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I had the lawn guy bust my big glass door pane last year. He sent me to his buddy who owns the only glass shop in my direct area. Guy working the glass counter is probably in his 80s and as eating an apple when i walked in. Made me wait 15 minutes while he finished his apple before doing a quote. I got a laugh out of it. Probably 5 or 6 big gulps of sweet tea if you measured it in gulp time I'd reckon

Yeah..... I grew up on the west side of Columbus, the worst parts of town here are like the Ritz Carlton compares to the hilltop. I'm in Conway right off of 501, it's a blast when tourist traffic starts rolling in...

Pretty much my experience here in Conway SC. I just had two contractors quote me on doing a vinyl privacy fence (HOA regulations). One took almost 4 months to get back to me with just the price. My house building experience was the same way. They wanted $100/window for screens, an extra $600 for a garage door opener, gutters are an add on here in most of the developments I looked at. I just end up doing everything myself, it's definitely a culture difference. Everything moves slower here Sent from my VS987 using Tapatalk

Sure absolutely, but if they do indeed get him in the door at a company he wants to be at they are worth it at that point. Last time I held an A+ was in the early 2000s, I've progressed far past that so i don't know what the job requirements at that level are anymore. Sent from my VS987 using Tapatalk

If you are still interested in an A+ and Network+ after the above posts, do it. It can't hurt right? I would say though that if you're not solely tied to the desktop/networking world you may even want to look at going down the security path. Tons of jobs and big money on that side.

I figured I'd post here since I know there are quite a few people in the IT world here. How often do you guys experience burnout? To give you some background before I go into a spiel/rant; I worked at Chase doing Application Support (R1RETRTS) and then later as an Application Developer (RSI) for 4 years in total. Management started leaving and so did the other developers/support folk due to reorgs and mostly work life balance issues and all the red tape we had to jump through to do our daily jobs. So I left Chase and picked up a telecommute job doing Application Support (mostly Java and proprietary C++ applications) it was all gravy. Loved it, moved to Myrtle Beach since we had an office there and my parents had retired here. Fast forwarded to the present and we've adopted Googles SRE model which is in short where they take a bunch of different jobs, jam them together and cross train all of those separate teams to do each of those individual jobs including Application support, development, QE and performance testing. I've been here three years and this reorg into the SRE model just started about 1.5 years ago. Everything was good and I was all for it until it came to cross training the QE/Perf testing portion. There is no official training, it's just a hodge podge of asking people who were already doing it pre-reorg and that causes a plethora of problems. The developers are also the ones who did QE/Perf testing so when I try to get training on the testing side 90% of the time they are too busy working on development items and when they do have time to help with training I get very specific pieces of information, usually based solely around what they are developing at the time. So weeks go by before I get another piece of that training and now I am stuck trying to piece together information that I've likely already forgotten about because there is no consistency. My performance review for raises/bonuses/etc are tied to this training around QE/perf testing and I feel like I've been setup for failure because there is no structure to the cross training and it's really starting to create a lot of stress and burn out and personal bouts of depression for me. I've spoken to management already about my concerns and it's like they don't understand what I'm saying. So now my objectives have changed from learning ALL of testing to learning one tool in testing which I haven't been able to get any training on yet anyway. I don't think I've ever had issues like this in the workplace, I've busted my ass to get where I'm at (especially being a high school dropout), I'm making good money for a 29 year old with no formal education but this whole predicament is making me feel like a failure and I don't have the slightest clue how to get around it at this point. Anyone have any tips? I suspect a lot of you guys may have experienced the whole "hey do 14 jobs with no training" thing in other industries as well but I know its becoming extremely common in the IT world.

If you ever find this and no one else picks it up let me know. I'd have to pick it up when I'm in town (thanksgiving ish) or pay for shipping but i'd be cool with it either way

Filed a claim and was a part of it as well. Gimmie my monies

I am in the same boat after a built a few new virtualization boxes for my home lab. I found a lot of racks in Atlanta which is a 6 hour drive from me. I've decided to just build my own and also came across the links that Justin posted.

Thanks for the incredibly useful information mister bong water

The lot in Jackson is 68k the one in Waverly will likely be $100-120k. I am looking at going in half with a friend of mine so we would likely try to get the owner to split it into two plots (or however that works)

Who where knows anything about financing raw land? I'm currently looking at a 60 acre plot in Jackson OH and a 40 acre plot in Waverly. My intention is to finance, pay it off in the next 2-3 years and then build a house on it later down the road and I'd prefer to do so without liquidating other assets.

My aunt owns a wedding venue out in Chillicothe, I think it's BYOB and I'm not sure what her rates are. Might be worth checking out; http://www.stillwatercentre.com

Pretty much this and what everyone else has said. My entire family were carpenters or mechanics, I can use a saw and a measuring tape and for everything else there is youtube. The flooring, tub and rest of that are all easy weekend projects. If you can read/watch youtube and use a measuring tape and basic tools you're all set. Instead of replacing the cabinets you may want look at paiting the entire cabinet or just the doors, or even replacing the doors and hardware. Easy and quick way to update your cabinets a bit (unless they are seriously damaged). Replacing cabinets even yourself can get real expensive real quick.

Cam phaser delete/lockouts and plugs are really the only two big issues with the 3 valve motors. If you plan on keeping it a while I'd go ahead and buy the lisle tool for extracting plugs from the 3v heads. It's ~$60 on amazon. I haven't found a place that actually rents it out locally, last time I changed plugs in my mustang 4 of the plugs came apart and that tool saved my ass. https://www.amazon.com/Lisle-LIS65600-Broken-Remover-Engines/dp/B00267PZUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491839491&sr=8-1&keywords=lisle+5.4+spark+plug+tool After I quit smoking (both in my mustang and f150) Ozium and cleaning the carpet/interior really well was enough to get the smell out for me. I always made a habit to turn the AC/heat on and had at least 1 window rolled down while I was smoking so that may have had a hand in making it easier to remove.