I wish they had more information on benefits cost. They can take a chunk out of your salary that varies from 5% to 20%. That makes job offer comparison really difficult.
If only... I've done private, public, and non-profit work, and I've done consulting work.
1. Private pays good, often, but if varies from industry to industry and boss to boss. It's also impossible to really compare pay between different offers because there is such a huge variance in benefits (another number it's almost impossible to get before you start). You might get a ballpark number from the interviewer, only to find out it is for single coverage, and you need family. I've seen variances in the 15% to 20% of salary.
2. public lower pay, little room to advance, no respect. There are alot of people working incredibly hard, and IMHO, no more slackers then you see at any large company. I do see a greater tendency towards fiefdoms. Job stability can be better. Benefits are largly the same as other industries, maybe a 7.5 hour day or a bit better pto.
3. non-profit Serious cronyism issues, alot of waste (in established non-profitss), low pay, no advancement. You might get to make a difference in the world (probably not). 4. consulting Your job makes money for your bosses, so pay is better. Otherwise, the same. Often there is less stability, but not always.
Your opinion holds no weight in this argument. You stated:
I don't believe that it is impossible to find equal or superior care for those sorts of injuries outside the VA
, in response to:
I've studied the VA system......First, you have to judge them by their main purpose: When a soldier comes back from Iraq with a brain injury, their job is to keep him alive and get him functioning as well as possible. They do the best job in the world. There is no place in the world that can treat head wounds as well as the U.S. military. Nobody. Same with the guys who have a foot blown off by a land mine.
Your opinion, in this case, is only relevent to yourself.
We are not trying to stay ahead of the rest of the world. We are desperately trying to catch up to the Alien powers that have been in contact with the US since Roswell. We are treaty bound to accelerate certain forms of research so we can take our place in the interstellar realm.
Thank you, it's not just inner city, and it's not just non-whites. It's the poor and disadvantaged everywhere. Your Asian success stories are as much about tight-knit social structures and 'cronyism' as it is about high standards and parental ideals. The US poor have been pitted against each other and had suspicion bred into their bones.
This is on a different topic, but you should read it to better understand some of the issues: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
Extended family, maybe there is a cousin or child of a close friend. You have to make an effort to maintain a relationship, but you should find people you can trust, stay in touch, broach the uncomfortable conversations, and make legal preperations..
Even children and relatives can't all be trusted. My wife's parents always wanted her to manage their healthcare and financial concerns as the aged, but they did little pre-planning and when it came down to it, there was too much opportunity for her older siblings to step in and strip their assets. They are not in a terrible situation, but had they been willing to accept a small amount of help earlier, and address legal issues we brought up, they would be in a much better place.
There is some truth in this, but it will really hurt you in ongoing support and any upgrade paths. Although, most HPC's should be run in a silo'ed environment and replaced rather then upgraded piecemeal.
There are so many components to manage, working with individual vendors, who will just blame each other, is a nightmare. You definitely need to have a comprehensive vendor who has the clout to manage this. HPC clusters that are used, require constant attention.
I currently have three HPC clusters I manage. Those things definitely move some air. If I open the mesh rack door, without holding it, the air flow will slam it into me pretty hard. It's just a light door, but it's full of holes and the air still pushes it hard.
I've done pfsense and routerOS, pfsense is way easier and the documentation is clearer. If you do it right, with an embedded box, electricity is a wash. If you throw it on a virtual server you are already running, you probably come out ahead.
pfsense, properly configured, can stand against any commercial product. For dynamic IP's, openVPN works great. I have used both mikrotik and pfsense and configured them such that you plug them into any network and they immediately tunnel home with a OpenVPN. Don't bother with swan or the other ipsec or pptp solutions.
I always counsel people to stay away from SOHO equipment. It's not worth the hassle when you can get mikrotik, ubiquiti, or pfsense for the same or less. If you do go with a big name consumer router, at least make sure it supports openwrt.
I did some extensive pfsense openVPN work awhile back. It has since been replaced by a "managed" solution and I was gifted the old gear. If you want some inexpensive Alix equipment, hit me up. They handle pfsense and openvpn very well.
bingo, don't screw around with the ipsec garbage that's out there. Use openVPN and call it done. Monitoring / usage control is a different beast and can be easily handled on an appropriate router, which can be virtualized on an appropriate setup if necessary, or run on dedicated hardware. Something like pfsense supports logging and all sorts of filtering.
Instead of 2 cheap routers, I would use pfsense. It will do everything he is asking for. It will do captive portal, so I can cap bandwidth per user or device. It will give him logs and show per device usage. If he configures it, he can filter with several different plug-ins.
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I wish they had more information on benefits cost. They can take a chunk out of your salary that varies from 5% to 20%. That makes job offer comparison really difficult.
If only...
I've done private, public, and non-profit work, and I've done consulting work.
1. Private pays good, often, but if varies from industry to industry and boss to boss. It's also impossible to really compare pay between different offers because there is such a huge variance in benefits (another number it's almost impossible to get before you start). You might get a ballpark number from the interviewer, only to find out it is for single coverage, and you need family. I've seen variances in the 15% to 20% of salary.
