How do you find the time?

[G-Rock]

I'm amazed at the amount of forum contributions that occur in a day from the same people. There seem to be mostly professionals, some students etc on this forum, so my question is, are your personal lives, job performance suffering at all from all this chatter?

Or are we all just a bunch of unemployed people with nothing better to do?

I am a farmer myself so I can make my own schedules but I find myself spending more time on this than I would like (gee, maybe I should be repairing that fence which is barely keeping the animals in instead of waiting for it to break)

So let's hear it from you folks, how many hours per day, does it happen during work hours and has the boss found out yet?

[ss_collins]

I'm the deputy editor of Racecar Engineering and I'm encouraged to use forums to spread the word so to speak - the more we can excite people about engineering the more will buy the mag - at least thats the plan!

[G-Rock]

Interest ing

[vyselegend]

Personnaly I browse (and eventually post) on this forum mainly during work . Yes I know I'm not paid to chat on F1T, but as my work imply that I'm in front of a computer most of time, temptation is too strong!

I agree I'm somewhat "stealing" time to my enterprise, but as long as I manage to do my work correctly, I don't feel guilty at all...

But I think you should repair that fence before those animals start to get wild and organise savage races around the farm

And... uh, sorry, my boss is yelling for me! Seems I enjoyed F1T too much today! See ya!

[Tom]

I'm on a study holiday at the moment from school, I'm revising most of the time but I leave myself logged in so I can just press F5 every 20 mins.

[m3_lover]

School work does not suffer...but my g.f hates it when I come over from school and log onto to this site...She gives me ten minutes then I have to make time for her

[manchild]

F1 is integral part of my life - one of only few essential parts which means that if I couldn't follow F1 I'd feel very bad and couldn't function properly. For me it would be like living without electricity or running water.

Since I work from home I find the time but I don't have as much time as someone might think. That is why I'm only posting on this forum - even with everyday following of new posts it is sometimes hard to find the time to read, reply or compose a new thread.

[Ray]

I was wondering when this question would surface. I am currently an unemployed aircraft mechanic (and a damn good one too ). I am always on my computer revising my resume, searching for aviation jobs, and calling people about jobs. So, yes. I am spending WAYYYY too much time on this site. But I love it and it doesn't stop me from doing other things, so it's not too bad. And thanks Tom, I think myself a computer nerd but I had no idea about the F5 things. How is Abbey? I think that's what the sheeps name was, sorry if I'm wrong.

P.S. You really should fix that fence G-Rock. When I was in Portugal at an Air Force base, the Portuguese General of the base cows got out on the runway and caused havoc. It was hilarious! So mend that fence!

[Sawtooth-spike]

I normaly log in when i get up just to see what you crazy guys over the pond have had to to say over night.

At work i try and keep up, but it really hard to pretend to be doing work when you have a sodding great big picture of the new ferrari nose on screen with me trying to spot the new bit. I have only had one moan so as long as i am smart it ok.

If somebody could do an "At work" mode, foer this site it would be great. instead of the picture it puts random graphs instead, unless you mouse over them. that would be a life saver..... or maybe a job saver.

[pompelmo]

Personnaly I browse (and eventually post) on this forum mainly during work .

i hope your boss isn't browsing this forum

[Carlos]

I'm semi-retired, took a small pension and am often home.

[RS]

I have been reading the F1t forums for a while now. While having free time, I check it regularly. Just registered, so hello everyone.

[Scuderia_Russ]

I'm semi-retired, took a small pension and am often home.

I can't wait 'till I retire.....boy that's gonna be sweet!

[Carlos]

Scuderia_Russ - I'll write a post or PM about postvocational life sometime.

Preparation and planning are key. In my case I should have started much earlier. Today I will venture that some inspiration is needed to substitute for worklife. I am starting to become interested in Sumi-e ... Japenese brush painting and video games are a new enthusiasm.

RS Welcome to the Forum.

[manchild]

I'm semi-retired, took a small pension and am often home.

I can't wait 'till I retire.....boy that's gonna be sweet!

Without wanting to be considered as smart ass for writing this let me just make a general observation on that subject.

I thought that too when I was your age. Unfortunately once you reach 30 getting older than that doesn't represents a temptation in any way. Except for wisdom and experience there's no good in aging and in many cases wisdom and experience often come as sort of the swap - advantages of youth like optimism and eagerness based on illusions and lack of informations vanish as wisdom and experience take their place. That "town" is simply too small for both of these in full scale.

All of that is sublimed in what you can hear in what mature and older people say - "If I could only go back in time with what I know now I'd do everything different". Unfortunately that's impossible so I think that a best way to fight it is not to blow youth without learning about life as much as possible with a goal to gain as much as possible of already mentioned wisdom and experience while there's still many years of life ahead of you.

Sorry for hijacking