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ltrepeter2000's picture ltrepeter2000
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| 1 year 4 months # | Lady Bombers Week 7: Moved up to #14

Ladies sweep the doubleheader with Longwood today.

Ladies run rule Longwood in 5 innings in game one 10-0.

Won game two, 7-1. Box scores are not updated yet on Hokiesports.

Hokies are now 25-5.

HokieAlum6144's picture HokieAlum6144
| 1 year 4 months # | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL

I will throw in my two cents. As a PE who focuses on civil municipal work, there is a huge lack of public works employees. For those who want to work outside, I always say look into public works. You will be a County/Town employee in the state retirement/pension system, great benefits, every state holiday, etc. Yes, you will get the shitty jobs some time, especially if you focus on water or wastewater treatment. But unless you slack off, there is guaranteed employment with good odds of overtime. Most guys I know, even cycle through other localities to pick up raises while staying in the state system. Operators go from Rural Retreat to Wytheville to Wythe County and back. Over closer, Blacksburg to Christiansburg to Floyd to Montgomery County PSA to the Arsenal and in between normally getting raises at every jump.

HokieinFLA's picture HokieinFLA
| 1 year 4 months # | Brandon Rechsteiner in the portal

Not surprised.

Don't think he was in the long-term plans here. Not enough offensive impact to make up for his high turnover rate.

Wessler, Brown, and Rech are all guys I expected to Portal. Young I thought had enough promise to try and keep around.

dcwilson40's picture dcwilson40 | 1 year 4 months # | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL

Yep- Outback "proprietors" - biggest scam term on earth as if they own "anything" at outback. Brilliant corporate marketing... They are restaurant managers with minimal revenue share if they hit every impossible target and they work 100 hours a week for what seems like a good 85K per year wage. I'm also familiar with the HVAC trade. Yep you can make 60K, yep you are in attics in the summer and work in all weather with absolute shit benefits, pto, no 401K, etc. Manual labor and hospitality can pay decent wages- but you work you ass off in thankless hard situations.

vtwwalton's picture vtwwalton
| 1 year 4 months # | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL

Not to pick knits, but that's 100% inflation over a long-ish window. I don't know exactly when you started, but in terms of buying power, $25,000 in 1995 equates to $53,000 today per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So that's pretty much flat in terms of purchasing power for a starting salary, if not slightly less today.

*EDIT* Alum posted pretty much the exact same thing. Guess I gotta drink.

HokieinFLA's picture HokieinFLA
| 1 year 4 months # | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL

Yes and No...

Vying a bit off-topic here but there is certainly a dearth in supply of skilled Tradeworkers, but there is also alot of demand.

Demand largely from Homeowners who lack the ability or initiative to do even basic work--drywall repair, changing a light fixture, ect. I bought a new fan for a bedroom this week and the person behind me in line asked me if I could give them the name of my electrician...

The supply part would have to be drastically increased to outstrip demand.

The counter to that is while the money can be quite good, the lifestyle isn't great. I have never met a Tradesman 40y/o or more who doesn't have a number of physical or Orthopedic maladies. So calling it a "good job" is probably a stretch and why few are interested in making a career of it

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