What do you do for work?

[BloodRound]

I notice a lot of us are regularly wasting our days away grumbling about wrestling on here.  Has me curious as to what you guys all do for work.  

I'll start - I work for a non-profit in the daytime and do security work at a bar a few nights a week.  

[Wrestleknownothing]

9 minutes ago, BloodRound said:

I notice a lot of us are regularly wasting our days away grumbling about wrestling on here.  Has me curious as to what you guys all do for work.  

I'll start - I work for a non-profit in the daytime and do security work at a bar a few nights a week.  

I work with large data sets to try and figure whatever/stuff out. I call it rolling around in the numbers until something happens. My dad called it torturing the numbers until they speak.

I also describe my job as, "it is hard to tell the difference between what I do, and goofing around". So that affords some latitude.

[JimmySpeaks]

Retired since 2018.  

[WrestlingRasta]

Athletics admin and coaching 

[Bigbrog]

Internal Consulting - Leadership, Strategy and Process Improvement

[mspart]

If I tell you I have to shoot you.    Believe me, you don't want me to tell you!!! 

msaprt

[PortaJohn]

24 minutes ago, mspart said:

If I tell you I have to shoot you.    Believe me, you don't want me to tell you!!! 

msaprt

Ok, Maverick

[mspart]

Ha ah. 

I are an enguinneer.  Now I'll shoot you wioth  my 6 round rubber band gun. 

mspart

[Paul158]

2 hours ago, WrestlingRasta said:

Athletics admin and coaching 

You forgot grill master and pitmaster.

[WrestlingRasta]

1 hour ago, Paul158 said:

You forgot grill master and pitmaster.

That I do for therapy, not work.

[Gene Mills Fan]

Product Designer/Engineer  I've done the rubber band ones and now the real ones.

[scourge165]

22 hours ago, BloodRound said:

I notice a lot of us are regularly wasting our days away grumbling about wrestling on here.  Has me curious as to what you guys all do for work.  

I'll start - I work for a non-profit in the daytime and do security work at a bar a few nights a week.  

Yeah, I've had...an excess of time and irregular sleeping...so I've spent more time on here in the past week than probably the past year combined.

I own a property management company and, rental properties and then some other...smaller business. 

We lease washer and driers for apartment buildings or laundry mats. Pretty simple. 50/50 split. We throw them in there, take the money, send half to the owner. The same with some vending machines. 

I won't be buying a private Island and the means to get there, but...we'll see. 

[ionel]

Work ...  ... ahh ... well I do spend ~month per year running a combine and semi trucks helping my brother with harvest.  Otherwise I'm just fishing, biking, skiing, hiking, playing pickleball or staring at the mountains. 

[Gene Mills Fan]

14 hours ago, mspart said:

Ha ah. 

I are an enguinneer.  Now I'll shoot you wioth  my 6 round rubber band gun. 

mspart

Solidworks? 

[MedicineMan]

I shoe race horses... but I'm getting too old for that, taking a time out right now....   I'm thinking of hanging out with @ionel instead.

 

 

[wrestlingguy]

14 hours ago, WrestlingRasta said:

That I do for therapy, not work.

That type of therapy would lead me to obesity because I have no self control when it comes to delicious food.

[WrestlingRasta]

18 hours ago, wrestlingguy said:

That type of therapy would lead me to obesity because I have no self control when it comes to delicious food.

Good, clean, one ingredient food brother. 

[nick]

Software Engineer & HS Wrestling Coach

Got a sweet gig, work from home 7AM to 3PM and then head over to the high school for practice, don't work Fridays as well

[jross]

When customers chant Performance. Performance. Performance. I pop out like Beetlejuice to Sherlock other folks’ messes, whatever it takes.

I prod folks to get rolling and wrestle software gremlins that slow the system. I update the bigwigs, twiddle my thumbs waiting for sluggish user experience reports, and perk up in meetings to nail that one question when Buehler is called.

 

[scourge165]

2 hours ago, jross said:

When customers chant Performance. Performance. Performance. I pop out like Beetlejuice to Sherlock other folks’ messes, whatever it takes.

