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gschmidl posted:Semper F# Bassooning Wonderful Music: Semper F#
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Being a in a military band is one of the few ways to not be BWM and have a career in music, you get health insurance and a pension and generally don’t have to deploy. Downside is that you need to work a lot of nights and weekends but I think that is part of the plan with musicians in general. There are a surprising number of military bands in all services all over the world and you basically just transfer from band to band depending on your needs. A lot of the bands have singing ensembles, rock groups, and string sections. Also I think a lot of these guys make bank giving private lessons in their off time as well although I once met a particularly BWM musician who owed the IRS for his off the book income and was headed to Leavenworth for the military consequences of that. Overall probably one of the few good deals in the military which is an organization I generally don’t recommend for your average goon.
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Sep 3, 2022 14:36
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Military drummers, buglers, etc moving off the front lines has to be one of the largest occupation specific improvements in workplace safety of all time Ain't nobody getting a VC for playing the pipes any more.
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Sep 3, 2022 18:13
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Humerus posted:A guy I used to work with got a new job and almost immediately went to a work conference for like 3 weeks and they gave him a generous per diem, which he used to buy bread and deli meat and poo poo and make cheap food. He got to keep the rest and used it for...that $500 (iirc) Lego Millennium Falcon. I guess at least it was extra money he hadn't counted on beforehand but still. I worked for about 5 years at a company that gave good per diems and I traveled a lot. I had enough status with airline and hotels and had lounge access for all the free food, so I’d keep almost all of my unspent per diem. I used it to pay down my student loan debt though.
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Sep 3, 2022 18:17
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At my first job I had a 70+ YO coworker who would exclusively eat fast food to pocket as much of his per diem as possible. Like I get it, I was living off the free hotel fruit to pocket the money to pay down my student loans, but at 70 what are you saving for
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Sep 3, 2022 19:24
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Sep 3, 2022 19:34
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Not a Children posted:at 70 what are you saving for Retirement.
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Sep 3, 2022 19:39
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Back in the 90s when I was consulting for a Big Six firm, at one point on our account our policy was that we were reimbursed for actual expenses, but receipts were only required for breakfasts or dinners costing $75 or more. The majority of people on the account would usually eat McDonalds and then submit for a $72 dinner. I on the other hand was scrupulously honest, and usually just went to the hotel restaurant so I could get points for my meal expenses, ate dinner, and practiced my at-the-time active alcoholism by ordering multiple beers or a bottle of wine with my meal, and then finishing it off with a belt or two of aged Scotch (before going up to my room and continuing on my own supply). BWM and BWL (bad with liver)
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Sep 3, 2022 19:58
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Best with money and health is a per diem, and reasonable accommodation request due to dietary needs, getting the employer to book a room with a kitchenette, so you can actually cook decently for yourself when on travel.
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Sep 3, 2022 20:28
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knox_harrington posted:Bassooning Wonderful Music: Semper F# Brass / Woodwinds Music: Semper ♭
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Sep 3, 2022 20:37
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Brass / Woodwinds Music: Semper ♭ Bagpiping With Marines
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Sep 3, 2022 20:55
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Anne Whateley posted:This has existed for years and I see billboards all over the place. It's called Neighbor There is/was also one called “Stache” https://www.stache.com
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Sep 3, 2022 21:21
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Mantle posted:Eligibility for unreduced pension starts at 25 years of service and it's superannuated to 75% of income earned in your best 5 years or something like that. You could theoretically be pulling a pension at around age 45 if you joined young. This is not uncommon in the US with military people. Get in at 18 (or 22 if you went the officer route via college), do 20 years, get out at 38/42 with a full pension and then start a second career to supplement it. Of course that requires you to stay in the military for 20 years, which is never a sure thing due to how promotions etc work.
