Work Changes Please.

February 28th, 2015

Had a crap day at work today. I do not classify my profession as “Plumber.” But there are some technically inept employees within the firm I am employed by, so it seems if the shit hits the fan, send Craig in to save the day! This is a procedure I wish to cut short before I become everybody’s bodge fixer. I have tactfully prepositioned myself in an electrical sense, 17th Edition looming, as most guys don’t do electrics (fair-do), whereas I don’t really want to do water, my job title is Commercial ‘GAS’ Engineer after all. But today everything fought me, I found myself cutting through brass nuts and slicing olives to enable things to fit, bends on pipes that are normally straight, in fact anything to make it hard work, appeared. Which is why I hate plumbing and I don’t do plumbing and I did a commercial gas course and I will wire anything just to get out of changing a f***ing 3 port valve!

I miss my desk at Drallim Industries, not a drop of water or a smelly council tenant in sight, just a PC with Proteus, a prototype bench and a kitchen across the hallway offering free coffee and 2 microwave ovens just incase the hippy from the shop floor beat you to it with her seaweed and chickpea falafel lunch, if that job re-appeared tomorrow paying 10K less than I earn today, I would snap it up. Nothing makes you feel more wasted than doing a job you are over qualified for and don’t like doing but pays more than the job you really want to do and should be doing!

I try to convince myself I have a decent job and still with a nose in on the technical aspects, but day to day, it sure doesn’t feel that way. It would be a start if I could apply my experience in a design sense or even in a supervisory role, but just waiting for an opportunity seems futile to me these days. So, carry on eh? Or talk to people? I need to move on, I cant be hanging upside down in an airing cupboard for much longer.

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