PSNOT 3.0 - Let's Talk About University of Kentucky, Baby!

Yeah, those rent prices are about the cost of a mortgage payment on a decent house around here. It's about the same though for some of the apartments in the more expensive areas though. The middle of downtown, and a couple other high expense areas, but for the most part, you can get a house for that price, so long as you can afford the downpayment lol. 

 
Sagemoon said:
Yeah, those rent prices are about the cost of a mortgage payment on a decent house around here. It's about the same though for some of the apartments in the more expensive areas though. The middle of downtown, and a couple other high expense areas, but for the most part, you can get a house for that price, so long as you can afford the downpayment lol.
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When I had a mortgage, it was considerably less than those amounts (~$750). However, I also live in possibly the smallest house in the oldest subdivision in the zip code.

When I was initially in an apartment in this general area back in 98, it was $700 for 1200 sq feet 2 bedroom that was recently remodeled. With it being much harder to get loans now that is how much the prices have jumped in ~15 years and that was a listing for 1 bedrooms.

 
tylerh1701 said:
I don't really know what a GS or Step is so I don't know how to use this.
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You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. You can just find a GS and Step in rest of US that is vaguely what you earn and then just see what that pays in different localities.

Actual explanation:

The GS number is usually called your grade. Entry level for computer stuff is maybe 5-7. Other fields can start out lower. You need to actually get promoted or be on a career ladder that gives you automatic promotions to move up to a higher grade. You also usually (maybe always) need 1 year at your current grade before you can move up to another, but you can skip grades. If you have been in the same grade for a year and you don't move to a different grade, you move up a step automatically until you hit the max step for that grade. When you change grade, the step resets to 1. This may all be incorrect. You know how much I pay attention to work stuff...

 
munkywawa said:
You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. You can just find a GS and Step in rest of US that is vaguely what you earn and then just see what that pays in different localities.

Actual explanation:

The GS number is usually called your grade. Entry level for computer stuff is maybe 5-7. Other fields can start out lower. You need to actually get promoted or be on a career ladder that gives you automatic promotions to move up to a higher grade. You also usually (maybe always) need 1 year at your current grade before you can move up to another, but you can skip grades. If you have been in the same grade for a year and you don't move to a different grade, you move up a step automatically until you hit the max step for that grade. When you change grade, the step resets to 1. This may all be incorrect. You know how much I pay attention to work stuff...
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What if the step and gs dont go high enough?

-Pitfall

 
kilik64 said:
Your JD sure was.

(assuming you have a JD as all poli sci and history majors go on to law school)
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Nope. Took the administration and public service track and then got my MPA like a boss.

Funny story about how my phone keeps correcting MPA to MBA because it's probably confused as hell as to why someone would get such a useless degree.
 
munkywawa said:
You are making it more complicated than it needs to be. You can just find a GS and Step in rest of US that is vaguely what you earn and then just see what that pays in different localities.

Actual explanation:

The GS number is usually called your grade. Entry level for computer stuff is maybe 5-7. Other fields can start out lower. You need to actually get promoted or be on a career ladder that gives you automatic promotions to move up to a higher grade. You also usually (maybe always) need 1 year at your current grade before you can move up to another, but you can skip grades. If you have been in the same grade for a year and you don't move to a different grade, you move up a step automatically until you hit the max step for that grade. When you change grade, the step resets to 1. This may all be incorrect. You know how much I pay attention to work stuff...
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Yeah that's what I did. Only about a $7000 difference between rest of US and NY. About $5k difference between rest of US and Baltimore.

 
There isn't shit to do here, but at least real estate is ridiculously low. My cabin was considerably higher than my house even though my house is slightly bigger.

 
tylerh1701 said:
Also Mpaullin has been playing it on X1, and can talk more about it since he isn't held to any sort of embargo.
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I haven't sunk a ton of time in it, but it seems a little sparse for a $10 purchase. Unless I'm missing something, you're always playing in the same circular field against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. In between waves you pick between two modifiers that make things a little harder on you. The shooting is great (though I have mixed feeling about the inclusion of weapon cooldown in this type of game), but I don't feel super motivated to jump right back in after dying on a particularly good run. I guess getting a high score is supposed to be the main motivator but that's not something I ever got super into. There is a decent variety of ships and weapons to unlock, though.

