So I got a new job...
 

I will be working 7-3 (full time) at baw plastics. I will be making plastic displays, walmart nametags, and other stuff. Hopefully it is not too bad. Best thing of all is that it is only 2.1 miles from my house. Not good for mpg, but good for total gallons consumed.


www.bawplastics.com/

nice. thats kinda early for my tastes, but 2.1 miles... if you can wear whatever you want then i would bike there.

Yeah I figure i will bike there on nice days.

The 7-3 shift is awesome! The only shift I like better is 7-5, Mon-Thurs (four tens). I'm definately a morning person and not a night person...I'm usually passed out asleep by 10:30PM!

What will your job duties entail? What will your title be?

Good for you. Congrats.

Sounds like whatever he wants it to be ;)

Congrats on the close job. My closest was a Nortel plant about a 5 minute walk from the house (but I had to cross the tracks, and if a train was in the way, it became a 15 minute walk via an underpass.)

I had to say about the walmart nametags. Because when i went for the interview i saw giant stack of walmart nametags in the back. Title?

how does "Factory worker" sound (yeah boring). I don't know all the details yet dax. They make alot of custom displays and stuff. See here:

https://www.bawplastics.com/album4_009.htm

I'd never knock factory work. My job at Nortel was on the assembly line making telecom electronics. Pure monkey work (I always said that if monkeys had just a few more IQ points, we would have all been out of work).

Yet it was almost like a holiday. Great pay, easy work, zero responsibility, no stress. Walk out at the end of the shift and I just left it behind. That was nice ... for a while :)

I volunteered for the 3:30 to midnight shift. So I did all the interesting things I enjoyed doing during the daytime, then went to work at the end of the day (and got paid extra for being on that shift).

Real interesting work. Did you quit from that place?

Lasted almost a year before I left. (Sorry to hijack your thread, kickflip.)

sounds like a production line of repeititve work, either or the close location is great i'd definiatley scooter there all the time screw the car.

I biked ther today for kicks. It took me 11minuets. There is a 225ft vertical climb according to google earth. On the way back I hit 36mph (thrilling). That is a good way to end a day at work.

sweet. its kinda cool that its down hill after a hard days work.

Congrats on the new job!

I also got a new job working for a biotech company called Medimmune. Seems like a good place. They make vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases and cancer patients. I'll be working in the manufacturing development part of the clinical trials production facility.

The best part is my commute is cut down from 60mi round trip to about 5mi round trip. I might have to start biking assuming it's not hot as hell outside, although today was like 95.

I'd never bike, people on bikes get hit too easy. For instance, I was pulling out the driveway today and almost hit a hot asian chick on a bike. Her face was a 10 and her body was a 10. She almost had a heart attack, she took one long breath and continued riding her bike. She looked like 18-21. So wait what were we talking about??? Oh yea, riding on bikes is dangerous.

Poor girl, her left is almost ended and then she's objectified online. Anyway, I know personally one girl who was ejected from a car in a wreck, but no one who'se had a bike injury.

left ROFL

Seriously I should of hit her(touched her with my car), I would of taken her to the ER or my room to fix any injuries.

I usually don't have a problem riding my bike in traffic, at least at local traffic speeds. When I borrow my dad's road bike I can easily do 30mph with traffic.

As for the girl, I've done that too almost. I lived near the sororities during my last three yeras of college. You would thing that was a good thing, but not so much. They usually had a "dear in headlights" response to on-coming traffic

I was in Santa Barbra on Sunday and they had some kind of a sororitie thing where chicks were a 2 piece bathing suit but didn't wear the top. There were like 15 of them. I tried to chase them down in the car but my alcoholic cousin wanted to finish up the beer. When we got there where they ran to they were gone. You know after a situation like that(almost getting hit by a car) chicks get turned on, that's when you should make a move.

Compaq, I suggest you calm down with your pursuit of women. It is plently possible to meet them without chasing them down the street like a banshee and endangering their (and others') lives.

I don't chase them down. Besides whenever I ask a chick for her number they always give me some lame excuse. I think I'll give chick's my number now so they can decide on it.

thats not right man.i think your obsessed with chicks. why the hell would you want to chase something like that? thats really not healthy and im no alcoholic, but i would rather finish the beer.

what a thread jacking....

I was joking that I would hit her, geez relax.

You guys are party poopers. Let me tell you something about my cousin. I'm older than my cousin by 2 weeks and he looks old enough to be my dad. He drinks way too much. People always ask him if he's 35 years old. The dude drinks any possible moment unless he's sleeping or passed out.

that joke was in poor taste and behind every joke is a bit of truth....
that sucks, but as i said before:going back on topic: im pretty sure kick will be fine riding a bicycle to work.

In the spring/summer my wife rides her bike to work. We live about ~3 miles from her work.

So far my job is nothing amazing.

But it pays better then my old job. Yesterday I packed boxs (not exciting) today I helped with silk screen printing (cool but not the job I did + it's VERY repetative). I helped print over 1,000 "Garden Select Organic Food" for a grocery store. We do lots of orders for retail stores (gnc/bestbuy/bon ton/sax fith ave) to name a few.

You just have to be smart when you bike. My biggest fear is that a car won't see me and hit me. I wear a helmet and usually wear bright colors like red or yellow.

Wow. They have you multi-tasking already! My first day at my Nortel factory job, I spent hours weighing little plastic baggies containing telephone keypad buttons (to find the baggies with extra/missing parts).

I kind of panicked right at the start because I thought I felt my brain atrophying.

What about using a set of those LED blinkies (white/red, front/rear)? If I had to bike in questionable traffic, I'd consider using mine even during the day.