what do you actually do all day?

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-02-06 01:46pm

I mostly sit on my ass, tell reporters what to do and where to go, sit on my ass some more, drink soda, sit on my ass some more, type posts to SD.net, keep sitting on my ass while talking to people, wander the corridors at work looking for someone to talk to, go back to my desk and read through some articles, type an editorial while sitting on my ass, then I go home and sleep, wake up, eat something, take care of house chores, look after the Mrs. (;)) and do it again the next day.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2004-02-06 02:40pm

Col. Crackpot wrote: Mil Spec? i thought Mil spec was dead? ....I take it you're not ISO?

Its dead but still useable in most cases. Parts made to MIL standards for materials, part/fastener dimensions, etc still meet the requirements for the FAA, for example. The parts were once acceptable, and they still are even though the spec is managed by someone else and has been renamed from MS20470 to NAS20470 (for example). In the aircraft industry at least, you can use the specifications that existed when the aircraft was originally certified, even if later ones are more stringent. This has changed somewhat in the last year, but its still applicable in most cases.

The department of defense still maintains a website to download these specs because of their continued use:

http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2004-02-06 02:43pm

I sit at a desk. I'm either writing reports in Word, Excel, or MathCAD. Or, designing parts and associated blueprints in AutoCAD or Solidworks.

I'm either making somekind of installation instruction (like at IKEA, but for helicopters! lol), flight manuals (what the pilot reads), stress/load reports (what shows a part is OK), various certification documents (what the FAA wants to read), blueprints (what our shop wants to see), and/or 3D-CAD drawings for design and CNC programming.

I'm also a network administrator and have to troubleshoot computer issues, and a multitude of other computer related things because I'm *the* computer expert. I personally can't wait until they replace our former IT person.

I'm also requisitioned by our marketing dept to make pictures for their catalog.

It sounds like a lot, but it goes in cycles. I can have a busy week, but I can spend a day or so with not much to do.

When I'm not busy (as of 15 minutes ago), I generally surf the net or make overly complex 3D-CAD dwgs in Solidworks

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-02-06 03:06pm

At my job, I work with a rather large Microsoft Access database (750,000 or so records, no I'm not exagerating) with approximately 90 fields in the main table, and perform cross-matching against other database with record counts ranging from 2000 - 150,000 records.

Actually, I wrote a Module and linked it to a form to do all that for me, and I sleep

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-02-06 03:21pm

I'm a student so i spend my time sleeping, drinking, messing around on the net and generally having a good time

Occasionly i go to these things called "lectures" and sometimes i even do some lab work. Unfortunately i also have to do these things called exams from time to time and they always seem to crop up at the worst possible times, like just when you think you can go to a meet up with people on a certain message board

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-02-06 03:34pm

I'm the receptionist/secretary for Victim Support Northern Ireland. In the head office in Belfast. I answer phones, provide hospitality for the numerous meetings held in my floor, i type letters and documents, process the in going and outgoign post and keep the stationary stock up.

I also volunteer for my VS because it's a charity in need of alble bodies to provide home visits for the victims of crime. I help people fill in Criminal Injury Compensation forms and generaly i listen to the victim to help him or her put the crime behind them. I make 3-4 home visits a week after office hours.

When not doing either of those i go to night classes. When i was 16 I failed most og my GSCE's so i'm at night school putting that right and adding a few new qualifications to improve my standard of office work.

Any other time i'm here, skulking about in other discussion boards and playing Horizions. I also managed a few chapters of reading before i go to bed.

All this means that even on a Friday night i'm too fecking tired to even go to the pub.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-02-06 03:38pm

I talk to idiotic customers all day that don't know how to read their electric and gas bills and i talk to you guys

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-02-06 03:44pm

I do machine maintenance database work for an electronics manufacturing company. On my off days they pay me to take certification courses at the local college.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-02-07 12:08am

It depends on what rotation I'm on: Receptionist, WalkIn Office, Mail, Deposit, or Floater.

If it's my week on Receptionist, I'm on the phone all day, and get to play on the computer, make labels, mail orders, update the Missing Children's List, and repeat 200+ times a day how to order a Birth/Death Certificate. These are the weeks I'm on here all day long during the week.

If it's WalkIn Office, I'm in The Vault, constantly on my feet, making Birth/Death Certificates at $5 a pop for a nearly constant stream of customers; dealing with Funeral Directors dropping off or picking up Death Certificates; doing Birth Verifications for the Military via phone or WalkIn; making Administrative copies of Birth, Death, and Paternal Affidavits for Child Support, Social Security, and other Governmental Offices, etc; mailing blank Birth, Death, and Marriage Applications to various County Offices, Hospitals, and Funeral Homes. Umm.. did I mention making copies for the constant stream of customers?

If I'm on Mail Duty, I open all mail that comes in (sometimes HUGE boxes of it), date it, and make sure it goes to the right department. I'm also handling the Rush Credit Card orders which must be out by 2:30.

If I'm on Deposit Duty, I get to count all the money from the day before. Checks, Money Orders, Cash, all of it has to be counted and the total match the Receipts. And after that, I get to do the Credit Card Orders.

Floater. I get three weeks of this. I'm either doing data entry, entering all the mail-in orders into the computer; or in the Vault making the orders; or at my desk mailing them out. I'm also providing breaks for the ladies doing WalkIn or Receptionist that week. This can be summed up simply as Other Jobs As Needed.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-02-07 01:02am

Col. Crackpot wrote:do you get to make the "WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING MORTGAGE PAYMENT?!" phone calls?