3 and a half diamonds.

 
Wrencrest said:
I just stopped reading after this quote: "After finishing my master’s degree in 2008, I found out—as in, I didn’t already know—that I had $200,000 in student debt."

Come again?
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$200,000 to be a bioethicist. He writes about human research ethics and animal ethics.

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GatorBeerGeek said:
Do you really think other Health Sciences would be lower than engineering? I guess a lot of those do not go on to medical school so I could see a separation of undergrad and grad degrees in those majors.

I heard something on the radio yesterday where they ranked the top jobs in terms of long term job prospects due to growth, salary, and work/home balance. I believe it went:

1: Orthodontist

2: Dentist

3: Computer System Analyst

4 and 5: Nurse Anesthetist and Nurse Practitioner in one order or another

ETA: I was SHOCKED Pharmacist was not on there.
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Pharmasist requires almost as much schooling as a medical doctor, and I don't think the pay is equivalent unless you're actually working in a hospital setting. Cousin is a pharmacist, but we don't really talk.

Surprised Ortho and Dentist is on there. Seems like a new Dentist office pops up around here every few weeks.

NA are definately in demand, especially since they took those jobs away from actual anesthesiologists (MDs) and gave them just to the nurses.

There's not really any -growth- in most of those positions though. Once you are an Ortho or Dentist you don't move up. There's no Chief Dentist position.

Unless I actually get my Bachelors I'm topped out. Which I'm actually mostly fine with. I'm already paid at the same rate as a Bachelors-degree-having employee. I just can't move up into management.

 
Pharmacists start at $125K at CVS here in Florida (Tampa and Miami).  I know two people that recently started and got hired at that rate.  One says they get bumped to $160K within a year or so automatically?  Something like that.   So while they dont necessarily make top end like a doctor they make pretty damn good money for what they do.  They dont have to be on call and can make their own schedule if they move up and work 9-5. 

Doesnt mean the schooling isnt difficult, or expensive, but shit, all they do all day long is read a script that the doc wrote and count the pills out.  Fill a bottle, answer a question or two and go home.   Yeah they have to know what drugs counteract or dont work well together but thats just memorization really. 

 
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eldergamer said:
Pharmasist requires almost as much schooling as a medical doctor, and I don't think the pay is equivalent unless you're actually working in a hospital setting. Cousin is a pharmacist, but we don't really talk.

Surprised Ortho and Dentist is on there. Seems like a new Dentist office pops up around here every few weeks.

NA are definately in demand, especially since they took those jobs away from actual anesthesiologists (MDs) and gave them just to the nurses.

There's not really any -growth- in most of those positions though. Once you are an Ortho or Dentist you don't move up. There's no Chief Dentist position.

Unless I actually get my Bachelors I'm topped out. Which I'm actually mostly fine with. I'm already paid at the same rate as a Bachelors-degree-having employee. I just can't move up into management.
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Pharmacy does require quite a few years, but you come out making 90k in rural areas with no years of being a slave as a resident. You can easily get a business hour type job. Other than GPs I do not think you can say that for most doctors.

Everyone has teeth and a lot of dentists and orthodontists are crusty old mfers. The growth they meant was the number of new job openings there will be in the future.

ETA: Sort of wren'd

 
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So from the sale:

Tomb Raider DE: Great price but I already played it and finished it on the PS3. Plus I got it FREE on plus after that. 

Sleeping Dogs DE: Great price but I got it FREE on PS3 with Plus. 

Now in the past I'd be all like well $17.50 for two awesome games isn't much but I have to admit I'll never replay Tomb Raider and I already own Sleeping Dogs. Sure it might be prettier on PS4 but shit why spend the $$$ if I don't have to. I'm scared I might be growing up or something. Lol. 

 
mpaullin said:
I haven't sunk a ton of time in it, but it seems a little sparse for a $10 purchase. Unless I'm missing something, you're always playing in the same circular field against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. In between waves you pick between two modifiers that make things a little harder on you. The shooting is great (though I have mixed feeling about the inclusion of weapon cooldown in this type of game), but I don't feel super motivated to jump right back in after dying on a particularly good run. I guess getting a high score is supposed to be the main motivator but that's not something I ever got super into. There is a decent variety of ships and weapons to unlock, though.

