I am now through with hell month at work. Its not really called that, but it felt like it the first few weeks. I don't think i have ever worked that much in my life. Working 62 hours a week didn't leave much time for anything else. I would be gone by 6:45 am and return home at 7pm. By that time the boys were ready for bed and Trish was exhausted from keeping up with them all day by herself. So now i start a more normal work week of just 40 hours. I think it was their intentions to see how dedicated you were and probably to get you addicted to the nice paycheck every week. I find myself thinking of working an extra day now......WHAT! To me money dosent compare with time with your family. If your wondering what we do where i work .......we make bottled water...yip eee. Some of its natural spring water some of its purified filtered water. To me its just high quality H2O. Now i am sounding like Bobby Bochee in "WaterBoy" What i do is take care of the machinery there. It a pretty interesting process seeing it from start to finish. One interesting thing we are doing
and which i a had a hand in is producing a biodegradable bottle. If you didn't know most all plastics are made from crude oil. Same stuff gasoline is produced from. We have been working to process a bottle made from corn, yes corn. Its a very finicky material and i helped with tweaking the blow molding machine to handle this finicky material. what is a blow molding machine you might ask . Well its a machine that takes a bottle preform and heats it then it goes into the mold where it is stretched and blown into the shape of a bottle. It make three bottles in .32 secs which translate to about 740 bottles a minute. From what i know there are not any of these "corn" bottles on the market yet. This is suppose to add whole other line and expansion at our facility. Anyway that's about it for me i have 3 whole days off to look forward and i don't know what i am going to do with myself. I will probably rest and take the kids to Steel Creek water slide and start on my tan.Random bottled water facts:
- If you drink bottled water right of the production line it will give you the runs
- Purified water is the same stuff from your tap, it only been filtered again.
- If you work at a water bottling plant you gets lots of free water. And lots of half drank bottles in your fridge at home.
- A gallon of bottle water cost as much as a gallon of gas.
2 comments:
plastics are made out of crude oil?? so not only are the people drinking ONLY bottled water feeling up our landfils but they're using up our limited resources?? poor earth! thats cool though that your company is making bottles with corn instead! not only are they bio degradable but they won't make gas prices go up! cool! :) glad your new job will be a little less demanding of your time now, i bet you were missing your adorable little boys.
That's awesome Adam. To add, not only are the bottles not using middle east oil, but the money stays in our country because the corn is grown here.
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