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Sep 3, 2022 23:33
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knox_harrington posted:Bassooning Wonderful Music: Semper F# Busking With Marines: Semper F#
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Sep 4, 2022 00:07
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Humerus posted:A guy I used to work with got a new job and almost immediately went to a work conference for like 3 weeks and they gave him a generous per diem, which he used to buy bread and deli meat and poo poo and make cheap food. He got to keep the rest and used it for...that $500 (iirc) Lego Millennium Falcon. I guess at least it was extra money he hadn't counted on beforehand but still. at least it wasn't shirts with incredibly complicated patterns
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Sep 4, 2022 03:02
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Gaius Marius posted:I've been to the theatre about 150 times this year, I'd love for Movie pass to be good, but I don't want to deal with the hassle of having to see matinees or risk not seeing a film with a limited stay like most smaller films or foregin films and I'm sure they aren't covering for events like Fathom I'm in awe of this number. How did you find 150 movies in theater to watch in eight months? I'm not sure how many times I've gone to the movies in my life (mid 30s), but I want to say that it's under 50 for sure.
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Sep 4, 2022 05:24
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Yeah, if we're talking the year so far that's seeing a movie slightly more than every other day. Very impressive tbh.
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Sep 4, 2022 09:10
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I've got a friend whose sole identity since his divorce years ago is Alamo Drafthouse guy. He goes there probably every other day to watch whatever special screenings they do. Me, I don't think I can name 6 movies released this year I would care enough to see in a theater, and I enjoy going to movies.
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Sep 4, 2022 13:01
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Kefit posted:I have a friend who was an incredibly talented cello player back in high school. I'm pretty sure he got a cello scholarship for college. Music is like sports: doing it as a side , or even double major , in college itself or whatever can be a very good thing for someone’s development. I partially majored in music and in no way make any of my income from music now. But I do feel I got a lot out of it and it gave me a leg up in certain scenarios in terms of how I approach things. Also, there are volunteer / community bands of all sorts nationwide. There are def options that are challenging high school / college level bands if you look. Maybe less so if you live in rural areas I guess. Cyrano4747 posted:My understanding is that if you're good with your instrument but not quite orchestral good one of the big career options is the military. They've got a special recruiting pipeline and MOS for musicians. The top line stuff like the USMC presidential band are rigorous as hell in their own right but there's a bunch of lower-tier stuff like unit musicians. Good friends of ours have made their entire career in army band. You def need the chops to do it, but it def pays really well. You just have to be willing to move since it’s military, and you’re pretty far down the list, but of course you are also in the military if like, WWIII happens and literally everyone has to fight or whatever.
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Sep 4, 2022 14:06
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Cyrano4747 posted:This is not uncommon in the US with military people. Get in at 18 (or 22 if you went the officer route via college), do 20 years, get out at 38/42 with a full pension and then start a second career to supplement it. Don't get me started with this there are definitely two types of people that retire. BWM do not have a degree or any relevant certification or credentials to go with their hands on skills, haven't put any money in their TSP (secondary retirement fund), haven't kept track of medical stuff so they can't file with the VA easily and have wasted 20 years by never making rank or promoting. All of that to earn a $1800-$2500 a month check on the enlisted side. Don't forget working at Lowes or Walmart because of the mentioned education. GWM leaves with multiple degrees and a relevant license/certification, $100k+ in TSP, keep up with medical and their health but can still file for VA disability for all of life's aches. Gets a second job in a in demand industry making more than they did while enlisted on top of paying $200 a month for full medical coverage and banking $4-6k in combination of retirement and VA.
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Sep 4, 2022 15:01
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Humerus posted:You joke but I saw an article about an app that's AirBnB but to swim in people's pools, which seems like a lovely way to get wrongful death lawsuits spread around. olylifter posted:at least it wasn't shirts with incredibly complicated patterns I mean, you walk by a store that has 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in!
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Sep 4, 2022 17:57
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Welp, that thread title got real. https://news.yahoo.com/man-fell-dea...3KRW-GfFhJkpruA quote:Man who fell to his death from the 18th floor of a New York tower identified as Bed Bath & Beyond CFO
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Cugel the Clever posted:Welp, that thread title got real. speculation is whether it was due to lawsuits or the company just being hosed or what because he cashed out 1.4m beforehand
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Sep 4, 2022 18:06
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Re playing music: one does not necessarily require a band in order to play music. You can do it on your own, for the enjoyment of it. That appears to be an assumption people are just jumping past. Sure, having others to play with can make all kinds of activities and endeavors more rewarding, but an absence doesn't erase the benefits of the core activity.
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Sep 4, 2022 18:13
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Cugel the Clever posted:Welp, that thread title got real. I can't wait for the memestock reddits to explain how this is good for BB&B stock.
