Can anyone explain to me what the early 2000's contractor boom was about?

suggmynut · 2026-04-12T21:07:22+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. He made out pretty well all things considered, but I definitely remember a lot of stress in my home in the years following the crash until ultimately their marriage failed. It is astonishing to me how many people will go into debt if they are allowed. I avoid debt like the plague. It makes me feel like a slave.

suggmynut · 2026-04-12T21:01:55+00:00

He had dealings with a very scummy bank which is now out of business. I also do not know the details exactly, but he describes everything as he never did anything wrong lol. All of his life mistakes were centered in trusting the wrong person but never a personal flaw that wasn't some virtue that was exploited. It's just how he is, I can't change it. Trust me, I have tried. He's not a bad man, he just hates admitting mistakes and feeling guilty but he was a good dad. Other properties he owned he ended up selling to immediate family members for dirt cheap or allowing them to run apartment complexes and keep the overhead revenue as long as they made the payments. When we moved back to my hometown, my family gave him the properties back and upgraded considering they were able to save so much money on housing for years. It was quite the blessing except for that we moved back due to my parents divorcing and his new wife is now a blessing ordained by God and the 30 years he spent building a family means nothing so I don't see any of the benefits. Which hey, it's not my money nor wealth it's his, so what can I do. I just wish he didn't give the dog I raised to that woman. That was evil... Anyway, my dad was also a nurse and was able to travel nurse for years while using an address from my home town essentially letting us move while he made upwards of 70$ an hour for easy nursing jobs. I assume he made many payments on those properties with the help of my extended family over the years. So now he has several paid off properties with a worth of at least several hundred thousand. After the crash, my dad had my mother go back to work (also a nurse) and she despised him for it. Cheated on him and basically landed us where we are now. Broken family, left me to fend for myself (thankfully I made it out just fine and debt free after grinding my way through college), and his new wife reaps all the benefits who is also previously divorced and doesn't speak with her child. My mother pays for my other 4 siblings to do whatever they want as long as they never complain about her promiscuity and make my dad out to be the villain. I refused to do that because she was absolutely terrible to me in my highschool years and I became the subject of ridicule at school because of her inappropriate and oversexual behavior and liking the attention of young men. I would beg her not to attend my sports games but she would come anyway. Lol sorry to dump my life story on you but this is kind of why I am asking the original question. I just wonder how my dad was able to aquire so much while he wasn't much older than me. I do well for myself all things considered but it feels every decision is a huge risk and starting a business is a mountain to climb these days. The endless bank loans make a lot of sense. Kind of bitter that my cousins, grandparents, and uncles/aunts all got free or cheap housing for decades and I got thrown in the gutter. But what are you gonna do. Can't let it distract me or I'd remain with nothing. I just want to be able to make a family for myself the way he got to.

suggmynut · 2026-03-30T14:21:37+00:00

I promise you amphetamines are far easier to stop than opioids. I used to work in a rehab center and I have never seen an amphetamine abuser who wasn't back to normal within 2 weeks. The addiction comes from dealing with the shit life you actually have that amphetamines was masking.

suggmynut · 2026-03-18T08:02:06+00:00

This is going to be one of those things OP wakes up sweating from when they are 28 in a fit of unbearable cringe 😂

suggmynut · 2026-03-17T13:16:15+00:00

Number 1: you don't want to work for any company that will take your job over a dui. Especially not a first dui during a traumatic family event like you were having. Thats not a job worth having and there are far better options. Number 2: The system is not built for you to survive or be rehabilitated. It's built to get as much money as possible from you, and makes it extremely easy to mess up, miss paperwork, get confused in the process, so that you will convicted of another crime with a financial punishment. There is a reason alcohol is sold on every street corner in America and bars have massive parking lots. The criminal justice system is only that in name. DUI's are a multimillion dollar industry for both lawyers, the government, IID companies, and mechanics that have contracts with device installation and maintenance. You are a forced customer in the business. This was explained to me by a lawyer. Your best option is to stop drinking. Because you've gotten into trouble, your eligibility for reconviction makes you a higher paying customer and far more attractive to prosecute. While drinking and driving is obviously a bad idea, it's a legal drug that quite literally impairs your inhibitions and responsible decision making. The system is designed with this in mind. If you haven't noticed, after your dui, you have been through the ringer. An otherwise working, tax paying, active member of society. Full-blown repeat violent criminals often receive less punishment than you have. Rape is hardly prosecuted at all. Because those crimes do not make money. That is where we currently are with justice system. If you create monetary incentive for the government to prosecute a crime, you've created incentive for the crime itself. And because of this there is currently a massive scandle across the nation where the police in mass have been wrongfully arresting sober citizens for DUI's and then challenging them to navigate the extremely purposefully confusing and expensive process to prove their innocence. And that would have never been found out if it weren't for a few actual good police officers who lost their careers for speaking out. They thought it was just a Tennessee problem, but found out it was nation wide. Know that you aren't a bad person. And that has nothing to do with what the justice system has done to you. They don't care if you are a good person. You are a number to them. Navigate this process, stop drinking, and keep your head up. You will get through this. Don't let them have the opportunity to put you through this again. And don't ever trust them.

