A conversation I had at work.

Me: Good morning WJ! Have a good weekend?

WJ: What's up Nick? Had a lazy weekend, laid around and didn't do anything. And you?

Me: I finally got the garage cleaned out and organized, stayed busy. Still on this crappy job I see.

WJ: Oh yeah, it never ends. I'm used to doing real detailed, intricate stuff, this is boring you know.

Me: I know man, I've seen your work, you have made some really fancy stuff. I hope my back heals up soon, I can't take this inside work.

WJ: How's it going?

Me: It's getting better, hopefully after this little project we're on I'll be good to go. I got to hand it to those production guys. Guys that just go in day after day and do this crap for years on end. You know, machinists, factory workers those type of guys. They just have something in them that I don't have. I just don't see how they do it. It wouldn't take very long for me to go absolutely insane.

WJ: It may be worse than you think.

Me: How's that?

WJ: Well, your only on day three of this eight day project. You've been talking to me for five minutes. Everyone is looking at us and I'm a berkeleying WATERJET!

Just heading home from work myself, thanks for the laugh :).

I've noticed I lose more of my marbles every year since I started working full time....

Lol

I'm jealous. Most conversations I have at work don't go that we'll and I'm talking to real people.

Wally wrote: ...I'm talking to real people.

Well there's your problem....

Nick, you just need to flip the monolog switch to internal, then everyone is happy. You get to have your conversation and nobody else eavesdrops...

There are a couple of people on this board that need to step away from the little baggy.

Pre-smartphones, I spent the better part of a day arguing with my part timers as to whether or not kool aid man wore pants. They weren't old enough to remember him without clothes.

Toyman01 wrote: There are a couple of people on this board that need to step away from the little baggy.

and a couple that need to step a little closer to the little baggy....

turboswede wrote:

Toyman01 wrote: There are a couple of people on this board that need to step away from the little baggy.

and a couple that need to step a little closer to the little baggy....

True.

my days are better if I do not have to talk to anybody

I'm constantly catching myself chattering away while working.

I live alone. It used to be occasionally. Now I have to consciously stop it.

Lesley, it's always good to have someone to talk to

besides when we talk to ourselves we usually get conversation that we can understand

Saturdays are like that for me. Throughout the week I'm on 3rd shift with one other guy, who I torment incessantly and he, of course, returns the favor.

But on Saturday I could be on any shift and I'm all by me onesy in a huge, old, rickety machine shop. Those are the days that make me go a bit nuts.

The best is when you're arguing with yourself but come to a resolution at the end and part ways amicably.

Lesley wrote: I'm constantly catching myself chattering away while working. I live alone. It used to be occasionally. Now I have to consciously stop it.

It's only a problem when you answer in a different voice.

The Italian part of me has no internal monolog.

I don't get it. Can somebody 'splain it to me?

In reply to iadr:

I feels that way because I have become accustomed to being a problem solver. Making quick decisions out in the field and basically not being strapped to a machine stuck inside a shop all day. I need the variety and the satisfaction of coming up with a solution that the results of can be seen instantly or at the end of a project.

BTW, I was punished by being stuck in solitary confinement for a year, i.e. food prep room. No P.A. No human contact. The things I said in there would have gotten me fired or committed to a asylum. Had anyone bothered to check up on me.

I just realized I have acces to a water jet and a full pallet of coroplast 4x8 sheets. Why, oh why, can't I have a car to test out some areodynamic ideas.

In reply to Nick_Comstock:

I've got a car.

I will happily test your ideas if you like, and bring them to the $2015 Challenge.

Nick_Comstock wrote: I just realized I have acces to a water jet and a full pallet of coroplast 4x8 sheets. Why, oh why, can't I have a car to test out some areodynamic ideas.

because you made a "bad" agreement with your wife ?

In reply to Nick_Comstock:

You could always cut out a few people to keep you company.

Duke wrote:

Lesley wrote: I'm constantly catching myself chattering away while working. I live alone. It used to be occasionally. Now I have to consciously stop it.

It's only a problem when you answer in a different voice.

I am so screwed...