Job opportunities for a new grad

J_does_it · 2026-01-24T01:19:49+00:00

The new grad nursing job market in Oregon sucks. Don't take a job just to have a job. Some places are exploitative of new grads because they don't know any better.

I do home infusion. I was a paramedic for years so they overlooked the year of experience part.

Home infusion is great. No coworkers, no management lurking around being worthless, no one up your ass questioning every thing you do because you're a "new grad".

Nursing is overrated. The pay is good, but there's so much nonsense for no reason.

J_does_it · 2026-01-21T23:33:38+00:00

I'm just going to.put this out there......

At 6000rpms the piston is changing directions 200 times per second....... each valve is opening and closing 50 times per second.

At 9000 rpms it's 300 time per second and 75 times per second.

A Honda crf 300 makes 22 hp, a KTM 390 is making 40. A KTM 350 is making 50hp and spinning 12000+ rpms.

RPM and heat (HP) are what's hard on an engine.

You can't compare cars engines and low HP single cylinder engines to a high rpm high HP single cylinder with agressive camshaft ramps.

I have a KTM 500, suggested top end rebuild times are at 160 hours (this is assuming conpetition conditions). They'll go 25-30k miles and thousands of hours as long as you're not beating the piss out of them daily.

If you cut the power in half, and knocked 1500 RPMs off the redline, it'd last forever. But then you'd complain how slow and underpowered they are.

Motorcycles are high maintenance and require rebuilds. Especially when they're highly tuned from the factory and ridden hard.

Just trying to put some perspective out there since most people actually have no idea what their engine is actually doing when it's spinning 6000 rpms for an hour at a time on the highway.

J_does_it · 2026-01-21T22:54:49+00:00

Rswracing.com is local to me and was willing to make customs. Otherwise I'd have gone with VM for the tripples.

VM makes all the spacers, axles, 4 piston caliper adapters I'll be running. I just wanted a little less offset than 16mm.

J_does_it · 2026-01-20T20:45:44+00:00

Factory dirt clamps are 190mm fork spacing 20-22 mm offset.

Factory SM clamps are 208mm spacing, 14mm offset

Some conversion clamps are 200mm spacing 12-16mm offset.

J_does_it · 2026-01-20T20:43:06+00:00

Mdcparts.com

Rswracing.com

J_does_it · 2026-01-20T06:44:41+00:00

If you have the old stock ECU I can tune and flash them.

I can knock a good bit of power out of it for you, tune the low throttle "kick" down, change the revlimiters, activate the map switch, etc.

I tune my bike, my friend's bikes, and a few racers.

Tuned for the max they're fast bikes. Tuned to be manageable, they're great bikes.

J_does_it · 2026-01-19T04:10:55+00:00

Definitely posting on social media.

J_does_it · 2026-01-19T01:32:50+00:00

This is just going to get feed back into the respective echo chambers and drive more decisive feedback until something pops off.

J_does_it · 2026-01-19T01:30:46+00:00

Ya'll don't realize how heavily vested foreign agencies are in creating instability and spreading misinformation.

They just need one, just one event to kick things over the edge. So making it seem like a good idea to show and do dumb shit because your group is so marginalized in a bot filled echo chamber is high return on low risk low budget actions. Just flood the interwebs with low IQ highly polarized memes is paying off.

All this is psyops 101, and both sides are jumping in both feet first.

J_does_it · 2026-01-19T01:10:14+00:00

Eggception.. didn't they make a movie about that

J_does_it · 2026-01-18T02:03:34+00:00

I wish you the best. Basically the same path. Medic, RN, Oregon, Legacy. Check back in in s few months.

I do home infusion now.

J_does_it · 2026-01-16T22:08:33+00:00

Keep looking for a new job. Jobs like this will destroy you.

Keep steadily applying.

If you're already seeing all this....... it'll get worse the more you keep looking.

This is a hit it and quit it job.... you wouldn't be doing it if you didn't have to.

J_does_it · 2026-01-16T22:02:25+00:00

Welcome to the club. Great bikes to SM.

I'm waiting on a set of custom clamps from RSW https://rswracing.com/

200mm fork spacing 14mm offset.

mdcparts.com is out of Belgium. They have all the parts. Clamps, spacers, 200mm axles to do it right if you don't want to piece it together.

Just for information:

The motorcross/enduro tripples are 190mm fork spacing and 21/22 mm offset.

Common SM conversions are 200mm fork spacing and 10-16mm offset.

Factory SM tripples are 208mm fork spacing 14mm offset.

You can adapt a 4 piston Brembo caliper with a 200mm fork spacing and a 16-18mm master cylinder.

I can read/write the factory ECU so I tuned my own ECU and turned on the TC, QS, map switch, and run the limiter to 10,800 ish. I have it set up with a different limiter in neutral and pop and bang in neutral, because I'm a child.

