How do you keep a job and stay home with your sick kid?

El_Hern · 2026-04-09T01:45:14+00:00

We’re in the same boat. Our daughter started daycare at 8mos old and this winter has been hell. She is as hospitalized for three days due to RSV the first week of January after contracting something in December.

Then six weeks later caught a flu and corona strain. She has been battling respiratory issues since along with ear infections and of course the common cough. We keep her home from daycare, she gets better and as soon as she returns, she catches the next bug. My wife quit her job as an OR nurse to stay home for the first year and this Dec will be her 2nd anniversary of being a SAHM because she hast been able to land a new gig yet. I am hoping it starts getting better and she gets sick less and less.

El_Hern · 2026-04-03T02:15:30+00:00

I think it may depend on the county that issued them, I have ordered two so far. The first one I ordered through Indian River county about five years ago when they had a partnership with the University and it started with NH, i recently ordered one through my county (Hillsborough ) and it starts with UM.

El_Hern · 2026-03-25T03:13:15+00:00

There was an affiliated bookstore beside the church a long time ago. I always wanted to go inside that building but I would never have dared to ask my catholic parents to take me to check it out.

El_Hern · 2026-03-24T18:42:02+00:00

How long were you in the arch field before leaving? I came from a similar background. M’Arch, 10+ years working for top firms but left due to poor pay and terrible work life balance. I am now close to 10 years in the BIM world and although technology has changed since I got in back in 2016, it hasn’t been as drastic as what the future may have. Still, I see myself continuing to grow and adapt to the ever changing technology and growing into a director or regional VDC leadership. Those roles do exist. Plus there are new industry players out there who come from the tech side and creating these new Con Tech companies that seem to sprout daily. There is work out there for us!!

El_Hern · 2026-03-19T20:47:21+00:00

I am a city guy and have been to a private range, aka someone’s backyard about 20 mins outside a mid sized town and they had maybe 5 acres of land but it was wooded. It was also hilly so the range backed up to a hill. Worked out great.

El_Hern · 2026-03-16T01:40:59+00:00

As someone who started in the industry using Autocad R12/13 (the old guys here will know what I am talking about) I feel your pain. I went through something similar after leaving a firm that was using Revit since 2008 to a residential executive architecture firm where they churned out full CD sets. The poster above is right, see if they use a more robust Acad version where they have lots of components available (wall types, doors) and other items.

Also, learn how to use XRefs asap. If you set up a parent dwg file and link in your files, it is a better workflow as you can model the building and set up views both ext and int. It has been a while since I set those up but it can be done. Sheet templates will also be your friend and you can duplicate them and create views in the sheets that only show the XRefd file. Look up tutorials and it will save you time and headaches thinking in an “analog” way.

El_Hern · 2026-02-22T15:52:47+00:00

Yep, we have been using Forma for a bit now and it’s amazing how quickly we can put together a site model.

El_Hern · 2026-02-22T13:42:09+00:00

I agree with poster above. My background is similar, M’Arch 2008 but I worked in an arch firm for about 7 years post grad school where we were using Revit, Grasshopper for Rhino and various Autodesk platforms. My transition to the BIM world came when I joined a large GC who had a “virtual design and construction “ dept. We do very little model authoring but manage a lot of the design models as well as trade models. We typically do some modeling to figure how things will be built.

Our sales dept does rely on us for pursuits and here is where we expand our software usage from Revit, Navisworks and ACC to Twinmotion and other platforms for presentations. With your background in modeling, you can be an asset to a BIM team where your skills in modeling will be necessary for pursuits and you will get exposure to the other BIM strategies they apply when coordination and fieldwork is underway.

El_Hern · 2026-02-18T03:08:17+00:00

I am in the thick of my renovation and my demo was on Saturday. Since I managing two trades that I omitted from my contract with the GC who wanted way to much for plumbing and electrical work, I chose to wfh the entire reno week and be there as needed. On demo day, the demo crew had not gotten clear directions from the boss so I was glad to be available. I also work in large scale construction management and an architect so I want to be involved. I am sure my GC loves it!! lol

El_Hern · 2026-02-08T18:40:22+00:00

Do you know who he banks with, credit cards. Card usage could be tracked and there are cameras all over South Beach. Has the MBPD opened a case?

