Penny Loafers

I work in an office. Another 3-4 years will retire, and play more (make that work) with my machinery....... therefore I wear dress shoe's 5 days a week!

Am I the only one here who doesn't get to work tractors, loaders etc everyday?

L.

(quoted from post at 14:26:22 12/30/10) Am I the only one here who doesn't get to work tractors, loaders etc everyday?

L.

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NOPE.........I work my tractor almost every day a little, but my job is in an office.


Dave

Naw, Lloyd, I too am city guy but love it when I have something I "have to do" on the tractor. Planning a much bigger garden next year so I have to have my tractor in good running order.

No your not -- I'm only here for the Nostalgic reasons.

May remember some short cut on fixing them though. Or find answers to questions for the great folks here.
Sure has bee a lot of great info passed on to a couple neighbors from this site thanks to all here .

i get to work on em only when i go to use one. why is it that the tractor that is blocking the tractor you need is the one that wont start????

Nope, work in a office at a metal fab shop. I used to work i the shop all the time but moved up to an office position. Live in the middle of town, only guy in town with three farmalls in his yard and no real use for them,people think i am crazy.

Hay Lloyd, Had you pictured as "Mr. Rogers" on a skooter. NO not really, just a little LOL. Makes no difference to me what you do to earn a living. Your contribution to this Forum has been enjoyed by everyone other than the troll, and I haven't seen him comment on your posts. Your always welcome in my little bubble. The Acg.

I think they communicate with each other; I swear mine seem to tag-team.

I'm a desk jockey too, complete with coat and tie! Get in some seat time on weekends. Always at least one load of horse manure to spread, plus other projects "as assigned".

No your not the only one Llyod, I fly a desk also. Retired from the army and didn't have enough sense to stay retired, or was it my daughter still going to college!

After 39 years as a college professor and Provost I retire tomorrow. Now it is grand kids and tractor play time.

Frank I retired almost 10 years ago from a Service Tech job with a Company that sold to the Water & Sewer Industry. Have enjoyed every day of retirment. But don't have Grandkids to keep me busy. Find something you like to do and stay busy.

When I went to school some people had pennys in their shoes and some had dines. I didn't have anything in mine. Do they still sell penny loafers? DH

Used to, that is have a job with desk time, also field time, (construction) but for the last, say 6 years, complete opposite, hard work, outside, associated aches/pains, injuries, desk job paid a lot better, less hours though more stress, not subject to the weather so much.... I can appreciate it more now, the cold tires me right out, the heat exhausts me, and the darned paycheck is just a little above breaking even, why do people do it (farm, ag work me- silly horses) ? Why LOL, though I don't mind tractor and equipment repairs, 'cept when the break things quicker then you can fix em ! I have taken quite a few photos during this time, ought to start posting a few related to that non desk job character buildin kinda work.

Enjoy your "free" time! You will likely be busier than before.

Enjoy your "free" time! You will likely be busier than before.

The higher up I went in my company, the less I had to dress. Started out with having to wear a coat and tie. Was not supposed to take the coat off till I was in my office. As computers, faxes, cell phones, and technology progressed, I was able to work from home. I now do most of my work in bib overalls or PJ's. And get paid 4 times what I started for!

Gene

I made all my money in cowboy boots. Never wore a tie, suit or penny loafers to work. Many times I was the only one in the room in Wranglers 13MWZ, cowboy boots, hat, shirt and belt buckle amoung all the suits. Now they expect me to show up dressed that way. 2 more year and ill be fully retired...... well atleast i will do only what i want when i want.

Naw, don't get to work/play with tractors every day but sure enjoy the time I do. Pretty much wear Wolverine work boots most all the time (soils/constuction engineer).
Still have a pair of "penny loafers" I wear for Sunday sometimes though - kinda hate to date them but bought for my sister's wedding 25 years ago. Wish I could get that much life outa my work boots!

A couple of decades ago I worked downtown Chicago for about 10 years after growing up on or around farms and then doing a 4 year stint in the Army. For 10 years I used to wear a suit to work every day because the money was great. But something changed during those 10 years that made it not appealing to me anymore.

Have you ever heard the term or word "Synergy"? There is or was even some sort of imported car called a "Synergy" these days. Back in the late '80's came the word "Synergy" and it made sense at the time, as explained. What was said is that say two or three or more people do "similar" but not exactly the same job, then it makes sense to cross train them because maybe so and so goes on vacation, quits, or whatever, then the next so and so can step into the job and everything keeps functioning. That was called "Synergy" and made perfect sense. The problem with "Synergy" as that it quickly turned into job deletion because now instead of having three, four or more people that had similar but not same jobs, was that now since they were all cross trained on each others jobs, we could cut head count by deleting positions and taking those peoples duties and splitting them up amongst the others whose positions were not deleted. That is what "Synergy" morphed into. That became a very bad word that disappeared for years and decades, but has now resurfaced. A suggestion that I might make is to never turn your back on anyone that tries to sell you on the virtues of "Synergy", because there is a person that will not hesitate to cut your throat in the business world. I never lost a job due to "Synergy", but knew plenty that did.

No Lloyd, I no longer work in an office, and these days am a union telephone man that spends more time out of town than in town, but my family will always have a roof over their heads and food in their mouths if I'm living. I'm certain that the same goes for you and everyone else here. As Adirondack mentioned, it doesn't matter what you or anyone else does for a living. I joke that one night I was out at a bar drinking with my mother that got hammered, and out of the blue she stood up and shouted at everyone in the bar "If you don't put the food in my mouth, the roof over my head, and the money in my back pocket, then eat fish". Thing is, wasn't my mom that said that. It happend one night when I was out drinking with a friend and his father that owned a junk yard. Great guys, tough cookies, been in many a bar fight with them, never against them. That night was no exception because after he hollared that, the bar cut us off, and that's all that it took to clean the bar out...decades ago. I don't drink anymore, and my buddy and his father are dead thse days.

Good luck and Happy New Year Lloyd and all.

Mark

after 43 years in the electric utility business i hung up my work boots and work clothes (casual and dress). in the process of trying to sell my home in town in order to build on my land. then i will find time for tractors and other such stuff.

I used to teach highschool and was an ag extension agent before that. Extension work I loved but it would starve you to death. Teaching I hated and in 2006 and after getting a new lease on life living through a farm accident I decided that I would never again work a job where I had to dress up or do something I didnt enjoy.

I still occassionally have to put on a suit but its a choose to, not a have to. And no, I dont own a single pair of dress shoes or boots.

This topic brings up a memory about my dad and grandad. They had a saying......

"Never trust a man in a suit that doesnt wear shoes with laces"

THAT FIRST DAY at home and you don't have to get up.. what joy.

My 2 cents:
Today I finished 22 years of retirement. I was a river-rat, plying the waters of the Mississippi as Master and Pilot the last 17 years of work.
Have really enjoyed be home among the tractors (all colors and ages) and cows, horses, goats and sheep.
Enjoy every day.

Pop

Speaking of REAL penny loafers, when I was in high school in the late 50s we wore "penny loafers".

We would shine up the pennies on the wire wheel in shop class and give 'em a coat of laquer.

Another thing we did was "steal" a little mercury from chemistry class and rub it into the pennies with our fingers to make them shine like silver.

They say playing with mercury can be really bad but it nevererer botheredededed meeeeeeee! LOL