October 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

  Triple post?

 

[MadamPirate PE]

Community college is the best!

It really is. $8k for two years of community college. $10k my first semester at uni.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

*looks at structural calcs* (by consultant)

I definitely don't have the brain power for structural.

@squaretaper PE‘s face as he reads the calcs:

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[LyceeFruit PE]

I didn't grow up with a ton of jobs. I was a babysitter from ages 12-16, then studied abroad for my junior year of high school. The summer before college, I worked in the office of a disfunctional local grocery store, doing admin and accounts payable/receivable stuff. I did this the summer after my freshman year of college, too. I did an intensive language study program the summer after my sophomore year of college, then studied aboard my junior year, which messed up the following summer. During my fourth year of college, I tutored math and my super senior year, I was a grader for a lower level civil engineering class. Then I got a job at VTrans (Vermont Agency of Transportation) in their structures group. I worked there for 9 months before switching to a private firm. I worked there for two years and then moved back to CA and have been at the same private firm ever since.

Hey someone else with a VT connection! 

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

What did I want to be as a kid?

When I was a young kid, I wanted to be a doctor. That stuck for me until I was 10 or 12, and then I didn't really know what I wanted to be. I went to school for engineering because I liked and was good at math. I've mentioned it before, but I started as an environmental engineering major, because I thought it could get me a job in nature. I didn't really get what environmental engineering was at the time, and then got to college and switched to civil engineering after my freshman year. I didn't settle on structural until I took my Structures I class. I found it challenging but really engaging.

I still find it can be challenging, and somewhat engaging.

interior designer, architect, Coast Guard rescue swimmer, ChemE then went EE. And then realized in college, I should have done physics with a focus in nuclear or NukeE

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

triple! 

 

[leggo PE]

Hey someone else with a VT connection! 

You didn't know that? I lived there for 8 years! Five college and three working. I took my FE exam probably where you took your PE exam (Norwich?).

Don't miss those winters, that's for sure!

 

[Tiger15]

Community college is the best!

It really is. $8k for two years of community college. $10k my first semester at uni.

I went to a cheap state university. $1500 per semester. After fees, books, etc, it came to about $4.5k a year. I had I had about $6k per year in scholarships. So every semester my university would say, "Hey, you have an overage on your bursar account. Please come pickup your refund check."

Basically, I got paid to go to school. 

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

You didn't know that? I lived there for 8 years! Five college and three working. I took my FE exam probably where you took your PE exam (Norwich?).

Don't miss those winters, that's for sure!

No I didn't know! 

I took my FE at Norwich too lol - it's the only testing site in the state for paper exams lol

I *did* miss the winters. After I graduated, I moved to CT and then 3 years later, to Maine for real winters lol 

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

*looks at structural calcs* (by consultant)

I definitely don't have the brain power for structural.

I think you'd be surprised. A lot of it is just knowing the (admittedly thick stack of) applicable codes... Which I, personally, have little desire for.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

I went to a cheap state university. $1500 per semester. After fees, books, etc, it came to about $4.5k a year. I had I had about $6k per year in scholarships. So every semester my university would say, "Hey, you have an overage on your bursar account. Please come pickup your refund check."

Basically, I got paid to go to school. 

That's awesome.

ETA: Ooh, tops!

 

[Orchid PE]

We have 1.17 acres which is plenty for me. The dream for me is to grow heirloom chili peppers, avocados, and hops. Probably not a lot of money in that, but as I said, it's (one version of) a dream. LadySquare wants livestock (chickens, sheep, and goats, I said no to horses and cows), but I don't think we're financially ready for that.

Depends on what type of farming you are going for.  Just to feed you and your family/live off grid, wholesale?  Small batch, etc, etc.  I watch a homesteader on youtube who makes me happy.  But I think he was a carpenter before he started the journey, so it made building the goat shed and everything a little bit easier.  Mostly he uses the farm for all the family's food/heating/etc.  Not sure if he sells anything.  Plus I think the wife works a semi-okay job, so they have that to fall back on if things get really rough.

I mainly wanted a farm to sell food locally, and as a by product have food for the family. A lot of restaurants in town buy all their food locally and are proud of that. But, if the market is too saturated here, I'd have to sell elsewhere. I grew up with my family raising chickens and goats. Right now I think my parents have about ~100 free range chickens and ~15 goats. The goats are raised mainly for milk, but are also sold, and every once in a while slaughtered for meat. We also grew corn, watermelons, peas, beans, bell peppers, and jalapenos.

My wife and I used to own 5 acres down in Florida we were going to build on, but the deed restrictions didn't allow equine, bovine, or swine so it wasn't really ideal for homesteading/farming. Ended up selling it. I'm shopping around for 10 acres now just to start something small, maybe raise some cattle for the local market. I'd be fine if I could just break even on the cattle too, just as long as I got me fresh, grass-fed meat for the year.

I've been gardening on the small lots (0.3-0.5 acre) we've lived on. Usually the normal stuff like lettuce, peas, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, etc. I grew a ton of birds eye chili peppers this past season by accident, so I've been making hot sauce as Christmas gifts. Next season I plan on growing Carolina Reapers and Ghost Peppers.

I have the knowledge and abilities to be a farmer, just not the time and money. So I have 0 of the 2 needed things.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I grew a ton of birds eye chili peppers this past season by accident

It's been tough to get my chili peppers thriving. I can get them started but they're so weak and twiggy. I live in northern California so the weather can be hot, but the climate is probably too cold overall for chili peppers. Greenhouse is in the design phase (in my noggin) but no money to pay for it at this time.

 

[Orchid PE]

It's been tough to get my chili peppers thriving. I can get them started but they're so weak and twiggy. I live in northern California so the weather can be hot, but the climate is probably too cold overall for chili peppers. Greenhouse is in the design phase (in my noggin) but no money to pay for it at this time.

A buddy of mine had a similar problem this year. His problems were a) his pots were too small to begin with, and b) had too many plants per pot. He also didn't water them enough. And just used basic dirt from his yard with nothing added. I probably should've suggested some mushroom compost or something.

 

[leggo PE]

I've been gardening on the small lots (0.3-0.5 acre) we've lived on. Usually the normal stuff like lettuce, peas, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, etc. I grew a ton of birds eye chili peppers this past season by accident, so I've been making hot sauce as Christmas gifts. Next season I plan on growing Carolina Reapers and Ghost Peppers.

Tagging @Supe for the pepper stuff! He makes hot sauces from peppers he grows too.

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

Halfway through the workweek SPAM

 

[RBHeadge PE]

WMATA sucks

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

A buddy of mine had a similar problem this year. His problems were a) his pots were too small to begin with, and b) had too many plants per pot. He also didn't water them enough. And just used basic dirt from his yard with nothing added. I probably should've suggested some mushroom compost or something.

Cool! Well, I am a n00b at peppers so I welcome any advice.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Halfway through the workweek SPAM

WHUT. Already??

 

[SNAPE/SMOTT PE]

I just want 20 acre, away from everybody! The older I get, the less I like people. And...I didn’t like people much to begin with.