My wife stays home to take care of the children. I live in the midwest, so the cost of living isn't real high, but I'm near a big city so it's not the lowest either. I have almost $30,000 in student loans. I realize this is average, but it's not like people don't know this going into it. The starting salaries for teachers are not that bad. It's taken me five years to get my salary where it is now. I started at less then $30,000 a year and I think most teachers start around $30,000 a year.
We're talking dollars and cents, it's simple math. I support a family of five on less then $46,752 per year. That's good money. Leave the feel good crap at the door.
Your job should give you satisfaction or you need to find another one. Your job shouldn't revolve around making you feel valuable. You should know your own worth.
If you're doing less work, then surely they should pay you less? Or did you think that because you've made one efficiency improvement, you should just get to sit back after that, i.e. one day's work, one year's pay?
Look at It's a Wonderful Life. This movie is a classic enjoyed by everybody. At the time it was made, it was a flop. Once it entered the public domain some television studios started airing it, since it was free, and it became a cultural classic. How many other diamonds in the rough will moulder for 90 years now before people are given a chance to enjoy them on their own merits, without considering, is this worth the money?
The problem with this is the first states to do this get screwed because the other states will have congress-people and senators that have more seniority and get to sit on the better commitees, pack pork into the budget, etc...
This is so true, people who bitch about socialism and praise our private insurance in the same breath are idiots.
I don't think socialized medicine is the answer, but our insurance system is really another way of spreading the wealth. Young, healthy people offset the cost of older, sicker people. So it makes sense for young, healthy people to drop insurance and save money.
I actually like HSA's, that way you save your own money when you are young and healthy and use it when you are older and sicker. These "free market" insurance people who worry about young people dropping their insurance are either idiots.
Civil-service is a joke. The jobs are not challenging and most of the workers should be called, time-wasters instead of workers.
They are all so surprised and upset when they realize they really don't have any job security. Unemployment is just a budget cut or Administration change away.
I was just having a discussion with my wife about the real problems with incarcerating people for decades.
How can we put somebody in prison for 5-10 years or longer and then expect them to function in society after they are released? Social skills in prison are totally different then the social skills we expect normal people to have.
I think we should revamp our whole justice system. I think prisoners would be better off on a type of parole where they are are tracked via GPS and possibly marked with some sort of tattoo. (Don't start, they haven't paid their debt to society yet) I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I think most prisoners would respond better to that sort of punishment.
Of course violent offenders need to be executed. I think if you are convicted of murder our justice system should work backwards from execution. It should be execution by default and you are responsible for providing any extenuating circumstances that might make your crime more akin to manslaughter.
$300 is alot of money to me, and I live in the USA, midwest. My wife and I have a rule that anything that costs more the $30-$50 has to be discussed before purchase.
It's easier to do without or dumpster-dive then it is to put together a proposal that is acceptable to the wife. Plus, I'm usually pretty broke...
I've used Securewave. It's pretty good, it lets you specifiy what USB devices are allowed and block everything else by default. You can also mirror data so you can audit what data people are sending. It works on USB, CD, Floppy, parallel ports, Serial Ports, and I think it does firewire too.
Once it's set-up it's awsome. I don't work for them, I've just used their product and really liked it.
You must have used linux like once... It's like anything else, once they get good at it it won't take any time at all to trouble-shoot. Have you ever tried tracking down old windows 98 drivers? Old hardware is flaky and hard to support no matter what software you use.
Those are chives...
My wifes family makes a wrap where they take cream cheese, add some milk and whip it until it is creamy. Then you put a spoonful on a slice of lunch meat and wrap it around a chive, it's pretty good.
She calls them onion wraps.
Obviously you need to observe the agree on a time-zone ahead of time. It's not like people aren't aware of the time difference. The counties on different times are so close to the border they are more likely to do business out of state. DST sucks, there's no way I'm voting for Mitch Daniels again, my state senotor actually sponsored the damn bill, he's out...
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My wife stays home to take care of the children. I live in the midwest, so the cost of living isn't real high, but I'm near a big city so it's not the lowest either. I have almost $30,000 in student loans.
I realize this is average, but it's not like people don't know this going into it. The starting salaries for teachers are not that bad. It's taken me five years to get my salary where it is now. I started at less then $30,000 a year and I think most teachers start around $30,000 a year.
We're talking dollars and cents, it's simple math. I support a family of five on less then $46,752 per year. That's good money. Leave the feel good crap at the door.
