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UK: £5.96 per gallon (That's $9.74) US: $3.20 per gallon (Accuracy check anyone?) Most small cars average 35-40 miles on a gallon of fuel. My bike does over 60 from my calculations. Quote:
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Ah 2 jobs, but still that's a grand each, sounds nice. And yeah, I'm unemployed now. Not exactly surprising, worst European economy will do that.
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But that doesn't factor in the fact that with owning a car you have to pay maintenance costs and insurance.
My monthly insurance average with comprehensive coverage is about $65 (although I only pay a lump sum every 6 months). My weekly gas would be about $35-$40 (depending on the price of fuel and the fuel I choose to use - if it's summer, I'll chose E85, which with the subsidies that bring its price down, I've paid as little as $25 to put 8 gallons of E85 in the summer, though E85 is not a good cold weather fuel as it's managed to gum up the fuel filters on the cars we have that can use it, so we put in unleaded from late October to mid-April), but I average only about 200 miles a week. My brother averages about 400 miles a week, filling up his 20 gallon minivan tank twice a week at between $120 and $140 a week. Then there's oil changes every 3 months/3000-4000 miles that cost $30 without coupons and between $10 and $20 with coupons. And with my older car I have an average of $200 to $400 worth of work every 3 months or so. If I were a gearhead it'd probably average out to that still, but I'd probably have been able to notice more wrong with it and diagnose more myself and have fixed it. And then every 3 to 5 years (depending on the length of the battery's warranty) you have to replace your battery or you'll have issues where your car may not start because the battery is dead and won't hold a charge. And tires need to be changed every few years, which gets expensive. For instance, on my car, it'd probably be $300 to $400 for new tires, while on my brother's minivan (which needs them now) it'd run us $400 at our preferred shop (which is preferred for us because they don't charge exorbitant fees for labor and parts), and larger tires for larger vehicles could easily climb up near and over $1000. When you buy a car, you also are taking a gamble on whether it'll have any issues. Often, many people will sell their car rather than fix the problem if there's something they've encountered, so you'd want to ask if you can have a shop look at the car to see if there are any major issues. If they don't let you, they're probably trying to hide some major problem the car has. If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. My car has kind of been a lemon since I bought it. I've sunk around $4500 worth of work into my car (one I bought for about $2800) since I bought it a year and a half ago. Although a large chunk of that went into the cooling system within the first 3 months ($500 for a water pump, $1500 for a leaking and damaged head gasket, plus another $300 or so for other work I figured was worth having since I was probably going to be without it for over a week anyway. And then there were the labor charges). tl;dr: A car is expensive to own |
Speaking of which, another $517 down the drain for winter PE session in my university. That's more than a price of Playstation, just for 6 3hr sessions of table tennis. **** me.
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Is PE mandatory at your university? I know someone who had to take PE classes when they were a senior in college, but they were also enrolled in a liberal arts university.
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Yes, it's mandatory to fill 2 PE courses. I just thought to take them in winter or summer because otherwise I have nothing to do over the break.
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PE was mandatory in my uni too, though it was only one credit and was mostly just a health/discussion course. It was awful.. I honestly think they need to make it worth more credits and put more, you know, physical activity into the course. :(
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Yeah, I'd rather do more physical activity than learning when it comes to PE.. in elementary and middle school, PE was just all working out without lectures and tests.. but in high school, the mandatory PE class we had to take was a combination of working out and taking notes.
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Why is PE mandatory even in University? For me I only had to do it until Grade 9.
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Good question BiS. I personally don't have a problem with it, though. It's basically free credit.
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You're paying for it using your already not-very-subsidized tuition, eh?
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I surely wouldn't want to pay for a class if it was mandatory for me to take, if it's not a core class like English or mathematics.
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Why they have physical education classes in college is beyond me.
Also, Castform's a winrar. ^^ |
Oh, you're in college? Here, let me teach you how to run! :V
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Cars are way too expensive. I work in a car parts warehouse and you would be amazed at the price of some of the things there. I spend about $500 a month on just car related necessities. Oil, car payments, and car insurance.
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We don't have PE, thank the gods. Community College and what not, so yeah. But we do have Wine Tasting, Food tasting, and all that kinda jazz, which is amazing.
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Luckily for now I'm going to be attending a community college and there's no physical education classes required.. although I did like PE my freshman year of high school, I certainly despised it in years prior because I wasn't the most active student thus my grade wasn't the best either.
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In PE classes in my university, you don't have to worry about getting good grades because it's based on pass/fail, which is based on whether you came to the sessions or not.
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Even still that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Fancy making grown adults do PE class. That's almost criminal.
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I could see why people don't like it, but I personally don't mind. I need some exercise anyways, and it's a good way to meet new people.
(And it's actually just table tennis, not a full blown PE course) |
Wow you people are weird. We here (in my uni at least) are absolutely thrilled when it comes to PE classes...so long as its the one we want (which is most of time since we can choose which sport/whatever activity we want to do) :]
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Over here it's called varsity and extracurricular :S
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At my school if you take ROTC you're not required to take any P.E. classes whatsoever. Its just PT once a week on Thursdays, which is ten times easier than one day of PE class.
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varsity for us is those people who actually play in intercollegiate games.
extracurricular is mostly activities outside of class (ie org activities, volunteer work) i hardly think that's PE at all haha |
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PE was a joke in my high school. All we did was pretty much play various sports.
PE at a the private high school in my town was much better, because it focused on improving things about yourself physically and getting into better shape. Though I guess if you want to be technical, sports can do that too, but I just don't like playing sports in a school setting. The only time I enjoy playing sports is with my friends where I don't feel performance anxiety. |
Exercise should be encouraged, not enforced. This is my stance and I will stick with it til the bitter end.
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PE at my old high school was brutal. You know it's rigorous when there's a girl that lost 35 pounds in one trimester. O.o
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I wish I went to your school.
I wish a few others went to your school as well. I wish I went to your school. I wish a few others went to your school as well. |
I hated PE so much when I was in high school. Having to run a mile 2-3 times a week is extremely painful. >_<
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(maybe I should've posted that in this thread: http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=315205) |
Well, if I lost any weight, I might just be blown away by a breeze or something.
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Worked for me. Though I never had a beer belly or anything like that, and people said I needed to gain wait for as long as I can remember. Of course, the people who said that were often the ones that could stand in an isle in a store and it'd be a challenge to get around them. None the less, it does work regardless. |
Manual labor is a difficult thing to commit to because it's manual labor.
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I always enjoyed PE lessons, not sure why you people hate them. (although I am younger compared to the others)
I'm so light and scrawny that sometimes even a breeze could blow me away. |
I just watched a video on water birth so it took me a few seconds to realise you weren't talking about birthing labor lol
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Manual labor jobs are tedious and boring to me. I prefer something more mentally challenging for working.
I lost around 40 lbs the first few months I had my last manual labor job, however, so that was a plus. Then my calorie intake caught up with me (I had to adjust it so that I wasn't getting hungry 2 hours into my shift despite having eaten not even half an hour before the shift started -- with the labor I was doing it took quite a bit of additional food to reach that point) and I stayed a stable weight for the remainder of the year I had that job. I tended to ache all over at the end of the day while working that job, but I had virtually no muscle strength before that job. I did gain some perspective while working that, though. |
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Perhaps it's humbling as it's your physical body that submits to the toil? You feel the strength and struggle somatically, and so it's an intimate, visceral character that you build.
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But its also not that much toil. Sure, in the beginning it's hard to adjust, but I've worked where I work now for about a year and a half now and I can pretty much do every job in the warehouse without any difficulty or physical strain on me at all. Your body adapts. |
If you can't explain it, why did you say it? :P
Though I do that all the time, so I can't talk. |
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I think all the entry level jobs and jobs that you would get in high school or a summer job to help pay the bills, or anything along those lines, teach a lot of valuable life lessons, but I only have experience in manual labor and retail. And after working in manual labor, my position in retail was a complete joke in terms of difficulty. The demands were different, but there were correlations between the two jobs that related to one another that I could draw similarities towards. Maybe it also had to do with my maturity at the time when I had the retail job compared to the maturity I had now, which is significantly different. But after working where I work, I hear people complain about their jobs in retail all the time and I just can't help but roll my eyes. |
I sold stuff for my first job. Was pretty proud of myself. Better than flipping burgers or working at Walmart, at any rate.
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/me shakes fist
y u do dis to me |
/me shakes head
I shall terminate you /me shakes head I shall terminate you |
your double post merging actually made you seem like a malfunctioning terminator.
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My first job was at Chic-Fil-A lol it was kind of special but it was a first job and I got paid so /shrug
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No I didn't. No terminator I created would ever malfunction.
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/me Malfunction /me Malfunction |
So Sector has been a robot this whole time and I never realized it?
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I worked in the kitchen, it was different back there hahaha. Real people work in the kitchen, robots are in the front. :P
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I didn't know my brother is a robot created by Raichu.
My first job was being an office assistant, something I actually enjoyed back then :3 |
My first job was working at a Wallmart; it wasn't bad, but, the co-workers... seem to try a little too hard with retailing and heart-warming the customers; one actually said to a customer, "Ah, Super Mario was great! Gotta find that Hyrule triforce, you know?!"
Maybe he played too much Zelda and want to butter him up, but, he'll get it right someday. :b |
If anything, I'd probably rather have a job on my school's campus instead of working in food/retail.. although I'm not sure if I could get a job on campus or how much it would pay either.
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