Most Boring Job!!!

[northernap]

Hey Everyone, some people may really like sitting in the truck most of the day and getting paid but myself going from 60-70 hours a week on transmission to 5-8s doing disconnects and reconnects for money sucking welfare recipients> Sucks Big time. I havent been around long but I sure miss the go go go aspect of transmission and hope i dont get bad habits from this job. And from my caluculations working on this job until christmas doing the same thing over and over is not teaching me very much in the contruction side of the trade. Im just looking to be well rounded in all aspects.
Just wondering if anyone else has ever had a job that was completly and uderly brain numbing?

[loner]

i worked in a sugar mill awhile my job was to take one pound bags that did not seal properly and cut them open and dump the sugar into a 55 gallon drum.

[topgroove]

why not use your free time studying three phase theory. I never get bored... knowledge is everything .

[BigClive]

i worked in a sugar mill awhile my job was to take one pound bags that did not seal properly and cut them open and dump the sugar into a 55 gallon drum.

Sweet! :p

[returntotheeve]

I cleaned out Movie theaters...after the shows were over. That was really "interesting"...the stuff you would find.

Are you saying you were a jizzmopper?

[returntotheeve]

For a couple of years I was a male model. The pay was ok. the girls were great! But the actual mechanics of the job were tedious. "Look this way." "Look that way." "Can you open your shirt a little more?"

Ashton Kutcher gets real boring after awhile.

[loner]

when i was in college i spent a summer moving sprinkler pipe,9 hours a day,6 days a week.

[heelwinch]

For a couple of years I was a male model. The pay was ok. the girls were great! But the actual mechanics of the job were tedious. "Look this way." "Look that way." "Can you open your shirt a little more?"

Ashton Kutcher gets real boring after awhile.


HA... I've had a few of you "Barbie doll Kens" on my crews.

I'll be ****ed if they weren't always on them swampy ROW's... seems they never saw the humor in it, like the rest of us did.
" you have to walk the ROW in front of the Muskeg to make sure we don't pick up a log and throw a track".

HA HA

[LostArt]

LOL! Northernap, I think they are giving you some extra time to make it interesting. :D

I'm too busy to be bored at work. But, then....I'm not in your trade! :D

[returntotheeve]

I dug up an old picture...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3653447090_89e0865e2b.jpg?v=0

[SwampRat JR.]

Yup.:cool:A few things here SR., first, seriously thanks for talkin to Heelwinch, you sure you ain't long lost twins, kindred spirits no doubt.

Yup. Thats cool, seriously man, cleanin up theaters, ya pretty cool, so how do like your new job, you know the one SR., Bein Rush's personal fluffer.;) Any "tricks of the trade" you remember from all thoughs years workin at Pike. I bet your were probably a Journeyman at that, ain't that right SR.

Does he let ya watch sex and the city when ya finish.:p

"Come Novermber MR'ers":mad:

[PA BEN]

Where's the new job? Why did you take it? Small Utility? How long have you been in the trade?

[Lizzy Bordon]

Mine is most boring of all. I have never been confined inside in my life, 10k more, 6 weeks vac, said I would be going out, still checking lines, guy training me is an old sub station lineman (so he says) only place he wants to go is to the outside edge of the building to chain smoke and across the street for coffee. He never ever wants to leave the building. I would give up the 10K more for my freedom. He has nothing nice to say about the Dist or Trans lineman, very rude comments, toxic mouth, getting on my nerves big time. He wouldnt know a real lineman even if it punched him in his toxic mouth. Job would be ok if the little cry baby would stay home.

[MI-Lineman]

Mine is most boring of all. I have never been confined inside in my life, 10k more, 6 weeks vac, said I would be going out, still checking lines, guy training me is an old sub station lineman (so he says) only place he wants to go is to the outside edge of the building to chain smoke and across the street for coffee. He never ever wants to leave the building. I would give up the 10K more for my freedom. He has nothing nice to say about the Dist or Trans lineman, very rude comments, toxic mouth, getting on my nerves big time. He wouldnt know a real lineman even if it punched him in his toxic mouth. Job would be ok if the little cry baby would stay home.

OH LOOK AT THAT!! SWIMPY GOT A NEW JOB!!!:D

MINE....3rd shift at 7/11!! I like 3rds but cleaning the **** slurpee, ice cream, hot chocolate, coffee, hot dog warming, blah and blah frickin machines was drivin me nuts!!!!:mad::eek::confused:

[west coast hand]

Had a job one time inspecting padmount xformers... Take pics and get ser#s it was the most boring job only did it for a month had to quit couldn't handle it anymore

[neil macgregor]

contract watcher boring boring boring ....consisted of doing safety audits and telling lads to put on hi-vis jackets lasted about 3 months

[T-Man]

It made me thankful I had the job I had. . .We took a tour of S&C in Chicago and we stopped by the ladies assembeling the K link fuses to talk about how they are designed to break load and snuff the arc. . . .Man I know they are important parts of our work but those women just sat there screwing the little tops on and bagging a handful at a time. . .all day long!

By the way if you ever get to tour that place it's a great tour and they make some real quality gear. We took the tour because they have a Demo room where a lot of different switch gear, gang switches and fuses you can view and operate so you get to see exactly how it all works.

[bones]

I spent an entire summer putting warning stickers on the second to top step on ladders. "Not a step" all me:) We later changed to a more legally binding "Do not step on or above this step."

To be a tween again.

[graybeard]

northernap
You never said if that was all you were doing or if get trouble calls too. I've worked from trans and dist. and service work. It doe's make you a more rounded lineman, if you spend enough time at each to get good at it.
I'm back doing dist. work now and we get a wide verity of work from 3 phase o/h and u/g to running house service's and fault finding primary and secondary
By the way the most boring job I had was in high school summer job watching a machine put sticks in popcicles.