What Are You Doing Right Now
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Red herring.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom -- it sounds like you work with some good folks!
I managed to find a job that really isn't hard, pays decently, I get along with EVERYONE minus one person, and that person poses ZERO threat to me. I've finally learned the lesson "not my circus, not my monkeys". I do what I'm asked, and when I leave at the end of the day, I don't give the job a thought until I arrive the next day.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom -- it sounds like you work with some good folks!
I managed to find a job that really isn't hard, pays decently, I get along with EVERYONE minus one person, and that person poses ZERO threat to me. I've finally learned the lesson "not my circus, not my monkeys". I do what I'm asked, and when I leave at the end of the day, I don't give the job a thought until I arrive the next day.
Just keep holding on to that. You need to do that for a long time. It only takes one bad moment of thinking it is your monkeys for it to fall apart. Stay relaxed, head down, do a good job and you should be good.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom -- it sounds like you work with some good folks!
I managed to find a job that really isn't hard, pays decently, I get along with EVERYONE minus one person, and that person poses ZERO threat to me. I've finally learned the lesson "not my circus, not my monkeys". I do what I'm asked, and when I leave at the end of the day, I don't give the job a thought until I arrive the next day.
Just keep holding on to that. You need to do that for a long time. It only takes one bad moment of thinking it is your monkeys for it to fall apart. Stay relaxed, head down, do a good job and you should be good.
That's exactly what I've been doing. I think back to situations I've encountered in previous jobs where I made certain mistakes, overstepped bounds, etc. I made those mistakes too many times. And when I came here, I swore I wouldn't do that anymore. So far, I've done excellent with it. I haven't been perfect, but pretty damn close, and it's working for me. I'm not an easy case, but for all those that have invested their time, energy, money and support in me, I'll be damned if I don't make them proud of their decision.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom -- it sounds like you work with some good folks!
I managed to find a job that really isn't hard, pays decently, I get along with EVERYONE minus one person, and that person poses ZERO threat to me. I've finally learned the lesson "not my circus, not my monkeys". I do what I'm asked, and when I leave at the end of the day, I don't give the job a thought until I arrive the next day.
Just keep holding on to that. You need to do that for a long time. It only takes one bad moment of thinking it is your monkeys for it to fall apart. Stay relaxed, head down, do a good job and you should be good.
That's exactly what I've been doing. I think back to situations I've encountered in previous jobs where I made certain mistakes, overstepped bounds, etc. I made those mistakes too many times. And when I came here, I swore I wouldn't do that anymore. So far, I've done excellent with it. I haven't been perfect, but pretty damn close, and it's working for me. I'm not an easy case, but for all those that have invested their time, energy, money and support in me, I'll be damned if I don't make them proud of their decision.
I'm tired of being the "kid" who has potential but keeps f***ing himself over. I'm done with that. I'm still going to make plenty of mistakes, but at least I can say I'm not going to keep repeating dumb moves I have made in the past. Time for me to grow up, and I'm finally getting there.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thanksajdotcom -- it sounds like you work with some good folks!
I managed to find a job that really isn't hard, pays decently, I get along with EVERYONE minus one person, and that person poses ZERO threat to me. I've finally learned the lesson "not my circus, not my monkeys". I do what I'm asked, and when I leave at the end of the day, I don't give the job a thought until I arrive the next day.
Just keep holding on to that. You need to do that for a long time. It only takes one bad moment of thinking it is your monkeys for it to fall apart. Stay relaxed, head down, do a good job and you should be good.
That's exactly what I've been doing. I think back to situations I've encountered in previous jobs where I made certain mistakes, overstepped bounds, etc. I made those mistakes too many times. And when I came here, I swore I wouldn't do that anymore. So far, I've done excellent with it. I haven't been perfect, but pretty damn close, and it's working for me. I'm not an easy case, but for all those that have invested their time, energy, money and support in me, I'll be damned if I don't make them proud of their decision.
I'm tired of being the "kid" who has potential but keeps f***ing himself over. I'm done with that. I'm still going to make plenty of mistakes, but at least I can say I'm not going to keep repeating dumb moves I have made in the past. Time for me to grow up, and I'm finally getting there.
That's a quite important point: Doing mistakes is not much of a problem. Doing the same mistake twice is stupid. Learning this rule is the key to everything that may come
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Step 1: Start saying Red Herring
Step 2: Get into and stay among the top 5 posters on ML
Step 3: ProfitFTFY.
I'm pretty high up there but the percentage of actually helpful posts is very low. That will be fixed the more I study though.
Pfffft as if you need to post anything helpful on here to get up there
cough my stats cough
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My wife is making random afternoon spritzers.
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@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
Cisco equipment that bad to work on?
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About to head to lunch
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
Cisco equipment that bad to work on?
Quick and clean death vs working on Cisco VOIP gear?
Tough call.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
Cisco equipment that bad to work on?
Quick and clean death vs working on Cisco VOIP gear?
Tough call.
Tough..... call
Good one.
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My wife is watching TV and just heard a story about a guy in Australia:
Bill had a frontal car crash. When he was picked up by the ambulance, he had a heart attack while on the way to the hospital. Clinical dead for 14 minutes. But he survived that and because he had so much luck, he thought it could be a good idea to get a scratchcard. He won a brand new car.
After a TV station got word of the story, they asked him to replay that scene and get another scratchcard... yet another jackpot: 250,000 AUD.Karma can be odd at times
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My wife is watching TV and just heard a story about a guy in Australia:
Bill had a frontal car crash. When he was picked up by the ambulance, he had a heart attack while on the way to the hospital. Clinical dead for 14 minutes. But he survived that and because he had so much luck, he thought it could be a good idea to get a scratchcard. He won a brand new car.
After a TV station got word of the story, they asked him to replay that scene and get another scratchcard... yet another jackpot: 250,000 AUD.Karma can be odd at times
Holy crap!
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I bet AJ feels just silly having had a crash today and not buying a lotto ticket right afterwards!
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
Cisco equipment that bad to work on?
Quick and clean death vs working on Cisco VOIP gear?
Tough call.
Speaking of, anybody want to buy a working Cisco UC560? Hundred bucks?
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
Cisco equipment that bad to work on?
Quick and clean death vs working on Cisco VOIP gear?
Tough call.
Speaking of, anybody want to buy a working Cisco UC560? Hundred bucks?
Ok, want my bank details?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller My fiance might poison me tonight. Let's hope.
Cisco equipment that bad to work on?
Quick and clean death vs working on Cisco VOIP gear?
Tough call.
Speaking of, anybody want to buy a working Cisco UC560? Hundred bucks?
Ok, want my bank details?
*International shipping fees not included
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I bet AJ feels just silly having had a crash today and not buying a lotto ticket right afterwards!
Hehe, probably. But being clinical dead for 14 minutes and survive that is next to a miracle. I've heard something like that before, but there's virtually always very cold water involved.
