@Flyk You also have to consider that I don't technically have a college degree yet, and pretty much no company but the one I work for would hire me to do the job I currently do.
I would be content living in a wooden box large enough to fit the bare essentials. I have many times considered building my own living space, but running water, sewer, and internet connections are complicated.
@JukEboX Not in the engineering field, lack of a proper certificate is grounds for immediate disqualification. Even if they don't throw out your resume, it will be bottom of the list for sure.
@raz Licensing has little to do with it. I can do everything so long as a certified person reviews them (I have certified family members), but hooking into utilities involves going to city hall and contacting the service providers and power companies. It's a major hassle.
The best idea is to go to a technical school where the professors actually have the experience and teach you the experience as well as the skills you need in the real world
@DavidFreitag My first couple of years after uni I lived in an Edinburgh boxroom. Basically a 6ft wide, 6ft deep and 12 ft high room. I did at least convert it into two rooms by building a bed halfway up, so I could use the space, but still - a wee bit poky
@JukEboX I have heard that it's ridiculously easy to get a decent paying job at hip startup 6346456745 if you are a full stack dev, which is basically just Javascript nowadays.
@JukEboX I think it's good to have to take courses out of your comfort zone. If you go to an Engineering School then you'd only have to take 1 per semester. It is good to be able to speak about things other than engineering.
@TerryChia lol I was about to say, "If you by full stack developer you mean JS developer"
@Flyk yes it is. My (now wife) and I did it for almost a decade. Just now are we finding jobs where we have extra money to save and we can look back on it and say..... How did we do that?
I guess that depends on your version of "paycheck to paycheck". If that means "nearly overdrafted before each paycheck" then I have been doing that for the past 5 years.
@DavidFreitag no paycheck to paycheck is where one week before you get paid you've got nothing left and still need whatever money you have to travel to work for the last week before payday
@raz Ok. For my Computer Networking degree I needed 2 years of "Core" classes as well as electives and majors classes. MANY universities are like this.
@DavidFreitag you know your at that level when you need to make sure your making the minimum payments on things like car payments and credit cards so you can save a bit to go grocery shopping
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@DavidFreitag we paid off our and cut them up a few years ago. First off made it so satisfiying putting it in the shredder. Second that helps so much on bills and everything else. Then start paying off all kind of things like loans or debts. Start with the cheapest one
@DavidFreitag you have car payment, insurance, student loans, then you got electric, gas, water, power, and whatever else you pay for monthly (cable, newspaper, etc) ?
@DavidFreitag I meant find a place looking for a roommate. Maybe closer to work. Better odds are for people looking for a roommate instead of the other way around.
@JukEboX unofficial clients are against the terms of service and I'm not going to be the idiot who gets her massive steam account banned for using a third party client
I find the best way to deal with a credit card to build up a credit rating is to use it exclusively for expenditure and don't actually spend any of your own money, instead pulling that all on the card
@DavidFreitag best thing is to pay off those cards and then get a separate card you can only use for medical issues like CareCredit and pay for everything else with debt or cash
@DavidFreitag that's good but the point is without the credit cards your credit isn't effected. If you do the CareCredit card it only is used for medical and it counts toward your credit so you are building your credit without putting yourself in debt
@DavidFreitag They say that monthly expenses for living (rent, gas, groceries, utilties) shouldn't be more than 50% of your income. Good luck with that. Maybe if you live in Idaho.
The construction workers that are apparently rebuilding the apartment above me are listening to a a country music radio station about as loudly as the laws of physics dictate is possible. I think I can feel my sanity slowly leeching away.
@DavidFreitag we have a UPS for some kit but not everything, problem is that you can't (AFAIK) surge-protect ADSL lines and last year one of my ADSL modems + firewall got fried by a lightning strike
@RоryMcCune It depends on what sort of surge protection you implement. Some TVS diodes/MOVs would be a good start, but if you want to be really sure you could use a small isolation transformer for each data line.
@RоryMcCune If you know someone who has the proper licenses/certifications, solar panels are pretty much free at this point. The bulk of the price is going to be the installation costs (which are insane).
@DavidFreitag yeah the prices have dropped a lot, and when I look at our current .gov promising high supply rates to people for renewables and nuclear energy it makes me think it'd be worth doing
@DavidFreitag oh yeah not as good as other places for sure, which is why I'm waiting to see the costs keep coming down, and the efficiencies of panels going up
@RоryMcCune At this point it's almost more important to make sure that you don't cheap out on the inverter. In some cases you might find that the solar panels are more efficient than the inverter.