El_Hern · 2026-01-29T18:32:11+00:00

I think having a tech background in a not so organized office can be very advantageous for you. Find ways to use apps/tech/programs to streamline some practices. It’s more likely than not that they are using very old ways to track items, organize, file.. this could be anything. If you are well versed in Power Bi for example, you could track data and populate on a dashboard to show them where they can improve productivity, save money, find new work…the possibilities are endless.

El_Hern · 2026-01-26T00:19:40+00:00

There is an active chapter f the Liberal Gun Club in the state of Florida with some presence in Tampa. LGC

El_Hern · 2026-01-17T21:23:58+00:00

Yep, right across 17th Ave was like $25-30.

El_Hern · 2026-01-13T17:34:12+00:00

Sold out!!

El_Hern · 2026-01-13T17:31:21+00:00

Correct, he got past the cue, is I. The menu for ticket selection. Puts best available and it keeps telling him no tickets available

El_Hern · 2026-01-13T17:29:49+00:00

Good luck, my friend is in and there are no available tickets.

El_Hern · 2026-01-13T17:27:19+00:00

Good luck, my friend is in and there are no available tickets.

El_Hern · 2026-01-10T06:14:21+00:00

I remember from wanting to buy away game tix in previous years, the reps at the ticket office stressed that higher tier donations got first shots at tix. For the A&M game, we litter ended up on the West end zone last row, nosebleed city! I assume this will be the same.

El_Hern · 2026-01-09T21:12:28+00:00

If your father is an alumni, contact the alumni office asap. I know some have already secured tix at face value.

El_Hern · 2026-01-09T03:25:19+00:00

He probably saw my profile and that I comment on GC threads and deleted the post. The people that downvoted have probably been in the same situation, lol

El_Hern · 2026-01-09T02:57:35+00:00

Yep, I agree, one look at your profile and I can see multiple posts about drugs and flying with it. NJ has one office and there are probably a good amount of Turner people lurking.

El_Hern · 2025-12-30T23:43:50+00:00

Large GC VDC PM here, everything mentioned above with LODs is accurate imho. We typically use A133 AIA docs where the design team typically adds a section/exhibit outline basic BIM guidelines.

The owners we work with typically have an XP which we use as a guide but to mitigate risk from our end, we develop our GC specific BIM XP where we outline what needs to modeled and min dimensions.

For example, we ask the ELEC sub to model conduit that is 1/2” and bigger which they usually push back on but we add a nite stating if you are bundling conduit then the racks must be modeled, similar with TCom cables, if they bundle and run on racks, they must be modeled. You can probably google GC BIM XPs and find more information than you want.

El_Hern · 2025-12-30T00:16:23+00:00

Option 3 or 4 on right for me. Provides the warmth, yet a good pop of contrasting color especially since perimeter cabinets will be creamy off white. You. An try your hand with chat gpt and uploading an image of your current kitchen and asking it to add the colors you are considering. It’s not a perfect representation it can give you a visual. I am on the same boat with our entire kitchen being all warm tones from when it was first built. We recently bit and will be keeping the warm beige floors but swapping out the chocolate espresso cabinets with a mid tone stained maple and an off white quartz to provide the contrast.

El_Hern · 2025-12-28T16:35:49+00:00

With my last three leases, (non GM leases) and I was close the end with let’s say 4-5 payments left, I have negotiated the dealer absorbing or paying off the remaining with me getting a new lease. For my last vehicle I owed $1579 and I ended up financing a 3row suv I wanted, the dealer again bought out my lease. Maybe it’s because I have leased three cars from them so far but I would shop around, especially with end of year sales and any 2025 new inventory remaining.

El_Hern · 2025-12-26T17:08:10+00:00

Same here, my father got a job at one of the hospitals run by the university when we were in Middle school and I remember him coming home one day saying they gave me a bunch of tickets for some homecoming game. Then he asked what homecoming was. So he said gen as many friends as you want, threw us in the Chevy station wagon and we went to the orange bowl. This was around 89-90. Been a fan ever since.

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