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 labmouse42 wrote:

 Frankenberry wrote:
Work in the server room that controls/maintains every casino, sports betting, and lottery system in my current state.

The hardest part of my day? Staying awake.

Most server rooms I've worked in have sucked because they keep them cold all the time.
Do you have to bring a jacket and mittens to work? That must make typing on the computers hard.

I go to many, many datacenters...

They're all fething cold... for good reason.

The worst is during the hottest of summer in the mid-west (like swimming through hot wet noodles), then going into one of these datacenters. I swear, the worst colds I ever get is when I'm going in-and-out of these datacenters during the summer...

I never understand why people dont want a job while in college, Im taking 3 classes, Ten units, and i work 14 hours a week, Last semester i worked sometime 20 hours a week with 14 credits. Isnt College the time you most want a job?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I never understand why people dont want a job while in college, Im taking 3 classes, Ten units, and i work 14 hours a week, Last semester i worked sometime 20 hours a week with 14 credits. Isnt College the time you most want a job?

Having a job is useful, but it takes up time you could use to having fun. For many people during college this is priority. Particularly those who have another source of disposable income to have fun with.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I never understand why people dont want a job while in college, Im taking 3 classes, Ten units, and i work 14 hours a week, Last semester i worked sometime 20 hours a week with 14 credits. Isnt College the time you most want a job?

This neatly summarizes everything I want to say about this:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im a college student, and i will admit, I know very little about sentence structure.
If your ask me, I think its because of how flipping bad English teachers are.

That and you're a sociology major. I considered attaching a meme.

 Chongara wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I never understand why people dont want a job while in college, Im taking 3 classes, Ten units, and i work 14 hours a week, Last semester i worked sometime 20 hours a week with 14 credits. Isnt College the time you most want a job?

Having a job is useful, but it takes up time you could use to having fun. For many people during college this is priority. Particularly those who have another source of disposable income to have fun with.

Yeah... college is a fun time of your life and should be...

But, there's nothing wrong with working too Especially if it's in the same industry you're going to school for...

 AustonT wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I never understand why people dont want a job while in college, Im taking 3 classes, Ten units, and i work 14 hours a week, Last semester i worked sometime 20 hours a week with 14 credits. Isnt College the time you most want a job?

This neatly summarizes everything I want to say about this:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im a college student, and i will admit, I know very little about sentence structure.
If your ask me, I think its because of how flipping bad English teachers are.

That and you're a sociology major. I considered attaching a meme.

Ok, why do you, at every chance you get, try to put me down or insult me? What have i ever done to you?
You always go back to extremely old posts and bring them up. It makes me think you save every single thing i say as evidence, like some crazy girlfriend.

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

I have a degree in Chemical Engineering. In my current roll, I'm a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Engineer.

I find ways to reduce waste and save the company money. No, I don't cut positions or reduce headcount, which is what people thought I was brought in to do. No job has been lost as a result of one of my projects.

Extremely old is an interesting way to describe less than a month ago. Have you had some sort of radical life change in the last 30< days?



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 Seaward wrote:
I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed,

I can ride my bike with no handlebars


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 kronk wrote:
I have a degree in Chemical Engineering. In my current roll, I'm a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Engineer.

I thought that was a joke from 30 Rock. Six Sigma is real?

No, Im just curious about why you try to belittle me every chance you get.
Also can be please be quiet about my lack of intelligence. I have been a special education student for most of my life, I have an inability to retain knowledge and I have problems forming cohesive thoughts. That is why English is so hard for me.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
No, Im just curious about why you try to belittle me every chance you get.
Also can be please be quiet about my lack of intelligence. I have been a special education student for most of my life, I have an inability to retain knowledge and I have problems forming cohesive thoughts. That is why English is so hard for me.

