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Post by gold soundz on May 2, 2024 16:00:29 GMT -5
My wife and I both quit our jobs 6 months ago and started our own clean energy consulting firm, I do research and technical writing. We're working with some of the largest utilities in the West and the US Department of Energy which is pretty impressive for people just starting out. It's tough sometimes because the income isn't steady but we're making crazy money so far, no ragrets.
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Post by oogracieđź‘» on May 2, 2024 16:00:42 GMT -5
If you have the type of job that lets you work from home have you considered applying outside of your area?
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Post by oogracieđź‘» on May 2, 2024 16:01:52 GMT -5
My wife and I both quit our jobs 6 months ago and started our own clean energy consulting firm, I do research and technical writing. We're working with some of the largest utilities in the West and the US Department of Energy which is pretty impressive for people just starting out. It's tough sometimes because the income isn't steady but we're making crazy money so far, no ragrets. Can you PM me your website?
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Post by Guybrush Threepwood on May 2, 2024 16:04:44 GMT -5
My wife and I both quit our jobs 6 months ago and started our own clean energy consulting firm, I do research and technical writing. We're working with some of the largest utilities in the West and the US Department of Energy which is pretty impressive for people just starting out. It's tough sometimes because the income isn't steady but we're making crazy money so far, no ragrets. How do you even kick something like this off? Did you have previous connections? My business knowledge on this sort of this is woefully weak. But congrats though - this is fucking awesome
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Pat
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Post by Pat on May 2, 2024 16:09:15 GMT -5
My wife and I both quit our jobs 6 months ago and started our own clean energy consulting firm, I do research and technical writing. We're working with some of the largest utilities in the West and the US Department of Energy which is pretty impressive for people just starting out. It's tough sometimes because the income isn't steady but we're making crazy money so far, no ragrets.
are you just doing individual one-off projects, or have you guys qualified and gotten into the whole IDIQ contract space?
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Post by larosapizzeria on May 2, 2024 16:10:14 GMT -5
I manage the cave aged program of a vegan cheese company. This entails R&D, planning/scheduling, and endless trouble shooting (blue mold infections will be the death of me). I used to do part fabrication/maintenance at a brewery, so sometimes when machinery breaks down at the creamery I get roped into fixing that stuff too. I can’t tell if this is a reference that is going over my head or if you have a very strange and fascinating job. Cashew based cheese that has a rind, picture Brie or Camembert style soft cheeses. The “cave” is a big walk-in fridge that simulates a cave-like environment, cold and humid.
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gold soundz
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Post by gold soundz on May 2, 2024 16:15:26 GMT -5
My wife and I both quit our jobs 6 months ago and started our own clean energy consulting firm, I do research and technical writing. We're working with some of the largest utilities in the West and the US Department of Energy which is pretty impressive for people just starting out. It's tough sometimes because the income isn't steady but we're making crazy money so far, no ragrets. How do you even kick something like this off? Did you have previous connections? My business knowledge on this sort of this is woefully weak. But congrats though - this is fucking awesome It basically started with us both having shitty jobs/bosses and just saying screw it, things can't get any worse. But yeah my wife has worked in the industry as a program manager for ~15 years and has lots of connections with various utilities so she handles the business development angle. Our first client was USDOE, our contracts with them range in size but they always have work for us if things slow down. We just submitted a proposal to develop the clean energy plan for Oregon, it's $1M over 2 years so hopefully we get it. We're hoping to build the business up, then sell and not work for was long as possible.
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Post by gold soundz on May 2, 2024 16:19:08 GMT -5
My wife and I both quit our jobs 6 months ago and started our own clean energy consulting firm, I do research and technical writing. We're working with some of the largest utilities in the West and the US Department of Energy which is pretty impressive for people just starting out. It's tough sometimes because the income isn't steady but we're making crazy money so far, no ragrets.
are you just doing individual one-off projects, or have you guys qualified and gotten into the whole IDIQ contract space?
Mostly one-off stuff for now, although as I described previously our USDOE is quasi IDIQ I suppose. As long as they're happy with our work, they keep us on board and give us more to do. The rate they offer is pretty crazy and they never balk when we submit our requests.
The only thing that sucks is their funding is very much determined by whoever is in office currently, and the upcoming election could shift things quite a bit. We're hoping to branch out into other research areas to safeguard against that.
