Hey again. :)

[kevinb]

Hey guys and gals, sorry for my little absence. I got busy with other things (still kinda am), but I'm going to try and make more of an apperance again. I'm making this thread because I think I finally checked into reality and have a more "realistic" vision. Sure everyone wants to end up like NERD or BHB, etc. but chances of that are kinda slim. So here is my somewhat well thought out ideas, comment if you'd like. Id love to read them.

Currently I work as a kennel person at an animal hospital, I get $8/hr, no overtime (even though I work 50+ hours a week), no benefits of any kind, and I'm currently health insuranceless. Me and my gf are both persuing becoming nurses so we should be fairly well off, compared to some people. My gf graduates in june and soon after we will be attending a 6 week course to get our CNA license, to get a job at a hospital, make better money, have benefits, and get ohr foot in the door so that they can pay for our nursing school. We also plan on moving into our own apartment soon after we get a CNA (they make about $10-14/hr) around here. I will then begin getting a few snakes to grow out. Some of which are on my list on a previous thread I had, but slightly modified. I plan to just breed a little to get the feel for everything and see if it truly is something I want to persue further. I'm planning on getting the following as my firsts.

0.1 bee
1.1 black pastel
1.0 pastel spotnose
0.1 pastel butter
1.0 enchi
0.1 fire

Give or take a couple. I'm sure the list will change 1010001001999 more times. I plan on just doing a couple pairings the first year and if I like it take what money I make on the babies and add to the collection. Eventually I would like to work ultramels, lavs, desert, desert ghost, phantom/mystic, and special into the equation....along with a lot of others. I feel that I should get things down pat before dropping a k or more on a snake though.

Ill be reading a lot, posting a little here and there. I basically just want to read read read up on making racks or buying and a lot of other husbandry stuff.

Thanks for reading and possibly posting.

Have a good day.

[zelos888]

Congrats to you both

[kevinb]

Thanks!

She plans on working in the perinatal part of the hospital with babies where as I just plan to work anywheres but the ER. Haha.

[Mike41793]

I notice you live in NY. If you ever get the urge to move down to CT I can get you and your gf jobs at the nursing home I work in lol
Sounds like a good plan to me. Im almost in the same boat going to school but working too. Hopefully I can graduate and get a job that pays well to support my reptile hobby

[kevinb]

We decided not to move out of state, we would miss our families to much.

[FkNdRk]

Is 10/hr a decent wage where you live? I make about 21/hr in GA and hardly have enough to put into building my collection. Granted I have 3 kids and supporting my wife while she gets her RN. So yeah....3 years when she graduates my collection will expand rather quickly me hopes.

[kevinb]

min wage is $7.35. I make about 220-260 a week depending or hours, so I don't have much to use for anything else. When I start making more than $8 an hour, plus what my gf makes I'll be able to build a small collection. When I get my RN it should be between 20-25 an hour. I may continue on to get my degree as a Dr, who knows. I wouldn't mind the title and paychecks.

[Driver]

I think your plan is good. One thing I would recommend would be to get more multiple gene females. If I had the money that is what I would be doing.

[FkNdRk]

My biggest problem with my ball python collection is A.D.D. I keep spending spare money on awesome stuff like sd retics, hogg islands and BCIs, instead of focusing of getting uber morphs I like. Le sigh.

[notmyfault]

Kudos to you Kev. I'm currently working on my Associates Degree for Nursing, have a little less then 2 semesters left till I graduate. (Yay).

Hopefully working toward my BSN and maybe an NP in the future, still need to get a good grasp on what I want to specialize in when I graduate. So far I like adult medicine and working on a Med/Surg floor, so much to do and so much to see, literally.

Anyways, wish you best of luck!