That’s anywhere urban to be fair.

Totally, just be up front with them and ask if they could swap you into a more fuel efficient loaner because you have a big commute. While better than no loaner, I could understand the frustration with being put into larger suv.

Good call. Anyone looking at a 7 year payment for a vehicle can’t afford that vehicle.

I never said op should buy a house, just move out of their parents house rather than buying an expensive new car. Peak earning years? They are 19…..

If you have an awesome job, and you are 19, why not move out of your parents house and get your own place rather than buying a $40k-$60k car at 19 years old? Cars are not investments, they are depreciating assets. Agreed, the model y is ugly.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t had their catalytic converter stolen yet.

Giada De Laurentits (sic).

Padma Lakshmi

Came here to say the same. Low volume products typically cost more.

It will all be over with by Easter…

Hell bent on not buying a trailer.

Sorry you are going through this. My spouse was similarly mugged walking on her way to work in Philadelphia in broad daylight by three people. Some p.o.s. UPenn undergrads watched from their porch while laughing. A coworker of hers was riding by on his bicycle, saw it, and jumped in to help her and the muggers ran off. I was so very thankful her coworker did that. Thankfully she was not badly hurt and mentally worked through it. There are still good folks in the world and in this city. Sorry you drew a shit batch of onlookers.

I’m a later gen-x, and I feel like the late gen-x to early millennial could be carved out into a separate generation. I have way more in common with early millennials than I do with a fellow gen-x person that is 10 years older than me. Totally true that we are the most computer literate.

I don’t agree with the advice to study for and pass an additional two more certs on top of A+ for Sharpshooter188. Get A+ certified and see where that takes you. It could land you into an entry level IT job that pays better than being a security guard. Get a help desk gig and work that for a year or two and see where it leads. I would say the bigger the organization, the better. You will gain professional contacts and potentially advance into more specialized departments. You will also gain some perspective on where you want your IT career to go.

So true about current job postings. So many of them are comical because they list out so many responsibilities. To me, it often reads like there is no way a person could excel in that roll with a ridiculous pile of responsibilities.

The Atacama Desert would like to have a word with you. Oh, and ahhh, ecosystems are not a race.

Yea, but why give them anything?

Yep. Armed guards on horseback. It’s messed up.

Ha, I have been to the SW, I lived there for years. A 100 degree day in Albuquerque is very hot with the lower latitude and resulting higher sun angle and the +5000’ elevation. Humid? It is rarely what I would consider to be high humidity here in the Portland area. I’m always impressed how not humid it is. It’s only 31% today. That isn’t particularly high. I lived in Baton Rouge, LA for a couple years, and that is humid. Worked in a paper mill there and it was often oppressively hot in the 90s with matching humidity, but nobody really dwelled on it, and certainly didn’t proudly proclaim that they couldn’t do their jobs. Buck up and drink water. foreverabatman’s acclimatization comment is relevant though. At this point though, we should all be starting to get used to this after the abnormal summer we have been having. Editing just to say that I looked up the average relative humidity in Portland and it is higher than expected, so valid comment about the humidity.

In the SW, the temp cracks 100 all the time, and life goes on as normal. People down there definitely don’t proclaim they can’t do their job because it’s 100 degrees outside.