# new from schenectady
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525
**Category:** Shift518 Off Topic
**Created:** [January 19, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525 "2011-01-19T23:29:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 47
### Author:  [@Yo\_Rita](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Yo_Rita)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/921 "2011-01-25T10:33:06Z")
Have to agree with audi jay on college degree becoming the new HS diploma. I was looking for a job last year for what I was going to school for and there was nothing, absolutely nothing around here available. All of the kids who were in my program who are now graduating or have since graduated are having a horrible time finding anything with a 4yr degree. Most places in the psych/sociology field are now looking for Masters and beyond. Thankfully when I was a junior on summer break I was offered a really well paying job and decided not to go back to school that fall. I’d rather stash away all this money then get myself into debt with school loans(I don’t have any loans/debt in general)
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### Author:  [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/922 "2011-01-25T10:33:25Z")
@ Krazykid ^ :rofl
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### Author:  [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/923 "2011-01-25T10:41:14Z")
SO it is apparently confirmed that the letter was delivered.
Whoever wrote it thou is apparently a very unintelligent human being :rofl
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### Author:  [@Eatonualive](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eatonualive)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/924 "2011-01-25T10:55:25Z")
any of you work at the ge plant in schenectady. and for what its worth to all of you that want to go home at the end of the day feeling like you accomplished something, AND have a decent paycheck, AND no school loans… go learn a trade and bust your ass. it will pay off.
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/925 "2011-01-25T10:58:16Z")
^Troof
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### Author:  [@GATVILLE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GATVILLE)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/926 "2011-01-25T11:00:22Z")
> [@Who else is working Friday? 11/23](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-else-is-working-friday-11-23/39080/41):
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> any of you work at the ge plant in schenectady. and for what its worth to all of you that want to go home at the end of the day feeling like you accomplished something, AND have a decent paycheck, AND no school loans… go learn a trade and bust your ass. it will pay off.
im trying! :thumbup
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### Author:  [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/927 "2011-01-25T11:05:10Z")
> [@Who else is working Friday? 11/23](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-else-is-working-friday-11-23/39080/41):
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> any of you work at the ge plant in schenectady. and for what its worth to all of you that want to go home at the end of the day feeling like you accomplished something, AND have a decent paycheck, AND no school loans… go learn a trade and bust your ass. it will pay off.
Used to work in building 66, back left corner… big brown one with a bunch of hard drive magnets stuck on the face of it about 25 feet up! lol, no idea how they go there though! hahahahah. I used to do all the deskside and server support for them.
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### Author:  [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/928 "2011-01-25T11:21:32Z")
Anyone work on the wind turbines?
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### Author:  [@AUDI\_JAY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AUDI_JAY)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/929 "2011-01-25T11:38:20Z")
> [@cops have new tickets for ricers!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-have-new-tickets-for-ricers/39095/16):
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> Anyone work on the wind turbines?
that would be an epic job minus the huge fawking heights :wow
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### Author:  [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/930 "2011-01-25T12:12:47Z")
> [@cops have new tickets for ricers!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-have-new-tickets-for-ricers/39095/16):
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> Anyone work on the wind turbines?
No but I used to hang out with the shop floor guys and the engineers and shoot the shit and check out how they make the stuff. Machine work was cool there too. in 66 the building I was in, they had a bunch of cool machinist’s I used to hang out with.
> [@Why Lucas Oils rock (Gear Oil tests, for the nerds)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-lucas-oils-rock-gear-oil-tests-for-the-nerds/38860/15):
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> that would be an epic job minus the huge fawking heights :wow
they built the pieces, they didnt install them on site! lol BUT the turbines, and the parts are HUGE in real life. Watching them sling dont know howmany ton billet steel blanks they machine down 20 feet in the air off the shop floor was crazy! The hunks of steel are like 15 feet in DIA and about 25 feet long!
Some cool shit there.
Speaking of which, I wonder if Obama walked around the shopfloor and liked the nudie pics and shit guys had posted on their computers, work areas and tool boxes! lol
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### Author:  [@AUDI\_JAY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AUDI_JAY)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/931 "2011-01-25T12:28:25Z")
> [@need help: lifting my jimmy](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-lifting-my-jimmy/38707/18):
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> No but I used to hang out with the shop floor guys and the engineers and shoot the shit and check out how they make the stuff. Machine work was cool there too. in 66 the building I was in, they had a bunch of cool machinist’s I used to hang out with.
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> they built the pieces, they didnt install them on site! lol BUT the turbines, and the parts are HUGE in real life. Watching them sling dont know howmany ton billet steel blanks they machine down 20 feet in the air off the shop floor was crazy! The hunks of steel are like 15 feet in DIA and about 25 feet long!
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> Some cool shit there.
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> Speaking of which, I wonder if Obama walked around the shopfloor and liked the nudie pics and shit guys had posted on their computers, work areas and tool boxes! lol
I am sure obama thought to himself about smooshing a few.:lol
btw this is sorta what i was thinking when it comes to working on turbines etc.
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEK4NZ7zhfA)
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/932 "2011-01-25T12:32:12Z")
LOL more like this
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### Author:  [@AUDI\_JAY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AUDI_JAY)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/933 "2011-01-25T12:34:17Z")
> [@FS assasins creed 360](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-assasins-creed-360/39048/10):
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> LOL more like this
> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdmTJwfU4Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdmTJwfU4Q)
:eek2 yup that will never be me up there lol
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### Author:  [@psi2high](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psi2high)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/934 "2011-01-25T12:47:23Z")
Its funny cause some one on here who works at GE in the machine shop had a chat with Obama showing him around
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### Author:  [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/935 "2011-01-25T12:51:08Z")
My company makes preservation covers for the bearings and turbines. The sizes of the them are utterly comical. I was curious if anyone on here actually handled or installed the covers…
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### Author:  [@Boost\_Creep](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boost_Creep)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/936 "2011-01-25T12:51:11Z")
ball bags
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### Author:  [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/937 "2011-01-25T12:55:59Z")
College is nothing more than a holding tank for people who aren’t ready to go out and live life in the real world.
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### Author:  [@psi2high](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psi2high)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/938 "2011-01-25T12:57:43Z")
Well for some jobs you kind of need a degree and cant be some random smuck off the street
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### Author:  [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/939 "2011-01-25T12:58:00Z")
Lots of blanket statements in this thread. Different fields have different “optimal” educational paths. /thread
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### Author:  [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/940 "2011-01-25T12:58:53Z")
> [@WTB : cheap seats](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-cheap-seats/39065/14):
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> Lots of blanket statements in this thread. Different fields have different “optimal” educational paths. /thread
Don’t jump out of a car with a baseball bat. /thread
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