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My brother is a guy that seems to get lucky with socialising with celebrities (partially due to being disabled I guess, which was massively unlucky), and he's had a few actors and musicians - no household names but certainly those who appeal to his tastes - message him through instagram and other social platforms after seeing his comments and strike up an acquaintance with them.

It definitely gives his life some positives.
 
Seriously though, I'm happy I started this thread, because people come and go on it but when someone's here they're just looking for a bitch. And they feel down and out about things they can't control and things we all feel low about. It's actually kinda nice to see the weird shared senses and feelings on here.

I think I've just personally accepted I'm probably just a depressive type personality. I don't have depression or anything like that. But it's just a part of my personality. I think people find that it comes through too much in who I am and unless you're a cynical campaigner too and want to laugh about the Fox Footy panel, it comes across as just too hard to take. Not really offended but it's definitely made people put in less effort with me.
 
Well said PP34. Crazy how similar your situation seems but I think your right with the point where just growing up & getting the reality of the real world.

Working full time in an unskilled job seems like accepting mediocrity & would disappoint those around me but it also seems like a good short term idea.
 

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JG22 said:
Did you just go for it
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No.

I had a part-time job when I was in Uni as a service station console operator. We were all getting retrenched about 10 years ago, and I had a work colleague who had a second job driving trains for Connex. He said he could get me in no problems at all.

Driving trains is not unskilled work by any means, but I had just graduated and put too much stock into what my Uni friends would think, and especially what my high-achieving high school friends would think, if I got a job "just driving trains". Mum and Dad would have supported me but they probably wanted me to try and "achieve my potential" with my degree. And I suppose I did as well.

So instead of that I started working with my Dad "temporarily" on the tools while I looked for work. Which turned into "permanently". Which turned into other more lucrative things that are much more stressful but with the payoff coming hopefully next year. But it's been a big hard slog over the last decade or so. From this point looking back, I'd rather drive trains every day. I could survive perfectly fine in a one bedroom apartment, working as a train driver on six-figures with not a care in the world. I'd probably be a lot healthier as well, of mind and body.

I guess my life is a bit of a sunk cost fallacy so far.
 
Scotland said:
Yep. All the van life *******s 'roughing it's have perfect hair, perfect skin etc and spend all day trying to capture the perfect shot.

That's certainly not camping.
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If I ever get a van and do the van life thing, the first thing out my window will be my mobile phone 5 kms in.
 
tbh someone introducing themselves as a train driver sounds way more interesting than some little prick going on about their law firm or job at the Commonwealth Bank. One of those cool, quaint, sort of timeless jobs.

I was considering being a barber for a little while. Anyone done that?
 
Train drivers earn very good pay for a job that whilst I guess would be more skilled than what people think but hardly rocket science either.

My cousin started doing it in his 30s (now 45) and he described it as a pretty easy job but it does come with a fair bit of responsibility.
 
There's also the harrowing experience of seeing someone get run over. And the guilt of feeling responsible, the PTSD. Pretty hard shit to see and live with. Trams would be hard too, especially if you found yourself on the shifty-7 or 112/86 most days. Would be a rough job in somewhere like Melbourne.
 
I think the train suicide thing is overplayed. The potential exists for something horrible to happen in the line of work but it's not part of the day to day job for most train drivers. The majority of people who commit suicide don't jump in front of a train and there are thousands of trains running back and forth every day. With the level of automation I don't know what train drivers actually have to do these days.

I'd rather be a train driver knowing that someone might jump in front of a train I'm driving than be an ambo or an ER doctor/nurse dealing with meth heads or a cop etc.
 

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Get why a Liberal voter who hates unions would want to minimize it but suicides on the tracks sound inevitable to the point where drivers are told to pull down the curtain when it's about to happen. Train drivers aren't emergency service workers. When the train's delayed for "signal fault" or "police operation" it's probably not a couch #simpsonsreference
 

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craigos said:
What I would like to know is what do you do as a Tram/Train driver if you're busting for a sh*t?
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How long do they spend on the train at a time? I've seen drivers getting on and off at Perth station (another perk, you can wear shorts to work whenever you want) but never really considered how often they change. I get CAT buses in Perth a bit and those drivers just get on and off whenever they feel like it. Bit different to driving a train though.
 
I never see train or bus drivers swap out but I lived near an interchange for a few years and used to get jealous. Something so relaxing looking about them hopping off at 3pm and walking home. They probably start at 5:30 but still.
 
You should get a license and become a bus driver.

I get the feeling a lot of them have had at least one career before bus driving. The miserable ones devoid of any personality probably are career bus drivers used to dealing with miserable, unappreciative commuters every day but the ones who are chilled out and have something to say give me a vibe that they've done other stuff in life and are happy with the routine of sitting in a chair driving the same route each day. Probably not the worst job in the world plus you get a sign on the back of your bus that legitimises pulling out into traffic whenever you want without looking.
 

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