job ponders

fireball 3 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: job ponders

Does your proffesion affect you after work too? mine does. I'm a mechanic. I'm always seeing and hearing the bad cars while driving. picking out noises and smells the exhaust give off. am i weird or what? Laughing

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

No Fireball your not weird, your job is apparently something you like if you think about it after work. Wink

Personally after college I sit back and read abit about metalworking, read about the lastest things, and the like. If I see something made of metal I normally sit down and look at it and figure out how it was made and how it can be made quicker and cheaper. Smile

Dimitri

Bushmaster · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: Re: job ponders

I have a rule (or HAD a rule. I,m a retired Master Marine/Industrial Diesel Machanic) Work stays at work and home stays at home. Nope...Other people's cars, trains, buses, pickups, generators, boats or what ever don't bother me unless they are in my shop to be repaired...The only part of what I did for 45 years that erks me is those that expect me to give up my guns, fishing, hunting and horses to work on their cars or machinery on weekends FOR FREE. Mad

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!! Mad

(Unless you're supper extra special)...........

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

No one is "special" enough to stop a man (execpt maybe his wife) from enjoying the outdoors. Shocked

Dimitri

Bushmaster · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: Re: job ponders

Thankyou Big "D". About the only time I might work on a vehicle (outside my own) is when we are in his pickup and we are stranded in the mountains in his pickup...

moose2 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

When we have people hurt or die at an incident does bother me, especially if I know them.--tr

Morax · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

yeah i used to have that problem, but it has slowed down a lot, i usually just work on my own stuff now, and have not got near a hook in a while..

Bushmaster · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

I stopped, one time, to help a person broke down on I-5 (West Coast)...While I was repairing his engine he was filling his trunk with my tools...You wouldn't believe how fast a person can refill a tool box with a Mod 19 pointed at you...And that's where I left him minus his distributer which I left at a station about 5 miles up the highway...I haven't stopped sense...Not even for a pretty lady...

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Bushmaster,

Wow, I've heard of stories like this on the news but never from someone who actually had something like that happen. Shocked

Dimitri

Gil Martin · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: Job ponders

I have several jobs and when I get home, it is time to change gears and work on my guns, reload, read , drink beer and relax. I never work nights or weekends. Now I have jury duty next week. All the best...
Gil

fireball 3 · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

yeh, when we lived in redding, the customer's friend had loded my tool box while he paid the bill. never did get'um back. no tools loaned unless you deposit the full new price. my wife says that the older i get the more we need weekends just to do nothing. Dave Very Happy

tracker · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

Gil

Drinking beer when you get home is one of your jobs? Man that's tough work, I hope someone's compensating you for it Very Happy

fireball 3 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

i wonder, does a bar tender afer work makes his or her own drinks? Cool

1895ss · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

Who could do it better? So I'm guessing they do.......... Very Happy

tracker · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: job ponders

Of course, you'd think if anyone is discouraged from ever touching the stuff it'd be the bartenders, they get to see the results over and over again.