Well, I make not much less than that now. Normal 8-hour days, "summer hours" during summer (work four 9-hour days a week, get every other friday off), and gobs of other benefits.
I used to work 12-16 hour days all the time. When I was younger, I pretty much didn't do ANYTHING but work...I just worked and worked and worked. I changed jobs about every two years until my current job, which I've had for about four years now.
I did that from 1999-2001, then the dot-com crash happened and I had a hard time finding a tech job (no degree, still roughly a noob). So worked odd jobs like radiology file room clerk, barns and noble bookseller, etc. Then I got a job down in Denver for $35k salary :P.
I lived in a rather crummy apartment in 2004-2005, and my sleeping problems started because of "The Mustang Guy". Douche had this nasty 80's mustang that just sat in the parking lot, the battery would drain, then someone would trigger his car alarm. The alarm would, no joke, run for DAYS, sometimes WEEKS. Every so often the asswipe would come home in his taxy, jump the worthless POS mustang, and take off again.
Then the alarm would go off again a few days, maybe a week later.
I then moved to a pretty nice townhome once my lease was up and I got a better paying job. Within two months of moving in there (I was in a middle home in a conjoined townhome), this woman with the "Never-Ending Parakeet" and "Separation-Anxiety Dog" moved in. She never slept...watched TV ALL night in the room right on the other side of the wall. Her parakeet never shut up, and she put him RIGHT on the other side of the wall from my head.
A couple months after THAT, another asswipe moved in on the other side of me. He would have parties every few days, all night long. Everyone would booze out, fall asleep, and leave the TV on FULL VOLUME. I could feel the vibrations. I would bang on his door for up to 20 minutes before he would finally jolt awake and turn it off...sometimes. Sometimes it would just stay on...
The last straw was when on top of all that, they started major road construction right outside my window that went on for months. After two years there, I finally bought my house.
And, once in this house, everything was great from the time I moved in...end of November 2009, until the middle of April 2010...then....
I've had a non-stop barrage of continuous noise, and my brain is so fried these days I honestly can't really remember what it is like to feel normal, to function normally, to have normal, friendly conversations with people (I am always exhausted and fatigued, and based on most peoples reactions these days, I gather that I come off rather gruff, annoyed, and snappy most of the time.)
@rfusca I've tried. My brain has been rewired. I can't block out noise, and with earplugs, the "annoying noise" becomes my own breathing as it echoes in the space between my eardrum and the earplug.
@rfusca Thats terrible. I had something similar, crazy guy and his girlfriend would fight in the halls top of their lungs at my first apartment. I called the police once I realized a kid was usually involved, and often standing there scared out of his wits watching the horror show unfold day after day.
@rfusca That would be awesome. Then you can buy a bigger stove and make great bread even more frequently! :D
Heh, its kind of funny. I think of you as Bread Guy these days. ;)
If you buy the certified MS-70 or PR-70 coins the year they are released, you might spend around $120.
Within a few years, those ones can be worth $250, and more than five years old they are worth $300-$400.
They will hold that base value, and as silver increases in price, most of the certified coins will gain as well.
When silver was up near $40 an ounce, some of the MS-70 certified silver one ounce coins were $600, $700 or so.
Gilded silver coins are newer, and some people don't like them, but I think in five years they will all be worth at least a few hundred bucks, and some of the really nice ones, like the turtle or koi, will probably be worth a lot more.
I found old listings of a 2007 gilded american silver eagle, and it was going for hundreds of dollars.
I haven't found one of those even for sale...they seem to be keepers once people have them.
Well there was that user on ELU. Always had quality answers on offer. Then one fine day he just vanished. Nobody knows what happened. The entire account went down in a ball of flames.
@ElendilTheTall Canon 550D was released on 2010. Do you think there has been any other model released with the same price range and more capabilities after that?
@ElendilTheTall You are right. My budget is around $800 and that's what I can pay. So far I have come up with 550D for shooting videos. Just looking to see if I can buy something better with this budget.
@Meysam: You should look into the Canon 650D/T4i. It has hybrid AF in video, uses focal-plane phase-shift detection AF for large discrepancies and contrast detection for small discrepancies. As far as new cameras that are great for video go, the Canon 650D is a hell of a lot better than the 550D, and barely more expensive. I think its $900, at most.
@rfusca Very kind of you! I will sure have a lot of things to ask while working with it and will definitely come here several times for troubleshooting :) You know, I am just an amateur
upper scale doesn't mean squat when it comes to noise and neighbors
it just means it looks nice, and the units are large
they manage the grounds and stuff
but the neighbors can and usually are just as loud and obnoxious as in a cheap rental unit. The one difference with people is you usually don't get domestic disputes...you just hear couples yelling at each other through the walls periodically.
@rfusca is it a challenge you're possibly interested into? Is the new city larger/smaller than your current one? (I guess it's much larger, but I am not sure about your current endeavours). Would you prefer to grow your sons in this larger city? These are the kinds of questions that I would ask myself, obviously you will have yours..
So.. Basically I'm confused what options in Photoshop I should enable in order to make sure that what I see on the screen represent actual colors another person with calibrated monitor will see. I posted this question: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/25050/does-proof-color-with-monitor-rgb-option-in-ps-ensure-that-i-see-true-colors
@ruslan proof colors is needed when you want to know the rendition on a different device
suppose that you have a profile for a printer/paper combination: proof colors + that profile will try to show you the result on that combination and what's more important it will show if there's something out of gamut (that is, if there are colours which cannot be rendered as-is)
so if you put proof colors on and sRgb you are NOT using the calibrated profile, that is: the rendition good under those condition will be different from another person calibrated monitor
ruslan I am a Lightroom user, so I have only passing knowledge of PS. But a friend of mine has it, and I have calibrated his printer with my xrite color munki so I am recolleting that experience, it was basicall rather similar to LR
(or at least, I hope). I didn't answer since I'm not a PS expert and didn't want to risk spreading erroneous information in an answer, but the gist of it should be as I told you. I use daily soft-proofing features of LR with different kind of papers and it's really really very userful for printing.
have to go to cook, @rfusca would be glad to be here in Rome tonight ;-)