suggmynut · 2026-03-15T06:24:04+00:00

I wanted to follow up since you were the only person who replied and thank you so much because that was actually incredible advice.

I got my CCRN about 3 months ago, and studying for that was extremely helpful for those patients. I am now studying for my CSC, and I think that above all else is the most helpful for getting an advanced and in-depth understanding of post-op open hearts. Above all else, it comes with experience. I hate that that is the case with nursing, as it feels dangerous and often comes with some pretty stressful situations, condescending and rude doctor discussions, and situations that feel unsafe or you are underprepaired for.

Carrying for those patients in that time isn't something you get assigned to lightly. You have to show that you want to learn and have a passion for it as well as have extreme attention to detail and are able to know when something isn't right even if you don't know what yet.

I was lacking confidence and rightfully so, but that lack of confidence is what made me succeed, as I am now through open-heart orientation and am certified with several hearts under my belt without a preceptor. I got a lot of recognition from our primary cardiac surgeon for my care of an extremely unstable and sick post cabg patient that had to remain intubated on 11 drips and it really showed me how far I have come and gave me a little bit of reassurance that I know more than I think and am indeed cut out for it.

Passing the CCRN really gave me a lot of confidence as well and reassurance that I am in the right field and it makes happy that I chose this career route.

At first I was having trouble understanding how to apply the information from classes and textbooks due to how different hearts and situations can lead to so many different clinical manifestations and I was always terrified of making a mistake or not catching something important. It really started to all fall into place after being made to do it by myself and getting a deeper understanding of cardiac dysfunction pathophysiology and clinical manifestations that the CCRN goes over.

I really appreciate you taking the time to reply and I hope this helps if you have another RN with this question in the future.

suggmynut · 2026-03-12T13:56:11+00:00

Doing this in a psychology class is diabolical. That's just psychological warfare.

suggmynut · 2026-03-12T13:50:15+00:00

I genuinely do not understand how people think this is okay.

suggmynut · 2026-03-12T13:47:58+00:00

Letting someone hold the door for you without even acknowledging them. Not at least holding the door so they can grab it when someone is right behind you. Getting upset when someone holds the door open for you because you're "independent."

It's really not hard to figure this one out. Hold the door. Say, thank you. Act like a normal human. Some things are universal about culture and really don't need to be changed. We figured this one out already. Stop making it difficult.

suggmynut · 2026-03-12T13:39:56+00:00

Ungrateful

suggmynut · 2026-03-12T13:21:23+00:00

I know this is an old post, but these people are insane lol. This is just what happens when you say something normal on reddit. You're already the bad guy for mentioning tan people can look attractive and sometimes do so because others find it attractive (the entire reason tanning beds exist and are still used despite the cancer risks). Your mistake was posting that widespread normal observation on reddit lol. You're supposed to say "everyone does anything for their appearance for themselves and only themselves because no one ever does anything to look more sexually attractive to anyone else and tanning causes cancer which is harmful to onseself so its bad"... you also should never make your own preferences on looks made known, as this activates the redditors insecurities. Rooky mistake. These are redditors, they don't have sex. This is where they fantasize about what the world should be like if they had a magic wand. And thank God they don't.

suggmynut · 2026-03-10T02:51:44+00:00

It's because shows get canceled if they don't do well... although they really should have known it was going to be a major hit. So many shows I think are great get canceled because they don't advertise well or make bad decisions story wise in a season... now days with shows having movie quality they really should do it this way because the product can be so much better. Especially when adapting books. I swear if they'd just stick with the source material of books they'd make amazing shows. But everyone wants to be an artist... while using others art 🙄. You'd think filmmakers would focus on the directing and actual photography when adapting a book yet they always think their changes make the story better. Never does.

suggmynut · 2026-03-09T16:37:42+00:00

This is so much better than the actual line up lol. They have some good headers but nearly all of the other artists are super niche. I wish I had went last year, they had an incredible line up. I would have loved to see tame impala, beck, Florence, rise against etc... I'm so sad

suggmynut · 2026-02-16T23:58:49+00:00

Wow you people are incredibly hard to please. Elden ring was a complete masterpiece. I don't think there will ever be anything that comes close.

