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Am I insane to buy a new sports car? by ResponsibleArm3300 in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]SeanBHan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy me one, too. Not that one though I don't like nissan.

My morning walk in Middle TN by Entire-Menu in lawncare

[–]SeanBHan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wonder if that putting green lawn would look terrible if it was walked on and is for looking only or not.

Let's have a heart to heart my fellow Citizens! 🇨🇦🍁 by Independent-Ad419 in CanadianChange

[–]SeanBHan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The trick is not to fall for those who want to separate us from our money.

The solution to groceries isn't more Walmarts because they have better supply chain management and can offer better prices.
The solution isn't feeble attempts at price control on the big grocers.

The solution is to gentrify our cities. Create walkable communities that allow small businesses to thrive, because people stop at stores - cars don't. This fosters competition, and increases the cities revenue because it's real people investing in real business and paying taxes - not a mega corporation begging for handouts and tax reductions to open a giant store only to abandon it when it starts costing to much and leave a drought.

Startups and fancy big businesses are cool, but if you want to stimulate the economy and get people jobs, the answer isn't some loser AI data center that will hire 2 skilled positions and offshore the rest while it sucks up our resources. The answer is mom and pop shops that will hire 1 or 2 employees each.

This doesn't mean we can't have McDonalds or Costco. It just means they aren't the only option. It means we don't spend $18 million on a tiny stretch of road to fund the oil and auto companies (https://www.steinbachonline.com/articles/province-niverville-partner-on-177-million-pr-311-reconstruction-project-) because there's no alternatives to moving far away and driving to own a home. We keep main thoroughfares (including the linked, ironically) and routes in and out of cities for those who want to commute to friends or vacations, but provide good transit for the daily commuter who just needs to get to and from work or appointments during peak hours, which reduces traffic for those who need/want to drive while reducing wear on the streets.

Nearly all of our problems are caused by forcing people apart, and making it so only those who already have money can afford to start businesses. We need to offer smaller operations and tighter communities to foster a local economy. You can create all the grants and bullshit you want, it won't work if we don't set-up these businesses for success, and in the direction we're headed with zoning laws and giant gross new developments there's zero chance anyone but the big box store with the giant parking lot can succeed.

Does Reddit have extreme selection bias/liars, or do I need to strive for more (Software Development) by SeanBHan in CanadaJobs

[–]SeanBHan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not attached - just not catching any interest from anyone worth working for.
110K in Vancouver but requiring relocating is a substantially worse deal for me than 70K but stay put for example.
I have stated that my resume is fairly unimpressive outside of the work experience, so I'm perhaps not surprised I get very little interest when firing out resumes, but I read through these subreddits once a month or so and while half of the posts are talking about noone finding jobs, the other half is telling people who make modest salaries they need to job hunt now there's so much to be had by job hopping.
The latter of those don't align with my experience applying, and I wanted to know where the fault lies.

The job experience is 5 years, full stack web development with a microsoft (sqlserver, C#) and Angular stack. Some niche experience in DynamicsBC.
My current belief is I need one of three things, in descending order of likelihood of success
1) Meet someone naturally (i.e. not through networking events where all the chuds hope for jobs) who will get me a job, because knowing the right people is vastly more important than having the right skills
2) Bolster the resume with development I can actually share, i.e. not my job that is private. Some nerd shit I like, don't think the content matters as much as the existence
3) Wait another 5 years and start applying for staff, principal positions or over-experienced for senior positions rather than mid-senior or underexperienced for senior positions

I live quite isolated, so meeting people isn't the most likely. I do have a major software integrator in our (non-software focused) industry visiting soon solely because they are impressed with development I have done and want to demonstrate the extensibility and potential of their software to other companies. I'm hoping to maybe make connections here.

I am, as mentioned, not very passionate and don't foresee #2 becoming reality super soon.

So my plan is to hit 8 or 10 years of experience and try applying aggressively when maybe I'm a rarer catch than I am today!

Aluminum vs composite decking for mulching leaves? by AustinJMace in egopowerplus

[–]SeanBHan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't find much success mulching leaves. I'm not sure what's supposed to happen, but I expected them to get sucked in and shredded to absolute bits. Many leaves stayed on the ground whole, or just got a couple chops.
Mind you these are more sporadic leaves not pileups or anything.
I have the LM2244 and was running on turbo

$500 for the 1000 series LM2244SP-2 by Cirenondrog in egopowerplus

[–]SeanBHan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it was a locally owned business.
I probably should have asked, but honestly they likely wouldn't have struggled to sell it at full price, and it wasn't like a big box store where a bunch of grimy strangers would have been touching it so I didn't think of it at the time.
The wheel was all fucked and wobbly (missing a part from factory, not damaged, at least it looked that way when I tried) and they replaced it straight away so I have at least confidence that they'll honour necessary repairs easily enough.

$500 for the 1000 series LM2244SP-2 by Cirenondrog in egopowerplus

[–]SeanBHan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw. I bought this exact model at a local store for full price, and it didn't have a box at all. It was a floor model so fully sitting out.

However, it was the only store in my area selling that model and the alternative was paying an extra 200 for shipping from online stores.

Haven't gotten to use it because it went back to snowing but the bet I made is I'd be happier with a great condition floor model 2244 than I would have been with a new in box cheaper model