But what do you DO?

[freeflir29 0]

I walk and drive around with some guy for a couple hours. I make sure no one kills him.

[BGill 0]

haha. deal.

for starters, i recommend the Angel Food (strawberry banana) or Pineapple Surf (pineapple strawberry and kiwi). you won't be disappointed. unless of course your tastebuds are retarded, in which case thats your own fault.

[grue 1]

I'm a pineapple man-whore, so I bet I'd love the pineapple surf. I tend to get addicted to this kind of stuff, I hope it doesn't eat into my jump funds

cavete terrae.

[BGill 0]

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I tend to get addicted to this kind of stuff, I hope it doesn't eat into my jump funds

umm... i cannot be held accountable for any addiction that i may or may not have recommended to you.

if it cuts into jump funds, just do what i did... get a job at the friggin place. therefore smoothies become free and you get paid too. its a win-win situation.

[grue 1]

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I tend to get addicted to this kind of stuff, I hope it doesn't eat into my jump funds

umm... i cannot be held accountable for any addiction that i may or may not have recommended to you.

if it cuts into jump funds, just do what i did... get a job at the friggin place. therefore smoothies become free and you get paid too. its a win-win situation.

Hm. A second job wouldn't kill me for evenings, not like I have anything better to do during the week. Hrmmm.......

EDIT: I lied. Pool closes at 8, mall closes at 9. I don't think they'd want me to clock in for half an hour a day.

cavete terrae.

[mnealtx 0]

Get up, shower, walk into work.

Get briefed by the offgoing shift, make a cup of coffee. Fill out my timesheet for the previous day.

Log in to the computer, log in to the equipment. Check work emails for trouble tickets from the night before. Run alarms and events on the IDNX node. Check all the trunks for errors. Run alarms and events for the other 8 nodes in the network and check their trunks for errors. Work with the other sites if there is a problem on any of the trunks. Check the satellite equipment if there's problems on any of my trunks. Monitor for events/alarms on the node.

Log into personal email, see if anyone has sent me anything worth reading. Delete spam. Read my morning web comics. Log onto DZ.com. Check PM's and start reading forums. PW until 1 pm. Walk to the chow hall and eat lunch. Go back to work and PW until 7 pm. Walk to the chow hall and eat dinner. Go back to the barracks room and get on the internet. PW some more on DZ.com as applicable. Chat with friends on Yahoo. Log off. Read for a bit and go to sleep.

Repeat daily until my next vacation.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Cyanide41 0]

Well, it is 11:32 and I have been here exactly 31 minutes. So far I have clocked in. Ate the dinner I brought. Sorted through the corporate spam 98% of which did not apply to me. Quickly responded to 1 email. I made sure there were no tickets (customer cases) waiting for me. There were not. I made sure that there were not to many people on hold. There are none holding. So then I started reading DZ.com and watching starsky and hutch. Around midnight I will do the end of the day report of current cable internet outages as well as email some "highers" about what was going on today. Then I will go back to watching TV and surfing the internet. Once in a while a technical service rep will call me up to ask my advice on an issue. Towards 5am I send out another reports and close any maintance outage that may be open. Then I fight the sandman untill 7:30.


OH!! and around 2am I go play air hockey while the janitors clean the office.

JAMES

[Beerlight 0]

Preparing to go upstairs to the divers area, and give pre-dive physicals to 2 Astronauts (that will be practicing EVA in the pool) and whatever divers missed the Monday morning physical rush. Some days I teach physiological training classes, and today is such a day. So, after physicals, I'll get some coffee, review my lesson plan, and step into the classroom to teach Trapped Gas/Decompression Sickness to 11 civilian pilots that signed up for our class which includes a chamber flight to 25,000 feet this afternoon. Of course, I'll be inside observer #2 on the flight. I'll make sure all the students stay safe, put their oxygen mask BACK ON when we tell them!, and not die. After that I go home.....


STS-114 RTF

[christoofar 0]

Pick up boss over in Rittenhouse Square, fight traffic on the Shulkyll Expwy heading out of Center City (Philadelphia). Logon to computer, check up with other developers and recap progress made on code changes for some of our clients.

After that, go through email, check to see if spam filters caught anything that was actually good mail. Then I open up several IDEs (visual studio 2003, sometimes codewarrior to look at ARM code) and get to work on projects. I usually have about 2-3 copies of Microsoft Visio open working on other designs while I'm working on existing deliverables and an unregistered copy of Rational Rose going to reverse engineer old code.

I usually live in that state all day and chill out on Shoutcast.com and dz.com when I'm compiling DLLs or running unit tests. If it's a big day (deploying to production) I usually try to disappear like my VP does (work from home, etc).

____________________________________________________________
I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

[weegegirl 2]

I am a Sr. Instructional Designer.

