineer and I am lucky enough to live from my passion, as I'm basically making tanks.

@Maréchal des Logis Walter : I know your profile picture intimately

Héhé, Nexter?

Thought i'd change the picture since I'm officially a welder trainee since two weeks ago but hey

For those still trying to riddle out exactly what I does for my Munneh?

An ode.

Doctor


General Practitioner and owner of a group practice.

 Easy E wrote:

ccs wrote:
Officially retired Toy Salesman/big retail management.

Congrats on retirement.

I am interested in hearing some more about this.

It's a story with 4 parts.
1 happy, 3 sad.

Pt.1, 2005 (sad): Toys R US is bought out by a group of private equity firms. Resulting in us being buried under billions of dollars of debt.
@$×&* leveraged buyout.....

Pt.2, 2005 - 2018 (happy):
Seeing the writing on the wall....
I kicked my financial security/retirement plan into HIGH gear.
I Worked like hel +, more importantly, became very educated on how to make $ (and i was already good at it). I then proceeded to make a hell-a-lot of $ in those years.
I set an official retirement date of Jan 25th, 2020.
(That'd allow me to wrap up the 2019 Christmas season and the year end inventory - without rolling into TRUs next fiscal year)

Pt.3, 2018 (sad):
Well, all that debt TRU had from being bought out in 2005? As I'd predicted, it finally killed us.
We closed mid-2018 here in the USA. .
19 months short of my retirement date. I didn't get the joy of sending my boss a postcard from somewhere warm & sandy. :(
Not a huge inconvenience financially though - I'd hit my retirement funding goal about 3 years prior. So I just joked that I was "on vacation".

Pt.4, mid-Jan 2020 (very sad):
My mother dropped over dead.
Had a stroke while feeding the cat I'm told. Well that was about 15-20 years earlier than anyone expected! :(
She left behind a considerable estate.
And then the pandemic hit....
Being the Co-Executor of a very sizable estate & having to do it admist a pandemic screwing everything up - well I was no longer on vacation.
My new full-time job became paperwork.
Finally, eventually, the estate wrapped up & my brother & I are now in charge of the family assets.
Though Mondays & Tuesdays are still dedicated to paperwork. (Monday = family assets, Tue = personal assets)
There is now no doubt that I'm retired though.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Thought i'd change the picture since I'm officially a welder trainee since two weeks ago but hey

Don't put a picture of your girlfriend otherwise my previous post will sounds really weird !

Defence Force - light infantry.

ccs wrote:

 Easy E wrote:

ccs wrote:
Officially retired Toy Salesman/big retail management.

Congrats on retirement.

I am interested in hearing some more about this.

It's a story with 4 parts.
1 happy, 3 sad.

Pt.1, 2005 (sad): Toys R US is bought out by a group of private equity firms. Resulting in us being buried under billions of dollars of debt.
@$×&* leveraged buyout.....

Pt.2, 2005 - 2018 (happy):
Seeing the writing on the wall....
I kicked my financial security/retirement plan into HIGH gear.
I Worked like hel +, more importantly, became very educated on how to make $ (and i was already good at it). I then proceeded to make a hell-a-lot of $ in those years.
I set an official retirement date of Jan 25th, 2020.
(That'd allow me to wrap up the 2019 Christmas season and the year end inventory - without rolling into TRUs next fiscal year)

Pt.3, 2018 (sad):
Well, all that debt TRU had from being bought out in 2005? As I'd predicted, it finally killed us.
We closed mid-2018 here in the USA. .
19 months short of my retirement date. I didn't get the joy of sending my boss a postcard from somewhere warm & sandy. :(
Not a huge inconvenience financially though - I'd hit my retirement funding goal about 3 years prior. So I just joked that I was "on vacation".

Pt.4, mid-Jan 2020 (very sad):
My mother dropped over dead.
Had a stroke while feeding the cat I'm told. Well that was about 15-20 years earlier than anyone expected! :(
She left behind a considerable estate.
And then the pandemic hit....
Being the Co-Executor of a very sizable estate & having to do it admist a pandemic screwing everything up - well I was no longer on vacation.
My new full-time job became paperwork.
Finally, eventually, the estate wrapped up & my brother & I are now in charge of the family assets.
Though Mondays & Tuesdays are still dedicated to paperwork. (Monday = family assets, Tue = personal assets)
There is now no doubt that I'm retired though.

What happened to TRU was ridiculous. Congrats on retirement, though.

 sigismund22 wrote:

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Thought i'd change the picture since I'm officially a welder trainee since two weeks ago but hey

Don't put a picture of your girlfriend otherwise my previous post will sounds really weird !

Hmmm, yeah. Yeah. J'avoue

@ Mad Doc Grotsnik : FCA ?

Old-Four-Arms wrote:
@ Mad Doc Grotsnik : FCA ?

Nope! If I did, I’d have long since legally changed my name to Brunt.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Old-Four-Arms wrote:
@ Mad Doc Grotsnik : FCA ?

Nope! If I did, I’d have long since legally changed my name to Brunt.

Ah, that had been my guess for a number of years. Need to rearrange the red thread on the pinboard...

I’m kinda feeling like a crap Rumplestiltskin 🤣🤣

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


Nope! If I did, I’d have long since legally changed my name to Brunt.

Right, that's it. In my headcanon you're now played by Jeffrey Coombs.

Financial Ombudsman Service?

Army - 34 years this month.

I saw a brief headline that Toys R Us maybe opening up 24 stores again soon. Coming out of Bankruptcy.

pgmason wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


Nope! If I did, I’d have long since legally changed my name to Brunt.

Right, that's it. In my headcanon you're now played by Jeffrey Coombs.

Financial Ombudsman Service?

Given my many careers? He is an accurate comparison!



I’ve been….Hotel General Assistant, Accounts Junior, IT Technician, Laser Vision Salesman, GW Till Monkey (three times), Taxi Driver, Photoshoot Booker, Spectacles Salesman, Cinema Usher, Insurance Claims Handler, Unemployed, Smelly…wait…

Impressive record