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I have to admit that I'm envious of the career-portability which 46% of San Franciscans must have, which allows them to just arbitrarily decide "I think that I shall move to Texas."
I mean, I'd like to leave Chicago (it's snowing today, for example) and yet it's not as though I can just show up in northern New Mexico and say "Ok, I'm here. Someone give me a high-paying job."
I'm in a different situation. With my current job, all I would have to do is get my team to agree to let me go full-time remote and I could then move to basically anywhere in the country that has reliable, broadband internet. For example, my manager is likely going to relocate from OKC to outside of Eureka Springs, AR in the next 12-24 months. And one of software developers bought an RV and works full-time from RV Parks, cafe's, etc, while traveling the country with his wife.
However, having dodged 3 layoffs (knew they were coming but didn't get caught up in or found another job before it happened) and then getting laid off twice since I graduated college 13 years ago, I'd feel uncomfortable that I could find another full-remote job that would replace my current salary and benefits. So I feel the need to stay in an area where there are significant number of jobs for my profession.
Austin would be a very good place to move with my experience and Oracle on the resume, but I can't get over that a similar house to mine would be crazy expensive. 3/2/2, 1800+ sq ft, roughly 18 minutes from downtown in a very, quiet safe neighborhood with plenty of shopping, good liquor stores, restaurants, etc, close by. My house was completely renovated, like they ran new coax cable throughout the house. Their is probably $8-10k just in granite counters in the kitchen, bathrooms, and bar area. I paid $156k for it.
In Austin, a similar house would be $300-400k. And from the salaries I can see, I'm not going to double my salary to $160k+ per year.
What twisted logic leads you to believe any of them have (or are qualified for) "high-paying jobs"?
The narrative which we are hearing from Braineack and the rest of the ultra-right requires it. The left's liberal agenda is driving good jobs out of California, and towards the bible-belt.
If the people fleeing from the tyranny of nice weather, good food and a rich culture are NOT employed in high-paying jobs, then the narrative falls apart.
Originally Posted by z31maniac
I'm in a different situation. With my current job, all I would have to do is get my team to agree to let me go full-time remote and I could then move to basically anywhere in the country that has reliable, broadband internet. For example, my manager is likely going to relocate from OKC to outside of Eureka Springs, AR in the next 12-24 months. And one of software developers bought an RV and works full-time from RV Parks, cafe's, etc, while traveling the country with his wife.
One of the guys who does commissioning of switchers and automation systems for Ross describes himself as homeless.Technically, it's true. He has no home. (Also, no car, etc.) When he's not travelling for work, he has more than enough Marriott Reward points, airline miles and Hertz Gold points to just go... wherever, even if only for the weekend.
Originally Posted by z31maniac
However, having dodged 3 layoffs (knew they were coming but didn't get caught up in or found another job before it happened) and then getting laid off twice since I graduated college 13 years ago, I'd feel uncomfortable that I could find another full-remote job that would replace my current salary and benefits. So I feel the need to stay in an area where there are significant number of jobs for my profession.
Austin would be a very good place to move with my experience and Oracle on the resume, but I can't get over that a similar house to mine would be crazy expensive. 3/2/2, 1800+ sq ft, roughly 18 minutes from downtown in a very, quiet safe neighborhood with plenty of shopping, good liquor stores, restaurants, etc, close by. My house was completely renovated, like they ran new coax cable throughout the house. Their is probably $8-10k just in granite counters in the kitchen, bathrooms, and bar area. I paid $156k for it.
In Austin, a similar house would be $300-400k. And from the salaries I can see, I'm not going to double my salary to $160k+ per year.
I'm with you on the "need to stay in an area where there are significant number of jobs for my profession" thing. In my current profession, there are, in fact, nearly zero good jobs of any kind outside of the 20-ish largest Nielsen markets. There are a few exceptions, where some big network has a master control / uplink farm out in some rural hick-town like Indianapolis, but those jobs are few and highly coveted.
In Chicago, a house like the one you describe simply does not exist. The nearest thing I can imagine to it (based on the square footage) runs about $600-$700k, and that's on a lot where, if you stretch your arms out, you can touch both your house and your neighbors house at the same time (this is actually considered a luxury- in many neighborhoods around here, the houses physically touch one another. I don't know how that works from a zoning / surveying standpoint), with a garage just barely large enough to park two Camrys in and still close the door. It's either that, or spend 60-90 minutes in traffic every morning and every evening. (Some of the people I work with actually live in Indiana or Wisconsin.)
Still, I get to enjoy the benefits of being in an area in which handguns are prohibited, so there is no violence.
Can we all just agree that Florida, as a whole, needs to be disenfranchised from participating in the Federal government until it gets its **** together?
Seriously, y'all are worse than Puerto Rico when it comes to doing the electoral process.
Can we all just agree that Florida, as a whole, needs to be disenfranchised from participating in the Federal government until it gets its **** together?
Seriously, y'all are worse than Puerto Rico when it comes to doing the electoral process.