I didn't belittle you, and as I've said before when you get your feathers ruffled, I go out of my way not to. You just shouldn't think your comments go off into empty space. Taking what you've said about education before and what you just said about jobs now; do you really expect me to take that seriously?
Let's hold aside for the moment you aren't going full time either.

I'm a database administrator for a legal software/services provider.

Basically I'm a scapegoat for bad code.

Ok, then I'm curious about what your two quotes of me have to do with each other.

hotsauceman1 wrote:No, Im just curious about why you try to belittle me every chance you get.
Also can be please be quiet about my lack of intelligence. I have been a special education student for most of my life, I have an inability to retain knowledge and I have problems forming cohesive thoughts. That is why English is so hard for me.

You're posting on the internet, a communication medium based on the written word. We have no way of knowing anything about you, except for what you choose to post, and the manner in which you write it. If your chosen posts are poorly written, and not well thought out, it stands to reason that people will think of you as less intelligent. If this means you need to spend more time proofreading your posts, correcting your grammar and your spelling, so be it. That you're a special education student doesn't excuse your lack of writing skills, it just means you have to take the additional time to address a deficiency that you already acknowledge exists. If you cannot put the time and effort into making yourself understood, why should any of the rest of us put any time or effort into understanding you? If you don't care enough about what you have to say to make that effort, why should any of the rest of us care about what you have to say either?

 reiner wrote:
I'm a database administrator for a legal software/services provider.

Basically I'm a scapegoat for bad code.

I'm sure you're on a list somewhere.

As a self admitted college student that barely understands sentence structure who also doesn't understand why college students wouldn't want a job?

Man, what could I be saying?

 reiner wrote:
I'm a database administrator for a legal software/services provider.

Basically I'm a scapegoat for bad code.

What databases do you support?

 AustonT wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I have a degree in Chemical Engineering. In my current roll, I'm a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Engineer.

I thought that was a joke from 30 Rock. Six Sigma is real?

Yeah dude it's real. the army has plenty of LSS education programs on Skillport.

Vas ist Skillport. Part of Reimer?

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 AustonT wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I have a degree in Chemical Engineering. In my current roll, I'm a Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement Engineer.

I thought that was a joke from 30 Rock. Six Sigma is real?

Yeah dude it's real. the army has plenty of LSS education programs on Skillport.

Yup...LSS been around for years.

The Japanese perfected it in their Manufacturing industries...

Im a service associate at the 5th largest Honda dealership in the US. Best job Ive ever had. Im fat paid and Ive always been big into cars and worked in the industry so I get service on my Cobra for cheap. Basically I do troubleshooting, recall contacts, appointment setting, all sorts of stuff. So relaxed, good pay, and Im right in my element. Even have a Burna, Termagaunt, and Khorne Zerk at my desk!

 AustonT wrote:
Vas ist Skillport. Part of Reimer?

It's part of the army's new correspondence course program. Basically, take a crap load of classes by computer instead of in a classroom.

I work as a Collections Representative for the Internal Revenue Service. I take inbound calls from people that owe anywhere below 6 figures and tell them how to fix it so they don't continue to owe, then set them up on some sort of agreement to get them out of collections so we don't have to talk to them again. Its a stressful job that happens to pay well, and one that I never imagined myself doing, but when your unemployment is almost up you get what you can.

My primary field before this was emergency services radio and equipment installation and service. I made crown vice into police cars and cool seized drug dealer cars into DEA undercover rigs to name a couple things. I would also service tower equipment for local PD and FD, climbing towers up to 360ft to put up a 2 ft antenna, fun but cold in all seasons and dangerous.

So until I find a job that pays as well as the one I have with the IRS I'll keep doing what I am doing.

 AustonT wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I never understand why people dont want a job while in college, Im taking 3 classes, Ten units, and i work 14 hours a week, Last semester i worked sometime 20 hours a week with 14 credits. Isnt College the time you most want a job?

This neatly summarizes everything I want to say about this:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im a college student, and i will admit, I know very little about sentence structure.
If your ask me, I think its because of how flipping bad English teachers are.

