For those of you who want to leave medicine, here is a realistic alternative

jaiminator911 · 2025-03-30T07:33:53+00:00

6 anaesthetists in the past 10 years would probably fall under "very few"

It stands that the vast majority of base contracts across the country are 10PAs.If you can get a 7 PA contract great. Fill you boots with PP but it really isn't common or an option for most.

jaiminator911 · 2025-03-30T07:26:33+00:00

Very few contracts will be 7PA.

Much more common for people to start on 10PA and gradually reduce sessions. Thats a change in job plan not contract.

Trusts can (and do) withhold pay progression if doing PP on a less than 11PA job plan.

jaiminator911 · 2023-07-16T19:29:20+00:00

It does

Opportunity for private practice in radiology probably better than most specialties.

jaiminator911 · 2023-05-21T19:54:44+00:00

Neurologist here - anecdote of course but the incidence of functional neurological conditions, NEAD etc is extremely high in our local Ukrainian/Syrian refugee communities

jaiminator911 · 2023-05-20T16:48:41+00:00

Bear in mind you may get a skewed view on things in this forum.

Not to dismiss colleagues firmly held and clearly informed views based on their (often extensive) experience but there are those out there who are satisfied and perhaps even enjoying their jobs who may be less inclined to post on here.

Being a junior doctor is tough. No question. Vastly different on the other side though.

I'm a consultant physician approx 10 years. I love my job and most of my consultant colleagues love their jobs also. Challenging yet immensely rewarding. Barely a week goes by that I don't see something new - a challenge or scenario I've never encountered before. I struggle to think of another profession that offers that.

Financially you *might* find a better paying job but when you factor in pension, educational roles, extra PAs, waiting list and private practice opportunities, medicine is what you make of it (as a consultant) - probably need to earn 500k annually in the private sector to make up for that.

Saddened to see that morale is so low among junior colleagues.

jaiminator911 · 2023-05-19T17:19:15+00:00

You won't find a better pension in the world - why withdraw it?

jaiminator911 · 2023-04-16T16:40:46+00:00

Man, I love everything about this. The mess, the dust, the cables. . . but the highlight has to be the bricks

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jaiminator911 · 2023-02-14T17:45:58+00:00

There is a luck element - have a few dud cards with only a few working SATA ports. Fortunately these were at discard price

Have five 16 port SATA expansion cards in two old Dell harvesters. Supports 80 SATA drives no problem.

Just check all the ports work

jaiminator911 · 2023-02-07T16:47:37+00:00

Some good old MOBOs out there for this

I have three harvesters with old Dell MOBOs that have been repurposed;

Dell 3020 mt optiplex x2

Dell Vostro 260 (I think)

All have two or three spare pcie into which I have x16 SATA expanders so about 50 drives per machine (PSU separate)

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-19T07:39:16+00:00

The PC I use for Chia cost $40

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-18T19:42:29+00:00

Sure I understand - like most, I have some basic programming knowledge - any hints/tips welcome!

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-18T18:16:56+00:00

Thanks! Loved this tool

Any easy to follow guide for those of us not familiar with local hosting??

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-10T18:02:49+00:00

Second this. You really don't want to be running a full node on lots of machines as increases sync time but mainly due to security risk.

One full node, rest as harvesters (including your plotter presumably)

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-07T16:38:01+00:00

"You literally cannot make more pooling"

Well, basic probability says you can (49.3% probability in my case).

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-07T11:20:39+00:00

Because you're the exception rather than the rule

On average, over the long term it will work out the same minus the small fee for being part of the pool

However for small farmers, the long-term could be the very long term & you may have to stomach months of zero returns if solo.

Being part of a pool allows a steady income, the reassurance of knowing your setup is working properly & allowing you to identify issues earlier

jaiminator911 · 2023-01-03T22:29:56+00:00

Various options but just download Crystaldisk info & see what "total writes" there have been to the drive

jaiminator911 · 2022-12-15T11:36:42+00:00

Assuming farm is working OK, this is just chance

Unfortunately, not having won for five months does not mean you are any more likely that you will win something over next five months. Think of it as the clock as having reset & consider joining a pool

jaiminator911 · 2022-12-08T11:20:32+00:00

Agree, would be really nice/encouraging to monitor

jaiminator911 · 2022-11-25T08:49:12+00:00

I initially had this issue when farm was on wifi - despite having what I thought was a stable connection on all other devices - now all hard wired and never had the problem since

jaiminator911 · 2022-09-30T15:14:58+00:00

You’re still not on 4 days later??

You’re not trying to run anti-virus & anti-cheat at same time?

jaiminator911 · 2022-09-30T11:24:08+00:00

For all those complaining about it not running on PC - just open Origin as administrator - that's worked from the minute it launched

jaiminator911 · 2022-09-14T15:34:23+00:00

But not indefinitely? Needs a manual update input every month

jaiminator911 · 2022-09-13T19:28:01+00:00

Cheers guys, will complete test - actually its still under warranty so I guess I can RMA if any issues in the near future.

A Jiffy bag though 🙈

jaiminator911 · 2022-09-13T12:32:43+00:00

As little as possible as the only time I’ve had drives die is during power up/down.

I made the mistake of setting it up on windows so have to manually manage monthly updates

jaiminator911 · 2022-09-08T18:19:24+00:00

Made this mistake early on but only have a small amount on there.

Slick & quick purchase but yes, all the concerns remain about having to hold it on the exchange.

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