New job!
ChrisD06
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I wanted to share this here!
I've gotten hired at Home Hardware (Canadian hardware store chain) which is awesome. I'm getting paid pretty well and there will be an employee discount with it.
Gives me more money to spend on Polks (eventually a car too). Though I want to make use of the discount so I'm thinking I'll install a central vacuum in our home, change the bedrooms to vinyl plank flooring, and put a new sound proof drop ceiling in the basement.
Side note: Anyone know of how to prevent drop ceiling rattle from bass? A drywall ceiling isn't an option because my mom thinks they're worse in every way possible. I'm getting annoyed at every tile being super warped from humidity and rattling like crazy.
I've gotten hired at Home Hardware (Canadian hardware store chain) which is awesome. I'm getting paid pretty well and there will be an employee discount with it.
Gives me more money to spend on Polks (eventually a car too). Though I want to make use of the discount so I'm thinking I'll install a central vacuum in our home, change the bedrooms to vinyl plank flooring, and put a new sound proof drop ceiling in the basement.
Side note: Anyone know of how to prevent drop ceiling rattle from bass? A drywall ceiling isn't an option because my mom thinks they're worse in every way possible. I'm getting annoyed at every tile being super warped from humidity and rattling like crazy.
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Awesome, congrats!
Two pieces of advice:
1. Save money
2. Go to college. Doesn’t matter what the degree is, as long as it’s from an accredited college or uni.Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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Awesome, congrats!
Two pieces of advice:
1. Save money
2. Go to college. Doesn’t matter what the degree is, as long as it’s from an accredited college or uni.
Saving is happening starting first pay. My goal is to put 50% of my pay towards savings, 25% towards chequeing, and 25% towards emergency fund. Will use chequeing for stuff like audio gear, a new TV, etc. Savings will be for a car and then I'll just rack cash up there once I have a car.
Will go to college eventually for a degree but I'm really thinking trade school. Though many people are telling me electrical engineering would be better than being an electrician. -
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Congrats on the new job!Yamaha RX-A2070, Musical Fidelity M6si integrated amp, Benchmark Dac1, Bluesound NODE 2i, Audiolab 6000CDT CD Transport, Parasound Zphono USB Phono Preamp, Fluance RT85, Ortofon 2M Bronze, Polk L600's, L400, L900's, RC80i's, SVS 3000 Micro, Audioquest Interconnects and Digital Cables, Nordost Silver Shadow Digital Cable, Cullen Gold and Crossover Series Power Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 12AWG OCC Speaker Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha Analog Interconnect Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 11 OCC Custom Power Cable, Signal Power Cable, Furman PL-8C 15 Power Conditioner, Sony 65" 900F, Sony UBP-X700, Fios, Apple TV 4K, Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables.
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Congrats on the job! Definitely start saving and investing (safely) as others here have mentioned.
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CottageChz wrote: »Congrats on the job! Definitely start saving and investing (safely) as others here have mentioned.
Mutual funds and stocks once I'm 18 😁 -
Have parents parents open custodial account- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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Nice on the new job!
Good advice above on going to college and investing/saving. I'm not doing bad now, but if I only invested more when I was younger
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Another idea, if audio is your passion, find a way to get into that industry? Become an AV installer first since you are doing for your system? Get an engineering degree if that lines up with some of your strengths? Here are some good profiles of people doing this from a company near my house: https://www.madronadigital.com/our-team. Not sure of pay levels.... -
Nice on the new job!
Good advice above on going to college and investing/saving. I'm not doing bad now, but if I only invested more when I was younger.
Another idea, if audio is your passion, find a way to get into that industry? Become an AV installer first since you are doing for your system? Get an engineering degree if that lines up with some of your strengths? Here are some good profiles of people doing this from a company near my house: https://www.madronadigital.com/our-team. Not sure of pay levels....
I'd like to be an AV installer but they're not too popular here in Nova Scotia. It's generally HTIB systems or the odd few people calling the same few companies with a couple employees.
Will probably design amplifiers and such for audio gear, looks fun and I feel like the amp and receiver market could use a new contender. -
Have parents parents open custodial account
Yeah.... no. I've got pretty good reasons why not and as much as I'd love to, 9 months really won't be that big of a difference. -
yea 9 months, no big deal, especially considering how young you are. You could just save 💰 in your sock drawer for that long 😂.
But just like a lack of savings will hamstring you when you are older, so will not having a college degree. Any engineering degree is especially good. If you like electronics, go for electrical. If your math skill aren't up to snuff, any degree will make you more competitive and open doors in many industries that otherwise will be shut. And don't wait too long - do it now while you're young. It only gets harder are you get older...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1 Harmon Kardon HK3490; Bluesounds Node N130; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
Congrats to a fellow Canuck. Being an HT installer is not in popular demand as you pointed out. In the end, do what you want and what makes you happy.
