Actually in my off time, I fuck the current SotM, work on my garden and hang out with friends, along with screwing about on the interwebs and playing video games.
None of which have a thing to do with my work.
In fact, I am so sick of my work, I had my main T-stat go out a few months ago. At the time it did, I took it off the wall, and wired the LV circuit to the fan control and used an alligator clip to either turn on the heat or the cooling according to the indoor ambient.
I did fix that the other day when one of my techs came by to borrow some money. I had him mount a new T-stat.
Knock off 20% of my normal service call price, discount refrigerant by 75% and make money.
Keeping in mind R-22 costs around 180USD for 30 pounds and every company in town sells it for at least 50 bucks if not 65 bucks a pound.
Not to mention parts are usually marked up by massive amounts. One local company was selling a simple fan relay that cots $1.23 or so off sale and less than $1.00 when on sale, for $119.00, not to mention the $85 bucks an hour labor charge, a $45 dollar diagnostic charge, a $65 dollar trip charge and a $20 dollar "hazardous material disposal charge". All to change out a fan relay that takes about 5 minutes to diagnose and less than 5 minutes to change it out.
I am a very good tech, have several licenses for different professions in my state and own now two successful businesses, one full time, HVAC/R; and one part-time, Substance Abuse Assessments for people charged with DUI.
In my time off, neither of them are something I do for "fun".
And I am not "stagnated' in my career or knowledge in either field. Being that both require CEUs and due to the fact that I am a person who takes pride in my skills, so I attend any training courses available within my time constraints.
If you think the only way to advance your career or skills is to do the same thing in your "off time" as you do when getting paid, you must be one boring, miserable excuse for a human being.
Nah, just the dummies who think a bunch of letters or nice title are worth being overworked.
I live in the South, hold several licenses in a several very different fields, and declare at least $75k on my taxes every year.
And other than a few weeks during heating or cooling seasons, I work less than 40 hours a week.
Not one to avoid taxes, I will say that at least $200k a year passes through my hands from customers who like a 10% discount and no sales tax bill in exchange for paying in cash.
And my income is probably a little low when compared to other folks with any of the same licenses I hold.
I figured out a long time ago that I am somewhat lazy and that my needs and wants are pretty simple.
So the mid-level folks knocking down the 150k+ salaries, in exchange for 60+ hour work weeks and stress out the ass, I would like to feel sorry for you, but all I can do is laugh.
I have insurance on my HVAC/R business. I had a choice between saying I installed gas appliances or did not install gas appliances (natural and propane).
Being I am rather fond of my money and stuff, I took the policy that included installing gas appliances.
It cost me almost $40 bucks a year to cover my installations of gas appliances.
This is a million dollars of liability insurance BTW. The total cost of my insurance (not counting vehicle or property) is around $500 bucks a year for liability coverage of 1 million bucks.
Reason is that there is a vast networks of laws and regulations that shield me from liability.
If the medical field could come up with a "best practice" manual and that be used to protect from lawsuits, much of the malpractice suits would not be filed.
I ain't bought a copy of XP since the fuckers screwed me out of the copy of ME I had (and yes, after about a year, I received a updated version of ME that never crashed and worked great).
Since they screwed me out of the software I bought, fuck them, I pirate their stuff now and lose not a moment of sleep over it.
The BS is that there is any "calling home". Every copy I have came with activation software or pre-cracked.
I calculate the cost incurred in my business and charge accordingly.
And my competitors do also, or they are not my competitors for long.
I run service on a daily basis across 6 counties, and will travel much further if needed.
I have my hourly rate and travel charges calculated to cover my expenses, with a bit of wiggle room (currently I price expenses at $4.25 a gallon for fuel). If it exceeds that price for more than a week or two, I will recalculate.
Jeez, you better never get a job requiring you to run service.
I have run service in my county and the surround six or so for years.
Only time I have to look at a map is if it is some way off the beaten trail or new road in a new neighborhood.
Heck, I can usually estimate travel time from point A to point B, taking in consideration of time of day, and time of year within a couple of minutes, as long as I don't think about it.
I keep a dedicated cable modem hooked up, but there are several unsecured routers around my home and the city provides free wireless just a few blocks away if I chose to use a laptop.
Since the standard practice on 4chan is to use the word niggers for any word in a recaptcha that has a punctuation mark, I question just how good the OCR is.
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Every Chinese restaurant I have done work in for the last 15 or so years has had big printed, '"We do not use MSG in our food" on their menus. And everyone of them had 50lb drums of MSG in the back.
And as a rule I don't eat at Chinese places because they are nasty usually, one place in my city of 100k people is clean enough for me to eat there.
I do most of the Chinese places because the other companies in town refuse to do their work because of issues of payment and translation.
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None of which have a thing to do with my work.
In fact, I am so sick of my work, I had my main T-stat go out a few months ago. At the time it did, I took it off the wall, and wired the LV circuit to the fan control and used an alligator clip to either turn on the heat or the cooling according to the indoor ambient.
I did fix that the other day when one of my techs came by to borrow some money. I had him mount a new T-stat.
Knock off 20% of my normal service call price, discount refrigerant by 75% and make money.
Keeping in mind R-22 costs around 180USD for 30 pounds and every company in town sells it for at least 50 bucks if not 65 bucks a pound.
Not to mention parts are usually marked up by massive amounts. One local company was selling a simple fan relay that cots $1.23 or so off sale and less than $1.00 when on sale, for $119.00, not to mention the $85 bucks an hour labor charge, a $45 dollar diagnostic charge, a $65 dollar trip charge and a $20 dollar "hazardous material disposal charge". All to change out a fan relay that takes about 5 minutes to diagnose and less than 5 minutes to change it out.
