SwampAssassin

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Link me some 5 acre plots for 100k or less that are within 45 minutes of a large city.

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Los Angelas
- 28 min LINK

Houston
- 41 min LINK

Dallas
- 35 min LINK

Atlanta
- 24 min LINK

Washington DC
- 44 min LINK

New York City
-59 min LINK

Boston
- 39 min LINK

Will you have good cell service or options to call home or FaceTime/Zoom? Do you live close to family/close friends that could help your wife?

With an even time schedule like that, you will technically have more time at home than a regular 9-5 job, but as others have mentioned you will miss everyday life moments. What others haven’t mentioned is that you will have large chunks of time off that you solely dedicate to your family. That is a luxury that many people don’t have.

It really should come down to a discussion with your wife, and if she can handle everything while you’re gone and if the added financial security is worth missing out on every day life.

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Does your company have jobs for all 3.5+ million people that graduate HS each year? Do you think your place of employment is so typical as to describe such jobs as “plentiful”? It’s an outlier. Most college grads earn more than most HS grads. The last figure I saw was close to 1 million over a working lifetime.

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Does my company? No, but the maritime industry and skilled labor industries are pretty desperate for people right now (and paying.) I’m not saying people shouldn’t go to college. I went to college…for a degree relevant to my field. I’m saying people should put more thought behind their degrees and really search out industries that are paying because why would two people go to a four year college with one choosing a degree where your salary is 35k out of school and the other is 150k+. People I went to high school with went to LSU for a business degree and are now working retail jobs making just above minimum wage. In what world does it make sense to go spend however much on a college education to go work a retail job.

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This is very, very not normal for brand new college graduates.

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I completely understand that but one of the points I was trying to make is that people should look at and really consider expected salaries before getting a basic degree, coming out of school with debt and getting a 35k starting salary. There are plenty of industries and trades where you can make 2x-3x times that in entry level positions.

Graduated college last year and just bought a house in a well established neighborhood in Baton Rouge. Paid a little over 300k and got a FHA loan with 3.5% down. House note is around 2500 a month and I usually pay well over that. I make around 150k a year, and I’m planning on doing exactly what LSUBadger was talking about.

If more people got useful degrees instead of just some dime a dozen degree then it would definitely be more common.

Edit: degrees don’t always equal high salary. Just a couple days ago there was a thread about waste management in Houston unable to get garbage truck drivers for 90k a year. College is not for everyone.

Supreme Court rules rig worker entitled to overtime pay

Either going to start making more money or see day rates slashed to account for the increase in pay. Regardless, this could be something to watch

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Port of Los Angeles is by far the largest port in America by volume and space. It’s truly massive. Mississippi River could only fit a very small portion of the traffic that Port of LA sees.

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Your first statement is true. The port of LA is one of the largest by volume moved. However your second about traffic is unequivocally false. The Mississippi River sees between 11000-12000 ocean going vessels a year while the ports of LA and Long Beach see between 4500-5500 vessels a year.

In 2018, the five ports along the river (Baton Rouge, South Louisiana, New Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines) combined moved the most tonnage in the world. Currently in the US the ports of Baton Rouge (8th), South Louisiana (2nd), and New Orleans (6th) are among the top ports by tonnage moved.

That’s what I thought at first too. Just seemed odd that there were about 15 spots spanning 3 miles and some were pretty far apart

Road out Zeta in Fourchon on a supply boat. Had a picture of 115 knot winds from the wind sensors. We were tied up in Bayou Lafourche and snapped 11 mooring lines and had to emergency drop both anchors. Don’t want to do that again

Flying back to school. Left New Orleans at 87 degrees arrived in Bangor, Maine at 12 degrees.

We did a project at school on this with the NTSB report. A lot of things happened that caused this collision
- it was local custom for the ferry’s to give way to the ships. Nothing was specifically set in the inland rules of the road, but they was changed after the incident and the section on narrow channels was added.