I imagine the same level of incompetence exists in every state election administrstion but goes completely unoticed because the margins of victory are never close enough for it to matter.
Broward supervisor of elections wagging her finger at everyone as she explains finding 79,000 ballots just laying around that needed to be run through the machines in the two days after all other counties finished counting.
Broward supervisor of elections wagging her finger at everyone as she explains finding 79,000 ballots just laying around that needed to be run through the machines in the two days after all other counties finished counting.
This **** is crazy. Loads of ballots that may or may not be postmarked prior to the election found in a postal facility. I'm sure there won't be cameras or the footage will be missing or some ****. Both sides screaming foul. This will definitely end well no matter the outcome.
I don't know that I would consider an online portal to be a "local business." This is no different from the fact that Amazon (and others) are now compelled to collect and remit sales / use tax on purchases made within the boundaries of jurisdictions which require it.
One of the guys who does commissioning of switchers and automation systems for Ross describes himself as homeless.Technically, it's true. He has no home. (Also, no car, etc.) When he's not travelling for work, he has more than enough Marriott Reward points, airline miles and Hertz Gold points to just go... wherever, even if only for the weekend.
Interesting you say that, we are running into that exact issue now. Big Red, requires you to have a permanent address. I can only imagine it's because they need to mail us the same things they communicated through Email/Slack/etc, weeks before.
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
I'm with you on the "need to stay in an area where there are significant number of jobs for my profession" thing. In my current profession, there are, in fact, nearly zero good jobs of any kind outside of the 20-ish largest Nielsen markets. There are a few exceptions, where some big network has a master control / uplink farm out in some rural hick-town like Indianapolis, but those jobs are few and highly coveted.
In Chicago, a house like the one you describe simply does not exist. The nearest thing I can imagine to it (based on the square footage) runs about $600-$700k, and that's on a lot where, if you stretch your arms out, you can touch both your house and your neighbors house at the same time (this is actually considered a luxury- in many neighborhoods around here, the houses physically touch one another. I don't know how that works from a zoning / surveying standpoint), with a garage just barely large enough to park two Camrys in and still close the door. It's either that, or spend 60-90 minutes in traffic every morning and every evening. (Some of the people I work with actually live in Indiana or Wisconsin.)
Still, I get to enjoy the benefits of being in an area in which handguns are prohibited, so there is no violence.
For your job, I think 20-ish is you being optimistic. In reality, it's more like 6-7, two of those being in Texas. NYC, Chicago, SF, LA, Dallas, Houston, DC............sound about right?
It sucks for me and the better half, because we'd love to get out of this state (we aren't a fan of Scott's politics), but other than Florida, there isn't anywhere we could maintain the standard of living without "horrible commutes, smaller house, shittier neighborhood, etc"
Your last sentence gets a pos cat harder than Freddie Mercury.
Interesting you say that, we are running into that exact issue now. Big Red, requires you to have a permanent address. I can only imagine it's because they need to mail us the same things they communicated through Email/Slack/etc, weeks before.
The aforementioned guy faced this same problem. His solution was to rent a PO box at a post office near DFW, and he checks in on it every month or so.
During the periods when I was similarly homeless (1999-2000 and 2003-04), I gave the company's HQ address on my federal tax return. (I didn't file a state tax return that year, as I was a stateless person.)
Originally Posted by z31maniac
For your job, I think 20-ish is you being optimistic. In reality, it's more like 6-7, two of those being in Texas. NYC, Chicago, SF, LA, Dallas, Houston, DC............sound about right?
There's no hard-and-fast boundary, and it varies by group.
As a strict rule, the good jobs are all in NYC and LA. News comes out of New York, entertainment comes out of the City of Angels. DC, surprisingly, is considered to be a backwater outpost insofar as the capital bureaus. They remain segregated from the local DC operations for reasons of union politics.
Tribune is kind of weird in that Chicago is our mothership. This is a result of the fact that this station group evolved out of the Tribune newspaper group, which is quartered here. We do have stations in NYC and LA, but they're just network affiliates like all the rest.
Normally, getting transferred from NYC to Chicago would be considered a punitive measure in my business. In this case, it was actually a promotion. (Still, I hope to make a lateral move back to NYC someday. I really miss Manhattan.) We are the network head-end for the whole company.
The official list of "places where you can get a really good-paying job in TV," ordered by Nielsen ranking, is:
1 New York : 7,348,620 : 6.407
2 Los Angeles : 5,476,830 : 4.775
3 Chicago : 3,463,060 : 3.019
4 Philadelphia : 2,942,800 : 2.566
5 Dallas-Ft. Worth : 2,713,380 : 2.366
6 San Francisco-Oak-San Jose : 2,488,090 : 2.169
7 Washington, DC : 2,476,680 : 2.159
8 Houston : 2,450,800 : 2.137
9 Boston : 2,424,240 : 2.114
10 Atlanta : 2,412,730 : 2.104
(The numbers on the back-end are total TV households and % of US TV households.)
