I got a job that was a 45+ minute commute each way a few months ago. I bought a place to be closer to work, it's only 5 minutes now. Seems every time I complete a task, three to five more spawn, and 1+ of those are "must be done now".
I called the trash company to get a bin, they said it's tied to property taxes and call the township. Ok. Township says no problem, well tell them to send a bin, should arrive in 6-8 weeks. What? Fine, I guess. Oh, by the way, you are not living there are you? Guess what. There is no certificate of occupancy.
Ok, let me get the inspection. Guy says be there at 1500. Late for a night shifter, but let's get it done. Never shows up. Stay up all day and have to call off work. Lost a 10 hour overtime shift worth over $400.
Notice while waiting that the house doesn't seem to warm up. I had been moving stuff before, so just attributed the cold to having the door open too much. Nope, it's the heaters, they're barely warm. Turns out they only wired the 240v heaters for 120v. Enough power to keep the place from freezing outright, but struggles to get to 50f inside. Good thing I do industrial maintenance, I can fix this. $400 in parts later I've got them wired correctly and the house is 65f.
Get the inspector to show up. House still fails. Need a CO monitor, no problem. Railings are 6" too short and need rebuilt; annoying but ok. Bedroom window is not large enough for emergency escape and needs replaced. Going to cost $700 for the window and a month to deliver. Inspection report says I have 60 days to fix.
Seems I can't blink without this house costing me $500+. So much that needs done but can't seem to get ahead to get a chance to do it. Meanwhile I'm now paying two mortgages, and struggling to get the bank account back in line after 6 months at a lower paying job that bled what little buffer I had.
Mom is living in old house, but can't afford her bills before so I'm paying for that house and bridging the gap on her bills too. Her neighbor wants her place for the land, but the title never got transferred properly and the next of kin refuse to just sign the paperwork. So we need $2000 for the lawyer to get a judge to fix the title before we can sell it. Her car also quit recently, after $500 in repairs they say it also needs a transmission. Told her just try to get by with borrowed rides until we can sell her house.
Once we can sell her place, the plan is to buy another house near the new one, which needs work. Hoping that the sale of hers will cover the new place and getting it livable. Then she can move down and we can sell my old place. By that point hopefully be clear of mortgages, both have houses, and not driving too far to work. But wow is it a struggle right now.
I don't even know what it's going to cost to heat this house yet, but my guess is a lot. I want to put in a heat pump, but that's going to be $5k+ of hardware so definitely need to get these other things sorted out first. Although, paying 2-4x for electricity to heat in the meantime makes it necessary to get done as soon as we can.
I haven't had to check, it's worked great right out of the box and just prints. I helped a friend with a Kobra Max 1 that wouldn't level. Turned out to be a damaged ribbon cable and I just trimmed it back and put a new end on it. He got that second hand, and I don't think he even tried to contact support.
I did preorder mine, and they were not very communicative about shipping times, but everything arrived eventually.
I had an FLsun Q5 that I constantly had to babysit. Now my Anycubic Kobra 3 Max is amazing, takes files over the network, prints well, and requires almost none of the physical attention that the FLsun did. I would recommend checking out a Kobra.
I don't know what the kit consist of, hence my asking questions about the process. My anycubic kobra 3 max came packed flat, but was maybe a 10-15 minute assembly including unboxing
Other departments on a 3 on 4 off rotation had it much better, at least there was some semblance of time off. Also, my area has basically nothing open after dark besides fuel stations, making the problem worse.
And I subtracted those hours and more from my question in the first place. Still a strange way to count your time. The title gives a sticker shock of taking 36 hours to assemble the kit. How much time did it actually take to do so? Five or six hours spread across a day and a half? Could it have been less if a focused effort could have been afforded? I am just surprised at the idea that it could have taken more than an hour or two, frankly.
I recently got away from a 7p-7a, and rationalizations aside, it is so bad. Maybe the day shifters are ok with it, but they don't have to wildly swing their sleep schedule every couple days just to get some time to do something other than work or sleep.
I got a job that was a 45+ minute commute each way a few months ago. I bought a place to be closer to work, it's only 5 minutes now. Seems every time I complete a task, three to five more spawn, and 1+ of those are "must be done now".
I called the trash company to get a bin, they said it's tied to property taxes and call the township. Ok. Township says no problem, well tell them to send a bin, should arrive in 6-8 weeks. What? Fine, I guess. Oh, by the way, you are not living there are you? Guess what. There is no certificate of occupancy.
Ok, let me get the inspection. Guy says be there at 1500. Late for a night shifter, but let's get it done. Never shows up. Stay up all day and have to call off work. Lost a 10 hour overtime shift worth over $400.
Notice while waiting that the house doesn't seem to warm up. I had been moving stuff before, so just attributed the cold to having the door open too much. Nope, it's the heaters, they're barely warm. Turns out they only wired the 240v heaters for 120v. Enough power to keep the place from freezing outright, but struggles to get to 50f inside. Good thing I do industrial maintenance, I can fix this. $400 in parts later I've got them wired correctly and the house is 65f.
Get the inspector to show up. House still fails. Need a CO monitor, no problem. Railings are 6" too short and need rebuilt; annoying but ok. Bedroom window is not large enough for emergency escape and needs replaced. Going to cost $700 for the window and a month to deliver. Inspection report says I have 60 days to fix.
Seems I can't blink without this house costing me $500+. So much that needs done but can't seem to get ahead to get a chance to do it. Meanwhile I'm now paying two mortgages, and struggling to get the bank account back in line after 6 months at a lower paying job that bled what little buffer I had.
Mom is living in old house, but can't afford her bills before so I'm paying for that house and bridging the gap on her bills too. Her neighbor wants her place for the land, but the title never got transferred properly and the next of kin refuse to just sign the paperwork. So we need $2000 for the lawyer to get a judge to fix the title before we can sell it. Her car also quit recently, after $500 in repairs they say it also needs a transmission. Told her just try to get by with borrowed rides until we can sell her house.
Once we can sell her place, the plan is to buy another house near the new one, which needs work. Hoping that the sale of hers will cover the new place and getting it livable. Then she can move down and we can sell my old place. By that point hopefully be clear of mortgages, both have houses, and not driving too far to work. But wow is it a struggle right now.
I don't even know what it's going to cost to heat this house yet, but my guess is a lot. I want to put in a heat pump, but that's going to be $5k+ of hardware so definitely need to get these other things sorted out first. Although, paying 2-4x for electricity to heat in the meantime makes it necessary to get done as soon as we can.