The 10,000 Post Thread v2

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

7681

Hey, Mithrik.

I would have deleted my double post, but the site was acting up for me last night and NOTHING was going through properly. It's working better today, but here I go, not double posting.

  Edited April 18, 2012 by NMUSpidey  

[Duke87 1,070]

(7682)

I still say that deleting posts in this thread for any reason is a nono, since it makes the count inaccurate. You can delete it, but you can't make it such that you never made it!

[Ocram's Razr 964]

7683

Darn! I cannot find any jobs I am capable of getting to and doing properly and I need to come up with $300-$1,200 this summer. Mostly because I cannot find any weekend jobs during fall college quarter and Spring and Summer quarter are mostly free except for some electives needed for an AA before my chemistry degree. Without a job, I have no car so I would have to commute to work on the bus, which means I have a restricted area where I can get to work before 10AM (out the door at 8AM means 2 hour commute on bus maximum) and this recession/depression hit the Seattle area economy harder than other areas. It costs $250 to upgrade my graphics card, motherboard, and power supply, $250 to upgrade my processor with a 6 month old used processor at the top of the same line as mine (and 0.6 GHz faster), and the other $700 is living expenses and savings (not a high priority because I live with my parents). Once employed, I would only need to work for a few weeks and I would be golden. That means that any entry level job that pays ($9 is minimum wage) would be fine.

Once I have all the parts to upgrade my computer, I would be able to play any Next-Gen game I wanted on medium-to-ultra settings.

I also started dreaming I had a digital watch and an analogue watch (one on each wrist) so I should wear a digital watch now (I have a few at my father's house but we cannot find them) so I can get rid of nightmares quicker.

[astronelson 339]

7684.

National minimum wage here is $15.51 an hour or $589.30 a week, above the age of 20. Below that the minimum wage is reduced somewhat, depending on age, down to $5.71 an hour for under 16.

[RipRap 4,400]

7685

Pace has picked up!

OMG I have a 12-hour stay at school to work on the F1 Competition. Very Intense

[Larks2242 251]

7686.

The Pudge era is over in Texas.

*crys*

  Edited April 19, 2012 by Larks2242  

[Duke87 1,070]

(7687)

National minimum wage here is $15.51 an hour or $589.30 a week, above the age of 20. Below that the minimum wage is reduced somewhat, depending on age, down to $5.71 an hour for under 16.

This actually makes sense. Too much sense for it to be the case in the US. Here, minimum wage varies depending only on location, never on age. Result is that an adult making minimum wage is not making enough to live on, while a teenager making minimum wage is arguably making more than they deserve.

[simlink 1,098]

7688

Some/most Canadian provinces have student and adult minimum wages, and these wages vary depending on which province/territory you live in.

General minimum wage ranges from the lowest being $9.27/hour in Yukon to $11.00/hour in Nunavut.

  Edited April 19, 2012 by sim_link  

[Larks2242 251]

7689.

What is that in USD?

[Duke87 1,070]

(7690)

US and Canadian dollars are very similar in value, to the point where for most purposes the difference can be ignored. $11.00 Canadian is $11.06 US.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

7691

There are hidden costs when minimum wage laws are set above the cost of what work is being done. A good example was Bigby's (formerly Beaner's), a local coffee chain in Michigan/Ohio, raised prices when minimum wage was raised in one of those states five years ago. Also, as in Ocram's case, businesses that would have otherwise hired students for part time positions no longer can afford to at the higher wage mandates, stifling a bit of growth. Unemployment among teenagers in the States is many times higher than what it was when I was a student many, MANY moons ago.

Of course, reading other posts above that some places have an age scale to the minimum wage system, if there HAS to be such laws, that would be the way to go. Even I could get behind that. It's a relatively good idea. (although if I'm being honest, what kind of adult would put himself in a position where he needs a minimum wage job to raise a family? that doesn't seem particularly prudent to me...)

  Edited April 20, 2012 by NMUSpidey  

[astronelson 339]

7692.

If you want my figures (which I quoted in AUD) in USD, they are as follows:

$15.51 an hour AUD = $16.06 an hour USD

$589.30 a week AUD = $610.05 a week USD

$5.71 an hour = $5.91 an hour USD.

Out of interest, I checked the median rent for my suburb - it's $290 a week, leaving about $300 per week for other expenses if working at minimum wage. Looking at the property listings the cheapest currently available is $390 a week.

[airman15 4,111]

7693

My normal income is around $40 to $70 and I don't have any expenses.. because i'm not 18 and I can't tap into my savings yet.

[Duke87 1,070]

(7694)

I think teens are a particular demographic in America that's been edged out of employment by immigrants. Teens don't want to do dirty work and what motivation do they have to when their parents cover their costs?