That and you're a sociology major. I considered attaching a meme.

I would like to point out that I held a job for all 5 years of college. Now before you (all) go ripping into me about my length of time spent at Uni, my degree program is impossible to complete in 4 years without AP credit, Post-Secondary work, or summer classes, a fact they failed to mention to me. During that time, I worked on average 20 hours a week, maintained a solid GPA hovering right about 3.0. I never have been an ace student, but I did work my arse off, and am proud of my college career. My final three semesters were all above a 3.6. I agree that students in college should spend their time going to class, doing well, and having fun at the same time. I just cut 20 hours of fun or studying out of my week. It happens, but it can be done. Looking back, I would probably have attempted to have more fun, and less money, but that's life.

Lord knows I've got crazy college stories.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 AustonT wrote:
Vas ist Skillport. Part of Reimer?

It's part of the army's new correspondence course program. Basically, take a crap load of classes by computer instead of in a classroom.

Same system we steal promotion points out of for military Ed?

IronWarLeg wrote:
I work as a Collections Representative for the Internal Revenue Service. I take inbound calls from people that owe anywhere below 6 figures and tell them how to fix it so they don't continue to owe, then set them up on some sort of agreement to get them out of collections so we don't have to talk to them again. Its a stressful job that happens to pay well, and one that I never imagined myself doing, but when your unemployment is almost up you get what you can..

I might have talked to you once then .

Of course I was a nice person on the phone, no point in being a jerk to the people that have the power to help you.

 Alfndrate wrote:

I would like to point out that I held a job for all 5 years of college. Now before you (all) go ripping into me about my length of time spent at Uni, my degree program is impossible to complete in 4 years without AP credit, Post-Secondary work, or summer classes, a fact they failed to mention to me. During that time, I worked on average 20 hours a week, maintained a solid GPA hovering right about 3.0. I never have been an ace student, but I did work my arse off, and am proud of my college career. My final three semesters were all above a 3.6. I agree that students in college should spend their time going to class, doing well, and having fun at the same time. I just cut 20 hours of fun or studying out of my week. It happens, but it can be done. Looking back, I would probably have attempted to have more fun, and less money, but that's life.

Lord knows I've got crazy college stories.

No shame there dude. I was dual major philosophy/computer science, taking usually 4-5 classes, and working a (thankfully) easy laid back job 20 hours a week that I could study at while working. I had a bit of a breakdown somewhere around my graduate level compiler construction class, and never finished.

At least you completed your degree.

 AustonT wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 AustonT wrote:
Vas ist Skillport. Part of Reimer?

It's part of the army's new correspondence course program. Basically, take a crap load of classes by computer instead of in a classroom.

Same system we steal promotion points out of for military Ed?

yep, they cut out "ass in seat" courses, put them there, and then cap the number of correspondence points you can get.... sheer brilliance in MOSs like mine, where you need 1 million points to even get looked at.



And to the OP... I am in the army for the time being, round abouts July I will be leaving, and finding work elsewhere while pursuing an EE degree.

I work in a Printing and Shipping store. I enjoy it, but it's not a career.

Studying to be an Electrical Engineer.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 AustonT wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 AustonT wrote:
Vas ist Skillport. Part of Reimer?

It's part of the army's new correspondence course program. Basically, take a crap load of classes by computer instead of in a classroom.

Same system we steal promotion points out of for military Ed?

yep, they cut out "ass in seat" courses, put them there, and then cap the number of correspondence points you can get.... sheer brilliance in MOSs like mine, where you need 1 million points to even get looked at.



And to the OP... I am in the army for the time being, round abouts July I will be leaving, and finding work elsewhere while pursuing an EE degree.

In that case it seems likely my certificates in small team management, project management, and managerial budgeting are from LSS...or not who knows?


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Its seemed like a good idea at the time they were like 20hours each.