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Pushing that boat with a 150 is fine, if you want to reverse in an Avid... they are just spinning tops. I even had a buddy who LIVES on the water (green jeans) pilot it before selling it to get a glass boat. He couldn't get it to behave either. It was fine, until you were in a crowded marina or the wind was up. If you had space you could get it anywhere, but if you have been to the launches down here... you know that isn't always an option.

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Like any job.

Some people are better at it and want to be good and others don’t care enough to get better

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They make less than a cashier, $15 an hour starting just became the norm and raises in hospitals are low to non existent.

They work early, work late, and deal with idiots day in and day out. Most of them draw better than nurses because they get more practice.

Honestly, Phlebotomist and CNA's are the worst paid positions / work ratio in a hospital, and probably compete with worst paid / work ratio for any job.

A robovac going daily will cut down dust way better and force you and your family to keep the floors clear.

Room filters do work, but even in the lab we only run them when needed, not 24/7. I am sure some places run them 24/7 but usually the fans running them are power hungry. Now the ones we have a 24X48" HEPA filters as the main filter, the ones in your house will be tiny by comparison.

A costco cashier makes $75k a year in less time than it takes to get a college degree, and better benefits than the vast majority of any employer.

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My heart rate averages right at between 95-105 beats per minute which is on the high range. I tried to take some meds to lower it, but it made me dizzy and did nothing for the heart rate.

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Please exercise.

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Seems like someone who spoke English, had any kind of personality, and had a little common sense would be way ahead of their peers in that field.

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This applies to all science disciplines. I run a department at one of the biggest hospitals in the state and we have some smart, brilliant people but the amount of real world common sense is shockingly low among most. Communicating with the mostly from China residents can be a challenge for them. The vast majority of residents are from other countries and/or female. It is almost impossible for a white male to match with us, if they were lucky enough to get into med school in the first place.

Bring snacks in your purse next time.

We have options to start contributing to a Roth this year. I was contributing 8% to my regular 403b in order to maximize matching, we cap out at 8% with the match and then "free" contributions. With the match I am getting 14% of my salary into my account. I just threw an extra 2% into the Roth for now, I could go more, its all going in a low cost vangaurd S&P500 index fund in a Fidelity account. I am just simply not interested in keeping up with it enough to try to beat the market, but I was wondering if this is an acceptable Roth vehicle or if I should get off my arse and get an Roth IRA or something similar.

I have my high risk investments in things I can more closely control and we are opening a new biotech lab I will have full control over so this is just safe money for me from my corporate job.

My plan for the Roth is first to access in early retirement, and then post 65 or whatever the retirement age is to supplement tax deferred payments with pre taxed payments to pay the lowest taxes possible over time.

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Ruptured disc in second place

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That's nothing, been there, done that, got the surgery.

Pancreatitis is number 1 by far, if there is something worse just kill me.

I don't care about sports anymore... I was one of the people with season tickets to the Saints, regular nights in the blender, catching multiple different LSU games across many sports. Sports sucks right now, and I am not sure I will ever be back into it.