2. public lower pay, little room to advance, no respect. There are alot of people working incredibly hard, and IMHO, no more slackers then you see at any large company. I do see a greater tendency towards fiefdoms. Job stability can be better. Benefits are largly the same as other industries, maybe a 7.5 hour day or a bit better pto.
3. non-profit Serious cronyism issues, alot of waste (in established non-profitss), low pay, no advancement. You might get to make a difference in the world (probably not).
4. consulting Your job makes money for your bosses, so pay is better. Otherwise, the same. Often there is less stability, but not always.
First assume the cow is a perfect sphere....
That's economics today.
problem solved with Keepass, it's on my phone and on my pc.
I don't believe that it is impossible to find equal or superior care for those sorts of injuries outside the VA
, in response to:
I've studied the VA system... ...First, you have to judge them by their main purpose: When a soldier comes back from Iraq with a brain injury, their job is to keep him alive and get him functioning as well as possible. They do the best job in the world. There is no place in the world that can treat head wounds as well as the U.S. military. Nobody. Same with the guys who have a foot blown off by a land mine.
Your opinion, in this case, is only relevent to yourself.
We are not trying to stay ahead of the rest of the world. We are desperately trying to catch up to the Alien powers that have been in contact with the US since Roswell. We are treaty bound to accelerate certain forms of research so we can take our place in the interstellar realm.
Maybe I've said too much...
Thank you, it's not just inner city, and it's not just non-whites. It's the poor and disadvantaged everywhere. Your Asian success stories are as much about tight-knit social structures and 'cronyism' as it is about high standards and parental ideals.
The US poor have been pitted against each other and had suspicion bred into their bones.
This is on a different topic, but you should read it to better understand some of the issues:
http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
1. Your the only person who cares about your opinion.
2. VA gets their own budget and he was referencing an unfunded mandate.
3. bullshit
According to the VA, the proper classification is "mental defective".
Extended family, maybe there is a cousin or child of a close friend. You have to make an effort to maintain a relationship, but you should find people you can trust, stay in touch, broach the uncomfortable conversations, and make legal preperations..
Even children and relatives can't all be trusted. My wife's parents always wanted her to manage their healthcare and financial concerns as the aged, but they did little pre-planning and when it came down to it, there was too much opportunity for her older siblings to step in and strip their assets.
They are not in a terrible situation, but had they been willing to accept a small amount of help earlier, and address legal issues we brought up, they would be in a much better place.
Bingo, IT is a catchall and alot of the work assigned belongs in the secretary pool.
Yeah, this way he can burn through his $50k in a month or two.
There is some truth in this, but it will really hurt you in ongoing support and any upgrade paths. Although, most HPC's should be run in a silo'ed environment and replaced rather then upgraded piecemeal.
There are so many components to manage, working with individual vendors, who will just blame each other, is a nightmare. You definitely need to have a comprehensive vendor who has the clout to manage this. HPC clusters that are used, require constant attention.
I currently have three HPC clusters I manage. Those things definitely move some air. If I open the mesh rack door, without holding it, the air flow will slam it into me pretty hard. It's just a light door, but it's full of holes and the air still pushes it hard.
I've done pfsense and routerOS, pfsense is way easier and the documentation is clearer. If you do it right, with an embedded box, electricity is a wash. If you throw it on a virtual server you are already running, you probably come out ahead.
pfsense, properly configured, can stand against any commercial product. For dynamic IP's, openVPN works great. I have used both mikrotik and pfsense and configured them such that you plug them into any network and they immediately tunnel home with a OpenVPN. Don't bother with swan or the other ipsec or pptp solutions.
I always counsel people to stay away from SOHO equipment. It's not worth the hassle when you can get mikrotik, ubiquiti, or pfsense for the same or less. If you do go with a big name consumer router, at least make sure it supports openwrt.
I did some extensive pfsense openVPN work awhile back. It has since been replaced by a "managed" solution and I was gifted the old gear. If you want some inexpensive Alix equipment, hit me up. They handle pfsense and openvpn very well.
bingo, don't screw around with the ipsec garbage that's out there. Use openVPN and call it done. Monitoring / usage control is a different beast and can be easily handled on an appropriate router, which can be virtualized on an appropriate setup if necessary, or run on dedicated hardware. Something like pfsense supports logging and all sorts of filtering.
Instead of 2 cheap routers, I would use pfsense. It will do everything he is asking for. It will do captive portal, so I can cap bandwidth per user or device. It will give him logs and show per device usage. If he configures it, he can filter with several different plug-ins.
It will also act as an openvpn client or server.
Look no further then then the pending overtime regulation overhaul for a fix.
Yes, the replication procedure is enjoyable, but the replicant requires extensive training.
I'm posting this from my phone while walking to work. .... THUD
You can pry my "stepping off the curb in blissful ignorance" out of my cold dead