80k and you can't pay rent? Seriously... You must be bad with bills because I could manage a 1.5k apartment on a 32k income. Things were tight but doable. Occasionally picked up temp work to get some additional income. Good lord I managed to buy a 350k house with a 200k loan and paid it off in <10 yrs due to working 55 hr work weeks.

Hence why I asked for you to tell me. The positioning was ambiguous.

You shouldn’t assume.

I am a commercial driver, picture was taken via dash-cam. Panoramic view, picture was cropped “for the good angle” 😊

I agree! I looked at the cam footages and they all look like any regular road . Like the ones that don’t even require anything more than regular tires and Front wheel drive. So as long as I continuously monitor these footages before I leave , I wouldn’t require snow chains or winter tires right ?

https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/Snoqualmie

Makes sense , thank you

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Too many risks. A major investment like a car is not the time to learn about all the ways things can go wrong.

Thanks. I am looking for mid management but will go through the site now.

You should be fine, check the roads and the storms blowing through before you plan your trip. Thousands of people drive that pass every day and it’s fine. Obviously don’t go if they get a ton of new snow for a couple days.

I like the darkness. It is sunrise after all.

Please tell me you didn’t take a picture while operating a motor vehicle, then post proof of your crime online.

That exists in WA, but definitely not in Port Orchard.

Really depends on the job. I know there are a lot of entry positions open with a lot of departments right now and they are pretty eager to hire.

I only had one interview. Went pretty smoothly!

Correct. Houses range any where from 250k-1billion easily. They must be restricting them selves to 600k+ homes. Sorry but they'll need to take out a mortgage at that point. I send my payments off monthly using bill pay. Really not all that difficult. Hell they could afford 2k in rent every month. Though a mortgage would be roughly the same as long as it's a set rate.

I only pull in about 38-50k annually and you're doing a hell of a lot better than me. Keeping in mind about 30-40% of my income goes towards bills/mortgage. I was sick of paying rent so I just swapped my rent for a mortgage. If you can't pay 100% of the mortgage just pay the interest to not accrue more. You could easily save about 30-50% of your income and have enough for a house in <10 yrs.

I would imagine it depends on the position and agency. For my current job I had only one interview and I think after the offer was made I had to send some paperwork and get a drug test. After that I asked for a couple weeks as I was moving from Texas to here. Not a bad process.

Do you know how long is the interview process?

Check: careers.wa.gov

Any particular reason you’d recommend that I don’t drive ? I looked at the SDOT cams right now , they all look like regular roads , fully plowed, with hardly any snow/ice in the roads

https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/Snoqualmie

Question , I am hoping to work with the state.. any idea how to start and find a job. It's been very hard lately. I finished computer science and have over ten years experience.

Start watching google maps to see if it is worth the commute or not. I'd highly suggest a home within about 1 hr of work to make it tolerable. WA state is strong in employment and you won't have problems finding jobs. You just have to be willing to do them. If you don't mind living in a nanny state you'll be fine. Most people are so use to it it doesn't even bother them. The ones that are rule fighters or don't like any government figure have a hard time with it. You could always try moving out here try it for a year or two and see if you want to stay or not.

I live in king county and it has a strong job market. Redfin is a good place to look at housing. WA state is a wee bit expensive but if you can find a place where you can live in your budget you're fine. Minimum wage in WA state is about $15/hr. If you can take in $35-50k annually you'll manage just fine.

Housing is a bit expensive but if you can room mate with someone you trust to cut the costs in half. I'm fortunate and own my own home so my finances are very different. I only work for health insurance now and use funds from my job to pay the bills instead of using my nest egg in investments. As we all know society crashes now and then and yes I've had to set up my investments to be income producing for a few years. I use bill pay through my bank to auto send off to my bills each month. All I need but do is make sure there's enough in checking and all is good. I only mail 2 checks a year because I don't do direct withdrawal as it's not safe and I've had bad experiences with it.

Pay for transport.

Cool

I think two scenes were filmed in North Bend WA. At a gas station and a cafe.

Truth.