In Australia any lab technician positions 4 year degree and start at AUD$65k, Max out at $80k or so. Equivalent engineering degrees max out at $120k for plebs.

Turns out if you go out of your way to not be a sexual deviant, people won’t have a safe word around you. Go, Normie.

Perun (youtuber) sums it up- for many militaries there is no organisational experience in actual conflict, outside the pomp and ceremony it’s hard to tell what substance exists

When were we working together???

We lost 2 months of local Windows servers in a smash and grab ransomware. we were lucky that our PROD servers were Linux. And this was a place with an active Windows 10 upgrade plan, gateways and air gapping for non-compliant systems. Our luck/planning was the backups system allow for two months of roll back to remove the malware. For the sysadmins, the character limit on the file paths meant we lost a bit of deep dive information 8/10 folders deep. (Over 64 characters or something like that.)

And keep a copy off site

100%. Send emails to your personal address, CYA.

To your question, I couldn’t afford to live where I work (near the brighton end of the SE industrial zone), and the hub-and-spoke melbourne train network means my PT commute would be somewhere between 2 to 2.5 hours one way, with me getting to work two hours after my start time.

We operate 24 hours a day, for back shifts there is literally no public transport option available at the 10-11pm shift change due to the end of service (and making the start time earlier would just mean shift change at 4am, same problem.)

Changing workplaces in the industrial/ag sector is another important factor. For example, my last job, I was driving 40 minutes in the opposite direction to my current commute, it wouldn’t be tenable to sell and buy housing every time there is a job change, the stamp duty alone would be a waste of money. For my colleagues, I recruited a couple last year from a company that wound up, they went from a 20 minute drive in one direction to a 40 minute drive in the other direction, Many travel radially across the city to get here, and large industrial/manufacturing plants are typically NIMBYed in development or if the sprawl grows around it, suddenly there’s noise and activity restrictions.

I could get work locally outside my area of expertise, but I’d be stunting my career and dropping about $50 grand a year in earning potential.

I 100% support public transport and personal mobility, but also recognise the limitations.

I live 42 km from work, and I have school drop off’s and pickups on the way. I can’t live where I work, and the kids education opportunities means I can’t have them educated where Iive.

Bikes and public transport are welcome but won’t help my situation.

Kids, kid’s sports and work. Or conditioning, like you said

Get a haircut, hippie.

Usually straight after the bushfires

Also, three movies

Face/Off

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Paddington 2

100%

You know she did a good job if it’s remembered 30 years later

Storks

Inside out

Idiocracy

Popstar: Never stop never stopping.

Screamers (camp sci-fi horror)

Along with the rest mentioned here.

Recommendation depends on the audience

What the hell is a Redux, anyway?

Apocalypse Now is a great 2 for 1 movie deal