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Croupier! We have a really nice casino here in Montreal. It's fun to go to every once in a while for a change of outings.

 

Which games do you deal? Mighty Baccarat?

 

:bounce:

 

gogo

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Croupier! We have a really nice casino here in Montreal. It's fun to go to every once in a while for a change of outings.

 

Which games do you deal? Mighty Baccarat?

Mainly just roulette and blackjack. Blackjack and baccarat are boring games to deal but dealing roulette is a lot more fun. The interaction with customers is a lot better and it's the only game that makes you think.

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I can't take a photo of where I work for security reasons but I'm a croupier at a casino. Been doing this job for 8 years and it's so easy. The only downside is, is that I work mainly weekends and mainly at nights. It's hard on the missus but she understands. So much easier than my last job as a clinical psychologist but it doesn't pay as well but as a bonus, I'm A LOT happier.

 

You were a Clinical Psychologist? I'm going to University next year and I'm either going to get into Clinical Psychology or Social Psychology. I can't really decide between the two. Was the work you were doing very stressful?

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You were a Clinical Psychologist? I'm going to University next year and I'm either going to get into Clinical Psychology or Social Psychology. I can't really decide between the two. Was the work you were doing very stressful?

Yeah. It's not a job for everyone. After I left the job, I found out that there's a very high suicide rate in that profession (doctors were the second most highest) and I didn't want to be a statistic. Just going by my own experiences, I honestly hated it. You get too close to your clients and the emotional impact affects you a lot more than you would expect. The worst part is because of confidentiality clauses you have no avenues to talk to someone about what you're experiencing besides a colleague. You have to keep loved ones in the dark because you can't really tell them how your day has been besides uttering... "it was ok" when it clearly is mentally draining. Besides all that, the money is good but it's hard to maintain a relationship with your family and friends as a majority of your time will be spent with clients - especially in the mental health sector. Some people would say that I gave up on my clients but I gave up a lot more than that - I was married to my job. I missed birthdays, holidays and my then girlfriend suspected infidelity when I would work almost 12 to 14 hours each day. Pretty tough to deal with on top of all the stress you get from hardly any sleep and all the personal contact you get from clients at all hours of the day.

 

At least within social psychology, you can broaden your horizons and dabble in experimentation. In clinical psychology, you have to do everything within guidelines. Push some boundaries and you get pulled back.

 

Now I make less money but I am a lot happier and my stress levels have dropped quite a lot but the mental health sector especially within Australia is at an all time high and we need as many people in that profession as possible and a lot more government funding to continue providing much needed services to the public.

 

Most important of all, I now have time to play video games and I still haven't finished Sacred 2 on Silver yet *sigh*

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I'm a Diesel Technician, and I work at Freightliner here in town. Been there for around 6 months now, was at Truck Country prior to here for just over 6 years until corporate decided to close that store. Been turning wrenches on big trucks nearly 16 years now. I'm certified to work on Detroit Diesel and Caterpillar engines, But my heaviest training has been with the Detroits. I also work on Eaton automated transmissions, certified to work on air conditioning, all the electrical and electronics in the trucks too. I do lots of computer diagnostics, some of the problems can really make me want to pull out my hair! :gogo:

 

here's some truck pics!

 

this is in my old shop

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here's on outside Freightliner, was just a really cool cloud formation :D

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Great thread and some cool pics and videos......love the speed of the machines in loco's. :gogo:

 

I also have to cop out and not show any pics as I work for the Australian Government Taxation Department.

 

Just letting you know that puts your life in danger. :D

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You were a Clinical Psychologist? I'm going to University next year and I'm either going to get into Clinical Psychology or Social Psychology. I can't really decide between the two. Was the work you were doing very stressful?

Yeah. It's not a job for everyone. After I left the job, I found out that there's a very high suicide rate in that profession (doctors were the second most highest) and I didn't want to be a statistic. Just going by my own experiences, I honestly hated it. You get too close to your clients and the emotional impact affects you a lot more than you would expect. The worst part is because of confidentiality clauses you have no avenues to talk to someone about what you're experiencing besides a colleague. You have to keep loved ones in the dark because you can't really tell them how your day has been besides uttering... "it was ok" when it clearly is mentally draining. Besides all that, the money is good but it's hard to maintain a relationship with your family and friends as a majority of your time will be spent with clients - especially in the mental health sector. Some people would say that I gave up on my clients but I gave up a lot more than that - I was married to my job. I missed birthdays, holidays and my then girlfriend suspected infidelity when I would work almost 12 to 14 hours each day. Pretty tough to deal with on top of all the stress you get from hardly any sleep and all the personal contact you get from clients at all hours of the day.

 

At least within social psychology, you can broaden your horizons and dabble in experimentation. In clinical psychology, you have to do everything within guidelines. Push some boundaries and you get pulled back.

 

Now I make less money but I am a lot happier and my stress levels have dropped quite a lot but the mental health sector especially within Australia is at an all time high and we need as many people in that profession as possible and a lot more government funding to continue providing much needed services to the public.

