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« Reply #875 on: January 28, 2015, 07:33:20 PM »

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing. Smiley
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« Reply #876 on: January 28, 2015, 08:26:20 PM »

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing. Smiley

Hopefully they are morbid-tolerant and not bigots. Good luck, man.
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« Reply #877 on: January 28, 2015, 08:28:02 PM »

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing. Smiley

Hopefully they are morbid-tolerant and not bigots. Good luck, man.

Ha! We shall see.  Thanks!
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« Reply #878 on: January 28, 2015, 10:13:03 PM »

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing. Smiley

Things certainly are spread out in Oklahoma. I had a roughly 40-mile round trip when I worked in Manhattan but lived in the country outside of a small town physically separate from Manhattan.

In Kansas City, I have a 24-mile round trip per day ... and cutting down a few miles during the commute and on weekends has made a big difference. Thirty-two miles one way seems excessive, though I suppose you were working and living where you could.

I didn't mention this in my PM, but I'd consider that distance in your decision. Thirty-six miles per day, or 180 per week, would have you praising low gas prices.
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« Reply #879 on: January 29, 2015, 07:18:59 AM »

This is part of the reason I don't understand renewing your lease when your employment is up in the air. Not only are you committing to a financial obligation you don't know when you can actually pay for, but you're removing any opportunity to find a place closer to whatever future job you have.

If you choose to work that far away, you're giving yourself an automatic pay cut and taking an extra hour a day out of your life that could be spent doing other things (more napping? more football?).
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« Reply #880 on: January 29, 2015, 09:05:33 AM »

time for a flashback:

how do you think mama bushie reacted when young bushie was eating 3+ bowls of sugary cereal for breakfast?
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« Reply #881 on: January 29, 2015, 09:35:51 AM »

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.
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« Reply #882 on: January 29, 2015, 09:40:03 AM »


Joe wins the internets, again.
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« Reply #883 on: January 29, 2015, 09:49:20 AM »

Meh, you'd just be napping if you weren't doing that anyway so whatever.
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« Reply #884 on: January 29, 2015, 10:23:30 AM »

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.

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« Reply #885 on: January 29, 2015, 10:37:29 AM »

bushie how many steps do you walk a day.  15? 20?
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« Reply #886 on: January 29, 2015, 10:44:58 AM »

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.

lol

So are we still pretending Bushie doesn't have serious mental health issues? Because I don't see how you can read that post and not think so.
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« Reply #887 on: January 29, 2015, 10:48:47 AM »

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.

lol

So are we still pretending Bushie doesn't have serious mental health issues? Because I don't see how you can read that post and not think so.

I have mental issues for being a visual learner?  I don't get the correlation.
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« Reply #888 on: January 29, 2015, 11:01:31 AM »
« Edited: January 29, 2015, 11:18:10 AM by WalterMitty »

it is so sad  bushie is so like people in the benighted parts of the country in his view of mental illness.   he thinks it is 1. a moral failing (which is odd, because his true moral failings he doesnt give a second thought to).  2.  his image of mental illmess is a homeless mumbling and urinating on himself.
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« Reply #889 on: January 29, 2015, 11:11:20 AM »

Good Thursday Morning.  Even though I have an interview tomorrow, naturally I'm going to continue the job search today.  An interview is not a job.  In about 10 minutes, I'm going to drive to find the company before I have to find it tomorrow.  Yes, I have my GPS and I have always been very good with maps, but I am a visual learner and I do better when I've been to the actual location before I have to go there.  It may seem like a waste of money and time, but I've found this is something that works for me.

lol

So are we still pretending Bushie doesn't have serious mental health issues? Because I don't see how you can read that post and not think so.