- Show up when I want.
- Read dz.com while having my venti drip from Starbucks.
- Make sure my team has filled out their tracking sheet and that everyone is on schedule.
- Hassle people who aren't on schedule.
- Review content from liguists and content specialists.
- Storyboard hour long lessons, adding design specs for graphics, audio, narration, animation, and interactivity.
- Instant Message with my buds.
- Check in on dz.com.
- Edit storyboards back from editor and client.
- Hold spec meetings with design team to see if storyboards are within budget.
- Shoot the shit with my boss.
- Steal music from graphics dudes for my new Ipod.

I think that's about all I do.

[SkydivingNurse 0]

I heal.
I also do a shitload of paperwork.

[beowulf 1]

I currently do a lot of lotus notes development and some admin work, but most of the admin work I have now pushed off to a coworker. Before when it was just me I did nothing but Lotus Notes admin work.
I prefer the development.

OK OK I guess I should be more specific like everyone else.

wake up at 10 till 6am hit snooze a couple of times then finally drag my ass out of bed at about 5 after 7 and shower, shave, dress go to work. Then start up computer get coffee and check email and dropzone.com then continue on working on whatever projects currently on my list. Right now it is SOA approval app., Payroll reporting app. and synergy automated order entry. All are mostly finished except the Payroll. I need some more data entered into our ERP system so that I can test my software. Still running tests on the auto entry and the SOA is now ready to roll out.

[Icon134 0]

I baby sit aircraft mechanics...

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[Lindsey 0]

Right now I live a life of leisure...take care of my little boy, read the forums, post, ride my bikes , work in the yard, feed the birds, go out for a lunchtime rendezvous
linz

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A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail

[kingbunky 3]

hear the alarm, hit the snooze
hear the alarm, hit the snooze
hear the alarm, hit the snooze
fall out of bed and stagger to the bathroom
shower
have breakfast (raisin bran crunch and a glass of tropicana oj)
walk the dogs
find my daughter, drop her at school
if i'm not awake yet, stop at tim's for a large 2&1 with milk
swipe my card to get in the building
say hi to lou, the security guard
swipe my card to call an elevator
swipe my card in the elevator to get to my floor
swipe my card to get out of the vestibule and onto my floor
log in
check email to see if anything is actually on fire
surf to calvin and hobbes
surf to dilbert
surf to hsx
surf to imdb
surf to dz.com
read bonfire
check the srmis system to see what needs done
do something unix-y
surf to dz.com
read general skydiving
read safety and training
read gear and rigging
read incidents, hope there's nothing new
check bonfire again
check the srmis system to see what needs done
do something unix-y
repeat until lunchtime
check nascar.com
check mike's list
check the register, hope there's a new bofh
repeat until 4:30
go home
walk dogs
search (usually in vain) for something to eat
go for a 4 mile or so walk
let the ferrets out to play
check personal email
surf dz.com
put the ferrets away
walk dogs
greet wife when she gets home
watch a bit of tv
go to bed

repeat until friday.

"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart."
MB4252 TDS699
killing threads since 2001

[skybytch 259]

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Soon I'll have a real job and will remember these days fondly.

Yes you will. So enjoy the hell out of them while you can!

[Brains 2]

Hmmm, good thread.

Arrive at work between 7-7:30. Get a cup of coffee and start up computer. Wait for crews to arrive. Get crews started on jobs for the day. Get hourlies started for their day. Check e-mail, check dz.com. Order equipment for tomorrow's jobs. Do materials takeoff for tomorrow's jobs. Walk out to warehouse and do materials inventory for both companies. Order any necessary parts/supplies. Fight with salesman over prices of said supplies. Meet with builders to make home ready for air conditioning. Pick up set of plans and run heat load calculations to determine size and number of air conditioners/heaters needed for home. Design and price out air conditioning and heating systems for new home. Type up bid/proposal for home and fax to builder. Bill out jobs from yesterday. Make deposits. Check time sheets and coding on time sheets to apply to appropriate jobs. Call permit office to schedule inspections on jobs completed. Write up work orders for tomorrow's jobs and attach plans/designs. Call all necessary superintendants/builders to check progress on construction. pay bills/sign checks. Cost out jobs to make sure we are within budget. Check salesman's jobs to make sure HE is within budget. Track sales for week/month/year and compare to last year. Get cash on hand report, accounts rec. report, accounts payable report, and any other necessary report for weekly meeting i have in 15 minutes Check vehicle maint. records to see what needs to be done. Check hours of operation on forklift and schedule maint. if necessary. Do anything else that needs to be done.

Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you.

