Woo! Got my first internship!

[Meatwad]

I'd be surprised if I could get that, lol.

Here a 3 bedroom/2 bath can be had for $60,000 or less

[Pigslilspaz]

Also, gas is 4.33/gal cheapest here. Whenever I go visit folks in other states, I look at the gas and my jaw hits the floor.

[guncrasher]

Here a 3 bedroom/2 bath can be had for $60,000 or less

yeah but how much does the average person make there?


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[Melvin]

I bought my 3 bedroom, 1 bath house on a double lot for $17,000 back in 2000.

$40,000 worth of fixer-upper type stuff and she's finally coming along.

[Rash]

It's a gas/electric company that works with PG&E. And sorry, all slots are filled up. Anyways, you'd have to move out to California, and where I live 18/hr is below living wage for a college student.

Isn't that the company that had a gas line leak and explode in a neighborhood?  Gas companys hire college students to walk the large underground right of ways around here during the summer.

[Meatwad]

yeah but how much does the average person make there?


semp

9-10 an hour and thats only because illinois raised the minimum wage

[Pigslilspaz]

Isn't that the company that had a gas line leak and explode in a neighborhood?  Gas companys hire college students to walk the large underground right of ways around here during the summer.

PG&E yes, the company I'm interning with had nothing to do with the San Bruno explosion.

[Ardy123]

PG&E yes, the company I'm interning with had nothing to do with the San Bruno explosion.

wtg pigslilspaz    I remember my first internship, I was a tad younger but back in the mid 90's and the dot-com bubble was going strong. I was getting paid about the same you were to set up computers for start-ups.

Word of advice, try and stay in contact with the people you meet at your internship.

Isn't that the company that had a gas line leak and explode in a neighborhood?  

If your referring to the San Bruno incident, yeah, it is.

[Rash]

Just now, I read wiki about San Bruno.  It said something about bad welds, which I remember about reading about a year or so ago? Wiki didn't say anything about that pipe being 40-50 years old?  Last year, the local gas company bored a 24" line under the far side of the my property at work.  They gave me a nice check, but I still feel I got screweded (just checking the profane filter on that).  Anyway, most gas suppliers seem really attentive to the condition of their pipeline around here.

[Rash]

One of the things I do as a work service, I wrap pipe weak sections of pipe with carbon fiber and a few other materials.  I got this video a couple of weeks ago from a company in Houston.  They use fiberglass and resin (looks a lot more economical).  The video has a a cool controlled explosion of a section of pipe. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xbGdcqj1P0&feature=player_embedded

[guncrasher]

9-10 an hour and thats only because illinois raised the minimum wage

now you know why the houses are inexpensive.  and even making 9-10 bucks an hour for 2 people and with a couple of kids you still cant afford much even with housing that low.

a single parent with a couple of kids making 10 bucks an hour will have a hard time buying a house even at 50 or 60k.

I lived in charlote nc back in the 90's and i was making around 65k a year.  had a wife and 3 kids.  I bought my first house for 90k.  really nice 3 bed/2 bath with a pool.  what really was killing me was the damn electricity bill almost 400 bucks a month and that was due to either being too fricking cold or too hot.  had no choice but to either have heater or ac on with 3 small children.  and I dont even have to tell you about the price of food.  it was way higher than where I lived before which was los angeles to be exact.

I live now in southern california  and houses are expensive but that is not all over the place.  I am actually looking for a nice house in a nice neighborhood for around 160k.  and the cost of my expensive house in southern california will be less than what I paid for that cheap 90k house in charlotte once you factor everything in.  that includes electricity/gas taxes etc.

I have lived in ill where you are from and I bet your gas bill is thru the roof if you have gas heater.  I pay around 12 bucks a month.  my electricity is around 100 and it went up mostly due to my computer and having 3 monitors on.  it used to be around 80 and we do have the ac on but not all the time.  as for the heater, i dont think we turned in on many times this year as my computer provides the heat for the whole house free of charge .


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[Melvin]

If your going to live in Illinois, you have to be rich and live on the gold coast.



Otherwise Illinois sucks sweaty balls.



I do like to vacation in Chi-town once and again...



A super expensive town, but so much fun it's ridiculous.




When I was a little boy my Dad told me this: "When you do good things, good things happen. When you do bad things, bad things happen. It's that simple."

I hope that you young kids succeed in life. Please remember to be cool and concise in business dealings and remember that ethics outweigh bravado on the job site.

 

[Xtrepid]

If your going to live in Illinois, you have to be rich and live on the gold coast.

Otherwise Illinois sucks sweaty balls.

I do like to vacation in Chi-town once and again...
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A super expensive town, but so much fun it's ridiculous.
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I recognize the pics... long time ago for me at the Aragon Brawlroom for The Pretenders... must have been in the 1980's.

Send me a PM Melvin, if you're ever in town again... show you my Wolf Collection, and we'll grab a pizza.


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[MaSonZ]

Here a 3 bedroom/2 bath can be had for $60,000 or less

my dad 250,000 for his 3 bed 2 bath 6 years ago...

18 an hour where I live is good money. average is between 10-15.

Congrats though OP.

[Ardy123]

Just now, I read wiki about San Bruno.  It said something about bad welds, which I remember about reading about a year or so ago? Wiki didn't say anything about that pipe being 40-50 years old?  Last year, the local gas company bored a 24" line under the far side of the my property at work.  They gave me a nice check, but I still feel I got screweded (just checking the profane filter on that).  Anyway, most gas suppliers seem really attentive to the condition of their pipeline around here.

It gets worse, not only were the pipes old, PG&E had lost the records on the test of many of the pipes. Furthermore, pressure tests were not required to be done until 1960s and the records didn't need to be kept until the 70s, leaving 40+ some odd years of no records for many existing lines.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703899704576204403883296890.html

semp,
160? thats cheap!!! where, way-way east?  Most 'nice' (nice meaning places excluding Compton/etc...) places ~2200 sqr feet is more like 500k-1000+k.

I am actually looking for a nice house in a nice neighborhood for around 160k.