It takes me a minimum of 15 miles to even get anywhere!!! lol.

 

Has she done a anything medical? If not while she's waiting on the list she can take the EMT class, I teach it at Cabrillo. We get a lot of people on the nursing wait list coming through to see if they like medical stuff.

 

They already tax the crap out of us on registration and my insurance is based on how many miles I drive. Cali needs to learn to budget their money better. I can go back to Oregon and get 2 year tags and reg for 50-60 bucks and the roads up there are so much better. If other states can manage not rape the people wth is wrong with California? With state is being flushed straight to the sewer with all their bs laws.

 

IMO, if you want to make more money on people driving, implement toll roads. When I commuted a lot, I would have paid extra to get into carpool lane if it meant me getting there faster and without stop and go. People will pay.

I have a problem with this proposal because of it's core goal -- get people out of their cars. I will refuse to get out of my car, no matter what -- it is alot more convenient and saves me alot of time, allowing me to manage work and home life more efficiently. Another big problem with article I have is the "with only low-income people exempted" statement -- I grew up in a (failed) Socialist country and am really not into the idea of gumment re-distributing wealth.

Stan

 

She works as an M.A. with the Santa Cruz Med Foundation in Aptos. She is having such a hard time getting classes she needs at cabrillo that she's pretty much given up. The way they do class registration is retarded. It makes it damn near impossible for the working person to get a class.

If you're a recent high school grad you're high on the list. If you took a full load last semester you're high on the list. If you've been out for a while or you're only taking 1-2 classes a semester you're super low on the list. So by the time you are even allowed to apply for a class it's gone. Especially if it's one of the few that is reasonable for a working person to take.

It's stupid. That's why I stopped taking classes too. I got sick of having to sign up for all of my classes on the wait list. Then I'd take time off. Go sit in the class and then find out I missed the cut by 1 or 2 people. Cabrillo is retarded. They spent all this time expanding stuff they don't need to expand and didn't do crap to expand on it's nursing program or it's general education class schedule.... their 2 largest programs. WTF?

We'd both love to get back in to Cabrillo but it ain't happening.

I actually almost took the EMT class there but it was full by the time I could apply. I was going to run the paramedic route before I got this job. I ended up going to an MA program and finishing that out. I just needed to do my onsite training. But I decided I didn't like it. The med part was easy. The rooming patients and the crap my wife deals with... not my cup of tea. I'd rather be in an ER or a bus.

 

Bus is fun but def not for 30 years, almost forces you to go into fire department or ER as a nurse or pa. Def a fun job though.

 

meh i'll just swap odometers

 

You're not thinking clearly. Remember Gray Davis? You may have been too young to care when he was bankrupting the state and rolling blackouts were de rigeur.

Doesn't matter who is governor anyway - its the overpaid legislators and bloated state departments that are the problem. Oh, and the general lack of communication with both. I, unlike you most likely, have worked in state government and it's ridiculous how inefficient it can be.

 

Aren't we already taxed on gas?...