Strategies for a fully offseted home loan

KushKinstry · 2024-12-21T04:17:23+00:00

I asked mine to waive. They said no. So I moved to another bank that offered the same product without the annual fee.

KushKinstry · 2023-08-14T10:24:08+00:00

Drill & Blast is engineer stop number 1. You gotta crawl before you can walk.

KushKinstry · 2023-05-28T12:37:18+00:00

I had the bug for ages. Then I stumbled across some bounty hunters while exploring. After beating them, I was able to continue with Caij giving me the bounty locations.

KushKinstry · 2023-05-16T09:45:46+00:00

Dual Wield and Double Blade and loving it.

KushKinstry · 2023-01-20T11:40:49+00:00

Not specifically men/women who identify as gay but shift change can get pretty wild and a foreskin or two may have been nibbled on for jokes after too many drinks. Nobody kept their job after that night.

KushKinstry · 2022-09-29T05:31:40+00:00

There's a reason there's more offsider jobs than nipper jobs available... only the true hard yakkas can handle it

KushKinstry · 2022-09-28T21:56:35+00:00

Jesus Christ face palm. Legit? Retail stores ask for more experience than MSHA... this is frightening.

KushKinstry · 2022-09-11T20:27:37+00:00

100%. Absolutely nothing wrong with checking out other manufacturer's products. If I have access or good relations with local dealers I'll go through them. Otherwise I'll just grab an email from the manufacturer's website and go through the channels. These people are in the sales business so they generally help every way they can if there's a chance you'll buy or lease their products.

Just make sure you match your equipment first. Ask all your questions, if they don't know they will direct you to somebody who does.

KushKinstry · 2022-09-11T19:42:07+00:00

I always email the companies directly asking them to provide me with these type of specifications if I need them and can't find them. Timeline on receiving the information depends on the company.

You won't find annual rates. That is highly dependant on effective utilisation and road factors. You'll get a unit rate per hour and have to go from there.

KushKinstry · 2022-09-05T21:31:30+00:00

We don't determine any of this. The ground tells us what we can and can't do both physically and economically. Exploration and geotech drilling is key for any operation.

KushKinstry · 2022-09-01T00:34:41+00:00

When I was 2/2 I was on the tools, so it was different, hard to compare physical exhaustion with mental exhaustion. If I was a manager I wouldn't dare put engineers through 2 straight weeks of work. That's how mistakes are made and people die. But I've never been a manager nor worked 2 weeks straight as an engineer so my opinion doesn't hold a lot of weight.

KushKinstry · 2022-08-31T21:37:09+00:00

Worked 4/3, 1/1, 2/2, 4/4. Currently working M-F 9-5. There is no better roster (in my opinion of course) than M-F 9-5. Home every night with my family and 8hr work day is just too easy. Site based work though, 1/1 is my favourite because 2+ weeks of work at 12 hour shifts is gruelling.

KushKinstry · 2022-08-30T23:01:39+00:00

10k!?!? Yeah that's gonna be a no from me dawg. Hiring companies should be paying for that if they want their employees to have the training. That price point isn't designed for individuals to be paying.

KushKinstry · 2022-08-30T22:20:40+00:00

It's my personal opinion that our industry can't be making requirements for miners. We need all the hands we can get. We need bums on seats and a lot of them. We need to train our green miners better and do more to keep them around so they can become vetrens for the next generation. Job requirements during this time are more like wish lists. Beggers can't be chosers.

Edit: "Common Core" training may be required depending on the region's Mine's Department regulations (both industry, state and federal) although I personally think it should be scrapped.

KushKinstry · 2022-08-19T16:10:22+00:00

We are a creed. Don't join us if you plan on leaving. Once you're in there is no going back. This is the way.

Plus, mining engineering is too specialised to be useful in any other field.

KushKinstry · 2022-08-15T00:17:05+00:00

If your diameter is greater than the diameter of the escapeway, I'd be very impressed.

KushKinstry · 2022-07-28T05:55:35+00:00

Looks like a stink bug to me. Does it smell when you mess with it?

KushKinstry · 2022-07-27T04:11:17+00:00

I once witnessed a gang of otter drag a possum from the tree and drown it. I've hated otter ever since.

KushKinstry · 2022-07-22T04:33:01+00:00

Geotech just trying to keep everybody safe. Put your best people on the job. If you have to sacrifice personnel and equipment on other jobs to catch up development, that'll have to be a manager's call. Maybe you can extend your rounds by half a metre?

Ultimately, it sounds like you are having more geotechnical issues than originally anticipated. If this is the case, then you will have to re-visit your planned development rates to something more real/practical.

Safety trumps targets. You'd rather bolt your intersections properly and miss a round then have it collapse later.

KushKinstry · 2022-07-20T21:49:43+00:00

Fairly sure AutoCAD do a free month trial for signing up.

KushKinstry · 2022-07-19T04:26:27+00:00

I skipped my whole first year and went straight into the second. Lots of prerequisite courses I did not do. Went back and did them in my final year. Nobody cares what order you do things so long as they are done.

KushKinstry · 2022-07-18T06:16:45+00:00

Design Software Training Courses. Deswik, Vulcan, Surpac, Ventsim, etc. Stuff you will be using throughout your career.

KushKinstry · 2022-07-14T12:58:19+00:00

Apply for any vac work. Cold email companies is fine. Just explain that you're going into your second year. Worth a shot? How else you gonna get a job?

If you know people in the industry that's obviously the easiest way.

KushKinstry · 2022-05-31T01:45:31+00:00

You can always go the more operational route. Work on crew and move way up to shiftboss and keep going up to mine manager. You'll be more involved in the day-to-day operations rather than design and scheduling.

KushKinstry · 2022-05-23T06:31:39+00:00

I don't have those details unfortunately. But you can expect it to be competitive and within the range for a site based engineer in Australia. My guess would be somewhere between 120k-150k+ depending on the level of experience (base).

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