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I'll throw another aspect on this. I don't condone all the spying etc. However I have been down a couple different avenues. I was a contractor/ business owner for almost 20 years. I was also an employee of an Airline for 22 years after the contracting experience.

One thing I will say IMO it was easier to be an employee than it was to be an employer/ business owner. Even after all the BS rules and jackass bosses. If one is an employer finding dedicated employees is near impossible. For every good one I had 20 bad ones. I felt like I was an adult babysitter. Then mix in all the pressures associated with running a business and it is no contest. Maybe as an employee it helped that I was in a skilled labor position so the low life's don't cut it and most don't even qualify for the position.

I will give the following advice to anyone thinking of being their own boss. Pick a. Business than can be a one man operation because if you have to depend on others it doesn't work out well.
 
Mowed, trimmed, raked

Went to Home Depot and bought fertilizer and potting soil

Went to the nursery and got flowers for the front planter boxes


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BLM said:
I'll throw another aspect on this. I don't condone all the spying etc. However I have been down a couple different avenues. I was a contractor/ business owner for almost 20 years. I was also an employee of an Airline for 22 years after the contracting experience.

One thing I will say IMO it was easier to be an employee than it was to be an employer/ business owner. Even after all the BS rules and jackass bosses. If one is an employer finding dedicated employees is near impossible. For every good one I had 20 bad ones. I felt like I was an adult babysitter. Then mix in all the pressures associated with running a business and it is no contest. Maybe as an employee it helped that I was in a skilled labor position so the low life's don't cut it and most don't even qualify for the position.

I will give the following advice to anyone thinking of being their own boss. Pick a. Business than can be a one man operation because if you have to depend on others it doesn't work out well.
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I have no issue with surveillance in the workplace, as long as it's applied across the whole business, not just one area, and it isn't abused for someone's weird voyeuristic tendencies.

At my last job they had cameras everywhere, even above my packing bench, in case a customer complained something was missing or badly packed. The problem was the camera couldn't see through me, and the lighting was so bad the camera couldn't make anything out. But at least the outside cameras caught all the guys who drove the forklifts without a licence, and used them for stupid things like testing suspension travel.PSX_20250530_122740.jpg
 
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Used some broom stick brackets to make a holder for my Meguiar's Reacher wash mitt. I just know if it isn't secured, up high I will knock it over on to the garage floor, or the dogs will see it as a toy, and remove all the noodles, one by one.View attachment 138668
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That looks like a darker version of the "yarn-beard" a friend of mine often wears when he's out and about (he's in advertising so, you know . . . ).
 
BLM said:
I'll throw another aspect on this. I don't condone all the spying etc. However I have been down a couple different avenues. I was a contractor/ business owner for almost 20 years. I was also an employee of an Airline for 22 years after the contracting experience.

One thing I will say IMO it was easier to be an employee than it was to be an employer/ business owner. Even after all the BS rules and jackass bosses. If one is an employer finding dedicated employees is near impossible. For every good one I had 20 bad ones. I felt like I was an adult babysitter. Then mix in all the pressures associated with running a business and it is no contest. Maybe as an employee it helped that I was in a skilled labor position so the low life's don't cut it and most don't even qualify for the position.

I will give the following advice to anyone thinking of being their own boss. Pick a. Business than can be a one man operation because if you have to depend on others it doesn't work out well.
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I can agree with that.

I was in a unique situation where I was both a business owner AND an employee concurrently. I worked 4-days per week as an employee, and worked the 2-3 days per week as a sole trader. I think this served me well in both situations. As an employee, I brought business owner thinking traits to the table. Realistically, all that an employee has to do is turn up, do their job, then go home. Me on the other hand, I'd be considering everything I did as if it was my own business. Then on my actual own business, whenever I did have someone working for me, I knew how to treat that person helping ME make money. It also taught me about time management, which then transferred over to my employee role.

In the 20 years I was there, I watched 15-20 different people come and go. Most would last 6-12 months, then left. None of them went the extra mile in anything they did, or even bothered to show initiative. So, as you said, it's almost like being adult babysitter. I think because of my OCD tendencies, my very particular work ethic became the expected norm, which meant I would always out-shine other employees in terms of performance and productivity. Perhaps this created unrealistic expectations on their part, hence there being so much criticism of the lack of productivity from others?
 
The rain held off long enough that I was able to get the lawn fertilizer spread and I have been watering for several hours now and detailing the interior of the TX500 between moving the sprinklers
 
My brother and sister in law came up from Launceston to the coast
Went to the cinema saw MI The final reckoning it was good but more of a story line over none stop action would of been good but hey that's my opinion.

