***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

Ded_Zebra

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

......... I just dont have the energy to start working then

that's a gruesome looking timetable :eek:

CianRyan

Yeah yeah yeah, if the opportunity did arise I'd be cautious lets say.

Yeah, bloody car! *shifty eyes*
Got quoted €200 before having a proper look at the airbag for parts and labour. Not too shabby!

Stheno

CianRyan wrote: »

Yeah, I'll be hesitant to take any spins in the 335i now that I think about it. Haha

Hah! I'm safe, I'll get to skip the queue as you all remind yourself what his username means, and I repeatedly tell you

RoverJames wrote: »

that's a gruesome looking timetable :eek:

Now in fairness apart from Monday and Tuesday it's ok?

Stheno

Stheno wrote: »

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Now in fairness apart from Monday and Tuesday it's ok?

True enough.

Could easily squeeze in a few shifts in the local Maxol at the weekend if need be

Ded_Zebra

Stheno wrote: »

Now in fairness apart from Monday and Tuesday it's ok?

In fairness yeah the rest of the week is OK but after monday and Tuesday it's nearly impossible to get up for Wednesday

So my advice is don't study engineering!

Ded_Zebra

RoverJames wrote: »

True enough.

Could easily squeeze in a few shifts in the local Maxol at the weekend if need be

How do you know I live just down the road form a Maxol????

STALKER RUN

Stheno

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

In fairness yeah the rest of the week is OK but after monday and Tuesday it's nearly impossible to get up for Wednesday

So my advice is don't study engineering!

Here's my two typical weeks.

At home:

Sunday: 6-10 pm: prepare for client meetings Monday
Mon - Wed/Thurs: onsite with client 9-5, home @ 6:45, dinner, prep for next day, study, browse web, bed. ( Also calls out of 9-5 from colleagues/junior staff)
Fri: admin day in office, do reporting, scheduling liaise with junior staff/ work with sales, do pipeline projections, liaise with potential clients
Sat/Sun: Study, time with Oh, Oh's children back to Sunday 6pm

If travelling
As above, but leave as early as Saturday lunchtime to get to client site for Monday. Depending on location, stay there for weeks on end due to flight restrictions.

Downside, very little time with Oh, no real support as onsite on ones own, no contact with Oh's children, no time for hobbies/sports as travel locations vary.

CianRyan

God, I was quite happy to do this whole unemployed thing for a while but you know it's getting bad when you're looking at harsh time tables and envying the structure.

My week is as so:
Monday: Get up ~12, eat, look for jobs online, eat, collect my girlfriend to hang out, sleep at about 2-3.
Tuesday: more or less the same but I collect my welfare.
Wed-Fri: same as above but I tend to head outside to look for work.
Sat-Sun: the only real time I get with my girlfriend as she works full time and goes to bed at ~10 during the week.

I'M SICK OF IT, SOMEONE BLOODY HIGHER ME!!

MetzgerMeister

Someone might HIRE you too :pac:

TestTransmission

My week either consists of work from 5.30am til 4pm Wed to Sat, or 7pm til 5.30am Wed to Sat. Usually get by on 5/6 hours sleep.

Stheno

CianRyan wrote: »

God, I was quite happy to do this whole unemployed thing for a while but you know it's getting bad when you're looking at harsh time tables and envying the structure.

My week is as so:
Monday: Get up ~12, eat, look for jobs online, eat, collect my girlfriend to hang out, sleep at about 2-3.
Tuesday: more or less the same but I collect my welfare.
Wed-Fri: same as above but I tend to head outside to look for work.
Sat-Sun: the only real time I get with my girlfriend as she works full time and goes to bed at ~10 during the week.

I'M SICK OF IT, SOMEONE BLOODY HIGHER ME!!

You envy me that sort of structure?

Live it for six months and envy it then, most unmotor like, but I'd like to join a choir locally and get to know people, I'd like to join a gym so I'm fitter, and I'd like to get involved in my local old folks club as I think it's good to give back to older generations and I can fob off the many books I read on them (forgot to mention I read about six books a week outside of work, I've about 400 looking for a home AGAIN, apart from the ones for Ardennes ) I can't do any of that.

Aren't you living in Dublin Cian? What is your industry/qualifications?