 

Most important of all, I now have time to play video games and I still haven't finished Sacred 2 on Silver yet *sigh*

 

Very interesting read noodles. I've heard/read about the hardships psychologists must endure and the danger involved but reading it from someone with first hand experience really puts it into perspective. Happiness has far greater value to me than oodles of $$ that come at a highly stressful price. I would have made the same choice as you for sure. I guess it really comes down to whether you love the work or not eh?

 

I'm a Diesel Technician, and I work at Freightliner here in town. Been there for around 6 months now, was at Truck Country prior to here for just over 6 years until corporate decided to close that store. Been turning wrenches on big trucks nearly 16 years now. I'm certified to work on Detroit Diesel and Caterpillar engines, But my heaviest training has been with the Detroits. I also work on Eaton automated transmissions, certified to work on air conditioning, all the electrical and electronics in the trucks too. I do lots of computer diagnostics, some of the problems can really make me want to pull out my hair! :sick:

 

here's some truck pics!

 

this is in my old shop

0324091239a.jpg

 

Big trucks, cooooooool! I gotta say that even though I rarely get to dabble in mechanics I have a deep fascination in general with how things work. I love to tinker and I can see your job as being a lot of fun. Well... I suppose there's always the pressure of needing to get the job done fast but it must be very engaging work. :D

 

Great thread and some cool pics and videos......love the speed of the machines in loco's. :gogo:

 

I also have to cop out and not show any pics as I work for the Australian Government Taxation Department.

 

Just letting you know that puts your life in danger. :D

 

lol stubbs. If anyone in Australia has ever wondered where their tax dollars go and why stubbs has that huge kick butt gaming system that makes NASA jealous... Well now you know, hehe.

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At least within social psychology, you can broaden your horizons and dabble in experimentation.

Cool! Are we allowed to experiment on people now? If so I'll go & get qualified in that as well...

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Stubbie, Agent!

 

:cry:

 

Great seeing you guys here. Agent, what a trippy post... who doesn't like the shiny trucks. Great writeup, actually this is really turning into a great thread for the community.

 

deeeeeeeeeelish

 

;)

 

gogo

 

p.s. Noodles, I am totally with you on the less stress way. I have to feel like I am in control of my own destiny and I want one with less traffic ^^

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Great thread and some cool pics and videos......love the speed of the machines in loco's. :cry:

 

I also have to cop out and not show any pics as I work for the Australian Government Taxation Department.

 

Just letting you know that puts your life in danger. ;)

Oh, so you're the one who keeps taking all my money!? Damn you stubbie! :viking:
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Great thread and some cool pics and videos......love the speed of the machines in loco's. :cry:

 

I also have to cop out and not show any pics as I work for the Australian Government Taxation Department.

 

Just letting you know that puts your life in danger. ;)

Oh, so you're the one who keeps taking all my money!? Damn you stubbie! :viking:

 

Stubbie doesn't take your money. He sits in the back room and counts your money. :devil: *pictures Stubby with evil smile as he counts all that money*

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Stubbie doesn't take your money. He sits in the back room and counts your money. :cry: *pictures Stubby with evil smile as he counts all that money*
haha, so that's where all the greasy finger prints come from!

 

I imagine it goes something like this..

 

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@agent:

These long nose trucks are very rare here. Forced to use old roads, sometimes up to the time of the romans, european trucks had their length limited. So here nearly every big truck is a short nose (cab over engine) design. Are there short nose trucks in america too?

 

Another thing is that american trucks seem to have less mirrors ?

I drove only cab over engine trucks and Faun front cab fire trucks so far. I see that some trucks of your pictures have mirrors near to the front, probably used to view the blind area because of the long nose. Are they enough to see bicycles which are standing below the right side of the cab at a red light?

 

Truck with bars between the wheels to prevent bikes sliding there at an accident. Also it has a mirror attached behind and above the right door to look down if there are bicycles or people at a right turn.

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View to the mirrors from driver position

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In germany areas you can't look in are called 'toter Winkel' = dead angle. I used blind area I don't know the correct english term for it.

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@agent:

These long nose trucks are very rare here. Forced to use old roads, sometimes up to the time of the romans, european trucks had their length limited. So here nearly every big truck is a short nose (cab over engine) design. Are there short nose trucks in america too?

 

Another thing is that american trucks seem to have less mirrors ?

I drove only cab over engine trucks and Faun front cab fire trucks so far. I see that some trucks of your pictures have mirrors near to the front, probably used to view the blind area because of the long nose. Are they enough to see bicycles which are standing below the right side of the cab at a red light?

 

Truck with bars between the wheels to prevent bikes sliding there at an accident. Also it has a mirror attached behind and above the right door to look down if there are bicycles or people at a right turn.

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View to the mirrors from driver position

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In germany areas you can't look in are called 'toter Winkel' = dead angle. I used blind area I don't know the correct english term for it.

