My job sucks, does yours?

Hey Propig I know the feeling.  I stack the boards and others watch and talk about it.  Today we probably cut about 40 to 45,000 board feet of lumber.  Which means 4 to 5 tractor and trailer loads of lumber.  Some thick and most of it heavy.  Out of seven people who stack 1 didn't show up, 1 left early, 1 talked about the work being done and 3 stacked boards.  Luckily a couple of guys came over from other parts of the mill to work.  At least it ain't turned cold yet.  And Omega I was in service with my own Laptop, Cell Phone, Pager, and Company Car.  Just got tired of dealing with 30 year-old kids that couldn't  understand that don't do this means don't do this.  Oh well such is life when you work for a living and wan't handed one.  Could allways be worse.  I could be the man that makes rubber doggie doo and fake vomit for a living.

Hey Savage, what kind of lumber do you guys have? I am trying to learn how to make stuff out of wood. I am really good with a scroll saw, but I am still trying to master a router. I am making the cabinets for my kitchen - so this should be interesting.

ps. I love the smell of fresh wood.

Hey Propig.  Good Luck with the Woodworking it can lots of fun.  We cut just about anything native to West Virginia except pine.  Not sure why we steer clear of it except there isn't much nice pine left around here anymore.  All of our stuff is very green, some of it you could allmost squeeze the sap out of still.  Next week will be Poplar a very soft wood that has a true green tint and if the was near the right minerals sometime has purple streaks, allthough I believe it fades when they dry the lumber at the dry-kiln.  Red-Oak and cherry would be the prettiest woods I know for wood working for dark woods and Pine is the best for light woods and the easiest to work with because it is a very soft wood.  The rarest naitive American wood You can try to find is Wormy Chestnut.  A darker wood with worm holes riddled through the entire log.  Not sure but the worms are most likely why it's an extince species of wood.  American Chesnut tree's are all dead in this area.  Only Chinese Chesnut have grown around here for 40 to 50 years I'm told.  Hope that helps and good luck with the woodworking.  BTW my job still sucks.

i´m currently workin´at a local supermarket for 10 hours/week.
my collegues are pretty nice, but the job suxx. i´d like to work somewhere assembling  custom systems or stuff like that. still looking for some better job, primary because of the payment. :-/

Oh man...I absolutely agree with you on that one Admin!  I used to be in your shoes.  I swear, some people are just not meant to operate computers.  I started off doing that at my school here and with a lot of hard work and perseverance, I am now in charge of the maintenance of our residential network in the dorms here.  I absolutely love me job now. It's a little step but the knowledge that I gain in tinkering around with these new Cisco routers/cable modems and other network equipment definitely will pay off in the long run.

I guess my little advice here is to be a little more patient.  Good things usually come to those who have the desire and the hunger to go after what they want.  I'm sure things will brighten up soon.