And being very pedantic, it's hire, check your c.v. not on the computer, but print it out and get others to read it and point out mistakes, typing on a p.c. is a bugger doesn't pick up half the mistakes (as pred has pointed out to me before )

CianRyan

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Someone might HIRE you too :pac:

Enough from you, cannibal!

Toyotafanboi

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4180738

i was looking at buying that very corolla at the end of last summer. at the time the advert didn't state mileage. rang the owner, he said it had roughly 120k on it iirc. motorchecked the reg, motorcheck said it was recorded as having (again iirc) 230k miles the previous year, something over 200k on it anyway.

114k on it now, new-ish NCT and all :pac:

CianRyan

CianRyan wrote: »

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I'M SICK OF IT, SOMEONE BLOODY HIGHER ME!!

There's a decent chance that bookmakers will be opening year round until 9.30pm from Jan 2013 onwards, so most of them may well be hiring.

It's advantageous to be a car owner as some companies like hiring staff that can work in different shops as required

Lash your CV into the HQs and individual shops if you reckon you'd consider it, worth a try.

Stheno

TestTransmission wrote: »

My week either consists of work from 5.30am til 4pm Wed to Sat, or 7pm til 5.30am Wed to Sat. Usually get by on 5/6 hours sleep.

Yup I'd be the same, six hours sleep during the week max.

God love the person who tries to wake me before twelve on a Sat. though

CianRyan wrote: »

Enough from you, cannibal!

Ah now, at least it's in a foreign language and google knows it for what it is

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4180738

i was looking at buying that very corolla at the end of last summer. at the time the advert didn't state mileage. rang the owner, he said it had roughly 120k on it iirc. motorchecked the reg, motorcheck said it was recorded as having (again iirc) 230k miles the previous year, something over 200k on it anyway.

114k on it now, new-ish NCT and all :pac:

Jaysus

CianRyan

Stheno wrote: »

You envy me that sort of structure?

Live it for six months and envy it then, most unmotor like, but I'd like to join a choir locally and get to know people, I'd like to join a gym so I'm fitter, and I'd like to get involved in my local old folks club as I think it's good to give back to older generations and I can fob off the many books I read on them (forgot to mention I read about six books a week outside of work, I've about 400 looking for a home AGAIN, apart from the ones for Ardennes ) I can't do any of that.

Aren't you living in Dublin Cian? What is your industry/qualifications?

And being very pedantic, it's hire, check your c.v. not on the computer, but print it out and get others to read it and point out mistakes, typing on a p.c. is a bugger doesn't pick up half the mistakes (as pred has pointed out to me before )

I've had tough hours before when I was a commercial postman. (Not that cushy residential stuff).
5am starts, half hour lunch, 6pm finish and on a push bike all day.
I had to cover most of D24/22/16's business parks by myself.

For keeping fit you could try jogging or Yoga. 15 minutes from your day is all you need to start and 30 minutes after a few months will do you great. I payed €350 for a gym and hardly ever used it. I much predate being outside.

No qualifications per-say, I was in college studying Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Leadership. Probably the best, most exciting year of my life but due to a fear I never knew I had before hand, I didn't graduate.
I'd love to still be in that industry but there're only two courses doing it and they both focus heavily on "the fear".
I am in Dublin though, yeah. I've covered the south side with printed C.V. and talked to managers in every place I've been in but haven't had an interview since the end of summer.
My sister helps me with my C.V.
It's part of her job so it helps a lot.

Ps. I'm dyslexic so expect more spelling errors like above.


Edit@James: That's deadly advice. Nice one.
I'll be lashing those out on Monday morning.

Stheno

CianRyan wrote: »

For keeping fit you could try jogging or Yoga. 15 minutes from your day is all you need to start and 30 minutes after a few months will do you great. I payed €350 for a gym and hardly ever used it. I much predate being outside.

No qualifications per-say, I was in college studying Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Leadership. Probably the best, most exciting year of my life but due to a fear I never knew I had before hand, I didn't graduate.
I'd love to still be in that industry but there're only two courses doing it and they both focus heavily on "the fear".
I am in Dublin though, yeah. I've covered the south side with printed C.V. and talked to managers in every place I've been in but haven't had an interview since the end of summer.
My sister helps me with my C.V.
It's part of her job so it helps a lot.

Ps. I'm dyslexic so expect more spelling errors like above.


Edit@James: That's deadly advice. Nice one.
I'll be lashing those out on Monday morning.

