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Here's a sure way to kill your career

Willie B

Senior Member
Joined
Jan 2, 2016
Messages
4,040
Location
Mount Tabor VT
Occupation
Electrician
I'm not a doctor. I had a couple rounds of scaring myself awake. I ruined a tire, and wheel on a curve, but no major wreck. A couple ventures into nasal surgery, and an experimental procedure to leather up my soft pallet have got me sleeping at night, instead of on the road. Maybe you need CPAP, but you will get sleep. Maybe it'll be at night, maybe in day, maybe forever. You get to choose. Find a good doctor, get yourself fixed.

Willie
 

RollOver Pete

Senior Member
Joined
Mar 5, 2007
Messages
1,510
Location
Indio, Ca
Occupation
Operating Engineer/mechanic
What a long strange trip its been.
Oh..where to start...
My commercial license ......gone.
My non commercial license.....was gone.
i finally got it back after 2 years.
Now...think for a minute...how in the hell is one supposed to survive if you cant legally drive to and from work? By selling drugs? Selling your body? Selling someone else's body ? How about stealing, robbing, anything to make a damned buck?

I certainly learned a lot in the 3 months that I sat home on my ass.
I learned that this system is designed to keep you down when you fall.
Workmans comp....denied. Unemployment, what a damned joke that is. Finding a job without a drivers license, full of anger, depressed and pissed off....yeah right. But most importantly, I learned to never, ever be truthful when it comes to any government run office.. especially the DMV. I'll look them in the eye and lie right to their face from now on. Being honest with those a holes only ended up turning a once honest man into a criminal. The horse crap the DMV put me thru changed my entire outlook on the law, on society and on life. Its a real long story and the more I think about it, the angrier I get. I'll save it for another time.
It's nothing short of a miracle that I was able to hold on to the house and keep the wife. Why she has tolerated me, put up with me and stuck right here by my side....I'll never know. Take away a workaholics ability to work , what do you expect? Yeah, with my pissed off attitude....it was that bad.
Anyways, I'm still alive and kicking. Work now is just that....work. it's not fun like it used to be. It's a job...and only a job. Now don't get me wrong. I'm thankful for this job, for the little that I have, for the roof over our heads. But mostly, I'm thankful for my wife. If not for her, I'd likely be 6 ft. under.
Well folks... thanks for the thoughts and prayers.
I'll post more of this drama soon.
 

kshansen

Senior Member
Joined
Mar 11, 2012
Messages
11,129
Location
Central New York, USA
Occupation
Retired Mechanic in Stone Quarry
What a long strange trip its been.
Oh..where to start...

Pete, if you need someplace to vent let it rip here and if it is too much for the open forum we could always move it over to a private conversation mode. As I understand it there can be several people included in one of those so you could invite and let in just those who you want to join.

Sounds like you have a very good wife, so just say thanks once in a while!
 

wilko

Senior Member
Joined
Mar 4, 2005
Messages
362
Location
Oregon
It's good to hear from you. A guy I work with has learned the same lesson on being truthful with bureaucracies, in his case especially workman's comp. They're out to screw you. You never found a cause for blacking out? Anyway, hang in there.
 

8V149 Detroit

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Joined
Mar 22, 2018
Messages
34
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina
Sad to see these things happen to people who didn't deserve them, also sad to see a person that wants to work but can't find it. Nowadays pretty much anything government related is trash, people that need help can't get it, but the ones that don't need it can get it really easy for some reason. Hope you get better
 

DMiller

Senior Member
Joined
Feb 21, 2010
Messages
16,432
Location
Hermann, Missouri
Occupation
Cheap "old" Geezer
Damn Son, never heard of Syncope, evil. Hope the Luck monster has had enough of feeding your bad side and better swings your way.
 

fast_st

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 1, 2010
Messages
1,468
Location
Mass
Occupation
IT systems admin
Pete, I'll hang onto your sage advise and hope I never need it! Keep moving forward, count the small victories!
 
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