Foo - How Many of You Have a Job, Show Up and Get Paid?

Just an alternative to the BF%, Weight, Speed, I'm too cool threads.

I've been married to the same woman for 28 years. I show up to work and am a good employee. I actually find time to do other things in my community to make a difference. I enjoy riding bikes and get out as much as I can. I know my kid's birthdays, spend time talking to each of them, attend their activities when I can and realize that life overtakes you sometimes and you just do the best that you can.

My job/business is 100% performance based, I dont perform, I dont get paid. There is absolutely no way to half azz it or fake it or get around it. There's no such thing as just showing up. I wouldnt have it any other way either. OTOH, for those that I work for, I help grease the wheels of the justice system and do what nobody else is willing to do, or in most cases can do, thats my satisfaction. I do some of this for free to benefit the community, but its hardly much of my daily routine or life. Not a whole lot of room in my world for much charity work, the nature of the job carries alot of realities which make many other distractions somewhat risky.

I think I have the best job :D :D I am soooo lucky

This is foo. There you will find many who enjoy talking about nothing for 10,000 posts. Certainly nothing about cycling; like speed, %bf, wheels, carbon vs Al vs steel, etc.

My job goes: show up, surf cycling websites, get paid. :) Some other stuff gets in the way but I ignore it.

If I could get nurses to show up for their shifts on a predictable and regular basis so that I could cover all of the units of the hospital I staff I would be pleased. Showing up has to happen to get the job done.

Sub teaching... show up, sit there, get paid...

Pizza Hut, bust your a**, have good customer service and maybe you get nice tips...

So work --- Sub <<< Sitting on Butt <<< Pizza Hut

yeah I see foo coming along ... to answer the question .. i have a great job thats flexible (i can take off to ride whenever i want) .. that's important to me and it pays well.

Just an alternative to the BF%, Weight, Speed, I'm too cool threads.

I've been married to the same woman for 28 years. I show up to work and am a good employee. I actually find time to do other things in my community to make a difference. I enjoy riding bikes and get out as much as I can. I know my kid's birthdays, spend time talking to each of them, attend their activities when I can and realize that life overtakes you sometimes and you just do the best that you can.

I haven't gotten a regular paycheck since 1983. First I was a commissioned sales rep, and since 1991 I've been a small business owner. The past 10 years with employees. If I don't produce I don't make money at all. Unlike many of this nation's corporate chieftans who often get huge bonuses when their companies are sucking big wind. Go figure.

And I STILL ride my bike all the time. What a country.

I'm currently unemployed....which is how I happened to rack up 100 miles in 3 days this week with rides starting around noonish :D.

I have a job prospect, but it's all travel wherever I'm needed, Monday through Friday. So much for riding my bike. Perhaps I can rent a bike wherever I'm at.

I'm lucky. Don't have to work yet my parents bought me a 1300$ roadbike, a nice car, a cellphone, and give me all the time in the world to enjoy myself. I don't get in trouble, I got to church 40 hours a week at tops, have good grades, keep the house in perfect order, and spend loads of time with my family/friends/cycling team. College is all paid for and I'll have a great job in the near future. Life is good! The best is to stay happy.

Hey, I look at it this way

If my job can make me afford this

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Then its a pretty good job

I'm lucky. Don't have to work yet my parents bought me a 1300$ roadbike, a nice car, a cellphone, and give me all the time in the world to enjoy myself. I don't get in trouble, I got to church 40 hours a week at tops, have good grades, keep the house in perfect order, and spend loads of time with my family/friends/cycling team. College is all paid for and I'll have a great job in the near future. Life is good! The best is to stay happy.

You are lucky, never had anything like that

Just an alternative to the BF%, Weight, Speed, I'm too cool threads.

I've been married to the same woman for 28 years. I show up to work and am a good employee. I actually find time to do other things in my community to make a difference. I enjoy riding bikes and get out as much as I can. I know my kid's birthdays, spend time talking to each of them, attend their activities when I can and realize that life overtakes you sometimes and you just do the best that you can.


Sounds like a cry for help.....

jussss kiddin

I work IT for several local law enforcement agencies and work alot of hours. Currently this is what keeps me off the Tour. Lemond had his bullet wounds, Lance had cancer, I have cops that can't find the start menu.

Im a service manager at a motorcycle dealership thats just getting off the ground. Right now I only have time and energy to ride the weekends. After 4 years Military and 8 years in Automotive this is the first hourly paid job Ive had, but boy do I earn it sometimes!!! I do hope to start commuting part way when the weather gets a touch better!



realize that life overtakes you sometimes and you just do the best that you can.


Thats the perfect sentence to read after the day I just had!

Ride Safe............try not to work too hard for all that OCP stuff!:D

I've missed out on way too many weekend rides...so hell yeah, I work. My next job (coming soon) will be weekends off!

I'm lucky. Don't have to work yet my parents bought me a 1300$ roadbike, a nice car, a cellphone, and give me all the time in the world to enjoy myself. I don't get in trouble, I got to church 40 hours a week at tops, have good grades, keep the house in perfect order, and spend loads of time with my family/friends/cycling team. College is all paid for and I'll have a great job in the near future. Life is good! The best is to stay happy.

Sounds like a job to me..

Sounds like a cry for help.....

jussss kiddin

:D

We are a matched set. Got married when we were 18 and kind of raised each other (plus our kids) and I don't think I could be any happier with any other woman. She's not even looking over my shoulder while I write this.

So far as the work is concerned, I've just about finished my mid-life crisis and have come to accept that; to quote Popeye, "I am what I am". That is a very liberating way to view the world. You realize that the sum of life is what you've chosen.

I go to work..............dismantle labs and put a$$holes in jail for 20 yrs. to life; take their kids from them and their possessions! What more can a guy ask for?

I'm a middle school band teacher. I love my job, love my kids (even when they get on my nerves) and stay in at lunch or after school sometimes to help them out. I love how I can leave as early as 3pm, which allows me to ride in the daylight during weekdays. When/if I accomplish my goal of making my students more self accountable (stop breaking the school instruments), I will truly feel like I am accomplishing something.

Unfortunately, a teacher can't have even ONE day to just show up and sit on my @$$. Even if I feel like a low production day, my kids will keep me on my toes and make me wish I gave them harder work to do. Subbing looks like a fun retirement, though. Truly sit on my @$$ then!

Actually one major reason I started my business in 1991 was so that I could ride my bike every day. Really. It was that important to me. I didn't want a white collar 'suit' corporate job or one that involved flying all over the place. Never could have handled that. So I've been able to make my own hours and ride my bike 6000+ miles annually essentially since then without a hitch. On my terms. Which usually means early AM rides in the warmer months (starting about now) and the opportunity to ride mid-day from November through early April. Which many people can't reconcile with their jobs. So I guess I'm 'lucky'. Except that sort of was the plan from the beginning. I am lucky it all worked out for the past 15 years or so.

But then I always found a way to ride even when I did work for other people. Where there's a will there's a way. Ask Floyd Landis. When his conservative religious parents came up with farm chores to prevent him from riding his bicycle as a teen, he rode his bike all over rural Pennsylvania - at night, on country roads, 300-500 miles a week in the dark. In the winter. And some people here don't think he's pissed off? Yeah, OK.

...She's not even looking over my shoulder while I write this. ...

She wouldn't have to, if she set up your router at home :)

Just kidding, you got lucky, nothing like a good woman who you're sure is a keeper after even two decades.

All the best!

I'm a backshift monkey at a tech call center that get's about 2-3 calls a night, i get paid a rediculous amount of money to watch downloaded tv show's... :D When i'm bored i lay out a towel and stretch my legs and do some ab work, or just line up 3 or 4 chairs side by side and go to sleep for a bit.

I'm literaly living in the movie office space.

My name is Derek, and i'm 22 years old.

Some days I can slack, most of them I'm pulling OT, just to support the floor.

I love my slack days....as rare as a desert snowflake, and as sweet as honey. It's those days I can actually hit some e-learning courses and actually expand my horizons (like, ohmigawd! :p ).

This week....about 60hrs....just because of assisting two lines, and having a project I to work on at the same time (hooray for thermal chambers!). Next weekend, I'm hoping to hit the St.Pete Classic, if work doesn't get in my way, which it looks like it will :(

i have a job (traffic engineer), i show up, and i get paid :D

I have no job, because I dont turn up and I expect to be paid

This is foo. There you will find many who enjoy talking about nothing for 10,000 posts. Certainly nothing about cycling; like speed, %bf, wheels, carbon vs Al vs steel, etc.

My job goes: show up, surf cycling websites, get paid. :) Some other stuff gets in the way but I ignore it.

It kinda is foo. But, you read these threads like, what do you weigh? What is your BF%? For me, it is cycling. It defines my BF%, my speed, my weight, the kind of bike I can afford and whether or not it is way beyond what I can really do.

If I can get out and ride and enjoy myself on my bike and feel a little stronger, faster, less stressed, and work out the problems of the days before while I pound a bike then it has everything to do with road biking. I could care less about riding with a pack, in a race or being like Lance. I don't have six hours a day to spend on my bike. However, I've still got my wife. I don't wear a yellow jersey for that every day but hey, it is about perspective.

