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  • O-Trap
    Just decided to quit my desk job and do landscaping.

    Got tired of sitting on my ass indoors all day, working 60ish hours a week, getting paid for 40 hours a week, and always having to take work home with me.

    I have my own business to run, so if I'm going to make money sitting on my ass, I'm going to make it for me. Otherwise, I figured I could use the exercise.

    The kicker is, the pay won't really be much different during 40-hour weeks.

    So far, I'm really enjoying the decision.
  • FatHobbit
    Crimson streak;1436577 wrote:This. On a side note I got an interview tomorrow for coca cola. I'm hoping to get it. Would be a big boost in pay and would be closer and more stable company.
    Not sure if coke is the same, but I have a friend who worked for Pepsi and he wasn't allowed to drink coke at home. wtf?
  • FatHobbit
    O-Trap;1437674 wrote:Just decided to quit my desk job and do landscaping.

    Got tired of sitting on my ass indoors all day, working 60ish hours a week, getting paid for 40 hours a week, and always having to take work home with me.

    I have my own business to run, so if I'm going to make money sitting on my ass, I'm going to make it for me. Otherwise, I figured I could use the exercise.

    The kicker is, the pay won't really be much different during 40-hour weeks.

    So far, I'm really enjoying the decision.
    I knew another guy who was a teacher who made so much money land scaping in the summer that he quit teaching. I'm curious will you be working in the winter?
  • derek bomar
    FatHobbit;1437817 wrote:I knew another guy who was a teacher who made so much money land scaping in the summer that he quit teaching. I'm curious will you be working in the winter?
    my guess is snow removal?
  • derek bomar
    FatHobbit;1437816 wrote:Not sure if coke is the same, but I have a friend who worked for Pepsi and he wasn't allowed to drink coke at home. wtf?
    I work for the other big US soft drink company not named Coke or Pepsi and that sounds like a choice, not an order. My house obviously has our products (Hey, go buy 2Ls of Sunkist and 7up!) but I don't see how you could force people not to buy what they wanted outside of work...
  • FatHobbit
    derek bomar;1437826 wrote:I work for the other big US soft drink company not named Coke or Pepsi and that sounds like a choice, not an order. My house obviously has our products (Hey, go buy 2Ls of Sunkist and 7up!) but I don't see how you could force people not to buy what they wanted outside of work...
    I wondered if his manager over sold it. He said they told him that if people were known to be drinking a competitor's product they would be fired. I think they scared him enough that he wouldn't even buy anything but pepsi.
  • Fab4Runner
    FatHobbit;1437828 wrote:I wondered if his manager over sold it. He said they told him that if people were known to be drinking a competitor's product they would be fired. I think they scared him enough that he wouldn't even buy anything but pepsi.
    That's unfortunate, because Pepsi is turrible.
  • fan_from_texas
    Fab4Runner;1437835 wrote:That's unfortunate, because Pepsi is turrible.

    Diet Pepsi may be the nastiest soda ever invented.

    Coke Zero, on the other hand, is the nectar of the gods.
  • Crimson streak
    Fab4Runner;1437835 wrote:That's unfortunate, because Pepsi is turrible.

    I actually prefer Pepsi over coke lol
  • Fab4Runner
    fan_from_texas;1437837 wrote:Diet Pepsi may be the nastiest soda ever invented.

    Coke Zero, on the other hand, is the nectar of the gods.
    Recently got on board with Coke Zero. I tend to stay away from "diet" soda, but I tried it and really liked it. I really only drink about one pop a week, though...so it's usually just regular Coke with pizza.
  • Terry_Tate
    derek bomar;1437826 wrote:I work for the other big US soft drink company not named Coke or Pepsi and that sounds like a choice, not an order. My house obviously has our products (Hey, go buy 2Ls of Sunkist and 7up!) but I don't see how you could force people not to buy what they wanted outside of work...

    Completely irrelevant to anything being talked about but does that company own Dad's Root Beer? I love that stuff but can only find it at a few places.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Terry_Tate;1437848 wrote:Completely irrelevant to anything being talked about but does that company own Dad's Root Beer? I love that stuff but can only find it at a few places.
    I used to love that stuff back in high school. I know World Market carries, least they did back then. I haven't seen it in a long time.
  • O-Trap
    FatHobbit;1437817 wrote:I knew another guy who was a teacher who made so much money land scaping in the summer that he quit teaching. I'm curious will you be working in the winter?
    Plowing snow for the same guy.
  • Commander of Awesome
    O-Trap;1437874 wrote:Plowing the same guy.
    Some things you shouldn't tell the OC. :D
  • Iliketurtles
    Commander of Awesome;1437880 wrote:Some things you shouldn't tell the OC. :D
    I was going to give you reps but then I noticed you forgot the space after Plowing... O-Trap would never forget a space.
  • said_aouita
    I'm part of an effin' union right now. Really hope Right to Work passes in Ohio or I get a Supervisor position so I can leave the "brotherhood" of mediocrity.
  • said_aouita
    I'm part of an effin' union right now. Really hope Right to Work passes in Ohio or I get a Supervisor position so I can leave the "brotherhood" of mediocrity.

    dlazz;1437928 wrote:But you probably make $20/hr and do very little

    Not yet. I'm very low on the totem pole. If I become a sup' than I get to delegate and shuffle paperwork.
  • dlazz
    said_aouita;1437913 wrote:I'm part of an effin' union right now. Really hope Right to Work passes in Ohio or I get a Supervisor position so I can leave the "brotherhood" of mediocrity.

    But you probably make $20/hr and do very little
  • derek bomar
    RC COLA! GOAT. And RC10 for you manly men who want few calories.
  • derek bomar
    Terry_Tate;1437848 wrote:Completely irrelevant to anything being talked about but does that company own Dad's Root Beer? I love that stuff but can only find it at a few places.
    No. A&W is ours though. There are 3 "big" soft drink companies in the US. The first two are obvious, we're #3.

    You can google it, I'm not linking anything.
  • Crimson streak
    derek bomar;1437943 wrote:No. A&W is ours though. There are 3 "big" soft drink companies in the US. The first two are obvious, we're #3.

    You can google it, I'm not linking anything.

    I used to work for the 7 up products. Do you guys carry snapple where you work?
  • derek bomar
    Crimson streak;1437957 wrote:I used to work for the 7 up products. Do you guys carry snapple where you work?
    we don't bottle it here, but we have some in our break room.
  • Midstate01
    derek bomar;1437940 wrote:RC COLA! GOAT. And RC10 for you manly men who want few calories.

    Do they still sell RC Cola??
  • dlazz
    Midstate01;1437961 wrote:Do they still sell RC Cola??

    Yep. They have it at Meijer
  • Crimson streak
    Midstate01;1437961 wrote:Do they still sell RC Cola??

    Yeah, I freaking love rc cola lol. Working in the warehouse was awesome. We got to take anything damaged. My fridge was always stocked with rc cola, snapple, Arizona Arnold palmers and red bull lol