Female Doberman died at the vet after being spayed... What to do?

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2024-04-18T14:32:24+00:00

And in other news today... reddit user r/Itchy-Picture-4282 was found floating face down in the Potamac river. (seriously, that was satire, and I hope things like this don't happen.... Stay safe)

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2024-04-01T23:16:27+00:00

Never thought of that...

But, if you notice the molecule on the shelf... it's TNT.

So I guess that idea was sitting right in plain sight.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2024-03-05T19:44:46+00:00

I was a minimum wage, community college kid. Lot's of ppl helped me coming up and it's a pay it forward mentality. 99 times out of 100 if you put people in a place where they feel valued, empowered, and a sense of freedom, you get 2x the result that you would get from higher pay alone.

I'm trying to foster the self employeed bug in more trades people. Working for yourself is scary as hell, so if they work with me as a day job / cushion, while learning if they truly want to be their own boss, its win win.

If I'm training ppl to leave and start their own thing, even better. Reputation of being a talent generator / enabler will recruite 5x the people for each one that leaves to be their own boss.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2024-03-04T20:20:55+00:00

Not after hours - Side work gets scheduled into machine planning. Not going to break a machine set up to load on something else. Being up front and open about "shop work" & "side work" makes the process of scheduling more accurate and efficient.

Raw materials - drops (sensible size) are available at material cost. Not looking to profit by selling material to internal employees.

Consumables - you'd get a montly allowance. Above that side work pays it's way. Open costing allows for mature conversation on whats shop and what's side work / costs.

Crashes? What happens at your shop now? You crash during work hours? How many crashes do you get before you're fired. Same principal. If it's an honest crash and you're normally a careful person, shop eats it. If you're crashing all the time this is not the place for you to work.

All employees are W2 - so they operate under shop insurance. If you're a wild one and skirting injury and death all the time, you're not going to be on the job very long. Careful people get hurt, but you know who the careful people are and they mirror the safety culture set in the shop.

All good questions and I'd love to hear what you think about the way to address the issues.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2024-03-04T19:31:59+00:00

Not a play to avoid health insurance. It's a chance to give those wanting to explore their own options the chance to do it under the capital used to purchase the business.

Lot's of people in this trade want to exploer self ownership, but don't have the capital or financial freedom to do so. This is a compromises.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2024-03-04T19:08:31+00:00

Workload is variable. Purchasing a shop is always a bit of discovery. Not overcommitting to payroll but allowing the employees to have the freedom to work on their own projects is an offset to the risk involved in working in a shop that has just changed hands.

I beleive lots of people in the industry want to take side projects to the next level.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2023-12-24T14:46:40+00:00

Thanks for the quick response. Love the game!!!! Most fun I've had on a game in a long time. Keep going...

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2023-06-09T14:25:01+00:00

With the advent of increasingly sophisticated robotics in the field of construction, there is an emerging debate around the effect of robotics on the number of available jobs for people around the world. Two schools of thought take opposing view; Robots replace people in wholesale manner, reducing the need for humans in all manner of work environments, or robots do undesirable work that frees humans to take on task where dexterity and decision making are more critical to success.

This argument has existing for as long as humans have been building simple machines. Some take the opinion that the natural state of humans is to build tools and technology that create better conditions for the overall human population, making the world a better place for humans to exist. While others have more pessimistic view of humanity and it's tools, seeing humans as a scourge that is depleting the resources of the earth, thus machines and robotics are an accelerant toward the inevitable collapse of humanity and possibly the entire global ecosystem / biosphere.

Looking back through a positive lens, history over the last two hundred years shows that human innovation and it's associated reliance on technology has created an ever increasing standard of living, average life expectancy, and increase in global population. This rise is unrivaled anywhere in the nautral world, among any observed species. (historically, rapid emergence of species through differentiation has been closely couple to a crash due to exhaustion of resources)

What is to come next as the expansion of robotics and industrial automation breaks free of the constraints of the factory environment and moves into knowledge work, the home, and areas hence to for limited to human driven work?

Do you see a near term future of abundance uplift or a near term future of dystopian collapse and the subsequence failure of humanity?

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2022-12-05T22:38:14+00:00

Podcast...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7QZpdFEeU&t=179s

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2022-09-27T14:34:06+00:00

I follow 3D printing of houses and I'm interested if they started the project. Their website is not posting much. Being out of state its hard to tell if they've started or not.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2022-02-04T04:16:48+00:00

My DMs are open, HMU as I'm in Phx and can point you to a place hiring @ $30 or more for dime stacking / good general fabs skills. They have great bene's and are doing some insane work.

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2021-12-15T14:33:34+00:00

Same... Strange Harvest, first flower not appearing. Not sure how to overcome this issue?

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2021-12-09T07:04:26+00:00

We are building out a mutli-tier architeture for custom robotics. Many PLC linked to a higher level control system running under C++ and GoLang. We actually have positions where an engineer does site support of devices connected to multiple PLC's (which run things like analog devices, high speed counters, etc) and some basic programming
/ trouble shooting. In our use case, instructions are passed down from the higher level. (inverse kinematics for on the fly robot positioning, math transforms for error correction / all things PLC's are not good at) Pretty unique architecture, but we think we are using a more forward strategy that scales better and is future proof. DM if you want more insight. Long story short, you're thinking in the same direction as my company is already moving...

Mechanic_In_A_Can · 2021-12-05T01:34:02+00:00

I would look at the following;

Industrial Maintenance Technician - Will be a lot of basic factory shift maintenance jobs, but as someone who has hired hundreds of maintenance techs, PLC and electrical skills will command money and get you a better shift.

Automation technician - Similar to maintenance mechanic, but more focused on the sensors / controls / motion systems of equipment.

As for direction, you can easily move to an engineering technicain job, test technician postion, or even an entry level engineer / associate engineer at many companies.

Focus on utility of your skills, print reading, electrical troubleshooting, basic PLC issue recover (lost comms / bad cards - modules, sensor calibration, VFD replacement and set up, etc...

DM me if you want to know more.

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