The Glade 4.0

After years of temp jobs and living basically paycheck to paycheck, I decided to actually get into something with actual demand and so I finally got my HTL certification last month. I got hired basically immediately and realized that for the first time in my life after paying for rent, gas, food, and utilities I still have almost two thirds of my money left. They even provide health insurance, so I don't need to pay for that anymore. Now I just have to hope the health care industry doesn't fall apart in the next few years so I can actually make a career out of it.

Grats man.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Congrats. Be proud of yourself, you should be.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Congrats!

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"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Interesting, I had to look that up. Never heard of the field. Nice work, congrats.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Not a lot of people have heard of it, which is why the demand is so high, noone goes into it. I get $23/hour base for 50 hours a week, with time and a half for the last ten hours. Pretty good for something that only requires a bachelor's degree. (even this is not actually required, but you're unlikely to get into the required internship without one) Not going to get rich, but it's pretty decent for age 27.

Don't reset your standard of living to where you are stretched again. Bank that cash.

Sounds like good coin, actually. Ironically, it's similar to the average starting salary for a Ph.D. in political science (at least for the last year I can find stats, 2008). And, you're probably starting earlier than the typical Ph.D., so you're already ahead of the game (not to mention student loans and such).

But, yeah, start a 401K and all that, you'll be happy you did.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Nice! Smart to get the cert, and grats on the payoff. Listen to the above, put it away and start saving from now before you get used to the extra loot.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe