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Started by reservoirGod, Jun 14, 2015, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jun 14, 2015
    I do a lot of different kinds of work. I've averaged 3,000 hours at work a year for over a decade... When I don't work I spend too much money and get into trouble...

    The majority of the kind of work I do is Alaskan construction... I work all over the state including remote site work. When I'm working remotely I work no less than 70 hours a week and up to and over 100 hours a week... Making anywhere from $27 to $58 an hour plus benefits and room and board.

    Alaska is as crazy as a place as you have heard it is... There's 5 multibillion dollar industries here and a workforce under 500,000 people... There's a lot of "cowboy" type of alpha dudes here like me trying to get more of our fair share. I don't hardly record what my work... But I still have 100's of interesting videos spread across my old phones and old SD cards... If there is any interest I'll upload more.

    I found these three on this phone and thought they look kinda cool...




    This is in Prudhoe Bay in a flow station.. I'm rigging up 1,000 pound pieces of pipe and lowering them down 70 feet to my men on the floor. The wind from outside is hitting the air floor from the giant cooling fan and causing mini tornadoes all around me.





    This is scaffold I was building in the most remote part of the Trans Alaska Pipeline... Me and my men, building supplies and tools had to be flown there by helicopter and move the stuff around by snowmobile. I haven't shaved in 4 weeks.





    This is when I was working on the runway of JBER... Anchorage's air force base during an air show... That's a B52 taking off.
     
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    Oldboy

    Jun 14, 2015
    when are you gonna do an online business ?
     
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  3. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

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    I come up with a million dollar idea for a business either online or IRL one to three times a week and I never act on them.
     
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  4. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

    Jun 14, 2015
    Why do you think that anybody cares?
     
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  5. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jun 14, 2015
    Because you clicked on the thread.
     
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    Mimi the art of doing nothing

    Jun 14, 2015
    That second video looks like it would have been an awesome setting to be working in.
     
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    Vidoes have been deleted.
     
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  8. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

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    PM me some million dollar ideas that I can take on Shark Tank. Don't squander your brilliance Res.
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

    Jun 14, 2015
    Holy s--- that second video was breathtaking
     
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

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    You should see me after I shave and clean up.
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

    Jun 14, 2015
    PM :emoji_smirk:
     
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    What formation do you have? Dope videos :emoji_thumbsup:
     
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

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    Formation? Don't know what that means...
     
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  14. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

    Jun 14, 2015
    Here's one I thought of in 2006 that went stale because everyone uses their phone as a camera and every phone is backed up online now.

    Basically I wanted to make a website for people to upload media they found (digital cameras, loose SD cards, USBs and what not) with software that would automatically censor personal information and put bars across eyes and block out nudity all together.
    The found material would be sorted by geographical location.

    The site would be monetized by brokering a fee between the people who lost the media and those who found it, plus advertisement...


    But, like I said this idea is obsolete now.
     
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  15. J Roc
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    My bad, idk the word for this, i checked on google translate, i meant traineeship? Training? Idk what's the correct word for this
     
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  16. Charlie Work
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    Can I get a recent one? I'm trying to make millions here Res.
     
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

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    I got most of my training from the Laborers International Union North America and The Teamsters... Plus from some non union companies.
     
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  18. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

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    I don't hand out the viable ones.
     
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  19. Charlie Work
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    You come up with 1-3 of them a week. Don't be so stingy.
     
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  20. reservoirGod
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    reservoirGod reckless adventurer.

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    Saving them for a rainy day.
     
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