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[MSFTisMIA]

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I have the DSLR when I want to get serious about manual mode. Kids don't hold their smiles that long so gotta go with point and shoot. Everyone's use case scenario is different.

I get and respect that. Not all cameras, as great as the Pixel is, can work best in all scenarios.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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man the weekend is to short if you ask me

Weekends are ALWAYS too short whenever you work full time.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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This is a common thing I've experienced my whole working career. If you feel like being depressed about it. Everything happens on Friday's. Makes the the weekends feel more worthwhile, unless you're working them... Which I did a lot when I was younger.

Until you start working 70 to 80 hour weeks or having to work holidays, late nights, weekends and sometimes without pay, you really haven't experienced working.

But you young ones aren't really into that.

Give him time. I'm sure he'll get to taste that and will let us know how that goes.

 

[libra89]

WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

This is a common thing I've experienced my whole working career. If you feel like being depressed about it. Everything happens on Friday's. Makes the the weekends feel more worthwhile, unless you're working them... Which I did a lot when I was younger.

Until you start working 70 to 80 hour weeks or having to work holidays, late nights, weekends and sometimes without pay, you really haven't experienced working.

But you young ones aren't really into that.

Thankfully this isn't possible in a library environment.

I feel for that life though, my guy has worked most of the weekends in the time we have been seeing one another. His work schedule is also kind of crazy but I figured that it was that non-profit deal.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Appreciate the sentiment but I'm not in power or politics.

These French protestors want low taxes but all the social services still and extras. They somehow think that the rich should pay for everything. They also believe the government should force workplaces to give them increases.

Now, being honest. I get where they're coming from however in a free global market the government has zero ability to tell companies what to do.

Companies care about their shareholders, not their employees, sadly. They will cut where they can to appease these shareholders.

If your country is not appealing to companies then they won't invest in your country or the workforce there.

That's what these protestors do not understand. France is not appealing to companies, in general. It has a lot of reforming to do to make entrepreneurs and companies interested. France has had decades of decline because it won't or can't reform. That's the problem.

I'm not saying that France needs to turn into the USA it even the UK but it needs to make things easier to run a company.

Lastly, I'm not a globalist. I'm a big believer in local businesses and local jobs. That's a true economy but when a company or business can't run efficiently that's a true failing of the system. That's where France needs to change. Things can't stay the same as they are and people expect miracles to happen. It doesn't work like that.

The problem is there seems to be little enthusiasm to change.

Parts of France, the UK and rural America (you can probably throw a dart in other European countries and see this too) sadly have similar issues...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...l?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Thankfully this isn't possible in a library environment.

I feel for that life though, my guy has worked most of the weekends in the time we have been seeing one another. His work schedule is also kind of crazy but I figured that it was that non-profit deal.

It's not as much in your industry as the education count is likely to be very high due to the skill set being very specific. As a consequence, you've got less people wanting to go (and needing to) do that type of work.

In my industry, demand is so great, problems are so complex, and some agencies are so poorly run, they'd have us work 140 hour work weeks if possible. We really have to scrap for resources. Give you an example:

I work at a private hospital, which currently ranks in the top 20 in the US. The program I'm in does community based work, the most inglorious type of work (in comparison to inpatient social work and traditionally clinic based outpatient social work, which have their own shortages for resources and challenges). I've walked into clutter filled apartments, nursing homes without hot water, project buildings with urine smell so strong it burns your eyes, and mold in apartments so bad you may get sick just by looking at it. These are folks on Medicaid, the stripped down version (in my opinion) of Medicare. Many look like me, some look like Trump; all have limited economic resources. I should be better equipped to service these people to reduce hospital readmissions (decreasing costs), but their managed Medicaid limits access to some medical and mental health providers (even within the very hospital I work for), makes getting medical equipment more tedious, makes finding transportation to medical appointments (livery cab access is OK, but ambulances and ambulettes, that's a fist fight for approval if needed) more of a circus. So while my colleagues and I have to hustle to help who we can navigate where we can as creatively as possible as people face chronic medical and mental health challenges, all done from the comforts of a...cubicle in a closed room.