- at the time of the collision there were no deckhands on deck, supposedly they were all down below or in the house serving food and drinks and not serving as designated lookouts

- the legal limit to drive at the time was I believe .9 but the ferry Capt. BAC was .8. They ended up having to used fluid from his eye to make that determination because his body has been in the water for so long. Also when they found his body he had an unknown female passenger with him

- also it is believed that the glass in the wheel house of the Ferry was so thick that The Capt. couldn’t hear any signals from the Frosta

“ST. FRANCISVILLE TO BATON ROUGE
229.1 LBD Glass Beach (Baton Rouge Boat Ramp)
There is a paved public ramp just downstream from the Interstate 10 Bridge, at mile 229 on the East bank. On the maps it is labeled Baton Rouge Boat Ramp, but locals call it Glass Beach. Its banks are covered with white clamshells. These are imported from the Gulf. Glass Beach Boat Ramp is directly upstream from the old Municipal Dock, future (2015) site of the Water Institute of the Gulf. The Pastime Lounge (poboy sandwiches and pizza), lies about 400 yards from the ramp in the shadow of the bridge approach ramp. Why “Glass Beach?” Embedded in the levee (LBD), just upstream from the I-10 Bridge, behind some sheet piling, sits –not inappropriately—a dump. It closed before 1960, but locals know this spot as the “glass beach,” because it glitters at low water. If you want a souvenir of Baton Rouge, see if you can find an old Coke bottle bottom with “Baton Rouge” molded into it. (Mike Beck)

Glass Beach is the only public access for boaters on the main channel of the Mississippi within greater Baton Rouge. If you need access to water, supplies, or a shuttle pickup, this is the ramp you’ll want to use. (Note: The boat ramp shown in the so-called “Baton Rouge Harbor” on the USACE 2007 maps is not publicly accessible it is part of an old Baton Rouge Landfill property which is behind locked gates). The only other choice would the public boat ramp on the other side (the west side) of the Port Allen Lock and Dam of the Intercostal Waterway (RBD 228.4).

Don’t leave your vessel unattended at Glass Beach, and not recommended for overnight camping. Baton Rouge is a big city with all the problems big cities have, use common sense safety practices. Your best option for resupply is to leave one person at the ramp and the other walk into town for whatever you need. If you are staying for any length in Baton Rouge, remove your vessel from the water and take it with you.

After Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans dozens of refugees made Glass Beach their home, and it became a tent city full of the homeless huddled under blue tarps and ringed around driftwood fires. The city has since run the homeless out and keeps the area mowed to discourage its use in that way (mowing being the only upkeep that the city undertakes of the ramp).“

I’ve been looking at building an ar-10 and I stumbled across Brownells and they have some pretty good deals. Under $200 for a fluted 20” barrel my jaw just about dropped

Downtown Belfast is really cool too. They have a walking trail through front street shipyard. If you have extra time a drive down the castine road is pretty and ends at my college, Maine Maritime. Castine is a quaint little village with 3-4 revolutionary war time forts

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This is 100% false. I know two pilots personally and neither one attended any of those schools. The rest of what you say is pretty accurate, except that I've asked both the pilots I know if an "outsider" can become a pilot and they both said it wouldn't happen bc the guild will protect the spots for their own kids. No one is arguing it's not an important job, it is, but there isn't a single damn reason it needs to be such an exclusive club that has complete say over who's allowed in and who isn't. They'd be SOL if the State were to decide it's tired of being fleeced by these guys for more money every year, so it changes the model and these guys are out. The problem isn't the profession; the problem is the crooked way it's setup and the exorbitant dime they demand.

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I could be wrong with my dates but I believe it came into effect about 10-15 years ago that prospective pilots had to have a college degree, and within the past 5 years it changed to where that degree had to be from an academy

Also I know a couple pilots who are not related or kids of politicians. It is rare especially with the older ones but recently it has gotten better.

I am all for people who are qualified should be given a shot and that that the system should probably change. The main reason I created this thread was because of the previous pilot thread had a lot of in accuracies