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That sounds great! Heres one: Get paid a tax free $15 per hour restoring an antique craftsmen house while living in it for free. Also forgeting to mention that it is packed with food and has a giant organic vegetable garden in the front yard. Yeah, life hurts........

Whats the sickest summer gig you've ever had?

That is precisely why I want to go into health care. I want to offer people the very best of what I have and actually improve individual's life quality.

Yeah, thanks! I'm thinking of applying to PA school next year...... Everyone I talk to about it speaks very highly of the field, and I know that you can make a pretty penny at it too. I dated a girl who was a PA. Had been for about 5 years, worked in Vancouver, WA and made about $14.50 an hour. What do you consider a “pretty penny"? Uhm, yeah, right. Thats odd, considering that the national MEDIAN salary for PA's working at least 32 hours per week is around $81,000 per year, and for new graduates in a first time job, around $70,000 per year. The top 10% of all PA's in the United States make more than $100,000 per year, and the lowest 10% make less than $50,000 per year. Overall, from the statistics I've read, it looks like I could continue my current "lets play as much as possible" philosophy as a PA, and still provide a service to society while eliminating financial anxiety. As for graduate nurse practitioner programs, it looks like I would still have to go through the steps of first being established as an RN, then work on the Masters of Science. I don't know, seems like too much to do considering I've just spent the past five years earning my bachelors degree in something thats NOT an RN program........ UW offers a fast track (3 years) Masters in Nursing program that requires no medical or nursing experience; entry requirement is any Bachelors degree with the usual prerequisites -- courses which a PT grad has already taken. Also, your PT education might be adequately favorable for the subjective part of the entrance evaluation. The rest would be GPA on relevant courses and your enthusiasm for delivering health care. UW website states the first five quarters are intensive -- up to 7 days per week of classroom time and clinical rotations that clear the way for completion of the Masters and make you eligible to sit for the state NCLEX exam for an RN license. It will cost you, but completion of the Masters in Nursing would qualify you to sit for an ARNP license. As of a couple years ago, NPs in Washington have medication prescriptive authority and can practice independently within the scope of their licensure. Job listings for the same position often seek either a PA or an NP. Pay may be about the same, as may be demand for either profession in rural areas. Yeah, I just got done looking at that website...... Looks interesting. The nursing philosophy is different to that of PA's (I think) which are trained extremely similar to the ways MD's are trained to think...... Thanks.

Optimum Nutrition is actually one of the better tasting powders. All the other brands listed above (ie. Designer Whey, which has aspartame and is over priced) are pretty much a waste of money. Another good brand is Bioplex. They are located in Bellingham and seem to make the "cleanest" product that I've found - meaning that it has no artificial crap added. As for prices, Seattle Super Supplements beats Bodybuilding.com; believe me, I've looked at this a lot.... You'll also be buying local. Also, this is just my personal opinion, but I think that most of the meal replacement products out there are kinda a waste too. "Muscle Milk" is the only one that seems pretty solid, but it too is oober priced. You can make your own meal replacement with whole food ingredients, like peanut butter, coconut milk, bananas, oats etc..... I say that just because this whole thread comes down to protein "supplements", not solid nutrition, and making protein powder you main source of aminos is a BIG mistake. EAT MORE MEAT. OK done.....

Is that because giant symetrical muscles are so damn cool? Or are you scared?

Sorry, I was off a little bit.......... the 50K per year was from an older study I read........ Here is the data from the 2006 annual income for PA's from the American Physician's Assistant Association: Respondents of study 17346 Mean $84,396 Standard deviation $21,975 10th percentile $62,472 25th percentile $70,016 Median $80,356 75th percentile $94,260 90th percentile $110,721 *Excludes self-employed PAs

Yeah, but I got guns! Yes, guns are GOOD.

Not to mention, I like his odds in a masters program with ~ 90% + women. EXACTLY!!!

Yeah, thanks! I'm thinking of applying to PA school next year...... Everyone I talk to about it speaks very highly of the field, and I know that you can make a pretty penny at it too. I dated a girl who was a PA. Had been for about 5 years, worked in Vancouver, WA and made about $14.50 an hour. What do you consider a “pretty penny"? Uhm, yeah, right. Thats odd, considering that the national MEDIAN salary for PA's working at least 32 hours per week is around $81,000 per year, and for new graduates in a first time job, around $70,000 per year. The top 10% of all PA's in the United States make more than $100,000 per year, and the lowest 10% make less than $50,000 per year. Overall, from the statistics I've read, it looks like I could continue my current "lets play as much as possible" philosophy as a PA, and still provide a service to society while eliminating financial anxiety. As for graduate nurse practitioner programs, it looks like I would still have to go through the steps of first being established as an RN, then work on the Masters of Science. I don't know, seems like too much to do considering I've just spent the past five years earning my bachelors degree in something thats NOT an RN program........

Normal....... BMI still doesn't take into account athletes with a lot of lean muscle mass however. I know people who are considered "over-weight", but they are very strong athletes and have very low body fat percentages.

Hey thanks Archy! Yeah, I'm getting more pummed about this. It also seems like a good profession for climbers. You can make plenty of $$ to support gear and holidays, and you can work ANYWHERE.

Thanks for the replies! After five years of preparing myself for PT school, I'm finding that I'm getting a bit bummed out with all the degree inflation and conservative politics put in by the APTA. I mean seriously, new PTs with doctoral level degrees still can't order X-rays, MRI's, prescribe medicine, or EVEN have direct access to patients! Its pretty much bullshit. PA's can do all that, and I even just learned that orthopedic PA's can do much of the manual musculoskeletal manipulation that PT's do. So yeah, I'm certainly interested. I've also talked with several MDs, new PT grads, and a PA student, and they all say that the profession is SOLID.

HOLY FUCK MAN. You've got some skills AND balls! A lot of my BMX buddies bad mouth trials riding, but jeeze, your gaps are knarlier and more calculated than all the tech shit that seems to be popular in BMX these days. Thanks for the video!

Yeah, thanks! I'm thinking of applying to PA school next year...... Everyone I talk to about it speaks very highly of the field, and I know that you can make a pretty penny at it too.

Anyone on here a practicing PA? If yes, do you like your job?

psssst. Only 98% of the climbing world cares! Seriously, getting up any moutain would be unthinkable without caffeine gurgling through the legs veins!

Well, yaaknow, everything IS better wraped in bacon.

Great pictures! Its always amazing to see how much the glaciers change from season to season.

Hey John! Guess what!? Eagle lake looks like a great skinny dipping spot! Yes? Yes? I'm stoked your doing this. Our buddy Richard just finished his last Scottish Munro, so this whole "top 100" idea could prove to be a good source of bragging rights to all the scotsmen! Also, alough I know you are mildly bumming the fact that you won't finsh all the 100 peaks in your fiftieth year, for me this fact is a BONUS! Because by the time I'm shredding again, I'm guessing you'll still need a partner(s) to finish up the last 60 peaks! Thanks for your thread. The pictures are fantastic!

DUDE, DUDE, DUDE, counterfeitfake, this is the raddest thread spray has ever seen.

GAIN WEIGHT.

Yep. Speakin' the gospel!

CEVICHE = the best and most delicious food group EVER.

Whats wrong with this?