What did you do today

[noseoil]

"Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years."

Congratulations dude! I spent the last 2 years with my calendar showing my "expiration date" penciled in on each day, number of days left until my retirement. When the boss would say something I didn't like, I'd point to the calendar & smile...

[twisted lines]

Congratulations;
Another theory: Take this Job and

[MickinOz]

Thanks guys. Scariest thing I've ever done. I've never been un-employed before.
Still I'm 61 next month, and I've worked full time, and then some, since I was 16.
By the time I use up leave owed, I will crack the 45 years.

[bdosborn]

My expiration date is 1/1/2022. Woohoo!
Bruce

[Capebuild]

Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years.

Wow!... congratulations, MickinOz! One job for 45 years ?(I'm interpreting that as....) that in itself is pretty amazing.
I had worked for myself for the past 25 years and stopped taking on work in August of '20. It took a little getting used to.
But with many projects I had planned (teardrop, for instance)..... I got used to it

Congratulations to you!

[tony.latham]

Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years.

And what was your job?



Tony

[pchast]

Congratulations All!

It was a couple of weeks after I retired when I actually
realized I was my own boss now. The schedule was mine
to make............. It was heaven.

[rjgimp]

Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years.

That's outstanding, mate! As for me, at 52 I'm still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. So far I have compiled a fair list of things that are NOT it. Over the years I have retired three times and find it to be absolutely marvelous! Funny thing is, I kept running out of money, so had to go work a bit more.

I owe my soul to the company store.

[MickinOz]

Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years.

And what was your job?



Tony

Well my trade is one you don't see so much anymore.
I trained as an assayer.

For quite a few years I was the guy who told you how much gold there was in them thar hills.

That's me on the left

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In 1995, I bought a machine for the labs that promptly made me redundant.

So management asked me if I'd take a job helping to look after our environmental performance, but "Don't talk about it to anyone, we haven't sacked the other useless bastard yet".
"Useless bastard" duly ejected, I went Environmentin' for 4 years, then in about 2000 the company hit a rough patch and went kinda broke.
We scraped through and almost thrived, but we couldn't hire metallurgists for love or money.

So they asked me to take my assayin' and bucket chemistry knowledge over to the sinter plant and measure sulphur evolution and cadmium deportment on a three month secondment.
7 years later, having been promoted to honorary metallurgist and having helped set a production record that stands to this day, they said, " Mick, you look like you need a rest."

Back to the Environment department - no call-ins, no out of hours work to speak of.
I de-stressed and wound down there for a while, built a model for air emissions tracing, planted a few trees, caught a few fish for research purposes, analysed a few dust samples, cleaned up a few acid spills, then buggered off on a three month paid sabbatical.

When I got back, I heard the General manager wanted to see me. "Can't be good," I thought, so I ducked him for a week. Then one day I forgot myself and answered the phone.
The voice on the other end growled, "Maaaate, ya can't hide forever, come up and see me."
So I traipsed upstairs to the corner office.
Secretary was laughing her head off as she said, "Go straight in Mick."

"Michael," said the GM in his best formal tone, "I need you to go manage the stockpiles in the Pit."
"You must have seen it while you've been out Environmentin'. It's a bloody mess, mate."
"You'll have a budget, go sort it out, please."

So we parted friends, and Pit Coordinatin I went.
Been doing that ever since. Currently looking after many many millions of high value materials that variously need to be weighed, screened, crushed, processed and turned into saleable metals.

I call myself the Minister for Mud and Sludge.

But, it's been nearly 45 years and it will be 45 years by the time I use up outstanding leave I am entitled to.
So when my financial advisor told me I had saved too much money in my superannuation account and threatened three times in one interview to slap some sense into me, (ya gotta love strong Aussie women) the decision was made.
Freedom beckons.

So what was the job? Dunno really - whatever they needed doing, I guess.

[working on it]

Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years.

Congratulations. I retired after 46.5 years at the same employer, though I worked in various capacities in the same department. I was 65, then, 70 now. I had wanted to make it to 72, but the job was literally breaking my back, and killing me. Even so, I worked longer (and I think harder) than anyone in the company's 80+ year history.

Though I filed for "retirement on my 65th birthday", the HR department "lost" the paperwork several times, so I'd have to continue to lead my sub-department through the end of the year (the heaviest season). The vice-president admitted that it was his idea, and still tried to talk me into staying, during my exit interview. He had previously talked me out of quitting a year earlier, after an incident at work, where I had been attacked (from behind) by a "millennial" delivery driver. I had already had my fill of crap from drivers/truckers by then, anyway. In any case, I was so glad to be retired, I let it slide.

