Recent content by Whiskybear

I get the notion and there are many such jobs listed near enough. But frankly, after a dozen years with my grandmother, I’m not wiping a stranger’s arse regardless of the pay.

Lo, and behold! Apparently I ranted in the universe's correct ear last night. I got a msg, then a phone call this morning I from an obviously off continent phone bank that ended with the setting of an interview tomorrow. I actually get to talk to a real human! That I can handle! It’s for a...

I did a stint in a jail as a medical records clerk about 35 years ago. Big metro facility. From what I saw there, it really is not an option, though local facilities are hiring. Thanks for your response. A little bit of sanity goes a long way for me today.

I swear to… pick your favorite misnomer…frikkin distillery wants a bachelor degree to tell people how to watch bottles on a conveyor go under an automated spigot.

Dunno. Doesn’t seem likely it would, though. They want W2 work history. Plus, I don’t have years or months to waste time and gas on that.

And they have to justify THEIR jobs.

I have nigh a couple decades experience managing a business. But HR folk look at resumés and they’ve been schooled that RECENT history is what counts.

In the few gigs I’ve gotten through agencies, showing, on time or at all, has been enough to make them praise me like an Olympian. Not playing on my phone all shift also got me kudos. It’s amazing how little it takes to fulfill expectations today. But the same places where the supervisors wanted...

Yeah, I’ve had background checks done by 3 employment agencies in the last couple months. They aren’t concerned with what showed up on theirs, and further back than the seven years they do, my criminal history is a couple public intoxication and disorderly conduct raps in a couple states 20 yrs...

I spent 12+yrs on hiatus from W2 type employment to keep my grandparents out of medicare level nursing home "care." That stint recently ended with the death of my grandmother, right before my 55th birthday. Since, I’ve been looking for a job because my savings is long gone and (minimal, but not...

If they are Coturnix, probably. At 3 weeks, they’re good down to the forties °F as long as the transition isn’t rapid.

The setup I settled on is just pieces of 3/4” board with vinyl tubing stuffed through 1/2” holes, making it tight enough to thread in horizontal drinking nipples. Tubing runs up to a bucket above the cages.

I’m gonna jump in here with my take. Don’t consider it gospel or anything; we all figure out something that kinda works and learn from there. You have the building for shelter and the tractor(s) to adapt into cages. I’d do that adaptation in the building. Dog crate pans are available on Amazon...

Sadly, my grandmother is now in a nursing home after the foundation of that house failed this winter. I will probably set feeders out this spring at my now main residence.

Side note: are you sure the hawk got to them? Just by description, that sounds like a domestic squabble between your quail.