Let that sink in for a second.

And I'm at a top 20 nationally recognized medical institution with a long standing history of social services in the social work department. Yet, in my program and my day to day, there are certain resources I'm asked to do without to be effective. Not bad mouthing the place, just telling you how it is. You can imagine what it's like in other places, and other industries that aren't pulling in the cash at certain concentrated levels.

The powers that be still cherry pick the glamor filled parts of certain jobs in certain industries as carrots to keep people working. Americans are some of the hardest workers on earth simply because in many cases, there is no other pragmatic alternative but to be good in the rate race (or else you will starve).

You should really look up the lyrics to this, especially the work comments.

https://youtu.be/6CLE9XDyJCA

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Nice to see Sahib around. Good to see you're safe. I did think of you when I found out about the fires in North California.

Not much I can really add to the conversation. Working for a living is pretty crap in general. I tried to avoid it but such is life. I'm only returning to the rat race for as long as I need to.

Don't get me started on paid vacation. As a contractor you don't get that or any other benefits, which why you get paid more.

See, that's the thing it's hard to explain to some people: you have to know what works for you and how to take advantage.

There are strengths to straight cash jobs with no benefits. If you can do the math of getting secondary affordable insurance and you've got an uncomplicated medical history, and are younger, then grab what you can and bank as much as you can in that scenario. Some may say as an older, more experienced worker that type of job may work as you can pick your projects and you value your time a certain way. Plus, you've got enough strategies in place to cover the pitfalls if you're not at work.

There are obvious benefits to a lower paying job with benefits (especially if the benefits are good). It's one of those things as an adult...we aren't taught how to look through job opportunities the right way. People figure it out through trial and errors. And when you throw the entitlement streak in there for some young people, it becomes more of a cluster****.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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See, that's the thing it's hard to explain to some people: you have to know what works for you and how to take advantage.

There are strengths to straight cash jobs with no benefits. If you can do the math of getting secondary affordable insurance and you've got an uncomplicated medical history, and are younger, then grab what you can and bank as much as you can in that scenario. Some may say as an older, more experienced worker that type of job may work as you can pick your projects and you value your time a certain way. Plus, you've got enough strategies in place to cover the pitfalls if you're not at work.

There are obvious benefits to a lower paying job with benefits (especially if the benefits are good). It's one of those things as an adult...we aren't taught how to look through job opportunities the right way. People figure it out through trial and errors. And when you throw the entitlement streak in there for some young people, it becomes more of a cluster****.

The good thing is that I'm covered medically, for the most part, in the counties I've lived. So that's not an issue. I have to have other insurances which are a pain in themselves.

Working contract does have it's befits as you don't feel trapped if you decide to leave. Normally it's a short notice period.

You need to shift your mentality away from thinking about the company and to thinking about the job and yourself. It's very easy to get sidetracked. In boom times contacting is great but you need to think ahead to the down times and even going staff when you need to. It's about doing what works for you. That's the great part.

The downside is if you get caught short by a bad contact or a sudden decline in work opportunities. Both have happened to me. You need to be flexible and ready to do what's necessary.

Not everyone is ready for that kind of thinking.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Thankfully this isn't possible in a library environment.

I feel for that life though, my guy has worked most of the weekends in the time we have been seeing one another. His work schedule is also kind of crazy but I figured that it was that non-profit deal.

Manufacturing and site work are like this. Though I've had work places where the average work week was 50 hours. Typical for me was 45 in the boom times.

 

[sahib lopez]

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Nice to see Sahib around. Good to see you're safe. I did think of you when I found out about the fires in North California.

Not much I can really add to the conversation. Working for a living is pretty crap in general. I tried to avoid it but such is life. I'm only returning to the rat race for as long as I need to.

