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Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by mgkimsal »

sparrish wrote: post #9
nemo1618 wrote: post #4

Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

It's realizations like this that drove me to working from home 10 years ago. I get to do the geeky work I love, eat lunch with my wife and kids, and my commute is a flight of stairs. I don't think I could ever go back into an office.

that still seems like a climate controlled cube, just... maybe bigger?

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by badpun »

DisruptiveDave wrote: post #3

This is fucking beautiful. At the same time it makes me a little sad to work at a desk, hidden from all the people my work impacts. In a city and time where neighbors keep their heads down when they pass each other and all the mailpersons wear headphones.

The people our work impacts (at least directly) are often „disrupted” (made redundant) by the new tech. It’s a good thing they don’t know us by name.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by unixhero »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #7
callesgg wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not and you know it. But yet here we are.

Everyone finds their freedom when they're ready to.

What's that? Secret Life of Walter Mitty?

I live for my long holidays.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by ken »

nemo1618 wrote: post #4

Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

Even though I cancel and unsubscribe from everything I can, 95% of what I receive in the mail is paper spam. If I didn't still receive paper paychecks, it'd be even higher.

I recognize there's value in having a postal system, but in practice almost everything I receive goes straight in the shredder. It's been taken over by spammers. It's another system that provides real value to a lot of people, but seems to only be financially sustainable because of advertising.

Where's the Plan for this Spam?

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by tide_ad »

nemo1618 wrote: post #4

Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

People making $25-$250/hr:

People making $12/hr: where are we going next! let's live life and quit our jobs and get a new one when we get back

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by Bakary »

mgkimsal wrote: post #11
sparrish wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's realizations like this that drove me to working from home 10 years ago. I get to do the geeky work I love, eat lunch with my wife and kids, and my commute is a flight of stairs. I don't think I could ever go back into an office.

that still seems like a climate controlled cube, just... maybe bigger?

The Earth itself is a climate controlled geoid, although the climate control systems may not remain operational for long.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by Roritharr »

You don't have to be a mailman to transform your neighborhood closer to something as heartwarming as this.

A good friend of mine worked as a programmer, then CEO, now Consultant... but in his spare time he'd spend all his energy on community projects, organizing everything, from Kids Halloween Tours in a small german city when that was very uncommon, to Developer Usergroups, to Startup Events to Barcamps, to TEDxs and so much more small and large.

Without him my area simply wouldn't be the same and many people know.

All it takes is just someone willing things like this into existence, over and over again.

Re: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

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Post by phkahler »

ken wrote: post #15
nemo1618 wrote: post #4

Stories like this make you question whether it's worth being paid all this money to spend your life staring at a screen in a climate-controlled cube solving abstract problems that provide approximately zero benefit to your family, friends, and neighbors.

Even though I cancel and unsubscribe from everything I can, 95% of what I receive in the mail is paper spam. If I didn't still receive paper paychecks, it'd be even higher. I recognize there's value in having a postal system, but in practice almost everything I receive goes straight in the shredder. It's been taken over by spammers. It's another system that provides real value to a lot of people, but seems to only be…

IMHO regular mail is subsidizing all the junk mail. They offer bulk rates based on the assumption that delivery is already paid for.
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