Umm...ya I have a job, and show up, and even get paid. LOL.

Recently they moved me overseas because of my language skills. I guess it pays to be bilingual. I'm my own boss over here so now I can find more time to ride, it's nice.

I have a job, but I only work three days a week. I am a CNA at a local nursing home, where I worked three twelve hour shifts (6p-6a) and get paid for 40 hours. Plenty of work, but plenty of play time, both with my five kids and my bike!

i have a job (traffic engineer), i show up, and i get paid :D

Now that's funny! How hard could it possibly be to be a traffic engineer in Saskatchewan??? The whole province is one huge grid of roads criss-crossing at right angles and you can see oncoming traffic 30 miles away! :roflmao::roflmao:

(just teasin' ya ;))

I have a great job and a great boss working for a good company. I would talk about my boss's boss(what a j_ _ _ o_ _), but I'll quit while I'm ahead.

My job/business is 100% performance based, I dont perform, I dont get paid. There is absolutely no way to half azz it or fake it or get around it. There's no such thing as just showing up. I wouldnt have it any other way either. OTOH, for those that I work for, I help grease the wheels of the justice system and do what nobody else is willing to do, or in most cases can do, thats my satisfaction. I do some of this for free to benefit the community, but its hardly much of my daily routine or life. Not a whole lot of room in my world for much charity work, the nature of the job carries alot of realities which make many other distractions somewhat risky.

This is very interesting. Sounds awful familiar to me.

I have a very small job and I work once a week. I get paid cash after the day. I will hope to get work in a bike shop soon.

Now that's funny! How hard could it possibly be to be a traffic engineer in Saskatchewan??? The whole province is one huge grid of roads criss-crossing at right angles and you can see oncoming traffic 30 miles away! :roflmao::roflmao:

(just teasin' ya ;))

with 26,000km of roads (not including the cities), its hard to manage them all :D

I got to church 40 hours a week at tops

Wow - even for the truly devout, that sounds like as much a job as anything anyone else on here has posted about!!

Sometimes I show up and get paid, other times I'm working my butt off. In the past, I've been shot at, been away from home for 7+ months at a stretch, been reeeeaaally scared on a deep dark night and had some incredible times. I change "jobs" every 2-3 years or so which keeps things interesting and fun. And bearable if I wind up in a bad one, because I know it'll end soon enough.

In a few years, I'll have a retirement and can go about figuring out how to be a professional ski bum (bike bum in the summers!).

I haven't had a job in 12-years, but I get paid anyway... ;)

I haven't had a job in 12-years, but I get paid anyway... ;)

I want a job like that...

I put stuff on shelves for three hours a day. Works for me.

This summer, I'll be putting stuff on shelves and taking people's money after they took the stuff on the shelves. :D

For better pay, of course.

....Got married when we were 18 and kind of raised each other (plus our kids) and I don't think I could be any happier with any other woman. She's not even looking over my shoulder while I write this.

So far as the work is concerned, I've just about finished my mid-life crisis and have come to accept that; to quote Popeye, "I am what I am". That is a very liberating way to view the world. You realize that the sum of life is what you've chosen.

Your life sounds a lot like Mine. Maybe we are the same person. :eek:

Except I waited until I was 19 to get married. :D Had a kid when I was 20. Been married for 25 years. It's still good. Son turned out just fine, even with me not having a clue what I was doing raising him. :D I have come to the Popeye conclusion also. I think that's more like....."I Yam What I Yam". :D Sounds like you work in a hospital....so do I. Kinda wierd. :o

I love my job. I'm a group exercise instructor. I get paid squat (and to squat). It basically covers gas. But the members are awesome and I love every bit of it. Especially when you overhear someone in the locker room talking about the kick ass cycling class they just took. Happened this morning when I was in the stall. I'm still on a high about that one.

And I'm a mom. I get paid in kisses...suits me fine!!

I just recently got a new job after resigning from my prior job in december. I show up, I get paid. I don't really try to go above and beyond the call of duty. A decade of going above and the call of duty and having diddly squat has taught me this world hates over achievers and punishes them. I'm doing less work now then I ever did at any of my prior jobs and making what i've made in my life time in a year. Our Q/A person, who is a cool guy and all, gets paid to surf the net pretty much.

if you got it, you got it .

Umm...ya I have a job, and show up, and even get paid. LOL.

Recently they moved me overseas because of my language skills. I guess it pays to be bilingual. I'm my own boss over here so now I can find more time to ride, it's nice.
What do you do?