I prod folks to get rolling and wrestle software gremlins that slow the system. I update the bigwigs, twiddle my thumbs waiting for sluggish user experience reports, and perk up in meetings to nail that one question when Buehler is called.

 

Cool. Speaking of "software gremlins that slow the system," I keep getting alerts from my Norton telling me this website is dangerous because "maleware advertising threats detected," and I'm wondering...what can you do for me? 

[Ohio Elite]

1 minute ago, scourge165 said:

Cool. Speaking of "software gremlins that slow the system," I keep getting alerts from my Norton telling me this website is dangerous because "maleware advertising threats detected," and I'm wondering...what can you do for me? 

Are you seriously getting those alerts?  I started using a VPN on here a while ago to get rid of all the crazy ads.

[scourge165]

1 minute ago, Ohio Elite said:

Are you seriously getting those alerts?  I started using a VPN on here a while ago to get rid of all the crazy ads.

Of course I am. Only on this website though(which I thought was odd). 

I'll do that though. 

[BuckyBadger]

I work in the treasury department of a large corp managing interest rate risk.

[scourge165]

12 hours ago, BuckyBadger said:

I work in the treasury department of a large corp managing interest rate risk.

Any takes on the whole deal with Trump doing all of this to lower the 10 year to refinance? You seem like you'd have a lot of insight into this....

[jross]

20 hours ago, scourge165 said:

Cool. Speaking of "software gremlins that slow the system," I keep getting alerts from my Norton telling me this website is dangerous because "maleware advertising threats detected," and I'm wondering...what can you do for me? 

Malware is more of a security issue than a performance one, but since you are such a pleasure to banter with...

The answer is to block the ads OR configure Norton to exempt the site.  And then do not click the ads.  Never click on ads... And report the problem to Bob.  Ideally the screenshot of the entire screen... Norton plus the ads.

 

A wall of dirty text while learning this morning...

• The Intermat uses Invision Community software, plus hosted servers, assumed as cheaply as possible, I'll estimate the lower end of $1-5K in annual expenses (not counting employee expense)
• Forum members and guests contribute funds indirectly through their page views, resulting in ad impressions.
• Advertisers pay per 1,000 ad impressions (views), where an impression is counted when an ad loads on a webpage, whether clicked or not.
• The ad service provider splits revenue with the publisher, Intermat.  The payouts can vary, but say $12 per 1000 ad impressions.
• The Intermat must balance ad density to maximize revenue without hurting user experience.  They don't want to lose users but a few complaints are tolerable.  They need to hit minimal ad requirements to receive a payout.
• The intermat privacy policy says they use "All or partial advertising on this Website or App is managed by Playwire LLC."  Playwire is an upgrade from Google Adsense.
• Playwire requires a minimum of 50K page views monthly and 3 ad units displayed in highly viewable locations.  Meeting this minimum requirement should cover the expenses needed for the forum.  
• Running an adblocker prevents the page ad impressions and prevents the Intermat from collecting revenue.  This is why it respectable to allow the ads or contribute funds in some fashion through an Intermat subscription, Rokfin subscription, etc.
• Norton flagged intermatwrestle.com/forums for “malware advertising threats,” likely due to malvertising; malicious ads from Playwire’s programmatic network (30+ partner/providers) that could deliver malware, redirects, or fake downloads without user clicks.
• Playwire does have periodic complaints of ad density, intrusive ads, and malvertising.  Sometimes nefarious actors are able to buy ads and these can slip through Playwire's vetting process.  This is infrequent but it can occur.
• I noticed myself that my adblocks had stopped working.  I changed the configuration around 'intrusive' ads and they were blocked again.  The problems was that the ads were marked as non intrusive, while they behaved as intrusive.  This is a problem with playwire more than the Intermat.  If the Intermat had more page views, I think playwire would provide higher quality ad units and ads.
• The Intermat can change the ad unit layouts, report problems to playwire, swap playwire for a different company... Intermat probably isn't happy with the user complaints... but there isn't a lot of great options to help with revenue