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Sep 4, 2022 18:16
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He probably stepped for in a BBB one time and decided to snuff it. Those places are dreadful.
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Sep 4, 2022 18:23
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notwithoutmyanus posted:speculation is whether it was due to lawsuits or the company just being hosed or what because he cashed out 1.4m beforehand I wonder if he sent the 1.4m to someone. I feel like if I was sure I was gonna off myself and wanted to make sure people I cared about got taken care of I could just like initiate a bunch of wire transfers or whatever then do the deed. I feel like even a clear will could result in a legal battle when talking about the assets of a c-level exec of a major company. Sending that 1.4m somewhere could make sure someone likely to lose that battle gets something.
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SpelledBackwards posted:I went to a friend's birthday party last week booked through this service. We kept the group email and had a good time, but no matter what rules were in place for safety and supervision (especially regarding minors), it positively reeked of liability if anything went wrong. Few years back was renting a room in a house with a pool, trampoline, and zip line. When I called to get renter’s insurance I mentioned all this and the friendly agent only asked if there was a fence, and I confirmed there was and that meant everything was a-ok with no higher rates.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Few years back was renting a room in a house with a pool, trampoline, and zip line. When I called to get renter’s insurance I mentioned all this and the friendly agent only asked if there was a fence, and I confirmed there was and that meant everything was a-ok with no higher rates. Sounds like they basically thought of it all purely from an attractive nuisance standpoint.
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hydrocarbonenema posted:Being a in a military band is one of the few ways to not be BWM and have a career in music, you get health insurance and a pension and generally don’t have to deploy. Downside is that you need to work a lot of nights and weekends but I think that is part of the plan with musicians in general. There are a surprising number of military bands in all services all over the world and you basically just transfer from band to band depending on your needs. A lot of the bands have singing ensembles, rock groups, and string sections. Also I think a lot of these guys make bank giving private lessons in their off time as well although I once met a particularly BWM musician who owed the IRS for his off the book income and was headed to Leavenworth for the military consequences of that. In the air force it's a crazy good gig. Everyone else starts at E1-E3 depending on a few things and has to get rated well, test well, and/or do boards well to get promoted. Band members roll in at E6. After starting at E3, getting promoted first time to E4 and E5 and leaving at 6 years I was still a year from testing and then another year from sewing on E6 if I had made it first time. I also don't recommend the military unless you can pick up very specific jobs.
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B33rChiller posted:Re playing music: one does not necessarily require a band in order to play music. You can do it on your own, for the enjoyment of it. Brass instruments are so loud though. There are mutes and soundproofing options you can get for your practice room, but at a certain point I’m a https://youtu.be/E5Hnnf2M_VM
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Democratic Pirate posted:Brass instruments are so loud though. There are mutes and soundproofing options you can get for your practice room, but at a certain point I’m a Louis Dowdeswell being a goon would be the best thing ever
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Thesaurus posted:I'm in awe of this number. How did you find 150 movies in theater to watch in eight months?
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notwithoutmyanus posted:speculation is whether it was due to lawsuits or the company just being hosed or what because he cashed out 1.4m beforehand It might be worse: https://www.businessinsider.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-cfo-found-dead-insider-trading-lawsuit-2022-9 posted:The Bed Bath & Beyond Chief Financial Officer Gustavo Arnal, who was found dead on Friday after falling from the 18th floor of a New York City apartment building, recently was named in a lawsuit accusing him of fraud. Bed Bath & Beyond Jurisdiction Now
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Upgrade posted:College equestrian is cutthroat because it’s a super small world and your horse applies separately I'm genuinely unsure whether the horse applying separately is a joke or not, and I fear to know the answer.
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What do call an equestrian who graduated last in its class at Yale? A horse
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I tutor horses before their entrance exams. It's a niche job but at least its stable.
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B33rChiller posted:Re playing music: one does not necessarily require a band in order to play music. You can do it on your own, for the enjoyment of it. Or as my dad says, "I play guitar because you can't take a piano to the beach with your friends"
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Heffer posted:I tutor horses before their entrance exams. It's a niche job but at least its stable. How do they handle their B-level exams?
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gschmidl posted:How do they handle their B-level exams? Thought of them and died.
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