EvanED

20277 pts ยท August 12, 2013


Leave that out? Better hope my guess as to what you want is correct.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

...but I *do* want "I'm looking for a full-time position starting ___" or "I'm looking for an intership starting ____."

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

I'm going to make it harder: when recruiting, I hate resumes w/o objective statements. I don't need "I want to enrich myself and contribute"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

.... I think you're unclear on what a nickname is. :-) "Mike" is a nickname even though it comes from "Michael"

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Hitting your brakes to piss off someone tailgating you.

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(If that made things worse, just imagine Obi-Wan telling you that what he told you is true from a certain point of view.)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

but that doesn't mean they're the only valid perspective. Hopefully that clears things up instead of making them worse. :-)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Physicists usually work in inertial frames and many things you know like Newton's laws only apply in them,

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

...were to look from outside it would look like what you feel is kind of a phantom, fictional force.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So if you are accelerating (e.g. in a plane on takeoff or spinning), what you feel IS a force from your perspective, but if someone else...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Reference frame is just your perspective. It's inertial if not accelerating, which includes changing direction not just speed (eg spinning)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

don't technically have paychecks to have anything withheld *from*, and are required to pay estimated tax quarterly. OP apparently didn't.2/2

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The US generally *has* a PAYE system with packcheck "withholdings." However, self-employed people (including independent contractors) [1/2]

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and centrifugal force becomes a "real" force in a rotating frame.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

There is no such thing as centrifugal forces *in an inertial reference frame*. Not all reference frames are inertial,

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

and saying "I can't pay that now", and I have sympathy for that. A lot less for, in response to that, sticking your head in the ground.) 4/4

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

especially spread out over two or maybe even more years. (I can also easily see someone getting surprised by how large the bill is [3/?]

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

independent contractors can easily pay double or even triple that, at which point $20K doesn't actually look like *that* much, [2/3]

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I definitely agree. My point was just that, if you're used to thinking of "fed income tax" as how much you pay, [1/3]

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(SECA on $43K ~ $6,063. Deduct half, you get the income tax on $40K of $4K like I gave in my other response.)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only half of it is, but you're right, I should have taken that into account. That'd raise my figure to $43K for two years.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(OTOH, you also forgot to subtract at least the standard deduction plus personal exemption before calculating income tax.)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You forgot social security & medicare, which independent contractors need to pay themselves. That adds a "flat" 14.1%.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I didn't say you need sympathy; I was just saying that it shouldn't be *surprising*.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...but that's also ignoring interest and penalties.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fed income tax on $40K, standard deduction only: little under $4K. SECA on $40K: little $6K. Bit less than $20K...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did the math too; where do you get $57K? (I *was* unclear though: "$40K across two years" meant $40K in year 1, another $40K in year 2)

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0