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yea 9 months, no big deal, especially considering how young you are. You could just save 💰 in your sock drawer for that long 😂.
But just like a lack of savings will hamstring you when you are older, so will not having a college degree. Any engineering degree is especially good. If you like electronics, go for electrical. If your math skill aren't up to snuff, any degree will make you more competitive and open doors in many industries that otherwise will be shut. And don't wait too long - do it now while you're young. It only gets harder are you get older...
Yeah I'm going to take a gap year after highschool just so I can get a buttload of cash and then I'm going to a community college. -
Congrats to a fellow Canuck. Being an HT installer is not in popular demand as you pointed out. In the end, do what you want and what makes you happy.
Thats the plan! I could always do HT installs as a side hobby 🙃 -
yea 9 months, no big deal, especially considering how young you are. You could just save 💰 in your sock drawer for that long 😂.
But just like a lack of savings will hamstring you when you are older, so will not having a college degree. Any engineering degree is especially good. If you like electronics, go for electrical. If your math skill aren't up to snuff, any degree will make you more competitive and open doors in many industries that otherwise will be shut. And don't wait too long - do it now while you're young. It only gets harder are you get older...
Yeah I'm going to take a gap year after highschool just so I can get a buttload of cash and then I'm going to a community college.
Buttload? Boatload? Man I hope you don't try to stick a boatload of 💰 into Uranus!Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1 Harmon Kardon HK3490; Bluesounds Node N130; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
yea 9 months, no big deal, especially considering how young you are. You could just save 💰 in your sock drawer for that long 😂.
But just like a lack of savings will hamstring you when you are older, so will not having a college degree. Any engineering degree is especially good. If you like electronics, go for electrical. If your math skill aren't up to snuff, any degree will make you more competitive and open doors in many industries that otherwise will be shut. And don't wait too long - do it now while you're young. It only gets harder are you get older...
Yeah I'm going to take a gap year after highschool just so I can get a buttload of cash and then I'm going to a community college.
Buttload? Boatload? Man I hope you don't try to stick a boatload of 💰 into Uranus!
I'm referring to buttload, as in, the cash and butt are equal in volume.
And we're talking Brazilian here 😜 -
Regarding becoming an electrician, union scale on construction jobs local to me in the US are around $50 an hour with about half that added on for fringe benefits. It takes around 4 years to get a journeyman's license as an electrician to earn that much but the good thing is apprentices get paid to learn. College students pay to learn. Being an electrician vs being an electrical engineer are totally different career tracks. Electrical engineers aren't qualified to do the work electricians do without also doing the training necessary to become an electrician and getting years of work experience. Another good thing about being an electrician is there is a major shortage of them and work can't be outsourced to another country.
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Regarding becoming an electrician, union scale on construction jobs local to me in the US are around $50 an hour with about half that added on for fringe benefits. It takes around 4 years to get a journeyman's license as an electrician to earn that much but the good thing is apprentices get paid to learn. College students pay to learn. Being an electrician vs being an electrical engineer are totally different career tracks. Electrical engineers aren't qualified to do the work electricians do without also doing the training necessary to become an electrician and getting years of work experience. Another good thing about being an electrician is there is a major shortage of them and work can't be outsourced to another country.
I think I'm just more concerned with the danger of electrical work and also the fact that sometimes you might have to work right next to a live wire carrying tons of voltage purely because someone else did a crap job before you. If I limited myself to safer jobs I'd make less, if I made more I'd be risking my life more often.
Electrical engineering would be a lesser money maker (possibly) but it'd be considerably safer and I wouldn't need to risk burnout as bad.
I dunno, maybe I'll ask a family friend if they can take me to a job sometime and show me how they do their electrical work and explain how it is for them. Might sway me -
Regarding becoming an electrician, union scale on construction jobs local to me in the US are around $50 an hour with about half that added on for fringe benefits. It takes around 4 years to get a journeyman's license as an electrician to earn that much but the good thing is apprentices get paid to learn. College students pay to learn. Being an electrician vs being an electrical engineer are totally different career tracks. Electrical engineers aren't qualified to do the work electricians do without also doing the training necessary to become an electrician and getting years of work experience. Another good thing about being an electrician is there is a major shortage of them and work can't be outsourced to another country.
Can’t be outsourced to china, can definitely be done by a 🤖. Not saying it’s not (currently) a great job and career. But if we’re saying electricians can’t or won’t be replaced soon, that’s pie in the sky thinking…Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
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I was going to get into the IBEW but I didn't want to wait the 8 months to start the apprenticeship so I joined the Operating Engineers. I do get a kick out of the look on the project managers faces when they see my pay stub and find out I make more than they do.
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