Does everybody else wake up in the morning and...

[krusty the klown]

...just wish they didn't have to go to work?? Is this normal?? Are we supposed to live for the weekends and the monthly pay cheque?? Having got back from Easter on my mate's narrowboat, I do not feel refreshed - instead I am just thoroughly p!ssed off at having to get up at 6:00 every morning and sit at my desk to struggle with mathematical equations that I don't really understand, whilst being systematically stripped of any confidence in my own ability.

Don't get me wrong, I am not an idle, work-shy sod who wants to sit on their ***** in front of the TV all day (daytime TV is cr@p, anyway http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ). In 2 1/2 years with this research job, I feel like I've achieved nothing experimentally (the bits of junk from the basement store that I had to work with.... Mmmmmmm), now we are trying some mathematical modelling in the hope that something can come of this. Well, considering I failed A-level Maths, this doesn't exactly come easily (even though I still managed to get a degree in Physics and a masters degree in Medical Physics..?).

I totally need a career change, but do not have the qualifications (well get them, then..... money - lack of!). I would like to go into engine research and have some ideas, which I believe have not been implemented. HOW?????

Sorry, just wanted to get this off my chest - I hardly expect anyone to have a miracle cure http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Krusty.

[krusty the klown]

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

[krusty the klown]

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

I feel better for that!

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[Technohead]

I concur.


Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh !!!!

[ScaryBinary]

I hate my job, but the coffee's good!

Well, I don't really hate it, but it sure has it's downs. I write code for the Engine Monitoring System on the US Army's Comanche helicoptor. It'd be tons of fun....if we actually had time to write code! We spend so much time dealing with redundant documentation and idiotic bosses that our creativity gets crushed. We have lots of cool ideas, too, but we never have time to implement them.

Perhaps if we could get a few patents under our belt....I say find someone you trust and work with them, even if it's into the wee hours of the morning while you're still working your current job. Can't go through life hating what you do --- it really takes its toll.

Scary http://www.sysopt.com/forum/icons/icon11.gif Binary

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[wyvrn]

I too am tired of working for "the man". Sometimes their is so much micro-management you do not have a chance to do what you were hired for. Someday I will be my own man and have my own business, some day...

[krusty the klown]

We are meant for greater things..... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

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[Donkey]

Hey krusty, You are a leeds uni man too. What are you doing?
I'm doing a phD in the physics department after doing a maths physics degree here in leeds. Also about 2 1/2 years through with no results and a room filled with the most expensive usless broken equipment you could ever imagine. I am just easing myself into the old work after the easter hols of 3 days. And it is friday today so i'm not going to do much today either.
Monday is a hol too so next week should be bearable.
Chin up
Rod

[hd581]

AUUUUUGGGGHHHH!!! Yes getting up for school is very difficult. Getting up for work was very easy. There was a reason we did things: make money. School has few reasonable goals.

[rh71]

Is it me or do full-time workers curse and talk behind co-workers' backs a lot? You tell me, is this normal?

[Axel]

The guys who invented the Koosh ball had the right idea - here were two guys who had just been fired and were sitting around the garage with nothing to do - One picked up a handfull of rubber bands and made a little pom-pom out of them. And thus the koosh was invented - they later sold their patent to NERF for several million dollars and never had to work again......

It's these simple little ideas which are cheap, yet provide millions with a little idle amusement.... - that's where the money is..... and the freedom not to work.....

For some it's the right little song that makes the top 40 charts...... You just have to find your version of the Koosh ball and the right marketing group to get you there.....

[ScaryBinary]

We sit around and draw goofy (sometimes downright mean!) sketches of our coworkers and bosses. How immature is that? It's pretty fun, though. And everybody has their own little nickname....

[bhess]

getting up a t 6:00 am would be nice. I get home at 7:00 am. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
Just remember that how much you hate your job, there are worse jobs out there. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
there did that make you feel better?

[krusty the klown]

Hi Donkey,

fellow Leeds man eh??

Never thought I'd see the day! I'm doing (well trying to do) a PhD. For the last 2 years, I've been working (!) at St. James's on a project investigating the 'clot busting' (thrombolytic) drugs in an experimental setting. Using some junk from the basement store, I built a flow circuit that allowed me to place 2 clotted, radiolabelled sections of prosthetic vascular graft material (GoreTex tube)in the circuit so one was a test and the other a control. I would then infuse the drug into one section and observe them both falling apart with the hospital's gamma camera. This continued for a couple of years (failed experiments, that it) and the supervisors decided to try mathematically modelling the problem 'cos eventually, they realised the experiments were cr@p. Tidying up a radioactive, bloody (literally - most of the time it was my blood!) experiment that has failed at either 7:00 pm or am takes its toll. Especially when you have explained that the currrent strategy is obviously not working, get told to do another 10 and they are encouraged by one of them working...

So now, I have moved to Mech Eng and sit at my desk to struggle with mathematical equations (species conservation and the similarity solution) and I'm trying to learn Fortran. That piece of software was written in the days when backing up your work consisted of posting a copy of the punched-paper cards home!!

Anyway, my contract expires in September (research grant money) and I'll be off to look for a job "So what do you have to show for the last three years' work?" "Well, er... yes... sorry, which way was the door?"

Praps that's a bit excessive, but it would be nice to have something to show for the time and effort!

Failing that, I'll sell my house and live on a narrowboat!!

EDIT: typo http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/redface.gif



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[Hellmund]

Well this all makes my life a little more bearable.I absolutely detest getting up at 7:00am,let alone 6.Although I do school and an electronics course at TAFE[tertiary and further education] so some day's it's a 12 hour shift.At least now I know NOT to go into R&D.
Hellmund

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[krusty the klown]

I get the impression that industry is prepared to spend some money on R&D, rather than do everything 'on the cheap'. This might be the best way to go, if you want to go into R&D.

They might have project supervisors that listen to you - always a bonus!

So, if you see someone looking like this:

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/1192/Krustyjpgs/krustydroppants.GIF

you know it didn't work out http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Krusty.

[thekingofpain]

Well, not having a job for over 15 years due to a disabling accident, I guess I view this different...(I better just keep my mouth shut)

[Axel]

sorry to hear that king - life threw you a curve - hope you found some happiness in there somewhere -

bhess - know what you mean - there are people who get to clean out sewerage treatment plants in dive suits..... there are worse jobs.....

for those in the U.S. - you don't like where you work - change - only those cranking out license plates don't have much choice here..... it's a matter of will-power and determination. For those who can't change - you've given up..... that's a choice.....

[phoneman5]

After 25 years of working for 2 fortune 100 corporations, and learning everything I could about people that I could, I started my own corporation, and never looked back 6 years later, corporation is top 15 in sales and growing, took everything I hated about large companies and threw it away, we let our employees do there own thing, and man it works, everyone makes money and the customers cant get enough,they simply throw money in our direction, and we all gain, customers, employees, owners,Win, Win ,Win, we went from 200,000 the first year to 24 million 6 years later, the key is everyone is respected for they talent and ideas are listened to and voted on, its everything I could never find in the back stabbing corps I used to work for ,but I always thank them for the knowledge and training to kick there *** in the free market place, Are employees are expected to start there own companies in the future . I work 80 hours a week and wish I worked more, LOVE MY JOB, Enjoy working around talented people, and we will be number 1 in the future...................