Jobs after covo-19

Cpl_Punishment · April 25, 2020

15 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

A bit of advice, don’t tell anyone. We were faced with that in the 70s. High taxes, overpriced housing, unfriendly atmosphere. I had just bought a house. My father owned business, a few homes. It was a high stress environment. The great state of New Jersey. We collectively moved to Texas. We started over. It was a blessing. It took 15 years for my property taxes to equal what I paid in New Jersey in the 70s. My home and property would be worth several million in New Jersey. I paid 110K 20 years ago. It would have been 500K in New Jersey. I would advise moving if you can. There’s nice homes around me for under 200K. I bought a 2 story for my daughter 2 years ago for 149K.

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This is where our work is and where our families are. She can't work outside of Canada and I won't find many refineries anywhere else. At least the refineries lighten our tax load. It's nice to actually have our snow plowed and our potholes repaired. That doesn't happen much in the next county over.

Grumpy Bear · April 25, 2020

Think I'll go back to school. Take math over.

USA has 4% of the world population

USA has 31% of the confirmed COVID-19 cases

USA has 26% of the worlds COVID-19 deaths.

Extra testing has only had a two day impact on the result since Jan 1.

Think I'll stay in my room and study. Doesn't sound safe out there.

CadillacLuke24 · April 26, 2020

Overtime will return once this clears up. That will be nice, I enjoy the opportunity to make some extra bucks regularly. That any my part time friend will get more hours, it will be nice to see her.

Grumpy Bear · April 26, 2020

23 hours ago, Cpl_Punishment said:

This is where our work is and where our families are. She can't work outside of Canada and I won't find many refineries anywhere else. At least the refineries lighten our tax load. It's nice to actually have our snow plowed and our potholes repaired. That doesn't happen much in the next county over.

I loved refinery work. Really miss it. Especially the 'Turn Around'. I'd have done the job for free just for the education.

Cpl_Punishment · April 26, 2020

8 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

I loved refinery work. Really miss it. Especially the 'Turn Around'. I'd have done the job for free just for the education.

I worked 5 in my first 6 years at the refinery. Became their go-to guy for technical support in turnarounds. Now my boss says my work is too important to go help out with them any more. Also, I have to give the younger folks their chance to learn and have fun too.

Grumpy Bear · April 26, 2020

1 hour ago, Cpl_Punishment said:

I worked 5 in my first 6 years at the refinery. Became their go-to guy for technical support in turnarounds. Now my boss says my work is too important to go help out with them any more. Also, I have to give the younger folks their chance to learn and have fun too.

You guys must have done "units" at a time. We did them as total outage about once very 5 years. When you've crawled around inside a few columns distillation takes on a whole new meaning. About the only unit I didn't work in was the HF-Alky. I'd rather play Russian Roulette with five in the cylinder. Better odds.

At the end I was writing training manuals, operation manuals and training cherries. Worked instrument during turnaround. Most of the time.

Cpl_Punishment · April 26, 2020

12 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

You guys must have done "units" at a time. We did them as total outage about once very 5 years. When you've crawled around inside a few columns distillation takes on a whole new meaning. About the only unit I didn't work in was the HF-Alky. I'd rather play Russian Roulette with five in the cylinder. Better odds.

At the end I was writing training manuals, operation manuals and training cherries. Worked instrument during turnaround. Most of the time.

Correct. Management was always very resistant to a site-wide outage. We may end up doing one in the next 5 years or so to allow us to work on the utilities unit and a few things like that.

I worked as the HF Alky Tech Contact for about 2 and a half years and did two turnarounds (they brought me back for the second one after I'd been out for about a year - the Alky network is like Hotel California; you can check out but you can never leave). You have to take a few extra precautions but it's manageable. I also find it one of the more interesting technologies in the refinery. We don't do a lot of chemical reaction in our other units.

Thomcat · April 26, 2020

On 4/22/2020 at 1:18 PM, HeySkippyDog said:

That much is yet to be seen. My work is closely tied to air travel and commercial aviation, and it's not looking good.

But let's all lose our jobs because the retired people can't stay home. I'm sure you-know-who will be along shortly with his statistics as to why we should stay shut down until 2022.

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Spent 37 years of working up to 2 jobs, 6 days a week gathering/investing my acorns and was more than happy to turn over the job to some go-getter one second after I qualified for Social Security so he could contribute to my retirement benefits. For the past dozen years I've been quite content to stay home with my thumb up my a$$, collecting pension checks, annuities and Social Security benefits.

The Government printing presses are overheating......hope everyone goes back to work ASAP so I won't need a wheelbarrow full of Benjamins to buy a loaf of bread.

mookdoc6 · April 26, 2020

1 hour ago, Thomcat said:

Spent 37 years of working up to 2 jobs, 6 days a week gathering/investing my acorns and was more than happy to turn over the job to some go-getter one second after I qualified for Social Security so he could contribute to my retirement benefits. For the past dozen years I've been quite content to stay home with my thumb up my a$$, collecting pension checks, annuities and Social Security benefits.

The Government printing presses are overheating......hope everyone goes back to work ASAP so I won't need a wheelbarrow full of Benjamins to buy a loaf of bread.

Dem dare Press overheated long time ago SON! It's just make believe binary numbers on a computer screen now...don't kid yourself no way this ends in a happy fashion!

CadillacLuke24 · April 28, 2020

On 4/26/2020 at 1:38 PM, mookdoc6 said:

Dem dare Press overheated long time ago SON! It's just make believe binary numbers on a computer screen now...don't kid yourself no way this ends in a happy fashion!

No kidding dude. What are we on, quantitative easing 5 or 6 now?

Bob2C · April 28, 2020

Seems like we are heading in this direction.

mookdoc6 · April 28, 2020

13 hours ago, CadillacLuke24 said:

No kidding dude. What are we on, quantitative easing 5 or 6 now?

Yup! Get your Bitcoins now folks! Don't laugh the joke is on us!

Cpl_Punishment · April 28, 2020

14 hours ago, Bob2C said:

Seems like we are heading in this direction.

Except that the rationing and shortages are entirely due to morons panic buying.

Claire Buenavides · April 29, 2020

It will be harder to get a job in the next couple of months or years. My sister and brother-in-law only works twice a week due to the pandemic. Half of the office staff has been terminated. My friends are now unemployed and they are struggling to find a part-time job so that they can work from home.

Grumpy Bear · April 29, 2020

3 hours ago, Claire Buenavides said:

It will be harder to get a job in the next couple of months or years. My sister and brother-in-law only works twice a week due to the pandemic. Half of the office staff has been terminated. My friends are now unemployed and they are struggling to find a part-time job so that they can work from home.

I hear jobs as 'Tracers' are hot right now.