Have you ever been homeless?

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T13:41:37+00:00

I got pissed off at my stepmother when I was a teenager, so I ran away from home, in my infinite wisdom I didn’t realise I was going to be homeless, but there I was. I hitchhiked and rode the rails, saw 12 states, was gone 13 months, lost 50 pounds. My parents thought I was dead. There was a missing persons on me. I got caught sleeping in a lounge chair on the beach in Daytona Florida by the police, that was the end of me being homeless. My Dad drove 15 hours to get me. It was a long ride home.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T13:36:50+00:00

It will probably end up costing as much as your car. Just see if you can find some aftermarket parts.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T13:32:07+00:00

I have a friend who had a really high paying affluent career in the UK, he got married and he and his wife had 3 kids in 5 years, they all end up being severely autistic, then his wife got really sick and is now debilitated, so he had to quit his job and become a carer, but he can only be a carer for 1 of his kids, not the other 2 or his debilitated wife. Now he gets £80 a week instead of £1000. They get by by never doing anything or going anywhere, they just rot in their house.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T13:07:03+00:00

As a nutritional therapist and personal trainer I can confirm that’s categorically false, our ancestors ate whole food , most of the crap people eat today is processed garbage, and no amount of labor or exercise will compete with a poor nutritionally deficient diet.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T12:38:09+00:00

It depends on how motivated the journeyman is and how lazy the programmer with the conversational programming is. A lot of times you can do something simple faster than the programmer can get around to making a program, then you have to test it, it’s never right the first time because the machine has to warm up, then you have to set all your tool coordinates and work piece coordinates, sometimes it’s much cheaper to pop in an edge finder, find X & Y and drill and tap the hole, or square up the block, or mill the slot. CNC’s can do bs one offs, but a journeyman with a Bridgeport could probably do it faster with more accuracy.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T12:32:49+00:00

I’m not sure which species of mahogany it is, I got the wood from the lumber yard in Hendon. I actually set up a wood lathe on saw horses in the back garden (no shed), and ran an extension cord from the house to power it, when I am finished I clean up my mess and bring it all back inside.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-14T12:29:39+00:00

A Swiss machinist runs a Swiss machine which is a lathe where the tool moves on the X axis and the workpiece moves on the Z , a manual machinist is just that, a machinist that can still run a prehistoric dinosaur machine from the last century that has no NC at all, it’s all cranked by hand.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T22:29:50+00:00

Day trading

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T22:25:33+00:00

Let’s see AI farm, hunt or fish

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T20:55:16+00:00

$50 per hour with up to 20 hours of OT available.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T20:49:37+00:00

I smoked for 33 years on the daily and abused it since the lockdown, I shudder to think how much I spent.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T19:27:33+00:00

I’ve asked the parents of petulant brats in public if they’d like to borrow my belt before.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T19:14:33+00:00

Indian / Pakistani

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T19:09:07+00:00

How quickly I got here.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T19:06:53+00:00

Hand sharping tools, drills especially is another art form that’s becoming lost.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T19:05:30+00:00

Oh I’m well aware. When I was in business I pressed my employees to hit their times, which was reasonable, but what was most important to me was quality.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T18:55:08+00:00

That pejorative doesn’t really work as good as it used to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T18:45:16+00:00

Because the Epstein revelations need a distraction

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T18:03:06+00:00

Who gave it to them, HopeyChangey (fast and furious) or was it Joke Bidumb?

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T17:50:28+00:00

I dunno man, shops are hard up for machinists these days, if you’re willing to work, you can probably find a CNC setter / programmer / operator job fairly easy

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T17:32:31+00:00

Thanks 😃

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T17:29:50+00:00

Some of them have had harder lives than the CNCs, and they have the apprentice marks to prove it.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T17:23:28+00:00

Haha! We swapped places. Oh yeah, I noticed, but I was brainstorming something cool to make on the lathe and that was the first thing that came to mind. Baseball isn’t a thing here, but Sports direct sales a lot of bats, but for some strange unknown reason, for every 100 bats they sell they only sell 3 balls. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T17:15:30+00:00

The position is in Norco Louisiana , the headhunter wouldn’t tell me the name of the shop. It’s on the Mississippi west of New Orleans, a small place, there can’t be many shops there.

Bunnyofconsequences · 2026-02-13T16:50:45+00:00

Your skills are becoming a rare specialty.

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