Don't get me started on paid vacation. As a contractor you don't get that or any other benefits, which why you get paid more.

The fire when it happen was really 6 min away from my work place. It was chaos for that whole Thursday it happened. Everyone was trying to get out. Lots of ash and embers . Lots of people leaving thier cars and just running. It was something I never experienced.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Parts of France, the UK and rural America (you can probably throw a dart in other European countries and see this too) sadly have similar issues...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...l?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

The bigger problem now is that if they keep up the protests they're going to end causing more harm than good. People are potentially going to lose jobs and businesses may close.

Rural areas of any country is problematic. You need a local economy for survival. The problem is that most people believe this economy must be in the shape of large companies hiring lots of people. Or industries. That's not a proper local economy if it's based on one or two things. You're just asking for failure and that's what's happened. All over Europe, Canada, Australia and USA.

Problem is governments are too outward looking and don't do enough for the internal. It's taken this shake up of Dump, Brexit and the rise of the right to wake people up. However, it may be too late. I'm expecting a rocky 10 to 20 years...

There's nothing wrong with global trade by the way, it's just become a monster of our own making and it's completely illogical if you look at it fully. Change is needed.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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The fire when it happen was really 6 min away from my work place. It was chaos for that whole Thursday it happened. Everyone was trying to get out. Lots of ash and embers . Lots of people leaving thier cars and just running. It was something I never experienced.

Wow. I've been close to fires and flooding. Never been in the panic bit though.

Glad to hear you're ok though.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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The bigger problem now is that if they keep up the protests they're going to end causing more harm than good. People are potentially going to lose jobs and businesses may close.

Rural areas of any country is problematic. You need a local economy for survival. The problem is that most people believe this economy must be in the shape of large companies hiring lots of people. Or industries. That's not a proper local economy if it's based on one or two things. You're just asking for failure and that's what's happened. All over Europe, Canada, Australia and USA.

Problem is governments are too outward looking and don't do enough for the internal. It's taken this shake up of Dump, Brexit and the rise of the right to wake people up. However, it may be too late. I'm expecting a rocky 10 to 20 years...

There's nothing wrong with global trade by the way, it's just become a monster of our own making and it's completely illogical if you look at it fully. Change is needed.

It really is going to be bleaker than people choose to realize. That's partly why I've been thinking long and hard over some things for me. No easy way forward, just trying to find the way with the least bit of scars.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Wow. I've been close to fires and flooding. Never been in the panic bit though.

Glad to hear you're ok though.

Agreed. Good to hear you are doing OK.

 

[fatclue_98]

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See, that's the thing it's hard to explain to some people: you have to know what works for you and how to take advantage.

There are strengths to straight cash jobs with no benefits. If you can do the math of getting secondary affordable insurance and you've got an uncomplicated medical history, and are younger, then grab what you can and bank as much as you can in that scenario. Some may say as an older, more experienced worker that type of job may work as you can pick your projects and you value your time a certain way. Plus, you've got enough strategies in place to cover the pitfalls if you're not at work.

There are obvious benefits to a lower paying job with benefits (especially if the benefits are good). It's one of those things as an adult...we aren't taught how to look through job opportunities the right way. People figure it out through trial and errors. And when you throw the entitlement streak in there for some young people, it becomes more of a cluster****.

I used to think that way when I was in my 20s and 30s. I did a ton of contracted work (aka piece work) and made a ton of money. It was always easy to keep a rainy day fund because of my history of blown out knees dating to my early teens but there's one thing I didn't think about and even you failed to mention: retirement. The sins of my youth will be visited in my "golden" years because I didn't pay into the system. I had planned to retire in 2025 but it's looking like 2035 now unless I forego all the little things and live out my days traveling in an RV. Sounds nice but I already spent a year living in one while building a house.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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I used to think that way when I was in my 20s and 30s. I did a ton of contracted work (aka piece work) and made a ton of money. It was always easy to keep a rainy day fund because of my history of blown out knees dating to my early teens but there's one thing I didn't think about and even you failed to mention: retirement. The sins of my youth will be visited in my "golden" years because I didn't pay into the system. I had planned to retire in 2025 but it's looking like 2035 now unless I forego all the little things and live out my days traveling in an RV. Sounds nice but I already spent a year living in one while building a house.