Naw, That's collections. Customer service will cram a spiked dildo up their ass if it will make the customer happy.Collections will cram that dildo straight up the customers ass in an effort to get your money.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2004-02-07 01:23am

Uhh... wow.

I wake up bright and early at 5 in the frickin' morning. I then go to school. Go school. I eat lunch around 11-12, then take a nap during 7th period (biology... I learn more from the textbook than I do from the teacher, and I am tired as hell by then, so I sleep.) After my nap, I go to Spanish (8th period, not some special thing I do), go home and sit myself down in the computer chair. There I will usually stay until around midnight, where I go to sleep. Then I repeat the process.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-02-07 01:27am

For now, I spend the bulk of my day answering emails from customers around the globe. For really complicated issues I ask them to call into our support line and open a ticket. Enventually the plan will be for me to spend most of my day handling escalated calls. Meaning, if level one can't figure it out they send the call to me.

Since I wont be on the phone all day long like a level one, Ill handle emails in between calls, submit knowledge base articles, and occasionally take a peek at what my stocks are doing.

Today I had a good time because I spent 20 minutes replicating a known limitation of our product and actually seeing the error. Its one thing to read "..we do not support NTLMv2...." and another to actually see what happens when you try.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-02-07 01:36am

Zoink wrote: I'm also a network administrator and have to troubleshoot computer issues, and a multitude of other computer related things because I'm *the* computer expert. I personally can't wait until they replace our former IT person.

Hehe, I get to help folks like you fairly often. There is usually 1 or 2 calls or emails a week where someone either "inherits" the network, or is "elected" to be in charge of the servers.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-02-07 02:24am

Chardok wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:do you get to make the "WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING MORTGAGE PAYMENT?!" phone calls?
Naw, That's collections. Customer service will cram a spiked dildo up their ass if it will make the customer happy.Collections will cram that dildo straight up the customers ass in an effort to get your money.

So what happens if a customer calls and says they are going to pick
a different lender by doing a refi? I've been thinking of looking into a
7 year ARM and ditch my 30 year fixed. If my current lender would come down a percent I might stay with them for convienince.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-02-07 02:44am

Hmm, I have rather boring day...

7:20 - Wake up.
7:25 - Get up.
7:40 - Depart for school.
7:55 - Get to school, goto 1st period with 5 minutes to spare.
Insert long block of time spent in class, with some napping.
2:55 - School is out. I used to have A+ Comp Certification classes on Tuesday and Thursday, but I dropped those since I wasn't actually learning anything from them.
3:10 - Around 11:00 - Fool around, do HW, SDN, etc.
11:00+ - Study if there's a test tomorrow. If not, fool around more.
1:00 to 2:00 - Sleep.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-02-07 02:51am

Wake up, eat breakfast, go to school, come home, and then do a combination of watching TV, surfing the internet, playing video games, and eating. Usually an hour of TV, 2-3 hours on the computer or playing video games, and the rest of the time sitting around doing nothing, playing pool, or studying.

SoX · Post by **SoX** » 2004-02-07 05:50pm

Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:I go to Spanish (8th period, not some special thing I do)

You have 8 periods!? holy velcro! we only had 5,,and in the sixth form some of them were free.

2000AD wrote:I'm a student so i spend my time sleeping, drinking, messing around on the net

Good to know someone else drinks regularly

My Day (yesterday):
6:30AM: Woke up coz of alarm on the otherside of the room, got up, switched it off and went back to bed
7:30AM: Realised it was time to get up or i'd miss the start of my exam
9:30AM: Start exam
10:30AM: Cry at Question 4
12:30PM: At the bar, quarter pounder and a pint of woodpecker.
3:00PM: Decide to go to Tesco to get ingredients for a cocktail called "Absolut Chambulls"
4-630PM: Sleep
7-7:45PM: Drink home made Absolute Chambulls, its like rocket fuel!
8PM: Hit the bar
12AM: Hit the Club
3:00AM: Got back to flat and to bed.

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-02-07 06:15pm

If I'm not at school, I'm working. If I'm not working, I'm in school. That sums up my day.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-02-07 06:23pm

SoX wrote:You have 8 periods!? holy velcro! we only had 5,,and in the sixth form some of them were free.

There are people who have 9 periods (like me) and if they want to go over and beyond up to 10 IIRC. 7-8 Periods is the standard in my school.

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6:00 AM Wake Up
6:20 AM Get Up
6:50 AM Leave for School
7:05 AM Get into class with five minutes to spare.
2:15 PM Get out of school
2:15-1 AM Not everyday but what I mostly do: Surf the net, read SD.net, play MoH with clan buddies, play Diablo II with my brother, learn to play guitar, practice the trumpet, watch History channel or Wings and assorted others, and then watch Adult Swim.
5:59:59 AM Regretting about sleeping at 1 in the morning.

That's basically it.
I can't really go out to places to hang out plus I have no cash to do anything anyway.

Cyaround,
Jason

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-02-07 06:55pm

6:25 - Wake up, eat some sort of bread with some sort of smear thing on it.
7:00 - Go to ride, go to school.
I actually have no idea when I eat lunch...
2:10 - Get home and sit on butt (M-W-F) or eat something and then go to work (T-Th)
5:00 - Eat dinner, then sit on butt again.
10:00 - Go to bed. I don't understand the whole stay-up-too-late thing other teenagers do.