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Post by Fox on Oct 6, 2015 10:37:22 GMT -5
I saw an ad for a scooter mechanic today and when I clicked on it I realized I had worked at this place for a couple months a while back. The owners aren't the most ideal people to work for but their daughter Heather kinda runs things and she's pretty cool. She called me a few weeks ago asking if my knee was healed up and did I want to come back.They paid me $100 cash per day. The hours are 9-6. I probably would have stayed if the commute wasn't so long. The owners are tolerable most days. It was the other mechanic that was the problem but Heather told me on the phone that they got rid of him. If you need work in the Los Angeles area, you live fairly close to the 110/105 interchange (Vermont and Imperial Hwy) and you know how to fix a variety of mostly Chinese machines then you may be a better fit than I was. You'll need your own tools. losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/lbg/5227867097.html |
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Post by spaz12 on Oct 6, 2015 17:42:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 21:10:22 GMT -5
$100/day in LA? For 9 hours? Sounds like the kind of job you have to save up for. Man, especially for a position that requires a lot of skills and knowledge.
Bill
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Post by spaz12 on Oct 6, 2015 21:18:31 GMT -5
$100/day in LA? For 9 hours? Sounds like the kind of job you have to save up for. Man, especially for a position that requires a lot of skills and knowledge. Bill Oh, the cost of living there is pretty high there? |
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Post by Fox on Oct 6, 2015 21:36:27 GMT -5
Yeah the cost of living is high. I rent a room with in a big house and share kitchen and bath. I keep most of my tools in my work van at all times so my rent is pretty low but a 2 bedroom apartment goes for around $1300 to $1600+ a month where I live. MY GF lives in the next city over and she's paying $1150 for a one bedroom. Add in car insurance, gas for the car, natural gas/electric bill, food, toiletries, etc... and you don't have much play money left over. She walks dogs on her days off for extra dough.
You can work 6 days a week at the scooter shop. 6x$100=$600 a week x 4 weeks a month = $2400 a month but if I were the only mechanic there I would demand a raise after I proved myself or I would hit the road. You get a lunch break and you can take a couple 15's every day so it's actually an 8 hr day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 21:39:10 GMT -5
Just like any large city like NY, or Chicago. A buddy of mine moved out there years ago and was paying 1,500/month for a tiny studio apt. in a bad part of town. At that time, here in KY I was paying 325/month for a really nice place in a good area. Others that currently live out there can speak for themselves but, that wage would be decent here where I live but out there? I don't see it.
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Post by spaz12 on Oct 6, 2015 21:52:28 GMT -5
Gotcha. Here in Vegas you can rent a pretty decent 2 bedroom apartment for around 800 a month. My kid pays 1500 a month in Oceanside for an 2 bedroom apartment with no AC. Seems crazy to me, but it sure is nice over there in Cali |
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Post by iwiketuddlz on Oct 7, 2015 7:17:00 GMT -5
Wow those prices are crazy !!!! Heck i pay $450/month for a nice 3bedroom 2bath module home and I kinda feel that is high !!!...I couldn't imagine $1600 /month..!!! Being I am the only provider for my family of 4..!!!
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Post by ryan_ott on Oct 7, 2015 13:15:12 GMT -5
That's crazy prices for renting, my mortgage is $1600 even after I paid cash for half the cost of the house.
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Post by Jwhood on Oct 7, 2015 13:23:08 GMT -5
Yeah same here in Baltimore Md,my rent is $1400 for a 3 bedroom/ one bath house
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Post by spaz12 on Oct 7, 2015 16:20:01 GMT -5
If we had any guys on here from New York city, then we'd really hear some off the wall, insane prices for rent!
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Post by Jwhood on Oct 7, 2015 17:06:48 GMT -5
If we had any guys on here from New York city, then we'd really hear some off the wall, insane prices for rent! I hear that was up there last March and for a pack of cigs were $16 that's insane could imagine rent prices |
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Post by spaz12 on Oct 7, 2015 17:11:15 GMT -5
Wow, that's insane!!!!!!!! I went to Hawaii a couple years ago and my girlfriend at the time smoked and she was paying 10 dollars a pack and I thought that was crazy. You should consider stopping that expensive habit |
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Post by Fox on Oct 7, 2015 17:56:32 GMT -5
I quit 4 or 5 months ago. I was paying $6 a pack. I figure I've saved around $650-$700. Still hard to breath some days. Friggin' Cig tax is a load of B.S. I mean they are saying it's to offset the cost of caring for those who are sick from smoking but there's a gazillion cars all spewing out cancer every day. It's just another tax that they justified by pulling the wool over the masses of sheeple. Here in Cali they mandated a reduction in fossil fuel consumption to reduce smog and so a million people went out and bought Prius and electric cars so demand for fuel dropped. Well now they are saying they have to raise the gas tax because the revenues from it pay for the road maint. and they are short of cash due to the reduced gas consumption that they mandated. It's all a big shell game with us in the middle of it taking it up the tail pipe. The other bullsh*t thing the state did was they turned the free carpool lanes on some freeways into "fast track" lanes that are toll lanes so you have to pay to drive in them under the guise that it was going to "ease congestion" and "raise revenue" They give you a transponder that sits on your dashboard and automatically bills you as you pass through checkpoints. Here's the kicker though: Those carpool lanes were paid for by the tax payers through bond measures years ago and now they are charging the tax payers to use them and the sheeple keep electing idiots like Gray Davis who was recalled to bring in that loser Schwarzenegger and after that they elect that old fossil Jerry Brown for the second time that we have now. Los Angeles has it's pluses but it's not a great as it once was. I drove through the downtown slot a few thousand times at rush hour. It's only about 4 miles or so but it can take a half an hour sometimes. There's too many people here now. They are trying to widen the freeways but it doesn't help because there's a new baby born every 20 seconds and when traffic is flowing good it only takes one idiot in a car to wreck into someone else and the whole thing comes to a grinding halt and trust me, L.A. is full of idiots. I listen to news radio for the traffic reports and every day you hear "Big rig vs car" or "motorcycle down in the carpool lane" Here's the downtown slot at rush hour.  So the fast track lanes used to be free carpool lanes and full of cars. Now they are sparsely occupied and there's more cars on the free lanes because nobody wants to or can afford to pay the tolls so traffic is even worse on those stretches than it was before. Yay! Big government looking out for us.  |
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Post by spaz12 on Oct 7, 2015 18:19:01 GMT -5
All that and earthquakes? Sign me up!
I don't think even your perfect weather would get me to move there. I would consider Mt. Shasta though!
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