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YOU SAID IT!!! I feel exactly the same, at seems these days that all the week is for is to fill in time till the weekend, I hate the boring repedative days... I wait all day to get in my car and head home, especially Tuesdays and Fridays.

There has to be something better than this weekly boring mundane existence! :)

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I actually don't mind being at work

You know you've got a good job when you've been there for 14 months and you still don't wake up in the morning and go "Ah f#$k!".

But yeh, nothing beats 5pm :)

Even though I haven't been able to drive my Skyline for a while :)

(Mick - never upgrade your brakes. Ever.)

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A lot of us are regulars on Friday nights, I haven't been out in about a month because of not having my car

I have a vague hope of being there this Friday, just look for a red & silver doorstop with stonechips all over the front (Ze Stonechip Missle)

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I actually don't mind being at work

You know you've got a good job when you've been there for 14 months and you still don't wake up in the morning and go "Ah f#$k!".

But yeh, nothing beats 5pm :)

Same, but its 3.75 ish years and 330 is still a great time

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I plan on upgrading my brakes Mark but for some reason I can see my conversion going alot more smoothly than yours.... Everything with my car has been alot easier than your so far for some wierd reason...

Chintami - I wont be out this Friday night but the next time I am hopefully Mark will be too and then you will get to bask in the splendor of Canberra's 2 best R31 4doors... you'll see why. :)

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I'm sorry, all i heard was.....wah wah wah i work 8 hours a day with a lunch break and hate it.....

Heres a tip, try working 70 hours a week, having no weekends as both Saturday and Sunday are completely taken up with work, spending several nights a week in the office trying to establish new clients, giving up a car you loved so you can drive something more practical, having to feel guilty about taking 30 minutes off to eat lunch and doing it all for absolutely no money for the first few months.....

It's a choice i made and i'd do it again in a heartbeat cause all this work will eventually see me to where i want to be in life but for god's sake before you get upsett about a few measly hours a day, take a look at how other people operate and you really have it very very easy!

so when you wake up tomorrow, either make a choice to enjoy where you work or find something more fulfilling.

In the end it's your chioce to work where you work, your choice to stay there so if yo uthink its crap then you have no one to blame but yourself

Damn i needed that rant, not really aimed at anyone in particular, anyway i'm off to bed, i have a 7am meeting in the city........

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