Re: What do you do for a living?
Every day I get up about 0830 and let the dog out the back , then I go (in the car) for the daily newspaper , then I do the Suduko's then I put the kettle on for a cuppa for "her indoors" (ordinary tea) and me (green tea) ... Then I make my own breakfast (fruit and muesli) and more cuppas (black coffee for me this time) then on the computer to reply to all my e-mails and then onto CPF ... At 1100hrs , I take the dog for walkies and I chat to assorted people including the motor-cycle traffic cop who hides at the end of our road ... He catches loads of speeding motorists on his new speed camera ... Can't understand how so many get caught as he is there several times a week ... Then it's back home for another black coffee and some sort of lunch ... Lunch is either a proper one made by "her indoors" or I am forced to make myself some chocolate biscuits and custard creams to go with my coffee ... I don't actually make the biscuits , they are from Lidls.
Afternoon work is weather dependant ... In the warmer weather I watch my wife pottering (working) in the garden ... I sometimes have to put the washing line up for her too ... I'm trying to decide whether to buy an outdoor (weatherproof) fridge for my beers but it would not be used in the Winter and she would have to carry it up the steps to the garage ... It would have to be waterproof and light in weight ... Perhaps I will just keep using the coolbox as it is the cheaper option ... In Winter , I can watch her in the garden through the lounge window.
I drive her to the food shops a couple of times a week too ... Sometimes she goes clothes shopping on her own ... I can then relax at home with the dog and watch TV ...
After our evening meal , which starts about five-thirty , I put the pots etc in the dishwasher ... I relax and then go back on the computer till nine o'clock whilst my Wife watches some of her soap programs ... There is usually something decent for us to watch at nine on the TV ... It is supper time at about nine , but I have to get my own sandwiches as she says that she is tired by nine ... A glass or two of red wine to help my digestion whilst watching TV then it's out with the dog before bed ...
It's all go in our house as you can see ...
By the way , I am retired ... My Wife tells me that Women are never able to retire ... I just say "Yes Dear" every time she says that.
I retired from paid work nearly 18 years ago ... I was an electronic and radio engineer ... Worked on installing and maintaining all types of electronic equipment including long distance remote control systems and multiplex equipment (analogue and pcm) and VHF (low-band and mid-band) , UHF and SHF (microwave) radio systems ... Wrote lots of specifications for equipment tenders for our industry and supervised the intallations by the successful company ...
Can't help thinking that most of the information that I had to learn at the Poly-Tech was only useful to pass exams ... I have never had to use differential equations to solve any electrical or electronic problems at work ... Equally well , I have never had to design low-pass , high-pass , band-pass or band-stop M-Derived filters or consider the effects of flanking impedance ... In work , I never had to design and construct and/or/nand/nor or exclusive-or gates and build them from discrete components ... If we needed those sort of things , we just opened a book and chose the appropriate chip and bought it ... I spent years of my life studying things that I never needed ... So , I am now resting my body and brain to make up for it.
Ah well , it's time for another coffee and then out with the dog for my morning exercise.
Life is hard for us elderly impoverished people.
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The paperwork can be pretty bad too - an incident lasting 10 seconds usually involves around an hour of documenting/incident forms! :thumbsdow
