How do you survive?

[Sparky]

Here I set in my office seeking any distraction I can find. Something to give my wandering mind something to do before it gets me into trouble. It’s not like my work will suffer. I’m a minor level bureaucrat; it’s my job to wander through semi unless minutia and make sure that none of it sticks to me. I think I have gotten fairly good at it since I’m still here after 31 long, very long, years. During the season there is always a short term goal to focus on. A trip to organize, a technique to master, a scheme to devise to convince the significant other that we really can afford the time and money to make just one more ski trip. Now, however, all those distractions are gone. If it were not for cursing sites like this one and watching ski porn on Google video I’d have to entertain himself doing some sort of work. My question is, what do you guys do to get yourselves through these mind numbing days at the office or wherever?

 

[wa-loaf]

31 years in govt? Sounds like you can retire with full benes. Take the summer off and head to Argentina for a few weeks. Come back and find a fun part-time job.

Me I'll be stuck reading AlpineZone and having ACL Surgery in June. I'll try to get some biking in before surgery, but most of the summer will be spent recovering in time to ski in December.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

On mind numbing days in the office..I surf the internet..

 

[ckofer]

Try windsurfing. I basically suck at it but I think it will fill the void.

 

[Lostone]

I guess my short answer would have to be... I didn't.

Similar story, but my 30 years were with a mfg company, in engineering.
Everything had to be done right away. Always worrying about the next round of layoffs... :-?


I quit. I moved to the valley. I ski winter and in the off-season, I hike, bike swim, and now disc golf.

I downsized my material expectations and upsized my life.

I chose the path less trave... (Oops! Wrong forum! :lol

 

[kingslug]

My POS Corvette keeps me busy in the summer, most labor intensive device ever created. Other then that I'll just work a lot of overtime to pay for the other most labor intensive device ever created...a house.

 

[hardline]

thankfull my job is full of distractions

and if we get bored on a job site we just blow something up.

 

[MR. evil]

I have moutian biking once ski season is over just as fun and almost as expensive as skiing. And I also have martial arts (judo, Iaido) that I do all year long. It is really nice having a hobby that I can do all year long. I don't have the end of season depression I get with skiing and MT Biking, and I don't have a begining of the season trying to get back up to form. I have already been out on the bike about 10 times this month and I feel like it will take another month to my lungs and legs back. Ski legs are not Mt Biking legs

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

I kayak, hike and bike. I love the summer in the ADKs. “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun.”

 

[campgottagopee]

Golf, bbq's and time w/ my silly dogs

 

[twinplanx]

thankfull my job is full of distractions

and if we get bored on a job site we just blow something up.

So your a roadie for Marylin Manson?

 

[riverc0il]

My question is, what do you guys do to get yourselves through these mind numbing days at the office or wherever?

Well, when I am at work.... I work. Almost never think about skiing at work. Too busy, too much to do. You get what you deserve if you have so little to do at work that you can drive yourself nuts thinking about skiing!

:smash::lol:;-)

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

So your a roadie for Marylin Manson?

Wow whose that hot broad??? I'd hit it and quit ya heard..

 

[Sparky]

I guess my short answer would have to be... I didn't.

Similar story, but my 30 years were with a mfg company, in engineering.
Everything had to be done right away. Always worrying about the next round of layoffs... :-?


I quit. I moved to the valley. I ski winter and in the off-season, I hike, bike swim, and now disc golf.

I downsized my material expectations and upsized my life.

I chose the path less trave... (Oops! Wrong forum! :lol

I wish I had though of that earlier in my career.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Sparkmeister: LISTEN to your soul boy -- you've given yourself the answer --ITS TIME !!!

Whoa , make that overtime to GET BUSY MAKING a LIFE not A Living. 31 yrs in a STULTIFYING environment but one that has a decent pension and beennies will rot your brain and sap your spirit

Grab an early retirement deal and fly bud I did -- Walked away @ 52 from 30 yrs of university work did 75 days a yr of consulting then for 5 yrs and really never turned back , I had planned it out financially for years .



DO IT - DO IT NOW--- DON"T WASTE one more precious minute of your remaining life energy at something that is rotting your mind and your spirit. Even if you have to work partTime at a ski hill at least in your public sector pension and bennies after 31 yrs will be a decent base


You want to read a book called " Your Money OR Your Life

 

[Sparky]

Sparkmeister: LISTEN to your soul boy -- you've given yourself the answer --ITS TIME !!!

Whoa , make that overtime to GET BUSY MAKING a LIFE not A Living. 31 yrs in a STULTIFYING environment but one that has a decent pension and beennies will rot your brain and sap your spirit

Grab an early retirement deal and fly bud I did -- Walked away @ 52 from 30 yrs of university work did 75 days a yr of consulting then for 5 yrs and really never turned back , I had planned it out financially for years .



DO IT - DO IT NOW--- DON"T WASTE one more precious minute of your remaining life energy at something that is rotting your mind and your spirit. Even if you have to work partTime at a ski hill at least in your public sector pension and bennies after 31 yrs will be a decent base


You want to read a book called " Your Money OR Your Life

The end is in sight. I massage the numbers almost daily and I think we can make our target date of August 2009. If the market recovers and the house doesn’t fall down we’ll be there. Then I hope to work full time as an instructor, not that there is much money in it, but it should be enough for my wife and I to have a decent vacation somewhere. My problem is the closer I get to that date the further away it looks, some days just go on forever.

 

[billski]

you gotta have a complimentary activity.... I have to totally check out /I'll rarely visit this site/ until August. Something happens in August, I think it's my version of "hump-month" The ski sales get me going and knowing there could be frost in September in NNE gets me cranked. My family gets crankin' with activities in the late spring and summer, so that helps.

I will violate this rule a bit this summer when I install the chairlift chair in the backyard. I am going to really have to resist buckling up and clicking in during June though....

Last summer it was very strange going to Lake Placid and looking at all the dirt-covered alpine event sites in July... I have to stop torturing myself.

 

[hardline]

So your a roadie for Marylin Manson?

while that would be fun. i am the head of the systems integration division at a design/build firm. so i can pretty much do whatever i want. just think american chopper meets sound and lighting.

 

[hardline]

Wow whose that hot broad??? I'd hit it and quit ya heard..

she's one of the staff. we got a ton of them.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

she's one of the staff. we got a ton of them.

Nice..you said staff....lol