Figgy1
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StarWarsGirl
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MinnieM123
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Thunderstorms outside now -- big boomers! 
Figgy1
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They broke out while I was taking a napThunderstorms outside now -- big boomers!
Agent H
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I’m actually a year behind in my studies but I’m honestly not sure. My mom and the lady who does the evaluation think I should attend a it service trade school or a trade school for fixing home appliances so I have something to fall back on. Meanwhile my boss at work knows someone high up in the Walt Disney corporation and says she could get me a job at Walt Disney World. But I can’t do that until I get my drivers license. (Obviously my parents aren’t going to drive me to Orlando every morning) One other thing I’ve considered for years is starting my own Disney YouTube channel with my brothers. It’s all very stressful!Have you figured out where you're going next year?
Figgy1
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Fixing appliances is an excellent trade to get into, especially with how awful they're now made. You'd be busy just doing warrantee work. IMHO an excellent idea should the youtube thing not work out as it's an overly saturated market
All said in my mom voice
Goofyernmost
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I am impartial when it comes to Sweet Potatoes. I don't hate them, but I wouldn't be upset if they never existed. And here I am sitting in the middle of the Sweet Potato capital of the world (so I heard).
The industry has made the appliance manufacturers purposely make lower quality item and in the process the cost has lowered and in many cases, not all, it is cheaper to buy a new one than to repair the old one. I've kinda lost track of large appliance costs since I started apartment living and any large appliance is included. It breaks, they replace it. Love that concept.Fixing appliances is an excellent trade to get into, especially with how awful they're now made. You'd be busy just doing warrantee work. IMHO an excellent idea should the youtube thing not work out as it's an overly saturated market
All said in my mom voice
MinnieM123
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Trades people are in high demand in various industries. In my area, 3 cities and towns got the funding and grants together, and built a brand new trade school for our region. There's a waiting list to even get in!!
Goofyernmost
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I consider my time as a city bus driver and manager later as one of the trades. It requires skill and concentration, patience and, did I mentions, skill. Most of my career was in management and I made so much more and way more benefits driving a bus then anything else I ever did in my life. Believe me it didn't require a high IQ or advanced education. I know some retired drivers that intellectually were not the brightest bulbs on the tree that now have homes in Florida and summer places in Vermont. Some have ginormous RV's, new cars all the time and are very secure in retirement. The job is looked down upon by those that consider the job beneath their dignity, but a very good, honest living can be made in the trades. We need more trades people because at this point we have sent all the skilled people to lord knows where. It seems that some intellectuals are not all that smart.Trades people are in high demand in various industries. In my area, 3 cities and towns got the funding and grants together, and built a brand new trade school for our region. There's a waiting list to even get in!!
wdwfan4ver
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That is not the only Star Wars holiday item that is coming out this year. These is one of the other Star Wars holiday items that are available this year:
Disney 7.5 ft. Animated Chewbacca™ 25SV24924 - The Home Depot
New this holiday season and bringing his classic wookie roar is the 7.5 ft. Animated Chewbacca™. Trigger his motion sensor and Chewie comes to life with 3 movements and 5 classic Chewbacca™ sound effects.
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donaldtoo
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Trades people are in high demand in various industries. In my area, 3 cities and towns got the funding and grants together, and built a brand new trade school for our region. There's a waiting list to even get in!!
I have a cousin who went to trade school to become an electrician, and he makes well into six figures.
I’ve posted this before, but it’s been a while…
The high school I went to (here in Texas) also had the area vocational school on campus. Students were bussed in from other towns to take vocational drafting, auto shop, hospitality, etc. courses, with availability beginning in your junior year.
I took drafting for 3 hours every afternoon, during both my junior and senior years. There was also a 3-hour morning class. Also, you couldn’t just sign up for the course…I had to interview with the instructor, towards the end of my sophomore year.
Plus, the vocational instructors were full-time in that regard, and our drafting instructor also did design and drafting work on the side, so he really knew his stuff and was up on current trends.
Because of that extensive program, we used to, pretty much, clean house on blue ribbons in regional (we were the only HS in the district at the time) and state competitions. There were still a lot of schools without focused vocational programs where drafting was taught for an hour by an assistant football coach, etc.
As a result, I was hired by a local architectural firm to ink brochures for a builder in the evenings, 3 months before I graduated HS. When I graduated, they hired me full-time.
At one point, I started taking prerequisite courses at our local community college part-time, with the intention of eventually getting into the UT School of Architecture, after interviewing with a dept. member there.
Not long after, I had a meeting with the 2 partners from the firm. They told me I was already doing work that they didn’t do until later in their 4th year of architecture school.
After that, I started working full-time again and never looked back. Back then, we were still doing everything on old-school drafting tables, in pencil and ink. Over the years (I worked for a few firms), I upped my game by learning to do color renderings in marker and pencil, and I also learned CAD and SketchUp 3-D modeling, all on the job. I worked for the last firm for over 30 years.
There’s more to the story regarding me starting out working for the original owner of that firm (no college degree either), him partnering up with 2 architects, eventually selling his share of the firm to them to pursue being a developer, etc., but I’ve droned on long enough, in that regard.
Point is, even though I’m retired, I still look at architectural job want ads from time to time.
Seems there are more firms out there these days just wanting folks that will work hard and do good work, and aren’t quite as concerned as they used to be about a formal education. Likewise, there are plenty of folks out there that just want to focus on their main goal, without all the ancillary “distractions”. As long as the work is overseen by a registered architect, all is well.
As far as the money goes, I made a darn good living over the years based on my knowledge, experience, skills, willingness and ability to work with and mentor younger new hires, etc.
Also, as most everyone knows, there is very high demand out there these days for skilled folks in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, etc. work, as so many others have chosen to go the formal route.
If people can handle crawling around in hot attics, hanging out under sinks, etc. in the early days of their careers, they could easily retire early, or move on to a supervisory position or very possibly even own their own company, thus delegating the dirtier work to others. I’ve seen it over the years here in the Austin area with many of those types of companies.
Sorry for the novel, but, with being the product of a quality vocational education, I’m an ardent supporter of such.
And…
That’s all I have to say about that…!!!!!
MinnieM123
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Just saw a news report about this, welcoming the company to MA. Do you happen to know why they are moving up to MA? (I would have assumed it might have been cheaper to have the business in RI.)
By the way, LEGO moved their headquarters to Boston as well.
FutureCEO
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Reading between the corporate BS line "Boston's thriving business community, academic partnerships, and talent pool as reasons for the move, which will help accelerate innovation and growth". Which means they wanted to and plus they got tax incentives. In my personal opinion, tax incentives are a win for corporate....lose for everyone else.
But first Pawtucket lost the Red Sox and now Hasbro. Although they do have a small tier football
team now.
wdwfan4ver
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I have my own breaking news. I have the fall menus for Club Lounge located on Club Level at Loew's Royal Pacific. I received that fall menu by email.
The falls menu includes complimentary wine and beer that is from 5 pm to 7:15 pm
Here is the complimentary wine & beer fall menu: Caribe Pineapple Cider, Miller Light, Blue Moon, Carbernet, Pinot Noir, Pino Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc and Rose
Agent H
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Anyone got any ideas?