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That is quite different. I work full time and make $15.50 per hour, and roughly $20,000 per year, depending on my hours.The minimum wage here (for adults) is $24.10 per hour. (For juniors it's a bit less).
I think when I got my first job, and I was a junior then, I was earning about $15 an hour. That would have been in '96. So that gives you some idea of the difference.
I've never earned that much hourlyThe minimum wage here (for adults) is $24.10 per hour. (For juniors it's a bit less).
I think when I got my first job, and I was a junior then, I was earning about $15 an hour. That would have been in '96. So that gives you some idea of the difference.
Depends. Some say $20,000 isn't enough for full time work. It depends if someone can live on their means, or if they spend frivolously. For a single person? Maybe. For a large family? No.And - forgive me, I'm not trying to pry, but I have no frame of reference - is that considered a livable wage, where youi are?
Livable in my area is about $17/hr. It varies drastically by state in the US. On our West Coast you need to be in the vicinity of $30.And - forgive me, I'm not trying to pry, but I have no frame of reference - is that considered a livable wage, where youi are?
That doesn't surprise me.Livable in my area is about $17/hr. It varies drastically by state in the US. On our West Coast you need to be in the vicinity of $30.
Like I said, you can't really directly compare our economies.I've never earned that much hourly
Even in the 3 C's of Ohio: Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland; you need to be over $20 to not be struggling.That doesn't surprise me.
Your time lag on Hawaii should be about 6 or 7 hours I'm thinking. Just buy a couple of Monsters and you'll be able to power through. Are you familiar with SPAM? It's a canned meat product that is very popular out there. I fry it for my kids from time to time. My mother hates it.Like I said, you can't really directly compare our economies.
My vague sense is that we have fewer working poor (as a proportion of the population). Some things are more expensive, but then, other things cost much less (looking at healthcare!) But there is still real poverty. It's just different.
When we were still living in our hometown, my Dad was the head of his department at the town's hospital. They hired a man from the Philippines. He LOVED Spam and so did his wife.Your time lag on Hawaii should be about 6 or 7 hours I'm thinking. Just buy a couple of Monsters and you'll be able to power through. Are you familiar with SPAM? It's a canned meat product that is very popular out there. I fry it for my kids from time to time. My mother hates it.
I'm so sick of the crap service at JFK. As much as possible, I try to route through LaGuardia. Which is not a whole lot better but a little. At least they've never given me enhanced security screening for having a 1,200 page book in my luggage (which is about what the Bible tends to be).If you fly to the West Coast first, that can reduce costs, and also avoids the misery of a flight time that rivals that of flights to Europe. From the West Coast, Hawaii takes slightly less time than a westbound transcontinental flight from JFK to LAX (LAX to JFK tends to be faster because of the tailwind from the jetstream, indeed the fastest ground speed I’ve ever had domestically was in 2008: 720 MPH on a Delta 757-200 flying to New York; we were an hour late leaving LAX due to a pilot being stuck in traffic, so they probably burned a bit of extra fuel to get us to JFK to make our connections, but I still had to rush from T2 over the speed ramp to the late lamented T3* for my connecting flight to Accra, Ghana.
*This was the former Pan Am Worldport, which unlike the TWA Flight Center (old T5) which was saved and became a boutique hotel with a Lockheed Starliner converted to a bar, T3 was razed - so too were T8 and T9, the old United and American terminals. T9 featured really beautiful stained glass in its check-in area. T6 was beautiful when first built, by National Airlines. What made JFK special was that aside from the old International Terminal, which was replaced by T4, each airline built their own terminal with their own architects, except for T2, which was jointly built by Delta, Braniff, Northwest and Northeast, which were too small at JFK to warrant their own terminals. T1 was built by Eastern and later taken over by US Airways, then demolished and rebuilt along the lines of T4.
LAX is somewhat similar in terms of having multiple airlines building their own terminals.
It's real meat. It's not nasty bits and pieces of processed who knows what. That's Treet, the considerably cheaper version produced by the Armour packing company. I chipped my front tooth on Treet many years ago and have never forgave that product.When we were still living in our hometown, my Dad was the head of his department at the town's hospital. They hired a man from the Philippines. He LOVED Spam and so did his wife.
Never tried it, and I don't think I want to.
We have it here. I can't recall that I've ever eaten it.Are you familiar with SPAM? It's a canned meat product that is very popular out there. I fry it for my kids from time to time. My mother hates it.
Does SPAM taste anything like bologna? Bologna is probably one of my favorite deli meats followed by ham and deli chicken. I'm not a huge fan of deli Turkey, but tolerate it.It's real meat. It's not nasty bits and pieces of processed who knows what. That's Treet, the considerably cheaper version produced by the Armour packing company. I chipped my front tooth on Treet many years ago and have never forgave that product.
My father is quite proudly what we call a 'hillbilly' in the US. Canned meats were a regular component of their diets. As well as beans, bologna, and most any form of crackers, which are generally used to eat the meat as a sort of make-shift sandwich.We have it here. I can't recall that I've ever eaten it.
When I was a kid, we did have tinned corned beef a bit. My dad would break it up and cook it with onion and tomato paste and spices and serve it up with pasta. That was reasonably edible, although I've never set out to recreate it, either...
No. SPAM is a very salty version of ham.Does SPAM taste anything like bologna? Bologna is probably one of my favorite deli meats followed by ham and deli chicken. I'm not a huge fan of deli Turkey, but tolerate it.
I'm so sick of the crap service at JFK. As much as possible, I try to route through LaGuardia. Which is not a whole lot better but a little. At least they've never given me enhanced security screening for having a 1,200 page book in my luggage (which is about what the Bible tends to be).
I have problems with my blood pressure, so I doubt my kidney specialist would appreciate if I ate very salty foods.No. SPAM is a very salty version of ham.
My dad was a product of boarding school and then the military, before he married my mum. His culinary skills were a work in progress in my childhood. These days he's a very capable cook, but I was there when the promise of future greatness was but a glimmer on the horizon.My father is quite proudly what we call a 'hillbilly' in the US. Canned meats were a regular component of their diets. As well as beans, bologna, and most any form of crackers, which are generally used to eat the meat as a sort of make-shift sandwich.
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