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    Quote Originally Posted by PityOnU View Post
    Behold: housing prices within, say, 1 hour of where I work. Note the 5 year change. In the last year alone, prices have increased >10%. 10% of $500K is...
    That's bizarre, isn't it? I wouldn't feel comfortable to pay $600k for a house which costed 'only' $300k in 2013. Especially when you need a mortgage for it. As the price of labour and materials only increased by 10 or 20% in that time, the rest is 'fried air'. The value can be halved in the next 7 years, leaving you with a huge uncovered mortgage. But I suppose you don't have a choice, when you live there.


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    I'm a federal gov't worker at a national fish hatchery. The Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery in Clay County, TN; water supplied via two intakes with an average depth of 95' below the surface from the Dale Hollow Dam (reservoir). We rear 330,000 pounds per year rainbow, brown, brook, lake, and cut throat trout making us the second largest fish hatchery in the southeastern region of the U.S. We allow visitors from 7:30-3:30 every day of thr year for self tours. The inside tour areas are currently closed due to the pandemic.

    We have 25 indoor juvenile tanks 25' long and 104 outdoor raceways 8'W X 100' L X 1 1/2'D.

    The agency I work for is the US Fish and Wildlife Service under the Dept of the Interior, but most of our funding, though appropriated through Congress annually as are most government projects, our funding is mostly, however, reimbursed by the state of TN (approx 10%) the Tennessee Valley Authority (approxmately 58%), and the US Army Corps of Engineers (approximately 31%). Those percentages are proportional to the weight gain of fish hatched and reared at the hatchery and then stocked in waters managed by those entities. We do some conservation work with a local imperiled minnows species and a few mussel species in addition to the massive trout production. We have eight employees.

    My title is facilities operational specialist; but like all other workers there, I'm basically, mostly, an animal caretaker. It's a great job, gpod pay and benefits, wonderful co-workers and immediate supervisors; great location to work; but don't ask me what I think about the agency and program leadership.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PityOnU View Post
    Back to your question: there are likely many reasons the chat controls have been made difficult (or, at least, not quick) to access. If I had to guess, some of the top ones would likely be: (1) it was sacrificed in order to make more regularly used features faster to access; (2) user demographics showed that the group of users who would be going in and manually tweaking mic levels could also be expected to be tech-minded enough to comfortably dig through some menus to find it; and (3) most modern games do not actually use Xbox party chat directly - they are developed cross platform and utilize their own, custom voice chat solution, meaning that it wouldn't integrate correctly with the system UI to begin with. The only thing worse than a feature that doesn't work is a feature that sometimes works.



    It's different from state-to-state, location to location. Behold: housing prices within, say, 1 hour of where I work. Note the 5 year change. In the last year alone, prices have increased >10%. 10% of $500K is...
    It's amazing how much RD has to go into something as simple as a menu. I think the hard thing is even in test things take a lot of time to get use to. A perfect example is almost everyone I know thought the Xbox one controller sucked compared to the 360. Going back and using the 360 now is garbage. The x1 controller is so much better and the series controller is even better than that. Granted I still like my Elite 1 white the best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gregsfc View Post
    I'm a federal gov't worker at a national fish hatchery. The Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery in Clay County, TN; water supplied via two intakes with an average depth of 95' below the surface from the Dale Hollow Dam (reservoir). We rear 330,000 pounds per year rainbow, brown, brook, lake, and cut throat trout making us the second largest fish hatchery in the southeastern region of the U.S. We allow visitors from 7:30-3:30 every day of thr year for self tours. The inside tour areas are currently closed due to the pandemic.

    We have 25 indoor juvenile tanks 25' long and 104 outdoor raceways 8'W X 100' L X 1 1/2'D.

    The agency I work for is the US Fish and Wildlife Service under the Dept of the Interior, but most of our funding, though appropriated through Congress annually as are most government projects, our funding is mostly, however, reimbursed by the state of TN (approx 10%) the Tennessee Valley Authority (approxmately 58%), and the US Army Corps of Engineers (approximately 31%). Those percentages are proportional to the weight gain of fish hatched and reared at the hatchery and then stocked in waters managed by those entities. We do some conservation work with a local imperiled minnows species and a few mussel species in addition to the massive trout production. We have eight employees.

    My title is facilities operational specialist; but like all other workers there, I'm basically, mostly, an animal caretaker. It's a great job, gpod pay and benefits, wonderful co-workers and immediate supervisors; great location to work; but don't ask me what I think about the agency and program leadership.
    This is really cool. I have a friend who is interested in getting into the field (BS in anthropology, MS in natural resource conservation), but he's having a really hard time finding a stable, full-time position with anything related to parks or natural resources via government channels. How did you go about getting into your position, and how long did it take?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirageman38 View Post
    lol no. I run a few websites including an MMO. Sometimes I am active on ebay. It varies a lot.
    Wish I was a website guy. My boss is doing it in the side and gets pretty good cash flow.