Your job should give you satisfaction or you need to find another one. Your job shouldn't revolve around making you feel valuable. You should know your own worth.
I second this. It's pretty difficult to get a lawyer to handle certain cases.
If you're doing less work, then surely they should pay you less? Or did you think that because you've made one efficiency improvement, you should just get to sit back after that, i.e. one day's work, one year's pay?
Yeah, we aren't all actors...
Look at It's a Wonderful Life. This movie is a classic enjoyed by everybody. At the time it was made, it was a flop. Once it entered the public domain some television studios started airing it, since it was free, and it became a cultural classic. How many other diamonds in the rough will moulder for 90 years now before people are given a chance to enjoy them on their own merits, without considering, is this worth the money?
The problem with this is the first states to do this get screwed because the other states will have congress-people and senators that have more seniority and get to sit on the better commitees, pack pork into the budget, etc...
I just add a floppy image to my UBCD. It takes a minute, but it's not hard. Google for Ultimate Boot CD.
It alway's impresses the ladies when you have cooter-sticks on hand.
This is so true, people who bitch about socialism and praise our private insurance in the same breath are idiots.
I don't think socialized medicine is the answer, but our insurance system is really another way of spreading the wealth. Young, healthy people offset the cost of older, sicker people. So it makes sense for young, healthy people to drop insurance and save money.
I actually like HSA's, that way you save your own money when you are young and healthy and use it when you are older and sicker. These "free market" insurance people who worry about young people dropping their insurance are either idiots.
Life's a bitch...
Fairness to all, by it's very nature is unfair to some individually.
Civil-service is a joke. The jobs are not challenging and most of the workers should be called, time-wasters instead of workers.
They are all so surprised and upset when they realize they really don't have any job security. Unemployment is just a budget cut or Administration change away.
I find LCD's strain my eyes much less then CRT's. I have extremely dry eyes and a headache after working on a CRT all day.
I wear contacts and am very nearsighted.
Why would I eat SPAM when I can get TREET for 1/2 the price?
Check out retrobox. I've seen several managed cisco routers going for cheap. Usually 10mb, but hey if it's only for educational use.
I was just having a discussion with my wife about the real problems with incarcerating people for decades.
How can we put somebody in prison for 5-10 years or longer and then expect them to function in society after they are released? Social skills in prison are totally different then the social skills we expect normal people to have.
I think we should revamp our whole justice system. I think prisoners would be better off on a type of parole where they are are tracked via GPS and possibly marked with some sort of tattoo. (Don't start, they haven't paid their debt to society yet)
I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I think most prisoners would respond better to that sort of punishment.
Of course violent offenders need to be executed. I think if you are convicted of murder our justice system should work backwards from execution. It should be execution by default and you are responsible for providing any extenuating circumstances that might make your crime more akin to manslaughter.
a day laborer on slashdot, I thought I was alone. I don't do it anymore, but I feel your pain...
I've been very succesful getting work at below market rates.
My wife interviewed for a job providing support for a national DSL provider. They indicated the majority of their users are still on windows 95.
Try SuSE, trust me, Novell is doing it right, but SuSE has always been good.
$300 is alot of money to me, and I live in the USA, midwest. My wife and I have a rule that anything that costs more the $30-$50 has to be discussed before purchase.
It's easier to do without or dumpster-dive then it is to put together a proposal that is acceptable to the wife. Plus, I'm usually pretty broke...
I've used Securewave. It's pretty good, it lets you specifiy what USB devices are allowed and block everything else by default. You can also mirror data so you can audit what data people are sending. It works on USB, CD, Floppy, parallel ports, Serial Ports, and I think it does firewire too.
Once it's set-up it's awsome.
I don't work for them, I've just used their product and really liked it.
You must have used linux like once... It's like anything else, once they get good at it it won't take any time at all to trouble-shoot. Have you ever tried tracking down old windows 98 drivers? Old hardware is flaky and hard to support no matter what software you use.
Those are chives...
My wifes family makes a wrap where they take cream cheese, add some milk and whip it until it is creamy. Then you put a spoonful on a slice of lunch meat and wrap it around a chive, it's pretty good.
She calls them onion wraps.
Obviously you need to observe the agree on a time-zone ahead of time. It's not like people aren't aware of the time difference. The counties on different times are so close to the border they are more likely to do business out of state.
DST sucks, there's no way I'm voting for Mitch Daniels again, my state senotor actually sponsored the damn bill, he's out...
Move to Indiana, unless our asshat of a governor converts us to DST, :(