 

Many "city trucks" are as you describe her in the states. However the majority of tractor and trailer vehicles are for long interstate highway transport and don't encounter city pedestrians. And bicycles sadly have given way to automobiles, and buses. You don't see many cyclists and motor vehicles mingling on our streets. We have nothing as high tech as the autoban, but millions of miles of 4 lane divided highway, where most of our interstate commerce is transported.

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Very interesting read noodles. I've heard/read about the hardships psychologists must endure and the danger involved but reading it from someone with first hand experience really puts it into perspective. Happiness has far greater value to me than oodles of $$ that come at a highly stressful price. I would have made the same choice as you for sure. I guess it really comes down to whether you love the work or not eh?

Yeah my current role is much better. I don't work as hard and I still have fun.

 

I also have to cop out and not show any pics as I work for the Australian Government Taxation Department.

Oh no...and it's tax time too.

 

At least within social psychology, you can broaden your horizons and dabble in experimentation.

Cool! Are we allowed to experiment on people now? If so I'll go & get qualified in that as well...

Haha...nah. More like social interactions; how one group interacts with another.

 

Talking about work...starting in a few hours as well.

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The following video was something I did as part of my job before all my back surgeries. Will never be cleared to climb again but thought this was a great vid for showing what I did. Highest I've ever climbed was 1200 feet

 

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Dude, Knuckles, got a little sick just watching it! I get tremors and can just picture myself shaking so bad the whole tower would rock.

 

Like llama, I'm a boring accountant but I'd like to think my company is a teeny bit more glamorous than BT... my company makes what I like to refer to it as a 15,000 pound sub-woofer. It's a geoseismic vibration source for oil exploration and other seismic surveys (water, fault lines, etc).

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@knuckles:

Before I saw the second guy at the tower I always thought why does he use such a big hook and why he is putting it on places it could glide away when loosing grip. I hate wind when climbing. I think 3metre/second at ground is like 20metres/second at this height?

The second guy is hooking at the round pole leading up so the hook will be stopped at maximal 1 metres falling?

What distance around a 600 metre tower will be evacuated or only be used with bomb shelters? I think a wrench with 600 metre free fall at storm can eachily drift away 200 metres and hit like a bullet?

Sorry for all the questions, I was at a search and rescue/fire fighting unit at army.

 

@masteff

How do you do seismic surveys? Using something like a 'gun' shooting a heavy projectile at a short distance to ground, or drilling holes and put explosives in? We use Seismoblast explosives sometimes at work, same which are used for deep drill explosions. But we weld metals together and we need certain blast speeds related to the speed of sound of the metals we want to weld by explosive welding.

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Typically you double hook. You have 2 of those over sized hooks and will clip every 3-4 feet. It's slow to do it that way hence most people 'free climb'. I would free climb on the ladder, but once I transitioned to the structure or in this vid climb out of the structure itself, I always clipped. They're over sized so you can clip just about anywhere and meant to be easily clipped and unclipped.

 

Wind is always an issue, and no matter how well the tower is built or secured it will sway. Once you get over the tree line there is always wind. I wouldn't climb if bottom wind speed was over 15 mph. IIRC you reach terminal velocity once you're about 65' up. So basically anything that height or higher is fatal if you fall. Most safety belts have an arrestor. It will play out about 6 feet slowing your fall so you don't have a sudden jerk on your spine when safety line becomes taut. before it was a simple belt at the waist but now a 5 point harness is basically mandatory.

 

Not sure about the evacuation or bomb shelter question. Several sites have buildings right underneath or towers close to each other. Many are on top of skyscrapers.

 

I've had a pair of linesman pliers fall from about 200 feet up and strike my forearm. Split the skin apart requiring stitches. Whole arm swelled up pretty bad for a few weeks but didn't break anything. Heard numerous horror stories of tower accidents but never had anything really bad happen to me or someone I know. Most heavy items will fall close to the tower, less than 50' away if it was dropped..though I have thrown rolls of tape quite far :)

 

Biggest worries I had were 1) getting tired...climbing 800-1000 feet can easily take 2-3 hours. 2) cold weather....I typically climbed without gloves, just didn't feel my grip was as secure with them on. But cold can really be a hindrance, your hands get cold and you're not sure how well you're gripping. Most climbers use gloves with small hand warming packets that last about 8 hrs. And most also put them in their boots too.

3)Peregrines, Ospreys, Hawks etc...many birds of prey luv building nests on towers especially behind microwave dishes..and if there are young in the nest they can become pretty aggressive. Ospreys especially luv to dive bomb :)

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The following video was something I did as part of my job before all my back surgeries. Will never be cleared to climb again but thought this was a great vid for showing what I did. Highest I've ever climbed was 1200 feet

 

 

noooooooooooooooooo

 

I refuse to click on that video! Roller coaster heights give me heartburn and nightmares all rolled into one.

 

Gosh, I"m glad there's peeps out there like you impervious to Vertigo

 

And great seing you back on the boards.... hope all is good friend!

 

:)

 

gogo

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Ye Gods!

 

I did watch that.... makes me happy to have both feet firmly on the ground :)

 

Good to see you here Knuckles :) It has been a while.... had hopes of restarting the Foorball League :)

 

Greetz

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