3 and a half diamonds.
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Just Saturday Morning RPG it is, then.

 
For the second day in a row my Vita has completely run out of battery by my bus ride home. Meaning I can't even turn it on. Fully charged the night before both days and only played like 45-60 minutes tops on the ride to work.

I don't like where this is heading...
 
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Zimm108 said:
For the second day in a row my Vita has completely run out of battery by my bus ride home. Meaning I can't even turn it on. Fully charged the night before both days and only played like 45-60 minutes tops on the ride to work.

I don't like where this is heading...
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"Insert way overused joke that people still think is funny because they don't understand what beating something into the ground means about getting a PS4 here"

 
Zimm108 said:
For the second day in a row my Vita has completely run out of battery by my bus ride home. Meaning I can't even turn it on. Fully charged the night before both days and only played like 45-60 minutes tops on the ride to work.

I don't like where this is heading...
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Are you leaving it in standby while at work or turning it off? I know my OLED battery life sucked. I guess you and Backlog may have to fight over the one Pete traded in to Amazon recently.

 
Derextreme said:
If it's the oled, that's a really common thing. That's what pushed me in to buying the slim. Powering off when not in use made no difference.
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Wow, mine was never that shitty. I almost always could get 2 hours of time when it was on. It did not seem to lose any time if I turned it off.

 
Wrencrest said:
Pharmacists start at $125K at CVS here in Florida (Tampa and Miami). I know two people that recently started and got hired at that rate. One says they get bumped to $160K within a year or so automatically? Something like that. So while they dont necessarily make top end like a doctor they make pretty damn good money for what they do. They dont have to be on call and can make their own schedule if they move up and work 9-5.

Doesnt mean the schooling isnt difficult, or expensive, but shit, all they do all day long is read a script that the doc wrote and count the pills out. Fill a bottle, answer a question or two and go home. Yeah they have to know what drugs counteract or dont work well together but thats just memorization really.
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Most of what they do is paperwork. They rarely fill or count, that's why you have technicians.

As for hours 9-5 is rare in retail. Most pharmacists I know work a split with their partner and work full days (9-9, 9-10, 10-10, etc). Also CVS is the worst. They have the worst metrics to follow but they do end up paying the most so they kind of offset each other.

The main reason they aren't so high is the growth. Five years ago you could pretty much graduate and get a job but now it a lot more competitive. and flooded with recent graduates.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
Wow, mine was never that shitty. I almost always could get 2 hours of time when it was on. It did not seem to lose any time if I turned it off.
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I put a crap load of hours on my oled. I also used sleep mode for 99% of its life. Pretty much only got shut down for updates, or if I killed the battery.
 
Breath of Fire 2 was so crazy, with the ability to combine party members and elemental fairy things. Rand and Spar (or something like that, the nature flower looking dude thing) were too cool. and you could turn the french toad into a knight. that was an epic snes game. breath of fire 3 not so much. and 2 had the whole city building element that was awesome.

 
ok yeah it was the shaman system. that was so awesome. im gonna dork out here and post a bunch of awesome pix that came from Breath of Fire 2

 
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what a great game that was :)

 
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GameStop trip was great. No one in there other than employees. No wait. 8 old games. Several really old. $90 plus. I went ahead and bought the dumb pro just in case because the dude was nice and didn't push anything other than the card on me. And he really didn't push. Also got the mag so I can read it tonight on the throne. Perfect.

Now I can go buy sleeping dogs and tomb raider and have lots of psn monies leftover.
 
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I dont know what you guys are on about with the vita battery. Never shut mine off, been prolly a week or two without charging in standby a lot of times too. Full charge I can play at a min for 3-4 hours without needing a charge and thats with a lot of standby time too.

Dat OG Oled too.

 
Wrencrest said:
GameStop trip was great. 8 old games. Several really old. $90 plus. I went ahead and bought the dumb pro just in case because the dude was nice and didn't push anything other than the card on me. And he really didn't push. Also got the mag so I can read it tonight on the throne. Perfect.

Now I can go buy sleeping dogs and tomb raider and have lots of psn monies leftover.
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What games you trade?

 
Welp. There's a hidden cave in one of the Olli Olli 2 Pro levels in the wild west section that has a Delorean at the end. NEAT! 

 
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