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Man, am I going to be busy next week. :mad:

I've got 4 CAD projects to start and complete ... a Locality Survey for ETSA to draw up in CAD ... not to mention a MYOB Audit and new file creation in preparation for the new financial year ... then there's the EOY tax time shit and bonus calculations to work out for our consultants! :P And I'm squeezing in a trip interstate soon. :thumbsup:

Good thing they pay me well ... I'll need alot of booze to get thru the week!

:P

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Man, am I going to be busy next week. :(

I've got 4 CAD projects to start and complete ... a Locality Survey for ETSA to draw up in CAD ... not to mention a MYOB Audit and new file creation in preparation for the new financial year ... then there's the EOY tax time shit and bonus calculations to work out for our consultants! :blink: And I'm squeezing in a trip interstate soon. :)

Good thing they pay me well ... I'll need alot of booze to get thru the week!

:cheers:

Heh u should work for me ;) I got 1000 odd things on aswell. Always complicated that Im a subcontractor for a national company who subcontracts for another multinational. We got monkeys in india always stuffing things up, more sub divisions than worth counting. Im doing security audits, decomissioning/recomissioning rack units, servers, domain controllers, fixing blackberries, laptops, desktops, doing tape backups with a pool of 100 terabytes (700 odd tapes in the pool), fixing obscure softwares with their support team in india (eurgh) as well as replacing all the printer drivers on 3 sites (not including stuff at Olympic dam.)

Oh the JOYS of subcontracting :D

-D

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lol

we had one of those weeks, not enough people giving a shit. had a big job at woodville on wednesday, had nearly as many trucks out there as guys in total (which isnt good............usually need at least 2 per truck). made the day drag on and a late finish.

but you have good days and bad days :)

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ok rants hey,lol 1st/2nd year fitter and turner apprentcie just came of 10 day shutdown in the mines underground night shift worked 16 days straight, earnt a buck load and last week worked about 87+ hours and this week was 70+ ,p.s sorry to high jack. i know how ya feel. and when i get back from trade school in 2 weeks i have another shutdown. p.s dohmar have you came up here yet mate.

cheers... michael

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Managing my new budget allocation for 08-09 and surveying and writing the report the new Victorian e-communication configuration (software and hardware) and finally begin implementation of it... but hey get paid well.... by all you tax payers :D

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ok rants hey,lol 1st/2nd year fitter and turner apprentcie just came of 10 day shutdown in the mines underground night shift worked 16 days straight, earnt a buck load and last week worked about 87+ hours and this week was 70+ ,p.s sorry to high jack. i know how ya feel. and when i get back from trade school in 2 weeks i have another shutdown. p.s dohmar have you came up here yet mate.

cheers... michael

Matter of fact I just got back from an overnight stay at camp 2. Its a good thing you're working hard and earning cash cause man, I was farking bored when I wasnt working. And that was a fly up fri morn, come back sat arvo type run ;P

Theyve offered me a 2 week run up there to subsitute on of the redshirts but hrm I'm not sure :ermm: I know I won't be allowed to go into the foundry... not sure how often we'd have to go there... aaanyhow... thinking about it. Could really use the extra cash for my gearbox replacement... heh

-D

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ohh i feel sorry for all of you's.....reading all of this makes my job sound pretty cosy....even though at times it aint....i am currently sitting in adelaide airport waiting to board my flight to Mt Gambier......its good when work pays for it all.....i actually do feel sorry for some of you fella's

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Got in early at work this morning. Locked my office door and put up a 'f**k off' sign (read: do not disturb).

Got alot of the workload for the day out of the way so far. :) Had a meeting this morning which I cancelled. Got no time to talk to clients or the business owners ... they can wait until I'm ready :)

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how do u guys get such hard jobs :)

i wouldnt mine if i went up to the mines for a few months, come back and be out of debt.

or even the oil rigs

+1. let me know if you, do ill come haha. no debt ftw. ill just take 3-4 weeks annual leave, and go up there for a month haha.

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+1. let me know if you, do ill come haha. no debt ftw. ill just take 3-4 weeks annual leave, and go up there for a month haha.

Sadly there arent really any entry level jobs in the mines. They usually recruit from all over the world and get the best people for the job ;\ If you got a degree in ore refinery, mining, OH&S or anything like that, theyd probably look at ya. In any case if u guys want a job at the mines, check seek.com.au cause thats where all the jobs get advertised.

-D

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