How many of you have a desk job and all you do is go to letsrun, watch summer track meets or old track meets/cross country videos on the internet and deal with the occasional paper work?
I, have been doing this all summer. I keep a work window open with a program I use, make it as big as I can then open up the live track meets in a little screen and do a little work and watch a lot of track. Am i the only one?
no, i do the same thing....i keep letsrun open in one window,my running log in one, and read news in another one....i do work for a bit then browse for a while...and do it all day. it's just an internship though
pretty much the same thing here...there is a lot of waiting around in my job (30 min here, 1 hr here) while things are "cooking" in the lab...so I sit here and read this, comment, reat T&FN site, and watch meets. Its great to have a phd.
pretty much the same thing here...there is a lot of waiting around in my job (30 min here, 1 hr here) while things are "cooking" in the lab...so I sit here and read this, comment, reat T&FN site, and watch meets. Its great to have a phd.[/quote]
I was gonna say, I dont even have a bachelor's and I can do this, but I forgot that you probably make a shit load of money where I only get min. wage. Nice, glad to hear Im not the only one.
confessions of a teenage troll wrote:
pretty much the same thing here...there is a lot of waiting around in my job (30 min here, 1 hr here) while things are "cooking" in the lab...so I sit here and read this, comment, reat T&FN site, and watch meets. Its great to have a phd.
I was gonna say, I dont even have a bachelor's and I can do this, but I forgot that you probably make a shit load of money where I only get min. wage. Nice, glad to hear Im not the only one.[/quote]
Are you guys drug dealers?
SHIT LOAD OF MONEY?!?!?!? HA! I wish!
Post-doctoral fellows get paid SHIT! We have terminal degrees, work crazy hours, and start off first year at $36,996 to be quite precise about it. That's gross pay, btw...before taxes. BUT, we know what we dive into here...so i guess i cant complain.
anyway, the big money's down the road. paying the dues right now.
Dang, sorry man, didnt mean to assume. I guess i was pretty naive thinking every phd gets you rich right away. My bad, but hey, keep watching those meets. They are a blast dont you think. Makes the time go by way fast.
i have an internship, and i do spend some time on lets run and my other sites i browse, but they do block my outside email sites and i can't get on sites like youtube or facebook...i did however get to watch webb win the 1500 last week. i'm not exactly sure how they determine what sites to block, i just hope they dont monitor how long i'm on what sites b/c i'd get a bad evaluation
...and make sure you dont get caught with porn on your screen...hahaha
haha funny story actually. the first week i got here there was an e-mail sent from someone in IT saying there had been some employees looking at sexually explicit content on the internet and reminded employees that it was against company policy to do so...weird
I use these sites to watch track meets
wcsn.com
sportsnet.com
eurosport.com
where else do you guys catch summer european track meets?
typical day:
3 hours of actual "work"
3 hours of Letsrun, WCSN, grandprix meets, youtube
2 hours of analyzing data from the initial 3 hours of experiments
if the data looks good, than i decrease the amount of "work" completed, and increase internet time
oh and since i used to play risk, i found an online site that i can spend a lot of my day on...conquerclub.com
if you're a risk nerd like me, its a good way of wasting time
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