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Post by oogracieđź‘» on May 2, 2024 16:20:52 GMT -5
I can’t tell if this is a reference that is going over my head or if you have a very strange and fascinating job. Cashew based cheese that has a rind, picture Brie or Camembert style soft cheeses. The “cave” is a big walk-in fridge that simulates a cave-like environment, cold and humid. Very cool!
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Post by devion tart on May 2, 2024 16:42:21 GMT -5
Left the lifeless corporate life and ventured out as a contractor. Instructional design, technical writing, grant writing/editing. No insurance, still learning how to sell myself (gross, fuck a network) and moneys not as good but all worth it for the ability to say “No.”
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Post by borntodie on May 2, 2024 16:43:23 GMT -5
i guess my question would be can you do whip its in the walk in fridge
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Post by sofia on May 2, 2024 16:48:49 GMT -5
i talk to AI
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Post by Aaron on May 2, 2024 16:51:36 GMT -5
Tobacco industry shill now
I sold out
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Post by borntodie on May 2, 2024 17:02:00 GMT -5
Tobacco industry shill now I sold out I 1000% need to hear more about this
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Post by Wayne Woodrow Hayes on May 2, 2024 17:36:03 GMT -5
Was: Records Clerk for the City. Shitty job that barely paid the bills before inflation. Once inflation hit it wasn’t a living wage. Union contract barely adjusted shit and was two years behind. Recent got our back pay for two years that allowed me to say fuck it and quit.
Currently: Unemployed, selling everything I own on eBay and Facebook marketplace. I’ve always flipped clothes on eBay so this isn’t anything new. Just purging shit I never wear and crap I can make money off. Selling stuff I can’t ship on Facebook marketplace trying to thin out house.
Future: At the end of July I start a job with the county as an intake specialist helping citizens obtain govt benefits. After 8 months it’s WFH. Its just going to be calls and emails not face-to-face. Hopefully it doesn’t suck too bad. I’m good with people and empathetic to poor people so it’s up my alley. I assume citizens are going to be citizens and ruin my day to day life though eventually.
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Post by landoftalk on May 2, 2024 17:54:38 GMT -5
This sums it up pretty well
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Post by johnkruk on May 2, 2024 18:27:51 GMT -5
what's up i'm a union carpenter ask me how to join the union they'll hire you if you have a heartbeat unless you're totally unable to learn.
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Post by saturday vibe on May 2, 2024 18:49:06 GMT -5
i work just enough to make life easy
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Post by stiffbreeze on May 2, 2024 19:16:57 GMT -5
Earnestly looking for a new job since my currently company is going through an increasingly frustrating merger. It's been 9 years and the job market/application process is fucking rough. Good luck dude. The job search feels harder the longer you stay at a place in my experience - it's something that totally fucked my head up, made me feel talentless, worthless and very angry. You can do it and it will feel amazing when you do.
I very recently got a new job after 13 years of working at this one place. I'm a print production designer and spent my previous years working at a small scale package design prototype studio - it taught me a lot. Very much a boot camp in a way, but it also felt like being a line cook for (mostly) clueless graphic designers. It was also one of the most "toxic" workplaces, which I hate to use that word, but I was convinced I could handle the insanity of it from early on and be a stronger person for it. Half of the toxicity I'm talking about is chemicals and other bullshit I should not have been inhaling on a daily basis. After not being there for a few weeks my nostrils have never felt this open. There are tons of OSHA violations there for sure. It has been really weird to work in an actual office with polite/professional people, no punch card, not hearing racial slurs daily, no screaming matches with alcoholics who can't handle their booze, no crack heads, free snacks and coffee?? It feels like I sold out (dumb thought), and after feeling worthless and stuck, it almost feels like I didn't deserve to get out. But I'm very happy to be working for the company I work now. Only downside is the lack of physicality, which the old gig had plenty of, so I gotta start on the push ups and bullshit.
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Post by sofia on May 2, 2024 19:40:59 GMT -5
i work just enough to make life easy u get it
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Post by crobssssss on May 2, 2024 19:43:14 GMT -5
I’m un educator especĂal. Oh, and this summer I will be teaching the art of skateboarding.
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Post by youthofwhodey on May 2, 2024 21:22:24 GMT -5
I roast coffee for a living. I worked really hard up from barista to get here. I've been with my company 7 years now, roasting for almost 4. I love it but the pay is shit and I have a family now and have to consider something new but dont know where to start or how ask for a significant raise because I deserve it (roasting 20,000lbs a year plus other warehouse work, quality control, and organization). Its all really been troubling me lately because I wanna continue liking going to work but I also want to not live paycheck to paycheck for the first time in my life and provide more for my gf and step kid.
