Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread

[A. Secular Human]

 At 29 I had just bought my first house, and it needed work. A bit short of money so I got a boarder.  Working full time and attending University part time. That wasn't enough, so I go a weekend job delivering Newspapers to agents. That was from around 12.30 AM to 4 AM.
 Looking back It's a wonder I'm still alive. These days I'm doing well if I don't have a 2 or 3 hour grandpa nap.

I think workers have lost sight of how valuable they are. Our great-grandfathers were all, ‘Begging your pardon boss, but the lads have being having a bit of a chin-wag, and we’ve decided that eight hours is a full day’s work. We hope that’s all right, because if it isn’t, we’re going to burn this factory to the ground’.

Workers today are, ‘You work 50 hours last week? Ha! At my last job I put in 75 hours a week, you pussy.’

Boru

Yup.  I taught high school Physics and Chemistry for twenty years, and I'd often hear community members say "it must be nice to only work six hours a day, and get summers off."  Hell, when the final bell rang was when my "work day" started.  The six hours in front of students was the fun part, but it routinely took at least three more hours each day, plus a full weekend day to prepare for the "fun" part.  50-60 hour weeks were common, at least among lab science teachers.

Oh as for summers off?  We didn't get paid, so it was a lot like being laid off for a quarter of the year, each year.  Most taught summer school, just to make ends meet.  I was fortunate enough to have a well-compensated working spouse, so I actually got my unpaid summers off.

And yeah, I took a two-thirds pay cut to change careers from engineering program management to teaching high school, and lost half of my Social Security because of my teacher's pension, which I got about half of by "only" teaching twenty years.

But I'm not bitter...no siree.  Loved every minute of teaching, and retired at 58.  On Tuesday, I'm having a couple beers with one of my ex-students who contacted me last week to thank me for "positively changing the trajectory of his life".  That's the shit that makes it all worthwhile, and makes the prospect of oblivion at the end of my life *not* threatening at all.  I'll die happy, knowing that I made a difference, rather than money for some random asshole stockholders.

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Boru

...and appeared in regular roles in two different Star Trek series, as well as Star Gate Atlantis.

There are no badder Sci Fi asses!

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Should be standard equipment, but I'd pay for that option!

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Furniture used to be so cheap

Much of it still is ,with the same meaning. Ikea comes to mind, I don't know why.  

I bet they go "POP" with the bangin'.