I am a very good tech, have several licenses for different professions in my state and own now two successful businesses, one full time, HVAC/R; and one part-time, Substance Abuse Assessments for people charged with DUI.
In my time off, neither of them are something I do for "fun".
And I am not "stagnated' in my career or knowledge in either field. Being that both require CEUs and due to the fact that I am a person who takes pride in my skills, so I attend any training courses available within my time constraints.
If you think the only way to advance your career or skills is to do the same thing in your "off time" as you do when getting paid, you must be one boring, miserable excuse for a human being.
I live in the South, hold several licenses in a several very different fields, and declare at least $75k on my taxes every year.
And other than a few weeks during heating or cooling seasons, I work less than 40 hours a week.
Not one to avoid taxes, I will say that at least $200k a year passes through my hands from customers who like a 10% discount and no sales tax bill in exchange for paying in cash.
And my income is probably a little low when compared to other folks with any of the same licenses I hold.
I figured out a long time ago that I am somewhat lazy and that my needs and wants are pretty simple.
So the mid-level folks knocking down the 150k+ salaries, in exchange for 60+ hour work weeks and stress out the ass, I would like to feel sorry for you, but all I can do is laugh.
Being I am rather fond of my money and stuff, I took the policy that included installing gas appliances.
It cost me almost $40 bucks a year to cover my installations of gas appliances.
This is a million dollars of liability insurance BTW. The total cost of my insurance (not counting vehicle or property) is around $500 bucks a year for liability coverage of 1 million bucks.
Reason is that there is a vast networks of laws and regulations that shield me from liability.
If the medical field could come up with a "best practice" manual and that be used to protect from lawsuits, much of the malpractice suits would not be filed.
It is fucktards like you who make health care expensive.
Better the old, the weak and the chronically infected (looking at AIDS folks here) go ahead and die sooner, rather than later.
Draining hard working folks money to extend your useless and worthless lives is a waste of money.
I ain't bought a copy of XP since the fuckers screwed me out of the copy of ME I had (and yes, after about a year, I received a updated version of ME that never crashed and worked great).
Since they screwed me out of the software I bought, fuck them, I pirate their stuff now and lose not a moment of sleep over it.
The BS is that there is any "calling home". Every copy I have came with activation software or pre-cracked.
I calculate the cost incurred in my business and charge accordingly.
And my competitors do also, or they are not my competitors for long.
I run service on a daily basis across 6 counties, and will travel much further if needed.
I have my hourly rate and travel charges calculated to cover my expenses, with a bit of wiggle room (currently I price expenses at $4.25 a gallon for fuel). If it exceeds that price for more than a week or two, I will recalculate.
I have run service in my county and the surround six or so for years.
Only time I have to look at a map is if it is some way off the beaten trail or new road in a new neighborhood.
Heck, I can usually estimate travel time from point A to point B, taking in consideration of time of day, and time of year within a couple of minutes, as long as I don't think about it.
When I think about it I usually am wrong.
You can look at a map of any city in the USA and know to avoid the area that has MLK drive, Blvd, Road, Loop, Street, or Avenue.
GPS will send you right the middle of the hood if that is the "shortest" route.
Sort of awkward after she let him come home, but I continued to use her just because it made her more uncomfortable than it did me.
I keep a dedicated cable modem hooked up, but there are several unsecured routers around my home and the city provides free wireless just a few blocks away if I chose to use a laptop.
He was found to have quite a few photographs of naked children, both just nudes and of sexual activity.
The ages of the kids in the pictures were from 3 to 15.
It might be possible to mistake a 15 year old with an 18 year old, especially by just looking at a picture.
There is no way you can mistake a 3 year old for a consenting adult.
The law is binary, and that works out as a bad thing.
30 year old banging a 17 year old the day before her 18th birthday should not be the same thing as a 20 year old raping a 3 year old.
But in the eyes of the law, the crime is the same.
I also am offended by the sexual offenders list. If the SOB is so dangerous he needs to be on a list, his ass needs to be in prison.
And I mod according to what they say the guidelines are.
But then again, I cruise here on raw and uncut simply because I want to see it all, and many good posts are hidden if you use filtering.
Guess I need to become a karma whore.
Nice to know that an easily verifiable fact is modded in such a fashion.
Since the standard practice on 4chan is to use the word niggers for any word in a recaptcha that has a punctuation mark, I question just how good the OCR is.
But that big SONY name on them means I will never own one.
Then I decided that reading the FA was too difficult.
Therefore I just commented instead of modding because it was easier.
I still think you are retarded though.
Fuck me, christ was real?
And as a rule I don't eat at Chinese places because they are nasty usually, one place in my city of 100k people is clean enough for me to eat there.
I do most of the Chinese places because the other companies in town refuse to do their work because of issues of payment and translation.
I have o ask, what is this "buy" you speak of? Is it slang for downloaded off a torrent site?
She was allergic to gold, it made her break out.
She was allergic to most flowers, especially roses.
She did not like chocolate.
She always had a job
And she, unless physically ill, was always willing and ready to have sex. Even a quickie on her way out the door to work if I desired.
Does anyone except the most rabid partisans actually believe anything that comes out of a politician mouth?
Hell, if one says he was a crook, I think he is lying about how much he stole, figuring he is angling for a lesser sentence.
I skip the whole buying thingee.
Every true Anon has at least one if not several troll FB IDs. That is why I take the FB claims of their user numbers with a bunch of salt.