Sitting in a steel box where someone else drives, you get to spend your time semi useful. Either by doing work, reading a book, watching Netflix or playing games.
Yes, living in a country with a good network of big steel boxes, I sometimes also use them to get to my destination. A lot of the times they are rather full so I have to stand and stare into the air.
But mostly I am using my metal bars on two wheels so that I am not protected from nature and reach my destination equally fast, but full of sweat. But safe from people entering my personal space and spitting their illnesses into my face.
I actually in reality live in a really good place for walking and cycling, but I do understand the pain in the ass that is traffic congestion and "just add more lanes, man" mentality.
A small shop couldn't complete with a factory for something generic like shovels, it has to be custom stuff. I used to work at a metal shop that did that, till earlier this year, as a design technician on programming the cutter and press break.
My wife worked there, too, but the company hit financial troubles. She found a new job at a shop making ducting and delivering it. I ended up in a bakery for a couple of months.
People that work outdoors are far tougher than me!
I've been a food runner, a cashier, store support, retail systems technician, and done tradeshow setup all across the country. There's a job fair at the Naval Shipyard in town that I'm hoping might have something I could do.
I don't know about that, we've got a local shovel maker actually. Probably depends on many factors whether or not such an operation works out but it's certainly possible.
I work from home, love my job and make a great salary. I also have ~10 years of food service experience and would prefer to go back to that than to hear my office-working coworkers complain about the same shit I hear in the monthly meetings every day.
14 Comments
smokebuddy@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 1y
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
I love sitting by myself in a steel box waiting for every other steel box to move 2 miles in 1.5 hours traffic congestion my favorite
tja@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Well, better to sit in a steel box by yourself than sitting in a steel box with a lot of other people and getting sick.
abbadon420@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
Sitting in a steel box where someone else drives, you get to spend your time semi useful. Either by doing work, reading a book, watching Netflix or playing games.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Yes, living in a country with a good network of big steel boxes, I sometimes also use them to get to my destination. A lot of the times they are rather full so I have to stand and stare into the air.
But mostly I am using my metal bars on two wheels so that I am not protected from nature and reach my destination equally fast, but full of sweat. But safe from people entering my personal space and spitting their illnesses into my face.
smokebuddy@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
Mac@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
You can walk faster than that.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Yes, but car centric planning, man
Mac@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, i know. My little town is shit for walking.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I actually in reality live in a really good place for walking and cycling, but I do understand the pain in the ass that is traffic congestion and "just add more lanes, man" mentality.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Billy, how do you want to make me rich(er) when you grow up?
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y
I'd rather work in an office than food-service or retail. A workshop would be good too, rather not on-site construction.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
In a workshop making shovels for those outside people am I right
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
A small shop couldn't complete with a factory for something generic like shovels, it has to be custom stuff. I used to work at a metal shop that did that, till earlier this year, as a design technician on programming the cutter and press break.
My wife worked there, too, but the company hit financial troubles. She found a new job at a shop making ducting and delivering it. I ended up in a bakery for a couple of months.
People that work outdoors are far tougher than me!
I've been a food runner, a cashier, store support, retail systems technician, and done tradeshow setup all across the country. There's a job fair at the Naval Shipyard in town that I'm hoping might have something I could do.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I don't know about that, we've got a local shovel maker actually. Probably depends on many factors whether or not such an operation works out but it's certainly possible.
undefined@links.hackliberty.org · 2 pts · 1y
I work from home, love my job and make a great salary. I also have ~10 years of food service experience and would prefer to go back to that than to hear my office-working coworkers complain about the same shit I hear in the monthly meetings every day.