My health immediately improved...no 12-16 hour days at work, no 4+ hour commute, no stress from dealing with millenials (there's that word, again) and/or morons; too bad that I hadn't retired prior to wrecking my knees & back. I built my trailer (starting at 61), so I could camp several times a year, go offroad, see America. But, I had acquired high blood pressure, vertigo, and such from stress and injuries by then, so it wasn't to be. I wish I had been ten years younger, or more, when the camping bug bit me.

Good luck on your (and the same to all others on theirs) retirement!

[TimC]

Today, I quit the job I have held for 45 years.

Congrats Mick! May you live a long, exciting and relaxing retirement.

[MickinOz]

My health immediately improved...no 12-16 hour days at work, no 4+ hour commute, no stress from dealing with millenials (there's that word, again) and/or morons

Good luck on your (and the same to all others on theirs) retirement!

Thank you.
I've had the 12-16 hour work days, and the stress from dealing with morons, and I've been threatened by meth head truck drivers, too.
And it is bloody stressful.

But I have to throw in a word about millennials and younger people.
There has been a few "high maintenance" kids come through the system, but for the most part I've admired how smart our young people are and how hard they are prepared to work. Of course, being one of the few places in South Australia where an engineer or metallurgist can work in his field, we get to choose really good people.

Most young people I interact are science graduates. When you're dealing with someone who graduated with honours from a 5 year double engineering and science degree, you most definitely are not dealing with a moron, I'm happy to report.
So I've been lucky there.

What I really want to do is get out of bed when I've finished sleeping. The work day starts at 6.00. Kills me. Sun's not up 'till 7 at this time of year.
That and toilet breaks. Wanna go to the toilet when I need to go, not after the next "urgent" meeting.

[dbhosttexas]

Had a particularly frustrating day today. I was left with tasks by somebody who was going to be out of office, and their handover notes were kind of vague. I guess that's what happens when you work with folks across the globe...

I ordered a couple more of those pressure washer quick disconnects, and some 3/8" barb x 3/4" garden hose thread F adapters.

The plan is to be able to swap between pump, and garden hose connection, and between heater and no heater for the shower.

A good example is on a good hot summer day, nobody wants to take a HOT shower, just get cool water from the hose and take a nice long cooling shower.

In the winter, I can swap in the heater and call it good, have a nice long hot shower.

If I am away from campground provided faucet water, I can swap in a pump that can pump from a bucket.

Long term goal is to be able to pump from a creek, lake, river, stock tank etc... through a filter, why rinse off with dirty water after bathing? And then run through the heater, or direct to the shower head if need be.

To accomplish the latter, I still need to determine which one is needed, and order a proper 12V pump, suitable wire not only for hte power, but also for switching, a waterproof switch, and a male 3/4" garden hose thread to 3/8" barb adapter, and a goodly amount more of 3/8" ID tubing. I have the Camco filter setup.

I'd also like a pre filter setup similar to what the Joolca HOTTAP kit uses....

After all this piddling around, I think I would be better off just getting a Joolca, but they are spendy, and I am not sure I can pump water straight through and bypass heating it if I don't want the water heated....

[tony.latham]

Well my trade is one you don't see so much anymore.

That's a great story! Thanks for sharing.

Tony

[dbhosttexas]

The missing supplies (for now) came. The garden hose to 3/8" adapter, and it is a TIGHT fit inside the OE Zodi Hottap hose. I am thinking more like 9/16" but hey, no need for a clamp!

So I assembled the drop in piee, Garden hose feed. Pulled the pump from the Zodi, and added the other side of the quick disconnect to the heat exchanger cold water in side.

So as of now, I can swap between garden hose input, Zodi D cell pump input, or Ivation USB rechargeable input pumps, to Zodi heater, or bypass the heater entirely, and out to the home made Ivation shower head / ensuite plumbing irg in the shwoer tent, OR to a Zodi output hose and shower head repurposed to the sink.

Long term goal here is if I don't manage to finally go to an instant start on demand like the Camplux, or Joolca, I will still go with a 1 - 1.5 GPM 12v pump, I need to determine the pickup filter, through a garden hose, to a Camco inline water filter, to a potable water hose, no need to introduce contaminants at this point, and off to the heater, or not...

Some size issues of note.

The copper tubing used by the Zodi I believe is actually 1/4" ID, even with a mess of pressure, it will only move so much water, I am just trying to provide CLEAN water to it.

IThe total amount of space this uses is easly half of what a Joolca Hottap does, but then again, the function isn't quite there... And with Zodi being more or less effectively gone...

Lots more to do, only so much time to do it in though. Watching the tropics. Things are going to stink for Florida this week, hoping for my sake it doesn't turn this way, hoping for Floridas sake it turns out harmlessly into the atlantic.