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jeepinmatt said:
I miss the plant life. Big living breathing monster that gives you a sense of purpose in a way. Sales and service office life with no manufacturing is pretty boring. Purpose is keeping the CEO happy, which doesn’t serve my core drive very well haha.
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I was talking to my boss about this about 20mins ago how much I like being in the field and in a distribution center. Next level up is working from home and on calls all day, and I would quickly get bored. At least at the building I can go out and watch what we sell move through the facility and talk to the people doing the work, can't do that at home. He wants to make sure I'm not getting bored in my role "dude how can I get bored, we had a semi mis judge a turn in our yard and take out 4 bollards and a fire pump, how is that boring??" Lol

Former role I was at HQ remote managing sites across the country and it SUCKED.
 
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jeepinmatt said:
I miss the plant life. Big living breathing monster that gives you a sense of purpose in a way. Sales and service office life with no manufacturing is pretty boring. Purpose is keeping the CEO happy, which doesn’t serve my core drive very well haha.
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Yep, I love starting up the turbine/generator. Imagine, around 1.5 million pounds of rotating mass, spinning at 1800 rpm, 11 journal bearings, and the vibes at full load measured at each bearing are typically 1-4 mils. Thats 0.001-0.004” of shaft movement inside the bearing. A sheet of paper is 4 mils thick. I don’t remember all the measurements, but if you do math, the ends of the last stage blades on the turbine are moving just under the speed of sound. it’s easy to geek out over stuff like that. But it’s also easy to get frustrated when the phone rings in the middle of the night.
 
Hokie_YJ said:
I've watched several of these guys UrbEx videos, especially the ones where they're in old industrial facilities because it's all familiar to me because that's the kind of enviroment I work in daily. The chemical plant I work in is spread out over 1000 acres, and we have buildings still in production that are over well 100 years old. I thought some of you, especially the WNC guys like @Pless, @sparkn89 , etc. would find this one of the old Canton paper mill interesting.

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Man the tons of material I' d love to repurpose or build crazy stuff with! Man I would be in paradise making stuff out of old random industrial parts.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Man the tons of material I' d love to repurpose or build crazy stuff with! Man I would be in paradise making stuff out of old random industrial parts.
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I’ve dug my share of useful stuff out of metal dumpsters and unused buildings here. The plant I’m fixing to leave is over 600 buildings spread over 1000 acres. Some of which are well over 100 years old.
 
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