I can't jog due to a hip injury, and I'm double jointed so yoga is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. I did a class once, and the instructor accused me of being an assessor as she didn't believe I'd never done it.

My preferred exercise is:

Free weights (can do at home for strength)
Rowing machine (can do at home for cardio)
Swimming (need a pool, for stamina)

Fine if I don't travel and very cheap, most places I go to there is no gym in the hotel and no pool.

What would you like to work at Cian? If you'd prefer to pm then do?

CianRyan

Stheno wrote: »

I can't jog due to a hip injury, and I'm double jointed so yoga is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. I did a class once, and the instructor accused me of being an assessor as she didn't believe I'd never done it.

My preferred exercise is:

Free weights (can do at home for strength)
Rowing machine (can do at home for cardio)
Swimming (need a pool, for stamina)

Fine if I don't travel and very cheap, most places I go to there is no gym in the hotel and no pool.

What would you like to work at Cian? If you'd prefer to pm then do?

Ah that's tough alright, my mam is the same way in regards to swimming. Bad back, which she hates because she loved to run.

A lot if gym's will let you join as a pool member only, I guess you'd still have the time issue though.


That's probably my biggest problem at the minute, I've no real idea as to what I'd like to make a career of. I'd love it to be sound engendering based but there's little work in it if I plan on paying for a house and kids with it. I'd like to try mechanics but we all know how tough that is to get into and I'd be into baking but again, it's not always the easiest to start off in. "You want a job? Go get experience first, not my problem where you find it."
I'm sick of that, I can't even find someone to gives me a few hours for work experience.

For now, as a means to save for my eventual return to college, I'd take anything. A 9-5, boring office job would be great. I've had a lot of shift work which is annoying. Rosters changing almost constantly and dodgy managers means it's difficult to plan anything around work.

As I've said, I want structure!

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

just dropped the crv into car craft to buff and clean the headlights.

in the croke park hotel having breakfast.

there's a great sense of snobbery in the air

Redisle

I just put a deposit down on this. I didn't get much off the asking but the car is pretty mint and very well looked after. All fluids/filters, timing belt, clutch, thermostat, water pump replaced recently. Drives perfect. Incredibly comfortable seats. Not a mark on the body that I could see. They agreed to replace one tyre which had a little dime out the sidewall and are putting it through the NCT before sale. He also gave me a spare center console so I am going to attempt this.

MugMugs

Well wear Redsie

coolisin

Not to bad, like the interior, little too much chrome for my liking, but enjoy and well wear.

MetzgerMeister

Congrats redisle! Best of luck with her

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

nice Alfa.

just don't like these stickers that go across the windscreen..... that's just me though.... I like the full view..... even hate having the sun visors down.



anyway. before and after pics on the crv headlights.

€30 well spent in car craft

Redisle

MugMugs wrote: »

Well wear Redsie

coolisin wrote: »

Not to bad, like the interior, little too much chrome for my liking, but enjoy and well wear.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Congrats redisle! Best of luck with her

Cheers! Looking forward to it.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

nice Alfa.

just don't like these stickers that go across the windscreen..... that's just me though.... I like the full view..... even hate having the sun visors down.

Yeah that's coming off. I wouldn't mind if it was just plain black but not a fan of the logo.

MetzgerMeister

Also please get rid of those chavtastic floor mats

Redisle

Was thinking I might try spraying them black but replacement is also an option yes.

dar83

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

In fairness yeah the rest of the week is OK but after monday and Tuesday it's nearly impossible to get up for Wednesday

So my advice is don't study engineering!

Man up ya pansy! :P

If that's your final year timetable you've got it handy. When I was in my final year I was doing 9am-10:30pm Mon-Fri and then 10-6 Sat and Sun. Had lectures each day from 9/10am till about 4/5, then spent another 5 hours in the labs on projects/thesis. Not fun. :-/

Ded_Zebra

dar83 wrote: »

Man up ya pansy! :P

If that's your final year timetable you've got it handy. When I was in my final year I was doing 9am-10:30pm Mon-Fri and then 10-6 Sat and Sun. Had lectures each day from 9/10am till about 4/5, then spent another 5 hours in the labs on projects/thesis. Not fun. :-/

No this is third year!

I feel much better about it after a solid 10 hours sleep! now breakfast

dar83

Ah yeah, well look forward to final year so. Haha. :P