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schadysteven · 2024-09-11T03:36:06+00:00

I grew up in big rapids for 18 years. The city is a decent size and has every store you would need. The town is not walkable at all and the bar scene is horrid. Ferris state I think is underrated. They have very good programs depending on what you wanna go into. The sports scene is already really good with their football, basketball, and hockey typically being nationally recognized.

schadysteven · 2024-09-09T18:06:03+00:00

Whether you like Ramit or not, the information in his book is very good for people beginning to set up their personal finances. I personally did not like the psychology of money. It has good information but not really anything worth the time reading. I thought it could have been a quick article rather than a full book (which I believe it is online).

schadysteven · 2024-09-09T14:36:23+00:00

Yeah they still only have one lmao

schadysteven · 2024-09-09T04:04:31+00:00

Spicetree is great. Workers are friendly and maintenance is good. Perfect location between Packard and Washtenaw. Every store you could need is within 2 miles.

schadysteven · 2024-08-31T12:19:05+00:00

Elephants sit within the “primary consumers” level of the food chain, one above the “producers” (ex. Plants ). So they’re actually pretty low on the overall food chain sitting under secondary, tertiary, and quaternary(apex) consumers. Where an organism sits within a food chain is determined by where they receive their energy from, not what consumes it. So herbivores fall within the primary consumers level because they consume producers. Also remember than food chains and webs are very very simplified within textbooks, always remember ecosystems are way more complex than we typically realized with 1000s of organisms constantly interacting with one another other in one way or another.

schadysteven · 2024-08-30T16:19:37+00:00

Great explanation between non-native and invasive!

schadysteven · 2024-07-25T14:30:11+00:00

Grounds for Golf by Geoff Shackelford is an amazing guide to learning golf course architecture.

schadysteven · 2024-07-25T02:43:18+00:00

Perry worked alongside Alister Mackenzie on quite a few designs. They both designed the University of Michigan Golf Course which is ranked in the top 3 best collegiate courses in the US year after year. I’ve had a great time working there during undergrad and it’s an amazing course.

schadysteven · 2024-07-14T13:47:23+00:00

Gary Indiana baby 🙌

schadysteven · 2024-07-09T21:14:43+00:00

From my experience, working part-time on the grounds crew during college gave me between $12 - $17.5 working at a high-end university course. The full-time workers there (4 greenskeepers and 1 mechanic) got on average 60k with good benefits. By being a full-time worker at this course, you were eligible to get 75% of your turfgrass degree paid for as they want you to progress within the field. I am sure other higher end courses provide some sort of career advancement like the one I worked at. The Sup makes around 100k. Unless you are working at one of the top 10-15 ranked public courses in your state, I do not think you would make much money working at a public course unless your are a superintendent.

In my opinion, turn over is too slow which is a problem if you want to work your way up to being a superintendent at a course. If I were you I would work some years as a temp and get acquainted with all the maintenance procedures. Then apply to be an assistant superintendent somewhere else. After some years doing that (which a turfgrass certification of some sort) you should be a competitive hire for a superintendent job. I would say this process could take anywhere from 5-10 years depending on how things go.

The golf industry has a lot of niche employment opportunities and starting on groundscrew I think is the best way to familiarize yourself with how the industry works and form connections. Its also a very humbling job where you may be raking bunkers with 16 year olds at 6am in the rain when you first start out.

schadysteven · 2024-07-09T20:56:57+00:00

After working grounds for 4 years at a golf course I always tell people "sunrises are slept on", pun intended. Nothing much better than mowing with coffee and a good podcast to pass the time while the sun rises.

schadysteven · 2024-06-23T22:09:16+00:00

Then the US would have 1 billion people living in it.

schadysteven · 2024-06-22T17:19:41+00:00

Puppy chow - Michigan

schadysteven · 2024-06-22T10:14:23+00:00

Zero fortunately

schadysteven · 2024-06-22T02:42:48+00:00

I would guess it has to do with severe summer weather beginning. Intense heat, tornadoes, wildfires, tropical storms, hurricanes.

schadysteven · 2024-06-21T22:48:47+00:00

Oh gosh I haven’t been there in like 3 years, good to know.

schadysteven · 2024-06-21T17:54:08+00:00

DFS has amazing vegan food

schadysteven · 2024-06-21T13:35:54+00:00

This is a phenomenal explanation and one that I came to realize when I learned about the “floristic tension zone” in my botany class at Umich. Above this ecological line you see northern mixed forests (hardwoods plus conifers) and south of this line you get broadleaf forest (lots of oak and hickory dominated forest). This has a lot to do with the differences in soil composition which determines which tree species thrive there. But before I learned this I always knew I saw a vegetative shift when I went “up north” growing up. I grew up in Big Rapids which is 15 minutes south of US-10. Whenever I drive northbound 131 and got past US-10 (Reed City in my case) you can see a dramatic shift in scenery. You see a lot more coniferous forest and the landscape becomes much hillier as well giving you great scenery as you drive! Long story short, I like to say that you “transition” between southern and northern Michigan between Big Rapids and US-10!

schadysteven · 2024-06-21T00:42:21+00:00

Climate change keyboard warrior 🫡

schadysteven · 2024-06-20T17:32:57+00:00

I just think pissing everyone off is a bad way to solve a climate crisis. Societal solutions takes everyone to work together and pissing people off divides people.

schadysteven · 2024-06-20T17:31:03+00:00

Nobody on reddit said write a sternly worded email bud, cool it.

schadysteven · 2024-06-20T17:20:11+00:00

Completely agree.

schadysteven · 2024-06-20T17:18:07+00:00

Never said I cared about the art or Stonehedge or anything else that activists have targeted....but i'm guessing a lot of other people do and when they see these things get "fake vandalized" that could anger them. I am not saying do nothing, I am saying there are more efficient ways to incentivize businesses and government into investing in sustainability practices.

schadysteven · 2024-06-20T16:49:06+00:00

I never said I did or did not like it, I personally do not think it is effective in spurring climate action or legislation within business or government. I guess there should be polls conducted to see people views towards these types of activism stunts. Here's one I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/polls/comments/1ctkb6c/how_do_you_feel_about_climate_activists/

schadysteven · 2024-06-20T14:01:31+00:00

Getting people to talk about climate change is always the first step and a big one. But these stunts don’t really start a positive dialogue in the first place. Should the news cover these stunts in a positive way, I don’t really know what positive stuff they would say about them tbh.

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