[Larks2242 251]

7695.

Depends what the work is.

[jacksunny 741]

7696.

I'll do practically anything to get money, I'm so bored all the time.

This summer I'm reffing little kids' soccer games, so I'll get some money from that...

[airman15 4,111]

7697

I work for my family as part of a small business. We go around the county cleaning carpets, windows and gutters. Its a dirty and tedious job but i'm glad I have it because by the time I am 18, I probably would have a car and I might have enough to buy a rental house.

[Duke87 1,070]

(7698)

I never had a job in high school, or in college while class was in session. I spent the summer after 9th and 10th grades in a summer camp program of sorts. I spent the summers after 11th and 12th grades doing absolutely nothing in particular. I spent (part of) the summers after freshman and sophomore years of college taking a class. It was then the summer after my junior year where I jumped straight out of never having been employed before into being an intern at the local public works department. I returned to that the following summer. And at the end of the summer after that, after having spent 8 months since graduation looking for one, I got a fulltime job, which, a year and a half later, I'm still at.

Of course, key is that my parents let me get away with this. Not all parents would. But many parents do - it seems to become more common as the income of said parents goes up. In my case, my parents only demanded that I get out of the house and do stuff, they didn't care what it was. Hanging out with friends was acceptable and even encouraged. They just didn't want me to spend the whole summer cooped up in the basement at the computer, watching TV, playing video games, etc. (which I totally would have if they let me).

  Edited April 21, 2012 by Duke87  

[astronelson 339]

7699.

On the topic of basements, I've noticed they're more common in the US than they are here in Australia. We still have one of the largest average home sizes in the world though.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

7700

No basements in Japan. They are all amazed here when I say that almost all homes in my region have basements. I think they're rare in Florida and elsewhere around the South, but I'm not sure. Where I'm from, it really helps to have them when tornadoes blow through.

Also, I worked at a video store from 10th-12th grade, then I worked on the loading dock of a department store, doing site cleanup for a construction company, detailing cars, and working one summer putting up and tearing down carnival rides before moving to college and working at a dry cleaners and a small grocer. The detailing job was fun, and the grocer job was fun, and the dry cleaners gave me SO much free time so I played Civ III between customers. I also spent time here and there working at the comic book store when I was in my hometown for no particular reason, so I've been employed pretty much steadily from before I turned 16. My parents wanted all of us to get our own money, but they helped out when we absolutely needed it. Most of my friends worked, too, so we'd end up hanging out together from about 11pm to 2 or 3 am on the weekends. Good times.

  Edited April 21, 2012 by NMUSpidey  

[airman15 4,111]

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There aren't any basements that I know of in my area. Just a sea of suburbia and 2 floor apartments.

[Duke87 1,070]

(7702)

Traditionally the point of having a basement was that it was someplace that stayed cool, which made it ideal for storing food and whatnot. Later, when artifical climate control came in, it was the place to stick the boiler and other mechanical equipment - and of course still a major place to store stuff.

That I think is the key. The reason American homes are more likely to have basements and attics is because Americans are more materialistic and tend to have more crap they need to store. Also why self-storage facilities are so common here, for those who don't have a basement or an attic.

Basements aren't common in Florida because Florida gets hurricanes and because the groundwater table is usually very close to the surface. i.e., a basement in Florida is very flood-prone.

I'd imagine the reason basements aren't so common in Japan has something to do with earthquakes.

  Edited April 21, 2012 by Duke87  

[jacksunny 741]

7703.

Almost all houses in our area have basements.

[RipRap 4,400]

7704

Same situation, but sometimes there are houses without basements at all; those are primarily the duplex houses.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

7705

My Dad lives in a duplex and the laundry/boiler room is arguably a basement though the lower apartment is on the same level (it is on a steep hill). Basements are popular in the USA for multiple reasons: storage cellars, tornado shelters, and bomb shelters from Cold War mentality in addition to storing junk and keeping a boiler.

[airman15 4,111]

7706

I don't have a basement, bomb shelter or any underground protection. The major drawback with living in an apartment complex leaves us pretty much out in the open. Fortunately we don't get twisters or hurricanes but big earthquakes are possible and we all know what happens to buildings with two floors or more..

[Charlie_Zane 963]

7707 i have a basement, ish. half underground. that's it

[Duke87 1,070]

(7708)

Really tall buildings are actually very safe in earthquakes because once the height goes above 500 feet or so, wind controls the design. As such, above that the buildings are always overdesigned with regards to earthquakes.

[Larks2242 251]

7709.

Well almost ranked up to max in BF, currently halfway to 50.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

7710

What's BF?