Originally Posted by z31maniac
Your last sentence gets a pos cat harder than Freddie Mercury.
What the flying fkity fks is going on in Broward County? How can you possibly screw this up, over and over?
This was left in a rental car at the airport.
It's not an accident.
democrats and liberals believe that ends justify the means, have no morals, and no ethics. If the Big NPC on the tv tells them they have to stop at nothing to do what is right, they will do it. But remember, Russia is meddling in our elections...
got tainted votes? just mix them in with the real ones so you have to use them:
Broward county has finished its initial vote count, and will begin the state mandated recount of votes in three Florida states races tomorrow – governor, U.S. Senator, and agriculture commissioner.
The process so far has been plagued with errors, “found” votes, and what many are calling incompetence. The latest controversy came when previously rejected ballots were mixed in with good ballots. On Friday, the canvassing board rejected about 25 provisional ballots, for reasons ranging from registering to vote too late to previously voting to voting at the wrong precinct. But then the rejected ballots were inexplicably mixed in with about 205 good ballots. And because they’d already all been taken out of the envelopes with the voter names on them, it was no longer possible to identify which had been rejected.
“The ballots cannot be identified,” Snipes confirmed when a lawyer for the Republican Party asked. That means there are at least 25 illegal votes mixed into an anonymous pile of 205.
A Republican Party representative said all the votes are spoiled and should have been thrown out.
Instead, Broward’s elections supervisor Brenda Snipes decided to count all the questioned ballots.
“It seems unfair to me to disenfranchise 205 voters at the expense of a small number, and if that’s being unfair to anyone, I don’t think it’s a large enough number to reflect the difference between who comes out of the recounts as the victor,” Snipes said.
Leonard Collins, an attorney for the Republican Party of Florida, said he doesn’t want to see the voters disenfranchised either — and they wouldn’t have been if Snipes had followed the law.
“I think the supervisor of elections spoiled them,” Collins said. “She spoiled them by opening them and separating the ballots from the envelopes in violation of Florida law.”
Republican candidates led all the races in question at the end of election night. But the process of counting provisional and absentee ballots has significantly narrowed the vote. The recount begins tomorrow.
Broward’s elections supervisor accidentally mixed more than a dozen rejected ballots with nearly 200 valid ones, a circumstance that is unlikely to help Brenda Snipes push back against Republican allegations of incompetence.
The mistake — for which no one had a solution Friday night — was discovered after Snipes agreed to present 205 provisional ballots to the Broward County canvassing board for inspection. She had initially intended to handle the ballots administratively, but agreed to present them to the canvassing board after Republican attorneys objected.
“We have found no clear authority controlling the situation faced by the board,” said Broward County Attorney Andrew Meyers.
Yesterday at 1:04 AM · Update: There are two ballot processing machines hidden from view behind a barricade of crates that are being operated for “torn ballots”. They’re not letting any partisan observers into the back. Rick Scott’s lawyers are filming and making note of the event. Why is this being done so far away from the actual counting area? (~150 ft away and hidden from sight). Our GOP supervisor says this is “very distressing” but there’s nothing else we can do at the moment. #FloridaRecount#PalmBeachCounty
It’s behind those crates
Deniz Dolun This is where it should be done, but it’s not... ugh.
Deniz Dolun Update: They’ve changed the system to accommodate our complaints. Now the damaged ballots are being redone by a panel with observers from both parties watching. Our lawyer says this is what should have been the system all along.
NEW YORK, NY—Democratic candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in the middle of a run-of-the-mill interview—blankly staring at the interviewer for a minute straight after being asked how she’d pay for all the social programs she’s proposing—when disaster struck. She noticed a book on a table nearby and reached over to pick it up before anyone could stop her.
“Aieeee! It burns ussss!” Ocasio-Cortez screamed as her hand burst into flames from touching the book on rudimentary economic concepts. She claimed she had never seen one of those “dreadful things” before and wasn’t aware how much damage it could do.
Chicago’s red light camera program hasn’t made driving in the city any safer and has replaced one type of car crash for another. The cameras are there obviously to make money for the city, not for the benefit and safety of the residents. The Chicago Tribune commissioned a study to break down the city’s claims that cameras have reduced right-angle crashes at intersections by 47 percent and calls the number nonsense. They calculate that it actually dropped the rate of crashes that caused injuries by only 15 percent. That wouldn’t be such a terrible number if engineers hadn’t also calculated that their cameras didn’t also cause a 22 percent increase in rear-end collisions that caused injuries. …the Tribune story makes sure to point out how much revenue the city has gotten from the program—$500 million over 12 years. The Tribune also reminds readers of the many, many, many scandals and issues the program has faced, like tickets handed out for lights that had yellow signal times below the national standard, unexplained ticket surges, and outright bribes from a company operating the cameras to city officials.
That response is great. I may or may not have possibly caused a good number of those trailer speed signs to no longer work after I was done with them when I was much younger.
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