Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Struggling to see how work can be fulfilling if you spend half your life moaning about the commute and that it doesn't pay enough to allow you to have a home in a place you like living. Each to their own though I guess.
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Sure, but we all have a bit of Brian in us or we wouldn't be on this forum. Right now, my desire would be to be on the river or cycling. But I would also enjoy a few hours later looking at inventions. The balance does shift as you get older. I started off with too much play and not enough work, now it's the other way around.
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At the end of week two, I've just got into the swing of things: week one is having a bit of downtime, week two is getting my legs into form for longer hills and longer rides. Then the fun starts. But the nice thing about a long break (my eight-week pandemic summer holiday in 2021 was the longest yet) is that you don't feel you've got to cram everything in, and if you just want a day faffing around not doing much, it's no big deal.
I suspect that, especially given the nature/intensity of your work, your perspective might change over the next 25/30 years, and you'll be the one on CS (2054) advocating retiring as soon as you can.
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Trival annoyances.
How long is new Teams going to be new, and what's different about it anyway.
Related. How many years is a new road layout worth mentioning?
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There's the New Inn at Broadclyst which has been 'new' for a couple of hundred years, I think.
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Maybe it's spending time writing shit on CS and not doing real work (or cleaning the house, as I ought to be).
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In a nutshell.
You spend the first 20 years of your working career progressing until you've hit the sweet spot where any progression gives gives a lot more hassle for little extra cash. Then the next 20 years doing roughly the same stuff day in, day out. Then you think, I've got better things to be doing before time runs out.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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No.
I'd worked my way up the ladder into management and decided it wasn't for me. That lasted 2 years. I preferred being more hands on and less people management. Expanding a business means more people management.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It's the 'time running out' bit which does rather focus the mind, as each decade passes more quickly. Hurtling downhill on a bike is fun and scary, but the same experience in age terms is just scary, as you accelerate towards oblivion. At least I want to be able to take in the scenery, even though I can't stop the hurtling.
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Yup. And Rick hasn't figured out he's nearly 60 yet.
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New College, Oxford.
The New Forest.
New York (and others)
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On that last bit, the signs are supposed to come down after 3 months but obviously rarely do - I wouldn't sign a job off until they were down if it was up to me.
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I'd more say it's someone doing a passable job of finding something that is a least a tiny bit novel at one of those events. It's probably not the audience that need to hear it though.
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Beat me to it. Depends how rewarding your job is 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
New Kids on the Block?
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You need more ambition with your holidays.
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New Teams is like Old Teams but just a bit shitter with more bugs. If that's at all possible?
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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It is the Microsoft business model.
I think it is supposed to be less resource intensive. But who cares, it's basically just Skype in a fancy frock.
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Have to say one of the things I miss least since changing jobs is people constantly contacting me via Teams to ask stuff rather than trying to work it out for themselves. It basically became MSN Messenger from the early 2000s.
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People asking without trying to find the answer themselves is a particular bugbear of mine. When i was starting out if I asked without having made an effort I would get shouted at, I soon learnt where to find the answers. Now I'm one of the old farts and am one of the most knowledgeable I often don't know the answer off the top of my head, but I know where to look. I often get asked the same question by the same person some time later, and they wonder why I get irritated by silly questions. So I changed tack and show people how to find the answer, a couple take heed, the majority are too lazy to look for themselves.
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There's a balance to be struck here, and people that never ask for help when they are stuck can be equally annoying.
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Very much so, even worse are those that make things up or guess when they don't know. But most of what I'm being asked about is in the computer system if people could be bothered to look, some of it is in these things called books. Why I have to refer to them because someone can't be bothered to get off their aris' is a trivial annoyance.
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The tube station at North Greenwich being designed in such a way that when a concert at the O2 finishes, there's a massive queue to get in to the station, but the trains leave half empty.
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I imagine that studying passenger flow into and through underground stations would be quite interesting, involving several strands, including computer modelling.. There are a few reports around.
https://wp.wpi.edu/london/projects/2017-projects-summer/tube/
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People management is one of the things I find interesting and pretty unavoidable in construction even if you operate as a sole trader.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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That's Gloucester right there. Lovely bit of history, but with a tacky mobile shop smashed into it. Perfectly sandwiched between Ye Olde Sports Direct and Pandora.
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One wonders how that excrescence got permission, given that the building overall must be at least Grade 2 listed.
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Sounds like it is working. Overcrowding on the platform is more dangerous than outside the ticket barrier. A Jubilee line train can hold 964 passengers and I think you can run them at 2 minute intervals so if people are equally distributed east and west it will take about 20 minutes to get everyone on a train. To fill a train with 1000 people safely you need 200 M2 of platform minimum and ideally quite a bit more so that people can move along with platform. Those thousand people need to get through 26 doors in 30 seconds which is more than one person per door per second.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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There was no danger of overcrowding on the platform - in the carriage I got on there was only about 4 other people because I'd walked down the platform a bit after coming down the stairs. I can't believe that is the most efficient possible way of moving people.
If people could get down onto the platform in more than one place, more people would get onto each train.
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