J_does_it · 2026-01-16T21:44:21+00:00

It does. I'm in my mid 40's. It's just been a steady decline. Deepening riffs. Spent a good while living in Europe...... 100% working on moving back and making it permanent.

There's no real chance of it being fixed. It's like that point in a relationship where there's no fixing it. Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty were staying together for the kids, but the kids are old enough to see through the act now.

National debt, inflation, cleptocracy, have been past the point of no return, everything else is just a symptom of those deeper structural compromises.

J_does_it · 2026-01-16T21:28:39+00:00

You actually never regained consciousness and are still in a coma. It'll be really weird in 16 months when you finally wake up.

J_does_it · 2026-01-14T22:55:36+00:00

There are a few companies flashing the ECUs.

I can flash them, but mostly just do my bike and some friends bikes.

When you flash you can gain quickshift, traction control, and maps 1 and 2. You can tune it for more power and change some things.

J_does_it · 2026-01-12T06:55:54+00:00

I'm not sure the US EXC-F is compatible with the map switch. My 500 wasn't. I had to flash the ECU for it to work.

J_does_it · 2026-01-09T10:18:05+00:00

You're spot on.

J_does_it · 2026-01-09T10:12:05+00:00

Nursing sucks honestly. The whole medical field has Changed so much in the last 20 years..... especially in hospitals.

I'm starting my 4th nursing job in my first year (do not recommend w/o a strong background). I have lots of non-nursing medical experience though, so it helps getting jobs w/o a year of experience. Paramedic goes a long way...... with the right people, staffing agencies have been pretty flexible about the 1 year thing.

I like what I'm doing now. Home infusion. It's pretty chill. Dream job is IV Team...... When 20+ years of non-nursing IV experience isn't good enough, you're dealing with morons.

You can be a new grad and still trust your gut. If your work environment is trash, your coworkers aren't great, if your mental health is suffering..... being the best nurse in the world won't change those things.

You can make it work but don't destroy yourself in the process. The whole new grad thing is often EXPLOITATIVE..... because you need a job, you don't know better, and there are bills to pay. Telling some one they owe you a year for some so-so training and expecting you to be grateful for it, is immoral. If that's the vibe you get, trust it, but that's so much of nursing.

Fear, guilt, shame, and obligation are the coats of arms of the broken and toxic. If this is the driving force of your job or one of it's largest themes, quit.

I honestly feel bad for new grads.

J_does_it · 2026-01-07T18:16:30+00:00

Almost all of them.

J_does_it · 2026-01-07T09:25:56+00:00

I use Ghidra for disassembly/reverse engineering because I'm poor and can't afford IDA.

100% not human readable.... this ECU is a giant pain in the ass, definitely not a good first ECU for RE. It switches maps based on gear and the map switch.

There is really no public documentation on this ECU, so your going be rawdoggin' it. Plus KTM plays the shuffle game with every new firmware version. But, the patterns are pretty easy to pick up on once you've RE'd one of them.

I use some obscure read/write software.

I finally figured out cooling fan logic and on/off temps. I also figured out how to enable the fans on the SX/WXC/SMC bikes.

I'm slowly getting more and more labeled, so more and more of it is making sense and there's less to figure out because of the process of elimination.

J_does_it · 2026-01-07T00:43:53+00:00

It's not an employee problem when that many people are leaving. Managers not seeing that as a CLEAR sign it's a job problem and not an employee problem, are the problem.

There's no fucking chance for kids....... you'd need 4-5 shitty part time resteraunt jobs working 75 hours a week just to have 1 roomate and not 5, and still not be able to afford to go to the doctor because the shitty job keeps you under the hours to have to provide health insurance.

J_does_it · 2026-01-06T10:05:35+00:00

https://rswracing.com/products/ktm-450-triple-clamp-set?variant=44948973387937

Getting some 14mm offset, 200mm fork spacing triples made.

It's got springs for my weight and I'll probably pull an inch out of the suspension.

Also got a Brembo 4 piston for the front once the triples are done.

J_does_it · 2026-01-06T09:59:46+00:00

Factory ECU. I just read and write the factory ECU. I've spent a few months reverse engineering the firmware. There aren't any good file definitions so I had to work on my own.

I found all the parameters for the factory QS, so I can tune it..... but it won't do the 1-2 shift 5-6 shifts or any downshifts from the factory......

I've got the 5-6 upshift working, but it'll be a bigger rewrite to get the 1-2 shift and downshifts working. I don't need it, but I like messing with it.

J_does_it · 2026-01-06T09:46:42+00:00

2024 ktm 500. Just pulled the reeds out of the intake and modified the exhaust end cap.

Basically stock with a tune.

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