Son of Rantettes & Ravettes

[FirebirdNC]

Data acquired, interest waning

[raptor9k]

As it should be. How's the new job working out?

[FirebirdNC]

They fired my helper (they needed to good grief) and gave me a permanent raise and a weekly bonus for the extra work until they find a replacement. The money to be made here is ridiculous right now. They are starting people at $17/hour with mileage to go inspect homes on the weekends. Inspecting is just what it sounds like, check to make sure the house is clean and nothing is broken. Easy work. The rest of the week I am doing next to nothing. Still at the vets office one day a week because I like it and they also gave me a raise. Good help is hard to find you have to keep it when you do.

[raptor9k]

That's awesome! There seem to be a ton of jobs out there for detail oriented people. Employment opportunities in general seem to be pretty decent these days. The movement in tech is insane right now. All the shitty corps that are recalling staff to offices are seeing a mass exodus from the people that enjoyed working from home. There is absolutely no need for most non customer facing positions in tech to report to an office, but old ways die hard.

[Rorschach]

They fired my helper (they needed to good grief) and gave me a permanent raise and a weekly bonus for the extra work until they find a replacement. The money to be made here is ridiculous right now. They are starting people at $17/hour with mileage to go inspect homes on the weekends. Inspecting is just what it sounds like, check to make sure the house is clean and nothing is broken. Easy work. The rest of the week I am doing next to nothing. Still at the vets office one day a week because I like it and they also gave me a raise. Good help is hard to find you have to keep it when you do.

That's all good to hear. Always good to know you're ahead of the game in the work:wages stakes.

How's everyone else doing? Quick recap if you'd all be so good.

[Blackjack]

I actually have a job in my industry! I'm an embedded systems engineer for a small start-up.
Been working with them for a couple weeks, I still feel I don't really know what I'm doing.
No-one has seemed to notice yet.

I like the people I work with. I'm older than the guy who owns the company which just feels weird. Suppose that happens when you graduate in your 30s, though.

[BtEO]

Rave: New PC… New £2500 PC…
Rant: Having to reinstall everything just the way I like it.

[Blackjack]

Oof, that's a hell of a machine. Have much difficulty finding parts?

[raptor9k]

These days you could easily spend that on a GPU alone lol.

[BtEO]

I just ordered it from a PC builder and let them deal with finding the parts.
Looking at the unused parts from the case/mobo (some of which don't even appear to be described in the respective manual) I'm sure I made the right choice — if I'd tried to build it myself I'd have been constantly worried I didn't include something I needed to; the cable management would have been shit too.

[raptor9k]

I built a new desktop when I changed jobs around 3 years ago. It was the first I'd built since right out of college. Cable management in the newer cases is super easy now. Modular PSU goes in its own compartment at the bottom of the case. Nearly everything can be run in from behind the motherboard directly to its socket. My cheap Phanteks case even let me mount 2 SSDs behind the motherboard in a little half cage that fits perfectly between the plate and the side wall of the case.

What specs did you end up with?

[BtEO]

Ryzen 7 5800X + RTX 3070. 16GiB RAM. 1TB NVMe SSD + 2TB SATA SSD.

As few flashy LEDs as possible.

[Deacon]

Ryzen 7 5800X + RTX 3070. 16GiB RAM. 1TB NVMe SSD + 2TB SATA SSD.

As few flashy LEDs as possible.

That’s a lot of Minecraft!

[BtEO]

I am planning a playthrough of the Metroid Prime Trilogy in Dolphin, even though I still own the physical hardware for playing it. (In fact I have three consoles capable of playing Prime 1/2)

[raptor9k]

Sounds like a pretty slick rig. I can relate on the LEDs. The side of my case is glass and I intentionally have every configurable RGB light disabled and the glass facing the wall.