Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Better Bachelor"
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Water system director, and all my workers are also firefighters, and we're on the Mississippi River...in an emergency like this they can use salt water, or river water, but it will basically destroy the fire equipment. What they can do is fill tankers from the ocean/river, truck the water to the scene where it's needed, and dump it into giant swimming pool type deals called drop tanks or drafting tanks, then it's pumped into the fire trucks and pressurized to be sprayed on the fire.
Salt water and untreated river water are very corrosive or can have debris that can damage pumps and tanks, that's the only real issue.
When life is on the live F the equipment is what they tell me, and I agree. AS THE MAN in charge of my city's water supply and fire protection hydrant system, an unstoppable fire with inadequate supply to suppress it is what keeps me awake at night. I've worked 20 hour shifts running the treatment plant, taken a 4 hour break, worked another 20 hours, break, for days on end in structure fires before, it's the job.
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As a single man, nearly every decision I make goes through the check process of 'Does this action serve my goals?"
If it's a no, I reconsider, if yes I proceed.
Right now my goals are get laid, get a girl friend, get married, have a family.
Old achieved goals I no longer think about are get a career, own a home, own a farm, own everything debt free.
If you're not living a life in service to your own goals, then ask yourself what master you ARE serving, because if you're not serving yourself, you're a servant to another.
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I hear that. I had a moment the other day that made me feel REALLY bad, it's kind of dark but let's go there:
I realized I'd lied to myself, in a big way. As a teenager, I remember having the idea to do what you mentioned. It was deer season. A beautiful, cool fall day. And I got out of my deer stand, kneeled in my field, put the .280 Remington rifle under my chin and asked myself "Why NOT?"
The answer I came to was uncertainty, the promise of the future, and I made a promise to myself IT WILL GET BETTER, YOU'LL SEE!, and I believed myself, got up, went home, and tried my best.
I realized the other day I'd literally lied to myself with a gun to my own head. It was that easy to lie, even to me. It hasn't been appreciably better. BUT it's been tolerable. I'm GLAD I chose life, but If I'd seen the future of now, I probably wouldn't. But that part of me that can't suppress curiosity for the future is still alive in me, I don't think it can be killed, but it's getting pretty fatigued.
I don't have all the answers, and if someone asked me I'd probably say 'that's your choice, don't let anyone else make it for you'.
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@nucleargrizzly1776 I worked in academia for almost 8 years, in IT, and more than once I saw cunty profs literally say "well she's just an adjunct, she isn't even tenured!", to have it explained to her that while that's true, that doesn't mean you get to bogart the room for extra time that eats into her class. She booked the room same as you and it's unfair to her students, stfu, from the dept dean lol.
It was an awakening, I'm like how can the 'best of us', the 'educated', the alleged intelligencia, be so childish and petty?
Then it's like oh yeah, they're still just PEOPLE...
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I had my sort-of supervisor, new woman, try to pull that card. "Well, no one gave us a MANUAL for this job, ok, we're figuring this out!"
So I said what I'm asking about IS in the manual, the employee handbook, this page, this paragraph, the thing YOU signed the form saying YOU read fully, understood, and agreed to abide by fully or be fired, it's right there, so YES you DID get a manual, and this obligation you were supposed to fulfill by June...it's December. We want our money.
It was payout for our unused sick time, dozens of employees, hundreds of dollars each, delayed 8 months because she didn't know her job as well as we did.
Then she died suddenly and the disarray got worse.
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Hey, we're twins! At 32 I moved back at the parents request to take care of the farm and home. I was the only male sibling, thus the only single, unmarried, no kids sibling, so it was my duty. As I was told "All your sisters have HUSBANDS AND KIDS, you don't have a wife so you have no excuse...".
At 39 I'm still taking care of my dad and inheritance. Mom died in 2020. I feel like an absolute failure as a man being childless and unmarried at 39.
I have literally everything I want or could desire today, except that.
it just feels like such a WASTE, I have all this, I want to help people, I want to protect people, I want to support someone, but no one cares.
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Duty. That's why. My parents raised me, and when in their late 60s needed help, it was my DUTY as the only son, and the only sibling who was still unmarried and childless because I'm a man, lol, to move back in to take care of the family and farm when I was asked to.
I was 31, I gave up my home, my career, and everything, friends, I'd built in the city over a decade and did the right thing.
In the seven years I've been back I've built a career, became a millionaire through inheritance, and gained success through charity work.
And I'm lonely as fuck, hate my life, and yeah. But I'm doing the right, REAL MAN thing and honoring those who gave so much to raise me, which obviously no women gives a fuckin' shit about in 2022. I can't imagine it would be any different if I moved out to anywhere.
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Its the other way: the most dangerous man is the one that wants nothing.
You can't control me because you have nothing I want, you can't coerce me. All they can do is try to take, threaten.
But yeah, if you want nothing, no one has power over you. If you want nothing, there's nothing they can give you, so f em.
My boss, i don't need my job, and I have nowhere to be promoted, so its very little leverage.
Ambition is the easiest way to leverage all people. Once you satisfy it, no one can control you.
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