outdoorcode said:I like the fact I'm not clock watching when I'm staying out, I can be there reading a book by the fire and suddenly notice its 2am, and it doesn't matter... no deadlines, no rushing, no things to do for other people .... Bliss
ilovemybed said:I reckon it's coz Techie people spend plenty of time sat in front of a PC so have the opportunity to lark about on internet forums all the time....
ilovemybed said:I reckon it's coz Techie people spend plenty of time sat in front of a PC so have the opportunity to lark about on internet forums all the time....
AJB said:I don't have time to do this, I just don't want to do what I should!
jdlenton said:Thats about right but with me it makes me look like I'm still doing what I should
ilovemybed said:I reckon it's coz Techie people spend plenty of time sat in front of a PC so have the opportunity to lark about on internet forums all the time....
leon-1 said:This is true, but it is also true that techie people are normally just sat waiting for someone to break things and between doing things like building and configuring test stations (depending on work), writing reports, doing research and fixing said broken test stations to a deadline they tend to be finding ways of getting around firewalls and the like
Any spare time that I got when I was working as a tech was spent building or fixing computers for friends or out doing bushcraft as an essential means of relaxation.
I love the outdoors, I love working with my hands, I like attention to fine detail and using my grey matter.
I also enjoy learning things and In bushcraft I can do all, but in a more relaxed atmosphere where the only pressure layed upon me is that which I lay upon myself (I don't have a host of managers telling me that we will be losing around £70,000 an hour and who have not an idea of the complexity of finding an intermittent fault).
I think that is the appeal to a lot of the techie types, either that or we just like going out and grubbing around in the undergrowth
maver said:Was looking through the members list and noticed how many of us work in Hi Tech industrys like Aerospace, IT etc, suppose we all enjoy bushcraft so much because it gets us away from the modern world and back to
That sure is a lot of metres.AJB said:whats more I commute 140m a day to do it!
JimH said:Works for me. Don't read Bambam's post about how he gave it all up to be a treesurgeon, lucky so-and-so.
Jim. Trapped in cyberspace
AJB said:Yep, it's all about getting the angle of your monitor right