-Thursday- NICOLE (10:40am) Nicole TINO (10:40am) Hey Nicole. Im Tino. Where are you? NICOLE (10:43am) In the austin texas area. where are you? One of my professors actually told me about you TINO (10:43am) At my sisters. Im making a treehouse for my nephew. Whats the biggest thing youve ever built? NICOLE (10:48am) im in class more specifically.Not very big...Ive built a buddhist temple for a class before. Maybe 2 square feet tops.How about you?I always wanted a treehouse! TINO (10:48am) Ya gotta know how to make stuff. I like working with my hands generally. Steel. The ladies. Ha! Mostly steel. Im a rigger. NICOLE (10:52am) Ha ha. how did you get into that work? TINO (10:52am) Anyway... nice to meet you Nicole. Enough txting for now, Ill touch base tomorrow. NICOLE (10:54am) K nice to meet you too. Tty tomorrow -Friday- TINO (1:42pm) On a scale of one to ten, ten being very and one being not at all, how firm is your handshake? NICOLE (1:43pm) Probably a five. How about yours? TINO (1:43pm) Mmm hmm. Ill put down a 1. See, my contract is almost up. May have to find something else. Gotta think of interview questions they might ask. (1:44pm) Such as... are you what they call a 'team player'? NICOLE (1:45pm) What kind of job are you looking for? I tend to get nervous during interviews! do you get nervous? TINO (1:45pm) Well save feedback until the end. Would you put honesty before appearance, appearance after enthusiasm, or enthusiasm next to sense of humor? NICOLE (1:46pm) Honesty, enthusiasm, appearance but not in a superficial way-like professional, and sense of humor TINO (1:46pm) Ok. On a scale of one to one hundred, whats the value of your personal brand? NICOLE (1:47pm) 90 i purpose TINO (1:47pm) Yeah, whatever Nike. Last question. What do you put in the toaster? NICOLE (1:49pm) Toast or toaster strudels. TINO (1:49pm) Ouch. Wrong answer. Bread goes in the toaster. You need some practice. Google 'oil rig jobs.' Let me know when youre there. NICOLE (1:50pm) Cant at the moment but i will when im near my computer. TINO (1:50pm) This is the kind of job description I like: Works independently under general supervision, requiring normal guidance and review. (1:51pm) Typically does not have budgetary responsibility. Provides some technical guidance and work direction to field staff. Handles special projects, as assigned. (1:52pm) Great. Now go get me something like that. Bye for now! NICOLE (1:52pm) Sounds like you have reasonable expectations. (1:52pm) Take care! -Saturday- TINO (2:21pm) What are you up to Nicole? NICOLE (2:23pm) About to go eat with my boyfriend at ihop. Did you do anything special for halloween? TINO (2:23pm) U wanna trade? The inspectors here. Puts numbers on things that dont need em. Like how you had 84 characters in that message. You txt normal, QWERTY or T9? NICOLE (2:26pm) Sorry to hear that. Do you always work on saturday? I text t9 TINO (2:26pm) So 84 max key presses, times 6 muscles of the thumb(s) involved, like the flexor pollicis brevis, and four nerves. Do you use a light pressure or heavy? NICOLE (2:28pm) Not sure... TINO (2:28pm) You just took 113 seconds to respond, so we're talking 1.64 neural signals/sec per second on your part. NICOLE (2:29pm) Yeah i was talking to a friend tho so im actually faster TINO (2:29pm) If you were a factory youd get an efficiency rating of 0.03/averg. Notice how you do other basic tasks. Fast or slow? Dont text me now. Itll take too long :-) -Sunday- TINO (2:54pm) Met a girl last night - vanessa. Vanessaaaaah. Whaddaya think. Movie or the shore? -Monday- TINO (12:16pm) Hey I got this trick I can do. Just five questions and I can guess what your job is. Seriously, its this weird skill. Want to play? -Thursday- TINO (1:06pm) Nicole. Im late. Just came in to San Antonio- I dont know this part of town. Foreman sent me a txt, but this thing ran out of memory, so I did delete... (1:08pm) Point is, im lost. Not worried though, these things work out. But I need your help. Think I should go follow the group of people or go where they arent? -Friday- TINO (1:06pm) Hey Nicole whats up. I cant get out of bed this morning; PAIN. That rigging job in india is catching up to me with a vengeance. (1:08pm) Built a massive building for tiny parts. Semi-conductor facility. Theres a certain satisfaction in that. What do you do for work anyway?