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Also Americans are not a diesel oriented country.
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I remember having a discussion about this topic on this BBS a couple years ago. I said that Americans asociate diesels with stinky black exhaust smoke and noise, something most people don't really want in a new vehicle. The person who was on the other side noted that modern diesels dont smoke or make much extra noise and I argued that I wasn't talking about reality, I was talking about perception, etc. It devolved into the usual wrestling match about pretty much irrelevent nonsense, like most of the arguments I have. Maybe I can dig up the thread for everyone to enjoy...![Image]()
~daxe
edit: here it is
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whats so hard about throwing papers?
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That's funny. I wouldn't want to throw a 6 pound paper out of my car 500 times.![Image]()
For the life of me I can't recall what the original topic of this thread is (and I just read the whole thing) but being an outsider to the conversation I witness the funnay everywhere.
This thread is testament people can disagree about anything. However, I did an experiment this morning about jobs. Every place I stopped at I asked if they were hiring and asked about wages, experience, and flexibility. I'll list them off:
Cumberland Farms Convenience store a franchise here in the NE. Pay starts at $8.75, they will train (no exp necessary), and will work with your schedule between all shifts if needed. They are hiring all the time and offer an average of 5+ hours overtime a week.
Webster Bank Pay starts @ $8.55 with increases at 60 and 120 days. Will train, flexible for part timers. Saturdays are part of schedule.
The dump (our local refuse and tranfer station). Starts @ $7.50 with annual raises and the woman said "...if you get fired from this job you have to be a real jackass!" I asked her (she's been there as long as I can remember if) what she felt about her pay and she said her time invested made her overpaid by some standards but without her the "dump" would be in a state of confusion.
Stop and Shop grocery store. Pay starts at $8.25. Their lowest wages in the building. Depending on position and schedule a person starting could earn almost 11 dollars. They offer benefits for those whom work over 32 hours and are always hiring. No exp needed. Completely flexible at most positions --- The guy wouldn't let me leave the store he wanted me to work there so bad. He said the last person to be this inquisitive is now a manager at a sister store a few towns away. HAHA.
US Postal Service. They by far offer some of the best options. A part time employee starts a little over $9, full-time has incentives allowing wage increases after training and STARTS at over $11. That is just starting. The more you learn the more advancement opportunity you have equaling pay wage increase. There are 12-16 jobs available withing the next three months in our area between F&PT. The person whom I spoke to gave me a list of opportunities faxed to her in other locations. They were no less than a 30 minute drive but she said getting a foot in the door allows a good chance to be transfered somewhere close to home.
Home Depot- Pay depends on position and experience. Some postition do not require exp, they will train. Those positions start at $9. Temp FT jobs start at $15 w/o benefits. They keep the best of the temps after the contract is up (according to the manager). Flexible between shifts weekend hours are required.
I spent about an extra hour and a half throughout my travels today inquiring and what I learned was there are jobs out there, you won't be living Heffner's or Oprah's life but it might be better than what your doing now and less stressful.
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That's funny. I wouldn't want to throw a 6 pound paper out of my car 500 times.
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But you go to a gym and lift weights. Go figure.
Ya know, maybe it's because my parents owned a subscription mailing business when I was growing up and from age 11 (yes, eleven) I was either loading hundreds of 25 lb cartons of magazines into or out of trucks and station wagons and carrying them up and down stairs every day after school and full time in the summer, or reloading 50 lb US Mail bags full of the same magazines after they were addressed and presorted and bundled and unloading them at the post office, but (run-on sentence aside) I still don't think 500 - 6 lb newspapers sounds like a lot of work to handle.I guess it really is all in perspective.![Image]()
Nice research, CTB! You are always good for throwing a thoughtful wrench into the works.
~daxe
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But you go to a gym and lift weights. Go figure.
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Oh, I could do it because I do work out. But I go to the gym for a quality of life thing, not to be able to hulk something 75 feet out of my driver's side window at 4:30 in the morning. If it were my job and I had to do it, I would, it just doesn't sound like a job I want. Plus the gym has tight little booties bouncing around and they are connected to little hawtie twenty-somethings and milfs. The only thing I want to throw at them doesn't weigh 6 lbs (I could only wish).![Image]()
Thing is, I can see everyone's points. That doesn't convince/sway me to think one way or the other though because I know I have a choice to make something happen. I started my business using my $500 VW Fox and didn't even own a nail pouch/ tool belt. Hell, I borrowed tools. Less than two years later I own a 6.6 ton turbo diesel and A LOT of tools to make my job easier. The best thing IMO there is no debt connected to the acquisition to all of it; just planning and sacrifice that pays off. Partly, I can thank the Samurai hobby for helping me... because when I needed something job specific I knew I could part out a rig I bought out of someone's yard or bartered for.
I think that is where Daxe's thought comes from too. He is a very smart person that thinks outside of the box many times--- A thought process that offers-up the ability to tackle a problem in multiple ways. Then again it could be simply called thinking...
A lot of times we get sucked into a job and it seems like we're forced to stay there as we slowly extend ourselves. Thankfully this isn't post-slavery South America. We can make adjustments, seek out new jobs, and create opportunity. A woman whose child I teach told me a great story about inventing opportunity. She, a single mother of three less than calm boys, couldn't find time to make the extra money to dig herself out of a rut forced unto her. She thought about her skills, hit up the internet (from her children's' school library), and realized she could create an opportunity with little investment other than time. She now makes a few extra hundred a month advising and creating recipes for all sorts of places: Hotels, restaurants, and internet sites. All the while she kept her regular job. Who knows, maybe eventually this woman will expand to do the thing she loves full time and move out of ghetto tenements but she is a success because she's making her way, her way.
We have the opportunity to better ourselves even if our jobs suck. We have the ability to dig ourselves out of debt peonage, it isn't easy but it is possible. I do truly think most things are possible because at one time everything was thought of as impossible. If we have the ability to complain we have the ability to change.
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ill just replace it with a Briggs and Straton DOHC electric start!
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or you could cut holes in the floorboards and just use your feet to propel yourself around.
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~daxe