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

My "not working my real job" schedule:
I wake up at least two times per night and either squirt the neighbor's dogs with a water hose or shoot them with a BB gun to get them to SHUT THE FUCK UP! I then wake up not less than three times as the clock first goes off and then gets snoozed repeatedly by my lovely wife. Eventually, I can't stand the dogs anymore so I get my still-tired body out of bed. If Katie is back from PT I will make some coffee, if not I will come downstairs and logon and check e-mail and PM's while my cat walks back and forth across the keyboard or sits on my arms. I normally forget to eat breakfast. At some point I get up and wash my ass (or not) and put some clothes on. I will then generally drive to the dropzone and putz around wishing I had something better to do, like skydive. If someone DOES show up for a tandem or a mid-week AFF, I will do the work. If not, I will continue to dick around and eventually just start drinking in SkyCAT with Larry and Rob. Eventually, I go home and sit around on the computer some more and wait for Katie to get home. I grill a lot of our food and we always eat dinner together. If the mood strikes me Katie and I get on the skoot and tool around for a while. We are always home early during the week because we would not want to miss something important on TV like American Idol or The Amazing Race or Survivor. I am generally in bed at ten o'clock and asleep by eleven.

[GARYC24 3]

#1: clock in..between 6:30-7:00 (7-3:30 job time)
Work for a tool co. Harbor Freight , test all kinds of stuff they sell then write a test report for item (before it is sold).
Then clock out 3:30 or 4:00 (adds to OT)
Then go to part time job (M-F) 5: 00 or 10:30
at McDonalds (a newp/t job, used to be Taco Bell)
There I do maintenace; as in cleaning, trash, filter/change frying oil, cash register, french fries,
drive thru window, clean parking lot. stock stuff.
I work at least 66 hours a week!

[skybytch 259]

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I make sure no one kills him

Okay. But how do you do that?

Details, Clay. Details.

[freeflir29 0]

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Details, Clay. Details.

Those would be classified and if I told you I'd have to cut your head off and put it in a safe. Seriously.........I guess some MORON recently spilled all the beans to MSNBC. Oh.........they didn't work for MY company. They worked for another that does similar things here in Iraq. But long story short.........if someone threatens my client or my team........I shoot them. It's that simple.........

[PhreeZone 14]

-Stumble around the room looking for the snooze buttons
-Repeat for at least an hour
-Stumble to the computer
-Look for the RSA token and log onto the VPN
-Start up email
-Shower while its updating
-Start up the IP phone
-Read Email (tends to be about 50-60 nightly that come in and everyone of them is important )
- Read internal message board
- Fire up my personal computer and surf the net
- Wait for phone calls from clients (usually does'nt take too long)
- Troubleshoot clients issues
- Call Dev and Sr. Engineering teams asking for updates on patches or hotfixes
- Beta test new product by trying to do some of the most fucked up things possible to it and hope it does'nt crash. If it crashes there is lots of paperwork to track and get fixes wrote.
- Study for certs
-Answer more phone calls, emails and pages
- Repeat till 5pm

- Travel onsite to clients at least 1 time a week. I have a 250 mile range so some of the drives are going to suck.


The morning commute across the living room is an absolute bitch!

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

Parachutemanuals.com

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Preparing to go upstairs to the divers area, and give pre-dive physicals to 2 Astronauts (that will be practicing EVA in the pool) and whatever divers missed the Monday morning physical rush. Some days I teach physiological training classes, and today is such a day. So, after physicals, I'll get some coffee, review my lesson plan, and step into the classroom to teach Trapped Gas/Decompression Sickness to 11 civilian pilots that signed up for our class which includes a chamber flight to 25,000 feet this afternoon. Of course, I'll be inside observer #2 on the flight. I'll make sure all the students stay safe, put their oxygen mask BACK ON when we tell them!, and not die. After that I go home.....

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I'll be damned. YOSHI is in my class today!! Gonna see how he does off oxygen at 25 grand....

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[pilotdave 0]

I WANT MY FREE SMOOTHIE! And none of that wheat grass crap. Gimme something with chocolate!

I sit at a computer all day. I occasionally get up to help someone solve a problem with Word or Excel. I go to meetings. On rare occasions I participate in walkaround inspections of helicopters, before test flights of reconfigured/modified/instrumented aircraft. I eat sushi for lunch on thursdays. Then twice a week I go to grad school for 3 and a half hours after work. I mostly sit there trying not to fall asleep. My latest professor is a cross between the drill sgt from full metal jacket and ben stein.

That pretty much sums up my weekdays.

Dave

[yardhippie 0]

-show up at work no later than 730am.
-open safe, turn on computers, copier, and TV.
move out small easily thieved items for the day, & deliver trailered displays around town.
-check state and local classifieds for bid requests.
-follow up w/ all the crap I missed yesterday, or put off till today.
-check email
-post whore
-jump through my ass for some off the wall thing the boss wants done.
-jump though my ass again b/c hes changed his mind
-remind boss that I jumped through my ass yesterday for something else he wants done.
-pick up trailered displays
-move in easily thieved items for night.
-close gate, lock gate
-check all doors
-turn off all computers, copiers, and tv
-set alarm, lock door.

boring, i know.

Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD
"What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me
"Anything you want." ~ female skydiver
Mohoso Rodriguez #865