I don't think there is one person here who doesn't believe he has mental health issues that he has refused to acknowledge, for the reasons noted by waltermitty in the preceding post, Gustaf.
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« Reply #890 on: January 29, 2015, 11:23:35 AM »

a stumbled across this old article about former espn personality fred hickman.  apparently he called in sick more than 200 times.  only odf can surpass that number.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/12/fred_hickman_highlights_a_rath.html
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« Reply #891 on: January 29, 2015, 11:26:21 AM »

I'm going to spend the next little while combing through the company's website preparing for tomorrow's interview.
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« Reply #892 on: January 29, 2015, 11:54:34 AM »

I have to break my brief silence.  Today was a more successful day in the job search arena.  I scored an CAD interview at a company in West Tulsa.  I have already PM'd a couple of Update regulars to get their thoughts.  I will say this that it is a contract-to-hire position and at least $15 an hour.  It's about 17-18 miles from my apartment completely on the west side of Tulsa, but I am used to driving 32 miles one way in OKC, so 18 is nothing. Smiley

Things certainly are spread out in Oklahoma. I had a roughly 40-mile round trip when I worked in Manhattan but lived in the country outside of a small town physically separate from Manhattan.

In Kansas City, I have a 24-mile round trip per day ... and cutting down a few miles during the commute and on weekends has made a big difference. Thirty-two miles one way seems excessive, though I suppose you were working and living where you could.

I didn't mention this in my PM, but I'd consider that distance in your decision. Thirty-six miles per day, or 180 per week, would have you praising low gas prices.

32 miles to work isn't that big of a deal.  I pretty much did that when I was working in the Financial District in Manhattan.  With that being said, other than driving to the train station (which was 10 minutes max) virtually all of it was on the LIRR and Subway (walking a few blocks to my office form the Chambers Street station).  It still was about $300 for month between the LIRR ticket and Metrocard.

Now I work about 14 miles from where I live (11 if I avoid the Parkways)
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« Reply #893 on: January 29, 2015, 01:05:24 PM »
« Edited: January 29, 2015, 01:06:59 PM by memphis »

It isn't so much about the distance of commute as it is the time it takes to complete it. At least people in New York have the excuse that they can't afford to live closer in. Not that having a long commute there isn't a terrible way to live also, but in a town like Tulsa or Memphis, it makes no sense at all, especially for somebody who doesn't have to worry about public school district boundaries. Anything more than 15 minutes is just self-imposed sadism.
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« Reply #894 on: January 29, 2015, 02:07:49 PM »

It isn't so much about the distance of commute as it is the time it takes to complete it. At least people in New York have the excuse that they can't afford to live closer in. Not that having a long commute there isn't a terrible way to live also, but in a town like Tulsa or Memphis, it makes no sense at all, especially for somebody who doesn't have to worry about public school district boundaries. Anything more than 15 minutes is just self-imposed sadism.

When we moved to Kansas City, we looked at housing that was closer for either me or my partner for where we need to be during the day. He has a five-block commute while I've got a 12-mile drive. But location and proximity was certainly a consideration when we were moving here.

Jeff, if you find a job in Tulsa, would you consider allowing your lease to run out and finding an apartment closer to work when the time is right?
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« Reply #895 on: January 29, 2015, 02:36:00 PM »

Jeff, if you find a job in Tulsa, would you consider allowing your lease to run out and finding an apartment closer to work when the time is right?

No, because it's not an original idea. At this point you should realize that if Jeff doesn't feel like he thought of something organically, he does not do it.
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« Reply #896 on: January 29, 2015, 03:08:55 PM »

bushie did you vote for inhofe?
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« Reply #897 on: January 29, 2015, 03:40:07 PM »

It isn't so much about the distance of commute as it is the time it takes to complete it. At least people in New York have the excuse that they can't afford to live closer in. Not that having a long commute there isn't a terrible way to live also, but in a town like Tulsa or Memphis, it makes no sense at all, especially for somebody who doesn't have to worry about public school district boundaries. Anything more than 15 minutes is just self-imposed sadism.

When we moved to Kansas City, we looked at housing that was closer for either me or my partner for where we need to be during the day. He has a five-block commute while I've got a 12-mile drive. But location and proximity was certainly a consideration when we were moving here.

Jeff, if you find a job in Tulsa, would you consider allowing your lease to run out and finding an apartment closer to work when the time is right?

Meh, Tulsa's a compact enough city that 18 miles is about as high as it would go.  Mind you, I'm going from the far east end of town to the far west end of town.
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« Reply #898 on: January 29, 2015, 03:41:25 PM »


Nope.  Never have, never will.
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« Reply #899 on: January 29, 2015, 04:20:33 PM »

Are you watching the NFL Network daily, or the pedestrian ESPN?
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