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Post by carl carlson on May 2, 2024 21:24:24 GMT -5
i work in a potato chip factory and help workers work through injuries. it’s p chill.
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Post by youthofwhodey on May 2, 2024 21:31:03 GMT -5
I manage the cave aged program of a vegan cheese company. This entails R&D, planning/scheduling, and endless trouble shooting (blue mold infections will be the death of me). I used to do part fabrication/maintenance at a brewery, so sometimes when machinery breaks down at the creamery I get roped into fixing that stuff too. LaRosas has vegan cheese? Only a Cincinnatian would have that name.
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Post by throwdemgunz on May 2, 2024 21:33:02 GMT -5
Been doing tech sales past couple years. I’m ok at it but probably don’t have the level of insane drive for money or ambition that you need to be excellent at it. Honestly a pretty kush gig though, I could live off my base celery and there’s a potential to make a lot if you get lucky and land a massive o-count (dude I used to work with was clearing a million bucks in commission year over year and barely had to do anything).
No ones my ass as long as I’m getting my shit done, but having that level of uncertainty with how much you’ll make in a given year is stressful.
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Post by concealer on May 2, 2024 21:36:02 GMT -5
I wanted to get out of my building in posts in this thread from 3 years ago (woof) and for the past two years have been the Director of Rehabilitation at my skilled nursing facility. I did it before briefly and was a backup to my previous directors but this is the longest I’ve held it down and it’s gotten better the last few months even though it still generally sucks.
I manage like 10 full time staff and a bunch of PRN who fill in as needed. I try to get in at 8:59am because my first meeting is at 9, and I want to spend as little time in building as possible because I’m celery. First half of my day is mostly meetings (morning meeting with all department heads 9-915 followed by interdisciplinary clinical meeting 930-1130ish where we review the past 24 hrs of happenings for all 200+ residents of the building). On Tuesdays I run pre-UR (utilization review) meeting with my rehab staff for about an hour where we review the functional status of about 60 or so skilled short term residents. Then on Wednesdays I take that information to UR and along with the social worker, admissions, nursing unit managers, RNACs, and building admin, work on discharge planning for those ready to go, trying to spread them out so our census doesn’t divebomb.
In Thursdays I do care conferences from like 1-3 with the social worker and other IDT (interdisciplinary team) members which is meeting with short term residents and their families to discuss plan of care and discharge planning.
I also still treat residents daily (I’m an occupational therapist), but mostly give myself easy longterm residents or people with notes due to minimize how much real work I’m doing.
Last meeting of the day is stand down which is same as morning meeting with all department heads, just giving a rundown of our day and follow up from morning meeting. I try to leave asap when that’s done unless someone catches me with a problem. Ideally I’m there 9-3:15. Commute about 50 mins each way.
I do about an hour or two of scheduling computer work 7 days a week 365 every night, usually starting around 10:30-11:00. I schedule out treatment time for all evaluations from today, I see what admissions came in today and place them on schedules tomorrow to be evaluated, and I do a constant juggling and rearranging of schedules and constantly texting a bunch of people asking for more or less hours. It’s a nightly puzzle that I’ve gotten much better at.
I usually leave my house at 8 and home by 4-430, not terrible. I make a lot of money and doing work at home isn’t the worst. It’s monotonous and tiring doing it 7 days a week indefinitely and never getting a break, but I just pop a movie on while I do it and my wife is already asleep by then so I’m just chillin anyway.
Def don’t wanna do forever. I originally gave myself a year before I would quit but it’s now been two including a move 30 mins further away but having a 6 month old and more expensive house makes it hard to change and go backwards in pay but one day I will.
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Post by The Juggalo of Romance on May 2, 2024 21:37:45 GMT -5
I’m the governor of South Dakota
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Post by concealer on May 2, 2024 21:39:35 GMT -5
None of the individual parts of my job are difficult but it’s just one million things to coordinate always and there’s always fires needing to be put out and family complaints and people threatening lawsuits and people upset they’re not getting enough therapy (sorry, insurance) or their loved one isn’t getting better or this patient wants this and I can’t do it and this staff member wants off tomorrow and another is quitting and documentation requests and emails and voicemails and meetings etc etc
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Post by borntodie on May 2, 2024 21:55:15 GMT -5
i work as an HIV nurse and am training to be an infectious disease nurse practitioner
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Post by borntodie on May 2, 2024 21:55:27 GMT -5
i work at burt's bees and jack off the drones with tiny tweezers
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