See, that's the thing. Some jobs (mine does) forces you to have a small retirement account. Retirement planning is a huge issue - if Libra and Sahib's cohort think Social security will be around when they get near Treo's age, they need to lay off the sauce.

Retirement planning isn't something we are taught to think about but do need to. It's about the long game, really.

Had a client expire recently that didn't plan well as his life was chaotic. His youngest son didn't inherit a shirt he owned due to the family drama, but the client had no assets to leave for him. Unfortunately, that dirth of resources I see a lot because the current system says if you're $1 over public assistance eligibility, you should be working to save and generate assets. That's busted and so flawed. Until it gets fixed though, we still have to be as creative in our plans for our future.

 

[worldspy99]

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Wow. I've been close to fires and flooding. Never been in the panic bit though.

Glad to hear you're ok though.

The closest for me was the one that ignited in the back of our building last year, it was scary. By the time I got 1.5 miles away from the building, it had already jumped the freeway over 2+ miles away.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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The closest for me was the one that ignited in the back of our building last year, it was scary. By the time I got 1.5 miles away from the building, it had already jumped the freeway over 2+ miles away.

I remember you telling us about that. That was close.

The nearest for me was a couple of fires near Brisbane when I lived there. The air was smokey and had ash in it. Lasted a few days but we weren't in any danger personally.

 

[libra89]

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It's not as much in your industry as the education count is likely to be very high due to the skill set being very specific. As a consequence, you've got less people wanting to go (and needing to) do that type of work.

In my industry, demand is so great, problems are so complex, and some agencies are so poorly run, they'd have us work 140 hour work weeks if possible. We really have to scrap for resources. Give you an example:

I work at a private hospital, which currently ranks in the top 20 in the US. The program I'm in does community based work, the most inglorious type of work (in comparison to inpatient social work and traditionally clinic based outpatient social work, which have their own shortages for resources and challenges). I've walked into clutter filled apartments, nursing homes without hot water, project buildings with urine smell so strong it burns your eyes, and mold in apartments so bad you may get sick just by looking at it. These are folks on Medicaid, the stripped down version (in my opinion) of Medicare. Many look like me, some look like Trump; all have limited economic resources. I should be better equipped to service these people to reduce hospital readmissions (decreasing costs), but their managed Medicaid limits access to some medical and mental health providers (even within the very hospital I work for), makes getting medical equipment more tedious, makes finding transportation to medical appointments (livery cab access is OK, but ambulances and ambulettes, that's a fist fight for approval if needed) more of a circus. So while my colleagues and I have to hustle to help who we can navigate where we can as creatively as possible as people face chronic medical and mental health challenges, all done from the comforts of a...cubicle in a closed room.

Let that sink in for a second.

And I'm at a top 20 nationally recognized medical institution with a long standing history of social services in the social work department. Yet, in my program and my day to day, there are certain resources I'm asked to do without to be effective. Not bad mouthing the place, just telling you how it is. You can imagine what it's like in other places, and other industries that aren't pulling in the cash at certain concentrated levels.

The powers that be still cherry pick the glamor filled parts of certain jobs in certain industries as carrots to keep people working. Americans are some of the hardest workers on earth simply because in many cases, there is no other pragmatic alternative but to be good in the rate race (or else you will starve).

You should really look up the lyrics to this, especially the work comments.

https://youtu.be/6CLE9XDyJCA

This is true about that.

Dang, I believe that for you on all counts. I did look up the lyrics and whoa is all I can say.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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This is true about that.

Dang, I believe that for you on all counts. I did look up the lyrics and whoa is all I can say.

Gave you something to chew on, eh?