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| In the oil industry of Loyang industrial area of Singapore if you want a job you go door knocking literally. Put your head round the door and ask for a job. working on the premise that you got to be in the right place at the right time. I often employed on the spot standing in front of a guy, they did'nt have internet in those days but reading letters saying they liked cricket because they knew I was English never worked. |
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| I know what you mean and I'm all kinds of sympathetic to the folks out of work today who work in fields were a more personal touch isn't the general order of the day. Often I can still find work simply by showing up on a job site up in the mountains somewhere and seeing if I know anyone working. I've been in the area long enough that typically I do. Thing is that used to work pretty well. Any more ( last few years for instance ) its been pretty rough. At the moment I've got a dream customer who never bugs me, pays when I ask him to what I ask him to and is thrilled at what I'm doing for him. Apparently several people have failed him in the past over these windows and I'm determined to get it done properly for him. Great guy, just wants some bloody windows that work. anyway the days of door knocking are over when it comes to the job market its all internet now son
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That one floored me for a second. Then I pointed at a wooden tote box full of hand tools in my pickup bed and said, "right there." He looked my tools over for a minute and said, "well... they look used, all right. How much an hour you lookin' for?"
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| when I was a kid a guy asked me once when I walked up looking for work what I did, being kinda a smart ass I told him I was just another nail monkey. He yelled over at his partner "hey, got a guy here says he's just another nail monkey" his buddy yells back "hire him". Those days are long over and I'm thrilled not to be framing my way through school again but in a way I miss it. Once upon a time you could just walk up to any job site and find work. Anymore its hard hats and corporate employees. I was really hoping to get my boat under me on this job I'm on now but its been set back after set back with no end in sight.
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But I do know of the White Tiger oil field off Vietnam, and it is a reality that remains unexplained in many conventional terms. Of course THIS REF would have it linked to biological sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA...B%95_oil_field I may have to do some more reading on this subject ![]() ![]() |
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We will never run out of oil. DARPA is now saying they have figured out how to make significant amounts of algae based oil. http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/darpa...per-gallon215/ http://biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/20...scale-by-2011/ Quote:
Anyone suggesting scare of peak oil on world's future is not telling you the real story. I used to believe in peak oil, but proponents are simply fear mongers trying to gain world power, IMO, influence the UN, Global warming, al gore, etc....., it is all related. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel Quote:
I read that DARPA is working with the private sector to bring algae oil to everyone. There is also Annelotech. http://www.anellotech.com/press.html which can make gasoline directly from any plant cellulose, wood sawdust, etc... using cheap zeolite catalyst , heat, and pressure. |
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