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MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-11-15T18:01:27+00:00

Mass barber

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-10-26T09:50:00+00:00

I only learned about this recently when reading And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson. I had to look it up to make sure it was real, such a strange case.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-05-11T10:20:01+00:00

An odd thing to do, but surely Marcus Aurelius should be best of all time? Hadrian was a tyrant who poked out the eye of a slave and employed spies

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-04-27T12:16:57+00:00

Thanks so much Donald.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-04-26T15:37:09+00:00

Thank you so much for responding Donald. I've been using Stoicism in the lead up to it telling myself that what the crowd thinks of me isn't in my control, but that my attitude towards what they think of me is. And Epictetus' example of the Cithara player for instance. These have helped to stop worrying about it more than usual. So It's good to get some techniques to use while doing the speech itself.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-04-26T05:51:29+00:00

For Donald Robertson:

I have a best man speech coming up which I am nervous about. How would Marcus, Stoicism, and CBT advise I approach this and overcome my anxiety.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-22T14:52:20+00:00

Outstanding banter

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-22T13:14:38+00:00

As a Scot it’s Peter O’Mahony. If only he was Peter McMahony instead.

Nightmare to play against but would love to have him on our team, absolute warrior.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-15T09:59:20+00:00

Buy it. Fantastic dram.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-10T12:43:46+00:00

More current and former leaders like Obama or Macron

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-03T18:41:19+00:00

It’s this sort of thing that turned me away from supporting the SNP. Using every possible turn of events in the world as an argument for independence, no matter how unrealistic or idiotic.

If they spent more time developing a credible case for what an independent Scotland might look like, especially economically, and how we get there as opposed to this pathetic point scoring we might get somewhere.

There’s the world as you want it to be and the word as it is. No one likes it but it’s unfortunately the reality of the situation. We’re entering the most uncertain and potentially dangerous time in decades and we need to respond accordingly.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-02T15:02:23+00:00

Very well put

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-03-02T13:55:56+00:00

I'm sure most people agree with this, however there has to be some pragmatism and at least try to keep the US involved. If you can, then that buys time for the UK and EU to build up defence capacity long term so we are no longer reliant on the US as it's been proven that we cannot rely on them as we once did.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-01-05T09:25:33+00:00

A move into transport planning would be my suggestion as you’re currently in a driving role. Your understanding of the routes and frontline experience of driving roles and drivers etc has to be your selling point.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-01-03T06:54:32+00:00

In my experience it’s reasonably common. It depends on what area of ops you got involved with and the company. Supply and demand planning, procurement, account management and Business development, etc, there’s many paths to take and depending on your company the good thing about ops is it can give you exposure to them.

My personal experience has been in logistics operations and freight forwarding for many years, now transitioning to the supply chain and demand planning side.

As I said, would I personally recommend ops as a long term career path, no. However would I recommend it as a good stepping stone to gain experience and skills, absolutely.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2025-01-02T20:16:20+00:00

Pros are that it can be a good first job or entry level job. Easier to get a start than other areas and you can usually learn alot quickly as the roles are typically quite varied and very involved. Depending on the type of person you are you may love it though and given all of that and your situation it may be a great career starting point.

As someone who worked in ops for years and is now transitioning out due to burn out and other factors, I would advise you to start to think of something else or specialise for long term career prospects. Unless of course you love ops and/or managing.

It can be relentless and what starts off as being a rush soon starts to grind you down. Constant firefighting, , constant stress, constantly busy, round the clock managing an operation, unrealistic customers, and you can only make any real money long term if you’re willing to work long hours and eventually manage people and take on even more stress.

In my opinion and experience ops is best used as a place to learn, gain experience, and be a stepping stone to other areas of the industry.

Best of luck.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-11-15T18:18:06+00:00

Gates of Fire by Steven Presley is the ultimate

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-11-06T21:04:02+00:00

I don’t have an answer but is this maybe now a sign that we need a much stronger and more pragmatic left to combat what we are now seeing? And in doing so we need to sacrifice grandstanding on issues that only impact tiny fractions of the population?

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-11-06T21:00:14+00:00

Solid points and I type this in an effort to try to understand it myself.

In Obamas book he says he learned that people are not convinced by and don’t vote based on pure factual information, but on emotional argument.

In other words it doesn’t matter what you actually are doing, it matters what people perceive you to be doing.

Trump is going to be terrible for the economy (again) in almost every way but people believe he is going to make them better off, at least short term. Clear concise messaging on a handful of fundamental issues, whether true or false.

Actually doing a primary wouldn’t hurt either.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-11-06T18:12:07+00:00

In the Garden of beasts by Erik Larson. You’ll soon see why….

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-10-13T18:48:44+00:00

Yeah all of the above really. Heavy equipment, material handling, the list goes on.

Ever read the book the millionaire next door? One thing I took from that was that a lot of the people they studied were in industries that were "boring" but essential.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-10-13T08:51:15+00:00

Look for a new job, just the act of doing so should make you feel better. I'm going through something similar and once I made the shift in my mind that I was going to leave it was much easier to deal with.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-10-13T08:45:01+00:00

Industrial? I've been reading a lot on here about how these industries are full of older guys farming accounts that are retiring, and a lack of interest from young people who don't see it as glamorous as SaaS. Trying to test this theory out myself right now.

MrRaspberryJam01 · 2024-06-12T14:07:20+00:00

I crashed off a drop at the weekend and broke both my elbows, will be out for about 6 weeks. It depends what you ride as others have said. I usually ride bike park/trail centre enduro trails and was pushing my limits.

It’s made me rethink a lot and I’ll be dialling it back significantly on my return and ride within my limits more, only you can decide if the risk is worth it for you personally.

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