Working like that will make you an old man quick. But you'll die rich.

Wonder where I can get a good price locally. I don't want to fool with shipping cores.

The part numbers should be good at all Advance Auto places. I just don't know if there are any close to you. They might even be good at Auto Zone or O'Reilly's. Google can tell you for sure.

I remember at my old company we were transitioning to a new terminal operating system that we wrote inhouse. I was in charge of getting all the new hardware deployed and stress testing the software. Working 12+ hour days for weeks with no days off taken. My boss told me to take some time off, wouldnt even charge me PTO for that time off. I told him no, we need to get this done. A little time after that, I realized that I had gotten into a bad groove that scared me... my mentor had literally died of a heart attack during that project. I took a month off after that.

That site I sent you, only charged me 15 bucks for shipping all 4 calipers. From reading their core return policy, it looks like they provide the return shipping as well.

You got them wheels on yet? :ugh2:

Did that for a stretch myself, in addition to trying to handle my boss's rampant dishonesty. Ended up going to donate blood, and having a pre-hypertension level blood pressure. That, in part, lead to my decision to find employment elsewhere.

I was hired during construction of the power plant. During construction, I was working 7- 12s. Then during start up and commissioning. It was 16 hr days for 6 months. Only had one day a month off. And here I am wanting to do another start up and commissioning. 6 months of work would be over $200,000 plus per diem. And that would be around $100,000.

:eek2: I'm in the wrong line of work.....

You should be on a drill rig. Some of those guys made $1,500 a day. If you are an engineer on one. That's over $2,000 a day.

Not yet. I guess their installer is out today. will have to try tomorrow morning. :icon14:

What color for the calipers? https://www.carid.com/search/vht/cod...614e3#products
the Z is PG, and the rims are gloss gunmetal. decision decisions....

Dock boss and chief clerk (long shoremen) make over a grand a day for doing nothing but watch other long shormen work. And their benefits... the best ive seen. I had the same benefits as them, but made only a fraction of what they made.

Too skinny to be an oil rig guy... and not enough edumacation to be an engineer.....:eek:

I love it when I get to take the Quest out for a hot lap or two and get out of that lame azz Z.
:mad:
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...efbdae2bdc.jpg

.........at least yours can see the outdoors.

:facepalm:

They have runts on the rigs.

:driving:

Line truck just pulled branches off of wires in front of house :rock: hope they get the juice flowing soon.

That’s a little heavy. I’ve been a PM for offshore for most my career. I’ve never seen a bill rate more than about $200/hr. Typical rule of thumb is the employee makes half of that, so that’d be $1,200 for a 12 hr day. There might be some extreme case where you work most of the day but engineers offshore aren’t making $2,000 a day. At least not in the US. Offshore Africa with hazard uplift, maybe.

Almost 80*F yesterday. Be in the 30’s tonight.

WoW :eek:
Leaving work now, just did 10.75 today :wtf2:
I’m liking the OT while it’s offered, but don’t want to keel over doing it :ugh2:

My wife worked for WPX as an office manager. Almost $200,000 year. My wife seen the payrolls. Wife's cousin's husband in Colorado said he's making $2000 a day on a gas rig. Good friend is a senior engineer for WPX. Said he's north of $2,500 a day. Gas drilling in the north east is paying big bucks.

Hit 82* today,,,but tomorrow supposed to be low 70’s :icon14:
Cool weather coming back/ as I haven’t figured out where those huge mosquitoes hide in the cold...swarming around some today :ugh2:

Seems like Jason has told me they only do Convertable’s on Friday’s :rolleyes:

foggy as chit this morning, temp was around 50. After the fog burned off, is was 65. Then the rain came. It's pouring. Have flood warning into tomorrow evening. Tomorrows high is 36, low 16. :icon14:

:eek:

Maybe a couple isolated locations that happens but that’s not the typical market.

Binge watching The Punisher, season 2. :tup: On Netflix.

suuuup fellas.

Haven’t started that one yet.

whats good duuuudes?

boy oh boy, today was a long day.

I had to see the endodontist for a failed root canal...

talk about some serious painus. :mad:

my cheek started to swell up this morning, so it got pretty serious on me.

I’ve had that and a total root fracture. The root fracture is much worse.

Local kids who got jobs on the drill rigs here are blowing through some money. All the new trucks, cars, bikes, and side by sides, around the neighborhood. :eek:

You're in a mature market there. Here, when they first started to drill the Marcellus and now Utica gas field. They had to import skilled people. To do that. They had to raise wages. For a while, if you when out to dinner. It sounded like you was in Texas or Louisiana and it looked like it too. And then the Mexicans came with their restaurants. :yum:

I can fix that for you.

The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXXI
 

That’s very true but that doesn’t last and if it does it’s a market nobody wants to live in. Any sector will overpay when workers aren’t available.

Kids blowing money happens here too. Most of the designers live like the money will never stop coming in. It was sad when the market dropped out. People literally listed their house the same week they got laid off. No savings whatsoever even though they’d been making deep six figures for years.