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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Pigslilspaz on April 03, 2012, 06:21:13 PM
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Got myself a paid internship over this summer! 18/hr! When they told me how much they'd pay me, my jaw dropped. Life is great right now, and now I can be able to afford school next year. :banana:
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Got myself a paid internship over this summer! 18/hr! When they told me how much they'd pay me, my jaw dropped. Life is great right now, and now I can be able to afford school next year. :banana:
May I inquire as to where?
Im thinking about working (paying internship) at L3 communications.
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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.
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Congrats lilpig.
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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.
Oh I wasnt gonna apply there lol! Just curious as to who is looking for workers right now.
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Oh I wasnt gonna apply there lol! Just curious as to who is looking for workers right now.
Austal USA in Mobile AL. is looking for help in all departments. I see you are from Florida, so it may or may not be a long haul for you.
Congrats OP! :aok
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WTG
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Austal USA in Mobile AL. is looking for help in all departments. I see you are from Florida, so it may or may not be a long haul for you.
Congrats OP! :aok
Hmm I know a guy who works for austal...
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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.
Here people would kill for 18 an hour, standard working wage in this area is 10 an hour
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Here people would kill for 18 an hour, standard working wage in this area is 10 an hour
But we can buy a 3 bedroom house for 75,000 where he would only get a 12 x 12 room.
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That is just because Kalifornia is so screwed up.
Austal is from what I have heard a good place to work. I have a buddy that works for them in the purchasing/bean counters department; he said they are going wide open. Especially with the additional ships that the Navy just awarded to them and Lockheed Martin. Austal is stating an expected growth from around 1600 employees to around 4000.
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When I did my internship I tested ultrasonic rangefinders. 1 inch at a time.
Detassling corn was more fun.
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But we can buy a 3 bedroom house for 75,000 where he would only get a 12 x 12 room.
See that long, sharp, rusty and dirty object in the corner over there.... :cry
I'm going to go poke around the Austal and LM job listings, interesting scoop.
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I've been spending a lot of time at Austal lately, and I am always impressed with their operations and professionalism. If I was in the market for work, they'd be at the top of my "I want to go there" list.
It's a non union shop also.
Good luck gents.
:salute
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But we can buy a 3 bedroom house for 75,000 where he would only get a 12 x 12 room.
I'd be surprised if I could get that, lol.
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I'd be surprised if I could get that, lol.
Here a 3 bedroom/2 bath can be had for $60,000 or less
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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.
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Here a 3 bedroom/2 bath can be had for $60,000 or less
yeah but how much does the average person make there?
semp
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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.
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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.
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yeah but how much does the average person make there?
semp
9-10 an hour and thats only because illinois raised the minimum wage
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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.
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PG&E yes, the company I'm interning with had nothing to do with the San Bruno explosion.
wtg pigslilspaz :aok 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. :(
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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.
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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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xbGdcqj1P0&feature=player_embedded)
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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 :).
semp
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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...
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb362/saucie1/Chicago2012008.jpg)
A super expensive town, but so much fun it's ridiculous.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb362/saucie1/Chicago2012030.jpg)
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.
:salute
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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...
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb362/saucie1/Chicago2012008.jpg)
A super expensive town, but so much fun it's ridiculous.
(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb362/saucie1/Chicago2012030.jpg)
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. :cheers:
X :salute
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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.
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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 (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.
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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 is I think the largest energy utility (electricity and natural gas) provider this side of the Mississipi. You are correct, but I find it amusing, it's like saying "The ocean - isn't that where the navy sank a ship?".
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PG&E probably has the best watt/btu delivered safety record in the USA. I work about 10 miles from the port of Catoosa, it's the furthest inland navigable port in the USA. Their is a nitrogen fertilizer plant and it uses nat gas as a raw ingredient, and lots of it. The port and ng line was laid during the early 70's. I'm sure the reason they are running a new pipe through my property is a direct result of the PG&E explosion. While talking to the land man, he said soon as the new line was in operation, the pressure would be lowered in the old one for residential use. It's just a shame that it had to happened in a residential area for the industry to care or change. leaks usually happen in the cross country areas, and nothing seems to be done, but fixing the leak. Mexico had a real bad one happen. Around here, some idiots hot tap those cross country line to supply gas for their homes.
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PG&E probably has the best watt/btu delivered safety record in the USA.
Cool, I didn't know that. yeah, you are correct, its a shame that peoples houses had to burn up to encourage change.