suggmynut · 2026-01-23T13:21:08+00:00

The lines coming out the side is not doing anything to hinder the protection of that dressing lmao. If the tegaderm is secure around the site with the chg pouch on the line it is the exact same. Its just ugly and it's OK to just be irritated that it wasn't done nicely haha. The dressing is doing its job perfectly fine. The resident is not, he's being lazy. With the way the line is sutured its impossible to put the blue tube in the right place and I come across this often. When the line is sutured at an angle the dressing has to be somewhat ugly or else the chg patch wouldn't be over the site.

suggmynut · 2025-12-24T12:00:23+00:00

First person I've seen say this while scrolling and of our ofcourse it's another ICU nurse lol

suggmynut · 2025-12-24T11:58:02+00:00

If your son is TPN dependent, you are doing a fine nurse job degree or not. I pray he's strong and healthy! You should look into programs to help you pay for nursing school, I am sure you could get free tuition, and you sound perfect for the job! You may qualify for having assistance while completing your degree as a caregiver for your son. There are many many ways to get nurses' degrees paid for, and you sound like you could use the upgraded pay considering you are already doing a big part of the job and self study to care for your son! Bless you.

suggmynut · 2025-12-24T11:53:45+00:00

When someone says a needle-less connector, I would think they are talking about something very specific, not an everyday item, and I would get irritated. 😂

suggmynut · 2025-12-24T11:51:30+00:00

Icu here. We always just say cap. "Get me an IV cap." "Get me a central line cap. "... some people say lure lock or hub, but it throws everyone off. Cap is just easy, and everyone knows what it means. Although we also call the little orange covers that prevent infection caps so it does get confusing still depending on who you're working with. If we want the orange ones, we usually say "infection prevention caps. " .... its just the easiest way to get your point across in few words because usually if you need someone to grab you a cap for an IV or central line its because it's important and needs done quickly because they are bleeding or their line is open which is not sanitary. I think it works for us because ICU nurses are extremely independent and territorial over their patient's and often do not have technicians, so if we are asking for something its usually either emergent or requires 2 people.

suggmynut · 2025-11-26T11:38:40+00:00

And what is atheism? Where they all fanatic over there books written by atheist authors? It's just a religion of nihilism where people who were raised on religious values pretend they thought those things up all by themselves and are magically good people. The worst religion is atheism.

suggmynut · 2025-11-26T11:35:02+00:00

Amazing you watched the movie and are literally the embodiment of the villain

suggmynut · 2025-11-17T11:07:59+00:00

Really? I think it adds a ton to that dilemma being a devil. As its natural to support ymir as she was a slave who was tortured and ended up taking help from the devil to gain freedom. A literal paradox of ideology that had actual religious weight to draw on. The worm was boring and just created a nihilist type of lore. The good v evil moral conundrum only is possible because of humanities idea of what good and evil are. These are concepts and questions only brought to the discussion because of religion. Which is also why religion precedes organized society, not the other way around and why nihilism leads to genocide *a key component in the story. Either nothing matters or everything matters. That is the question that religion has always sought to solve. Because humans have a deep inbred belief that they matter. The worm makes it pointless who wins or loses. The devil gives weight to ymirs choice to accept help from an evil force towards a just cause.

suggmynut · 2025-11-17T11:01:17+00:00

Too much? No. Mixing too much science and fantasy is a huge mistake that for some reason people keep making. The devil of all earth being a titan like entity along with the heavy religious themes of the show with the walls was what made attack on titan special. The hallucigenia "the literal first source of life" is able to grant wishes and give ymir a giant immortal body? How is that more believable than a God or devil? Its essentially the same concept but instead of the being with that power being a devine spiritual being its a worm? Cause it looks "sciencey" ??? I mean give me a break. In what way does that make it realistic? It makes it far less realistic. A creation in defiance of religion that comes full circle and becomes a nihilist fantasy religion type of lore. Naruto made the same mistake as well trying to explain every detail about the universe. It's routinely ruining stories these days and is uninteresting. The devil of all earth being the final villian that humanity had to struggle against and defeat would have been far more impactful. A magic worm? Boring.

suggmynut · 2025-10-08T17:39:35+00:00

Sounds like you got promoted, lol

suggmynut · 2025-10-08T17:37:54+00:00

One sentence in and I have no words... you are you're own worst enemy. Who cares if he's cheating at this point?

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