Room for 5 in there with jump seat. Wood love to take a ride.

 

Yup. A machine took my job back in 2014 after 19.5 years at the company. This is what I used to operate. One of my coworkers was an old Finnish guy who loved Hakkinen and always borrowed my Autosport and OnTrack magazines. He had cancer and hoped to watch Star Wars Episode I but passed away around two weeks before it came out.

 

 

Sorry Outrun. When I talk about all the millions of jobs that got eliminated due to silicon valley tech I just get blank stares around here. Nobody wants to think about the consequences of their own prosperity.

How do you sustain an economic system that depends on everyone being employed when there aren't enough jobs to go around?

 

Yeah - like the children that don't have to work in the mines anymore. Poor bastards.



"progress"


I am the 8%er doe.

 

17% for firefighter? Maybe urban but not wildfire lol. Lemme tell you how bad the guidance sucks too. No clue about temp or rh around here. And winds? Pffffffft

 

and what are those kids doing for employment today?

 

Bitching about how they should get paid $15 an hour to flip burgers or make a ******* coffee.

 

those are the ones that got jobs. most of the 12 year olds I know today are freeloading at home.

 

Pretty soon they'll be saying they should get paid for that too.

 

oh don't get me started on UBI

 

But your boy Musk says it's the wave of the future. Erryone will have self driving cars and get paid for breathing. There will be no crime and no poverty. The US will be an enlightened utopia! It will be just like "Demolition Man". Be well, John Spartan.

 

My dad used to fly DC-10's back in the day.

Automation sucks, but is great at the same time. Good old double edge sword :/

I'm going to try my best to instill a hard work ethic and proper money saving techniques unto my son. I hustled hard as a kid/teen around the neighborhood to make some money. Luckily my son already loves to be involved and help out with pretty much everything.

 

I worked as a projectionist while I was in high school. Best job ever, regardless of the **** pay.

 

can you explain what a projectionist does? do you just turn the bright light on and make sure the movie plays?

 

I worked at a grocery store.

Was not bad.

 

Built the movies up (best part). They came in 5-6 smaller reels (12" diameter) usually, and had to splice them together to form one big film on a platter (3-4ft diameter). Then preview them of course and document any booboos in the film.

Had to feed the film from the platters through the projector and onto another platter (self winding setup building from the inside out). Sometimes we ran them interlocked and had one film running through two projectors. To do that there were rollers for the film to travel along the walls/ceiling to move it from one side of the room/corridor to the other.

Some maintenance tasks included bulb changes (danger!), roller inspection, theatre inspection, etc etc.

Great job.

 

it's all digital now right

 

Not Dunkirk if shown on 70mm film.

Also starring Harry Styles, formerly of 1Direction.

 

can anyone translate millenial for me

 

Dunkirk is new Christopher Nolan WWII film.

Shot on 70mm IMAX film, supposed to be incredible.

 

thanks what's a 1Direction

 

Is now disbanded British boy band.

 

I was required to wear a bomb suit to change out a xenon bulb. Normally we would send the old bulb back to Christie or whoever manufactured it for credit towards a new one, sorta like how offices handle their old laser printer toner cartridges. Sometimes old ones weren't returned or were lost track of in the paper trail. Drop one of those bad boys off the roof of the theater and it goes BOOM!

 

The metal box on the left is the base for the digital projector that sits on top of the box. At the time of this photo not all of the digital cinema equipment came in. This was probably a month or so before I was laid off. The three platter "tree" feeds the film to the projector. Three platters allows two movies to alternate on one projector/auditorium.