Then off to Drift at the Bluff beach Devonport to eat calamari squid 🐙 with salad and chip's washed down with a lemon lime bitters.

Then a boysenberry ice cream and a walk on the rocks at high tide,
The walk i have taken many times over the years and the memories of me being in my teens comes to mind chasing girls in Summer ☀️.

The ocean was dead calm and flat beautiful.

That was my day!
 
Tasmania said:
My brother and sister in law came up from Launceston to the coast
Went to the cinema saw MI The final reckoning it was good but more of a story line over none stop action would of been good but hey that's my opinion.

Then off to Drift at the Bluff beach Devonport to eat calamari squid 🐙 with salad and chip's washed down with a lemon lime bitters.

Then a boysenberry ice cream and a walk on the rocks at high tide,
The walk i have taken many times over the years and the memories of me being in my teens comes to mind chasing girls in Summer ☀️.

The ocean was dead calm and flat beautiful.

That was my day!
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My brother asked me if I wanted to go see that last weekend, I had to tell him I've only ever seen the first two MI films. The action is too unbelievable for me, which is weird because I'll gladly watch a Marvel or Star Wars film, but they're meant to be unrealistic action. If it's meant to be believable action, give me any of the recent Bourne films, or the Daniel Craig Bond films. I watched the new Captain America last night on Disney+, it was okay, but I'm glad I didn't pay to see it at the movies.
 
Big Dave said:
My brother asked me if I wanted to go see that last weekend, I had to tell him I've only ever seen the first two MI films. The action is too unbelievable for me, which is weird because I'll gladly watch a Marvel or Star Wars film, but they're meant to be unrealistic action. If it's meant to be believable action, give me any of the recent Bourne films, or the Daniel Craig Bond films. I watched the new Captain America last night on Disney+, it was okay, but I'm glad I didn't pay to see it at the movies.
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Bond and MI films are great for action and fighting car/ bike chase etc,
I would give them a go because it's action and Tom does all his own stunts etc. The first 3/4 MI were meh but the latest stuff is 👌

Have you ever seen the movie Tango&Cash ?

Hollywood can't make anything remotely to the 80s 90s classic action they once did.
 
Tasmania said:
Bond and MI films are great for action and fighting car/ bike chase etc,
I would give them a go because it's action and Tom does all his own stunts etc. The first 3/4 MI were meh but the latest stuff is 👌

Have you ever seen the movie Tango&Cash ?

Hollywood can't make anything remotely to the 80s 90s classic action they once did.
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Yeah, I've seen Tango & Cash, it was good, but I really liked Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China, I've heard they're doing a remake with the Rock. Actually, that was another good one, the Rock with Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery, or ConAir with Nicholas Cage.
 
Big Dave said:
Yeah, I've seen Tango & Cash, it was good, but I really liked Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China, I've heard they're doing a remake with the Rock. Actually, that was another good one, the Rock with Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery, or ConAir with Nicholas Cage.
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Big Trouble in Little China was awesome. They were the day's where my older cousins would double tape videos and give one out to us.

I remember he had a wall full of video tapes and would say take your pick....
 
Tasmania said:
Big Trouble in Little China was awesome. They were the day's where my older cousins would double tape videos and give one out to us.

I remember he had a wall full of video tapes and would say take your pick....
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I think we threw out about 300+ VHS tapes when we moved house 5 years ago. They hadn't been watched for years before that. I think we have a VCR somewhere in a box, it's one of those combined VCR DVD players.
 
Big Dave said:
I think we threw out about 300+ VHS tapes when we moved house 5 years ago. They hadn't been watched for years before that. I think we have a VCR somewhere in a box, it's one of those combined VCR DVD players.
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Mum and Dad still have a blue ray DVD player and a couple VCR 📼 player's...did I mention that they keep everything you should see the garage 🤯
 
We had a dinner to celebrate Mum's 85th birthday, plenty to eat, and a nice black forest cake, I feel like I'm about to fall into a food coma. There was 9 of us, and at least 3 have ADHD, 2 of them adults, so it was very tiring. Did I mention there was cake, there was 1 piece left over after everyone was gone, well it's gone now.
 
This was the other day, but I replaced the insulation on my air conditioning condenser suction line. After 17 or 18 years it was due. I guess that should improve my efficiency by...0.25%...., so that should save me about 3 cents a month. The insulation cost $10 and I had to buy a new tube of RTV (caulk for you laymen), so just calculating in my head...that savings should pay for itself...about a month after I'm dead.

I knew this was going to be a little rough with the 180 bend, but I didn't expect the joint overlap to wrinkle quite so badly, oh well.

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After:

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