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    I am curious if after 3 years something has changed in your lives.
    And I mean because of the crisis and Covid. Because I and many of my family lost our jobs and went through hard times.
    The economic fallout of Covid was no joke. But, I guess adversity sometimes sparks innovation, right? I decided to start my own little venture. It's been a roller coaster, but I'm getting there.
    Stumbling upon a blog full of business-related articles was a game changer for me. It's given me so much insight into the entrepreneurial world. You can learn more here.
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    Covid was a nightmare. I had health issues appear just before Covid hit and all those issues were put on hold to let a cold virus lock down the world. I was technically retired just before Covid hit, good thing too, as I was in education. I flew professionally for a long time before that.

    I'm still dealing with the timeframe screwups caused by Covid. I have surgeries coming up that should have been done 2 years ago. I feel like I lost 3 years of my life. I get that lockdown folks lost nearly 2 years but at least in your own house you could do as you pleased. I was basically on my back, on a couch for most of covid, doing nothing but watching time pass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wallythacker View Post
    Covid was a nightmare. I had health issues appear just before Covid hit and all those issues were put on hold to let a cold virus lock down the world. I was technically retired just before Covid hit, good thing too, as I was in education. I flew professionally for a long time before that.

    I'm still dealing with the timeframe screwups caused by Covid. I have surgeries coming up that should have been done 2 years ago. I feel like I lost 3 years of my life. I get that lockdown folks lost nearly 2 years but at least in your own house you could do as you pleased. I was basically on my back, on a couch for most of covid, doing nothing but watching time pass.
    I hope you're feeling better Wally. You're one of the cornerstones of this forum!

    For those of us in healthcare and public health, Covid confirmed all of our fears. That is, that civilization was put to the test of how it'd handle a pandemic, and we failed miserably IMO. We politicized vaccines and witnessed first hand how destabilizing that could be. A virus with a death rate of 1%, wrecked our economies and sowed some deep divides.

    What's going to happen when another pandemic breaks out with a death rate 4 or 5%?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Diggler View Post
    I hope you're feeling better Wally. You're one of the cornerstones of this forum!

    For those of us in healthcare and public health, Covid confirmed all of our fears. That is, that civilization was put to the test of how it'd handle a pandemic, and we failed miserably IMO. We politicized vaccines and witnessed first hand how destabilizing that could be. A virus with a death rate of 1%, wrecked our economies and sowed some deep divides.

    What's going to happen when another pandemic breaks out with a death rate 4 or 5%?
    Not just those in healthcare. I think most reasonable thinkers realized the ridiculousness and failure of it all. Masks did nothing. I'm pretty much in full agreement with you on this. Sometimes you and I don't agree, but on this, I think we do.

    I would prefer to not have gotten vaccinated. However, I might not be employed now if I had not. I was pressured. Pretty much obligated. I had to "publish" my vaccination record to my employer. That seems asinine to me in retrospect. But I have a family to support so I could not take chances. My wife did, and got fired for it. And yes, it hurt us, and still is hurting us to some degree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7milesout View Post
    Not just those in healthcare. I think most reasonable thinkers realized the ridiculousness and failure of it all. Masks did nothing. I'm pretty much in full agreement with you on this. Sometimes you and I don't agree, but on this, I think we do.

    I would prefer to not have gotten vaccinated. However, I might not be employed now if I had not. I was pressured. Pretty much obligated. I had to "publish" my vaccination record to my employer. That seems asinine to me in retrospect. But I have a family to support so I could not take chances. My wife did, and got fired for it. And yes, it hurt us, and still is hurting us to some degree.
    It's really sad that people lost their jobs over vaccine mandates. Especially, when the vaccine did very little to stop the spread. I don't know anyone who was vaccinated that didn't get COVID (some got COVID multiple times), but I know non-vaccinated individuals that didn't.

    I can honestly say my parents haven't seemed the same since their 3rd booster shot, & my dad's doctor was at least bold enough to tell him to not take any future ones since that time.

    The sad part is individuals became wealthy over this, & yet they have total protection from the government regardless of the outcome or long term health impact. I am not saying vaccines are good or bad, but it's the level of unknowns that concern me the most.

    I don't view vaccines as "good or bad"!

    I view government mandates that remove a person's right to choose as "bad"! There's no "good" associated with that!



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