PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

I just come into work early or stay a little late and take a shower in the locker room.

 

that last photo is awesome.

 

Down here in Mexico with my buddy Moose building high-power leads for a 24,000 hp electric motor.

Coming back for a 3 week stint in about 10 days. I am seriously considering driving to Costa Rica this fall in my single cab. Who is down for a trip?

 

I lived on a 40' sailboat in southern FL for two years, its not bad a bit uncomfortable but not bad.

 

Yeah by the ocean isn't bad, the sea breeze usually keeps it comfortable

 

Not when its August in the Everglades; 105, no wind and 90% humidity trust me being by the water isn't all that cool.

 

Actually son, there are many of us like me that invested well back in the 80's with its average 14%-19% returns. Heck, even if you didn't know squat about investing your passbook savings account was paying you six percent. I (we) are going to be just fine in my very old age, with adequate savings to employ private duty skilled nursing to assist me. In my home, not in a nursing home. You see, for people my age, people that worked a 40-80 hour week year in and out, Social Security is going to be just fine. It's just a little present from ourselves, and you, every month. It's those of you younger than 50 that better have your shit in one sock. YOU take your own advice: don't rely on Social Security. When it fails, I will be but dust in the wind.

Oh, by the way...did a rear seat delete on mine, 48x55 folding sleeping platform with custom 5" gatching memory foam mattress on it. Air conditioned. 6000 Btus of sleep comfort. And a seventeen gallon HOT shower setup on the truck. Finishing that up now. Plan on living out of mine too. Only when the urge hits me though.

 

i live out of mine as well. happy to answer questions if anyone has them. been about a year at this point.

 

I read through this whole thread. Interesting views all around.

For those folks who want to be 'nomads' so they can travel and experience things, and are also not tied down, not scared to work long hard hours, and want to make a GREAT living doing so, I can offer you some advice. Get a job as CAT adjuster or in emergency response. You will go places no one else can go, you will make hand over fist money and have moments where you help people when they are at their lowest that will stay with you the rest of your life.

I never had my Tacoma as my permanent address, so I guess I can't say that I ever 'lived'in it. But, both of those jobs had me on 24/7 call, ready to leave in 12 hours, packed to sustain for 14 days on my own. Usually, within a week or two I would at least have found a 'place' to setup as homebase and no longer living in my truck. Like after hurricane Rita, there was nothing. No power for a long time. After a week or so living in my truck I met a guy with a destroyed rental property. A few rooms were good, it had running water. Gave him $100, Setup my portable AC unit, unloaded the generator, and I started sleeping there at night. in every situation I was ever in, something like that worked out within a week or two so I didn't have to fully live in my truck.

When you get the call, there is no return date. Could be gone for a couple weeks or, my longest was 18 months. Set the truck up right, tons of inverters, portable AC unit, 12v fridge, generator, tools, adapters for everything, antennas for everything, triple GPS, triple cell phones and hot spots, you can fit 30-40 gallons of gas on OEM roof rack, etc..... I bought and purposed this Tacoma to specifically do those jobs. She got retired in 2011. Now she is just my toy and pride and joy.

You can easily take home $500-$1000 a day.

 

Wow. You are fully vested in your seemingly well-regulated literary rage, aren't you? By all indications you appear to be inextricably too far down the retribution rabbit hole. To whit: 2000+ posts in only eight months? Are they all as equally long and calculated? Consider coming up for air periodically. Don't take my posts so personal. This is all in fun. For most of us.

 

So if I'm understanding this conversation correct, 110% of all millennials are lazy, entitled, selfish, and have zero work ethic. Zero exceptions. Good to know.

I guess if we go by that logic, that also means every single person who is over the age of 65 is ignorant of the changing world, crotchety, probably racist, and is in poor health?

 

Surgical rep for thirteen years. Custom sterile surgical procedure trays. Augmented by a dual territory for the company division that made DME/Home Health/Nursing home equipment. DEEP experience with the institutional deficit situation. Been in too many nursing homes to count, multiple homes three days a week for thirteen years. And the patient care situation is just as you describe. Thank you for your wisdom regarding the time I have left. It will be nothing as you describe. Best years still ahead of me, letting God work His plan for me. See you out there on the edge.

 

i often find it weird you have people who live in the developed world with some of the highest standards of living on the planet who wax poetic about the evils of materialism while people who live in developing nations are enduring day to day hardship to do better for themselves and their families because they do not have the luxury of pontificating about materialism. In the developed world its a form of "poverty tourism"...living a nomadic/minimalist life within the confines of a modern economy and a high standard of living.

 

Regardless of how anyone personally feels about the stereotypical millennial or nomad (what we used to be called in the 1990s was slackers, what old is new again) the side of the debate you're arguing @whatstcp is valid and IMO is underlaying rational as to why young adults or even older people do things like this.

The reality is there's no guarantees in the future. No matter if it swings full socialism or full libertarianism we all rely on each other doing part of the work to make the world go around. If no one was willing to be an office or factory drone then there are no Tacomas and RTTs. That's what bothers me so much about the current Instagram "free spirits" who belittle those who work hard, without them you have literally nothing, no clothes, food, shelter, transportation not to speak of luxuries.

At the same time someone chaining themselves to a job they hate to support a life they don't like deep down are depriving themselves of the essence of being alive.

I can't satisfy both potential futures but am constantly trying to find the balance between get sucked into self imposed slavery as not producing for myself and society who returns the favor in their specialties. I've done both, been basically a nomadic slacker in my 20s, buckling down to finish engineering school by 30 and doing almost nothing interesting the next 15 years, back to now pulling back professionally and trying to live more.

I'm worried just as much about getting with cancer next year (at 48) thinking about potentially dying without making time to do and see things I wanted as I am about being 70 without any money. It's not easy to do and if you have the trust fund then someone else before you did the real work and sacrificed in your place. If you don't then you're stealing (perhaps even knowingly) the hard work from someone else. If you do that then you better damn well not call them names or tell them they aren't living right because if they shrug and stop working then your gravy train stops.

 

That's because the average westerner bitching about the evils and injustices of the developed world has probably never spent time in the 3rd world where live is cheap, hard, and dirty. The drivel I hear about injustices seems to always come from the people who have benefited the most from western civilization. Kind of like the dude on this thread preaching about the evils of materialism but the screen shot of his truck shows an expensive aftermarket bumper and the latest roof top popup BS tent. What a joke.

Basically a bunch of whiney soft ass spoiled brats.

 

Exactly when does one qualify as a millennial? This is an honest question

Ohh yeah I looked it up, I am definitely a millennial. Born in 1984, no wife, no house.....

 

There's not a 'set' date range but generally those born early 80s to mid to late 90s are considered millennials.

'85 here, married but no house (rent a house instead)...although living in CA that's not a big surprise. I suppose I fit the age range specs but I like to think I don't fit the bill. Who knows, every generation complains about the one that follows them.

 

Yeah I don't think working 110+hr week is a millennial trait.