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What are we all doing for a living?
From: ANT_THOMAS
16 Nov 2020 11:23
To: paul
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Enjoyed 12 months of retired life so far?
From: pants (CAPT_CARL)
23 Nov 2020 14:21
To: ALL
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Phew, long time without looking in here. Not sure what made me click on the link in the favourites bar today but here we are.
Well for my update, I work in the IT department of North West NHS trust as a Senior Network Engineer. Its been pretty full on since February this year for obvious reasons. On the one hand its quite draining, on the other hand though its been very exciting throwing solutions together to get the workforce able to work from home.
We went from an average of 20 people working on VPN at any one time to well over a 1000 in less than a month, Firewalls needed replacing, internet circuits upgrading and new services rolling out.
I'm fortunate that I'm based on a hospital site but in a seperate building, so day to day I'm well away from the patients.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
23 Nov 2020 16:58
To: pants (CAPT_CARL)
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Wow. Puts our 6-7 off site folks in perspective.
:-S
From: gracia (GRACEINC)
2 Dec 2020 14:15
To: ALL
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Job and trying to build own business
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
2 Dec 2020 14:17
To: gracia (GRACEINC)
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It's fairly common for people to do a job for a living.
Would you like to expand on what that job is, and/or what business you're trying to build?
EDITED: 2 Dec 2020 14:20 by BOUGHTONP
From: Al JunioR (53NORTH)
13 Mar 2021 14:44
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Ich bin ein Janitor.
3 sites at the moment. One on furlough (kerchiing) as a lot of it was the restaurant.
The truck depot is good pay and uncomplex...they have 29/44 drivers still well enough to work. I cycle commute two marathons worth a week, so kept fit through it all.
3rd site I celebrated 10yrs this week and is just an hour an evening... dredging 3k a year.
Spending most of my time at going-postal.com in their Disqus comments...which is a shite platform, and I have pointed them to Beehive.
Good to see so many still
alive
around.
From: milko
15 Mar 2021 15:41
To: ALL
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Amazing how many old faces this thread picked up, I just went back through it from the start.
How's everybody doing now we are potentially looking at coming out of the pandemic via vaccines saving our bacon?
I'm still at home and sport is still going so it's generally same-old for me. Homeschooling was mostly horrible, a constant hour-to-hour decision needing to be made about whether we compromise our jobs, the boy's education or our happiness and relationship with one another. Hopefully the schools reopening doesn't make for too much of a spike in cases.
From: Manthorp
15 Mar 2021 19:45
To: milko
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Hey Milko, lovely to hear from you!
For you, keeping people at arms' length must have been no hardship.
Feel free not to read beyond here, because I've had a fucking good Covid.
I had my first AstraZenica vaxx a couple of weeks ago with no discomfort - not even what I felt after my October 'flu jab. Charlie, my youngest is not that far off thirty and schooling other people's kids. I have one lovely grandchild who calls me 'Grampus'. I have invested the shitloads I've saved from home-working on Georgian glass, Edo period Netsuke, strong drink and generic viagra.
Give my undying love to Tina.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
15 Mar 2021 19:52
To: milko
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Still waiting on our shots in Ontario (provincial motto: "Let others lead, we follow").
Striving to keep self-abuse to a dull roar, with limited success. Man, it's just so fuckin' fun.
Killed more peggies [FC5] than you can shake a stick at.
From: Manthorp
15 Mar 2021 19:56
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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I *loved* FC5.5 New Dawn. Second only to 4, for me; so you have a treat waiting in the wings.