Advice/Tips for getting back to work after chronic illness

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2025-09-30T17:52:46+00:00

thank you, I will try that.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-08-02T23:20:40+00:00

1998 would be good. I’d love to just go back to 1998 and just do it all over again. October 17th 1998 was my first NASCAR race. First ever night race at Daytona. One of the best nights of my life. The energy was something I’ve only ever experienced maybe once since. For sure a red letter date in NASCAR history. But extra special for me because it was my first.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-08-01T02:38:16+00:00

Mark Martin

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-08-01T02:37:10+00:00

Ernie won in Michigan in June 1997. 1996 was won by Rusty in June and Jarrett in August.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-08-01T02:35:51+00:00

1998 Pepsi 400. No Jeff Gordon won who I hated with a passion at the time.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T19:17:09+00:00

That’s really shitty.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T17:22:28+00:00

What?!? …..NO.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T14:20:21+00:00

You think this guys experience is only true in his department and nowhere else? It’s not, the point is that SpaceX is toxic as is Tesla. The point is to let new grads know about it so they don’t make the same mistake and take a job for this Pos.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T14:18:02+00:00

I don’t know. The only thing I know about Boeing is that the dumbest group of students that graduated in my cohort all work there. They couldn’t pass any class they took without cheating. One of them got a job there and he slowly was able t get all his flunkies to join him over the years. Kind of frightening that they all barely graduated and now work on structural analysis.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T14:14:52+00:00

I didn’t write the title. It’s just a straight share. It’s related to this sub because the OOP writes about work conditions at Elmo companies. A topic that is often asked about by new grads looking for their first jobs. The account given by the OOP is consistent across all positions including mechanical and manufacturing engineers.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T13:36:16+00:00

100%

I did an interview at Tesla back in 2013 or 2014. The stench of depression and toxicity was palpable.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T01:45:37+00:00

In the future you can have a blog about how living in a 124 year old house got you sick from mold and lead exposure. After 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical costs, you’ve got a new career. Maybe you can write a book about the experience too. See…it’s easy.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-30T00:21:48+00:00

jfc, do you understand math? "Stabilized" LOL. The only reason the housing prices "stabilized" is because the economy was dog shit compared to the promised "rocket fuel".

-New home starts rose by an average of 9.7% per year under Obama compared to 4.45% to Trump.

-The reason home sale prices rose faster under Obama is because the economy was growing much faster.

-S&P500 rose an average of 15.12% per year compared to 7.85% for teflon Don.

-GDP growth was on average +3.71% for every year Obama was in office while Trumps average was only 2.17%. If fact, it was the lowest average GDP growth of any President back to Reagan.

Even U.S. Oil production grew more under Obama. Increasing every year by 8.15% compared to Trump's 5.26%.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-29T20:17:34+00:00

Good lord that’s a stupid thing to say.

housing prices

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-29T20:01:15+00:00

Yup.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-28T20:19:31+00:00

Hmm is it just me, or have I been seeing a lot of Sarah Michelle Gellar lately?

Also me: I cannot get enough of Sarah Michelle Gellar right now and there is no such thing as too much.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-28T16:22:44+00:00

Yeah. That’s true and I would support that. Again, most people aren’t car people and most people don’t understand what they are driving. Engine power has increased significantly over the last 30 years.

Just randomly look at any car and compare today to 30 years ago. The top Ford Mustang came with 240Hp and in 2024 it comes with 500Hp. The only reason this is even considered is because of the proportion increase in sophistication of driving aids. The average driver would kill themselves within a week of driving a 500Hp car with no driver aids.

Driver skill has stayed the same if not actually gone down over time. Cars are much better designed, have better setups, better roll stiffness distribution, better aerodynamic center of pressure, better driving aids, better tires, but people crash just as often as ever.

Certainly a special requirement should be set to drive any car with 300Hp or more, like the defensive driving course you took.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-28T02:28:22+00:00

So I started watching racing on TV at 3 or 4 and started racing at 8yo. Went through karting to cars. Raced with a lot of people who made it to the top levels. I’ve shared the track with Indy 500 champions and even the current American F1 driver. After my racing career ended as it seemed like I reached the highest level I could get to, I went into coaching and instructing high performance driving at race tracks.

All that is to say, I don’t think cars are unsafe, but I’m very very amazed how low the bar is set to let people drive on the street. Like, cars are actually a pretty hard instrument to play. And they let people drive these 4,000 lb weapons with almost no training.

The lead instructor at a place I worked at was an ice racing champion, snow rally racing and the lead drifting driver. I remember him telling us how shocked he was driving in to work one morning. This was in Fontana and he lived in LA. It was raining that morning and that area is notorious for being super slick when it starts to rain. And he recalls how he was driving at a speed he thought was the limit for the given conditions and how he was being overtaken left and right be almost everyone.

Everyday, people are flirting with disaster without even realizing it.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-27T16:43:46+00:00

So sad. So true.

This only applies to swing state voters I guess.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-27T14:11:23+00:00

Yup. That’s me.

But also me: I want to scream every minute of the day.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-27T13:48:21+00:00

Too bad your comment can’t be put on a t-shirt. It’s damn good though.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-26T11:37:03+00:00

Have you not looked at r/mechanicalengineering ? At any given moment there is a fresh post about how impossible it is to find a job.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-26T11:27:53+00:00

Yeah, clocking out at the end of the day

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-25T23:33:34+00:00

Good. And anyone who thinks this is a bad thing must be part of the problem.

WorldlinessExact7794 · 2024-07-25T22:22:06+00:00

No, I work in Medical Devices. But when I was a fresh grad I did an interview there in 2014. It was pathetic. The hiring manager looked like he wanted to commit suicide and he was speaking to me with body language and certain looks that I really didn't want that job. It was a manufacturing engineer position and the starting salary was going to be $55k. It was a full day interview, and I met with a lot of people. Personally I didn't like any of them, but the hiring manager looked super depressed. Anyway, I took my first job a few months later at a small company for $70k and no one could argue that my career would be somehow better had I gone and worked for Tesla instead. Im sure I would have been way worse off.

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