Where do you get your filthy lucre from?

[XemaSab]

:shrug:

Right now I'm getting my cash-money from various and sundry hydropower relicensing projects.

I've previously worked on environmental assessments for solar projects, natural gas peakers, wind farms, and big oil; I've done some infrastructure projects such as airports, levees, roads, and transmission lines; and I've done field work for gravel extraction and timber companies. And housing developers. Screw those guys, seriously. Housing developers are the scum of the earth.

[old mark]

1. Government. I get a State pension for working in a mental hospital, as well as

Social Security. My wife is also a former social worker on disability. It's enough to keep us going, but we aren't rich.

mark

[Nihil]

2. None of the above (these days)

In the past I have done work for "big wind" (UK Wind Energy Group),
"big hydro" (Scottish Hydro-Electric), "big little geothermal" (Camborne
School of Mines) and (almost inevitably) "government" (UK) but now it
is a definite "None of the above".

Now as to where my filthy lucre goes ...

The fossil fuel industry? Some (sadly but unavoidably due to the power mix)

Big nuclear? Some (not so sadly but equally unavoidably)

Big solar or big wind? Some (happily and voluntarily)

Big hydro or big geothermal? No (not an option where I am)

For-profit environmental consulting? No

Non-profit environmental work? Some (locally & internationally)

Forestry, fishing, or farming-related work? Some (food, drink, materials)

Government? Yes ... far too f*cking much ...

Academia? Yes (impersonal funding of an educational charity and personal
funding of my son through university)

Other? You think there's some left after the last two??? :wow:

[NEOhiodemocrat]

3. SS and private pension

my husbands' well earned retirement!

[oldhippie]

4. Gov't. Just retired last week after 40 years of federal civil service.

So far I like it!

[Terry in Austin]

19. Congrats!

From one old hippie to another. I'm retiring from city government in less than a year, and looking forward to it!

:toast:

[oldhippie]

21. I'm just north of you in Fort Hood.

nt

[Terry in Austin]

22. Good old Fort Head!

I used to play at the Oleo Strut now and then in my band days, back during the war. It was a good good gig, the GIs very appreciative. Good times.

Some years before that, my father was stationed there and we lived in Walker Village.

[phantom power]

5. Lately I work for a Well Known Open Source Software Company...

Which I dig.

Most of my career has involved suckling from the teat of the military industrial complex, either directly or indirectly. Some of it has even been involved in enabling technologies for wind power.

Also, on alternate tuesdays and thursdays I am a paid shill for the nuclear power industry.
:woohoo:

[XemaSab]

16. .

:patriot:

[txlibdem]

6. For those of you in government jobs, a question

How rampant is the practice of nepotism (getting a job for a relative) and cronyism (getting a job for friends/associates) in successfully landing a government job?

I have been trying to get a gov't job since 1992, no success.

[joshcryer]

11. Very.

No one will admit to it, but knowing the right people is almost the only way to get a government job.

[Kolesar]

7. Is that a biblical reference? ... eom

[Nihil]

8. Which bit? (I think 3 of the 4 are but not sure about the other)

I think that this one is somewhere in Leviticus:
"Put not your trust in people who get their cash-money from various and sundry
hydropower relicensing projects."


II Chronicles:2:3
"And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with
David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell
therein, even so deal with me so that I might benefit from thy gravel extraction
and timber companies."


II Chronicles:2: 7
"Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and in solar projects, and
natural gas peakers, and wind farms, and big oil."

(ETA: Note that in more enlightened days, the "man cunning" can definitely be
replaced by the "woman cunning".)


Job:24:18
"Such people (housing developers) are like scum on the surface of the water.
Their property is cursed in the land. People do not travel the road that goes
to their vineyards. Screw those guys, seriously."


:hide:

[Kolesar]

10. You even managed to match the style of the translated prose

Very impressive.
Is "lucre" from the Greek?

[Nihil]

14. Thanks - you'd never guess it was a Friday afternoon would you? :-)

Latin rather than Greek I think.

ETA: One quick Wiki later suggests it's from the Latin lucrum = "profit".

:hi:

[XemaSab]

17. .

:D

[Dead_Parrot]

20. The win is strong in this one. nt

[NickB79]

9. I suckle at the udder of Big Dairy

It's the cows.

[joshcryer]

13. The demand for milk is down.

Hope it hasn't affected you too badly. I myself don't drink the stuff, never had a hankering for it unless it's on cold cereal.

[NickB79]

15. Our plant has seen demand drop off quite a bit from its high a few years ago

Though it is a cultured dairy plant (yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt smoothie drinks) rather than liquid milk, if that makes a difference. No layoffs so far though, we just didn't replace a few people who retired or were fired.

[joshcryer]

12. Had to vote government if I'm going to be honest here.

I work as a construction contractor but our primary contractor is the government, so, yeah.

[NNadir]

18. From my mum...Here's her pic, with me, so you know what I've had to put up with.

Now I know how my great grandfather Edward felt when his mum, my great-great grandmother refused to kick off.