Bored at work thread

[dafier]

1/4" thick ham, cheese and egg sandwich and a banana this morning. Bulgogi and rice for lunch, with a coke.

Nice Friday so far. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I even got to work a little early so I can leave early. WOO!

[dafier]

Traveling is OK at first, but it gets really tiresome if it's 50%+ of your job.

[Sikorsky]

Originally Posted by Samsung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What kind of job do you have? I want that one lol.

I'm a sys admin for a large tech company working on some pretty big things with some other big companies (most people here are probably using our product). I dont recommend the career though - desk jobs suck. I've got other irons in the fire that I'm working on, but its going to be another ~5 years before I can fully cut away from this industry.

Originally Posted by dafier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Traveling is OK at first, but it gets really tiresome if it's 50%+ of your job.

Agreed! I've been traveling for work more in the last 8 years than I ever did before that. My busiest was 1 - 2 weeks a month, but its wound down now and im usually only 1 week per quarter now.

Being away from the fam aside, I get very tired of eating out when I travel, all the food starts to taste the same - no matter how good it is (and we get a pretty awesome food allowance but even then, it gets old). I usually make a grocery store run now instead of eating out for every meal, which helps alot.

[dafier]

Originally Posted by Sikorsky [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agreed! I've been traveling for work more in the last 8 years than I ever did before that. My busiest was 1 - 2 weeks a month, but its wound down now and im usually only 1 week per quarter now.

Being away from the fam aside, I get very tired of eating out when I travel, all the food starts to taste the same - no matter how good it is (and we get a pretty awesome food allowance but even then, it gets old). I usually make a grocery store run now instead of eating out for every meal, which helps alot.

Worst traveling job I worked was with General Dynamics. It wasn't the job specifically it was there management behind the travel reimbursement. They flat out would pay me almost 1 month after each travel assignment. It was very annoying.

I at least got a corporate card, but was responsible for the entire bill until they ran the paperwork. Again, it wasn't corporate, it was the local management that failed at their jobs.

Just like what you said, all food ends up tasting the same unless you start doing grocery shopping. Since I was usually on assignment for 2+ weeks at a time, on the weekends I would look up local attractions and take advantage of being in the area.

One example is in Colorado Springs there is a zoo on the side of a mountain. As far as I know, that is the only zoo on a mountain in the US. I also wanted to go see the old NORAD site, but didn't get around to it. I hear they do tours.

Anyway, traveling is worth it for 1 reason, money. As long as you are getting paid a decent amount, that's the end game.

[Nocsucow]

I didn't go to work today.... 4 hour gym session is happening right now

[dafier]

Originally Posted by Nocsucow [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't go to work today.... 4 hour gym session is happening right now

Nice man. I brought in a dumbbell this morning to pass time. I've been meaning to for months but I've been lazy. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

After your gym session, you should hop on game and rake in that x2 xp! GO GO GO!

[Sirken]

today was entirely too much work :P

at least it moves the day along. only 78 min left [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Sirken]

4 min

fml

[Itap]

Originally Posted by Sirken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

4 min

fml

Go home and play some EQ

[dafier]

HA! I have 1 hour 15 mins. Cheers! Enjoy your weekend of /petitions

jk...but enjoy your weekend [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]