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Xist -- What year is your Camry?
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Don't hit me bro is an '05.
The one thing I accomplished over Christmas break was fixing my old Dell.
I started going through the Event Viewer and there were just generic errors, but I saw something suggesting it was overheating, so I installed Core Temp, and my computer quickly hit 80°C, and progressed to 100°C, at which point it began throttling thermally.
Why doesn't it stay cool like it did originally?
I didn't want to take the time to figure out that, at least at this point, I bought a bigger cooler, which didn't fit, and would have required removing the motherboard, and modifying hardware.
Plus, my computer might have given me an error message each time I booted.
Then I found out that Dell sold an upgraded cooler when my computer was made and for newer models, which easily swapped in, although people insisted that I replaced the thermal paste, so I did that, and tested again.
It isn't A-B-A testing.
How would I reapply 9-year-old paste?
It benchmarked negligibly different with new paste.
People started telling me to replace the CMOS battery again, so I did, and one of the little plastic retaining tabs broke, so I posted a picture asking how to fix it.
Everyone said to replace the battery holder--and then people started noticing the dust:
The battery stays in with one clip and I removed the fan and scraped off the dust:
Now it benchmarks 3% higher, but I opened everything I normally use and more, all hundreds of tabs in Vivaldi, dozens of tabs in Brave, 100 YouTube videos in Vivaldi, 10-12 Word documents, 6 spreadsheets, Zoom, OBS Studio, and I ran a virus scan.
I think that one core hit 80°C, but it finished scanning my entire computer for viruses, and the CPU cooled down.
I still have the upgraded Dell cooler, which I might as well install, but I can't imagine having the computer another 8 years, and removing the dust from the processor is about as easy as upgrading the cooler.
I need to return the other cooler--the other Dell, and the gaming computer.
I still need to return the HP shredder.
Amazon says that I have until the end of the month to return the Aurora shredder, but just that I started the return for the HP.
I need to do that tomorrow after class.
I have an assignment due in 25 minutes.
I have been trying to work on it all weekend, but it is boring.
Would you believe that I have been distracted by next week's assignment?
I thought that we needed to submit a cover letter for our ethics class tonight and a résumé next week, but we need to submit both this week.
I started trying to go through all of the class materials to see how she told us to do things when I saw next week's assignment, a business plan.
It just says:
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Develop your own private practice (1-2 page/s document). Include the following:
1. Mission statement
2. Vision
3. Location
4. Budget
5. Regulations
6. Goals
Title it with the name of your practice. You can be creative and include graphics if needed.
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That seems pretty simple, but it is extremely complicated, although I very well may be the only person taking this seriously.
I asked in some Facebook groups because I always try to understand everything and since I started grad school with more speech experience than any of my classmates.
I may have started doing speech therapy before one or more of my professors.
I doubt the average speech therapist knows that the state of Arizona pays $78.80 for an SLPA to work one hour in a clinic, $92.24 for an SLP, $80.48 for an SLPA to do an hour of teletherapy, $94.56 for an SLP, $112.52 for an SLPA to do an hour of home health, and $122.32 for an SLP.
Also, there are 4 tiers with pay increasing for clinics and home health the further from big cities you are.
I have tried to estimate numbers for an SLP seeing 30 teletherapy clients weekly--$147,513.60 before taxes, which would allegedly involve $19,144.26 for self-employment, and $21,189.88 Federal (I need to double-check all of this).
I found a health insurance plan which would be $6,910.32 annually for my wife and I.
It was the best plan I saw.
Doing teletherapy from home, expenses would be minimal.
With 15% going to retirement, my take-home would allegedly be $86,240.33.
Ignoring everything but the state pay (which would be unthinkable), an SLP working in a clinic would need to average 26.5 hours of therapy a week to earn as much as an SLP seeing 20 clients in their homes.
- I have averaged one hour of driving per hour of therapy.
- I desperately hope that I could cut that.
I plan on doing as complete a business plan for a solo teletherapy service and then saying that Phase II would start after the first year where I would hire 2-3 SLPAs and start finding them clients for home visits.
If I hire 3 SLPAs and I get each 30 clients, I would, for example, give one the north side, another the west side, and the third the east side.
If the state pays me $112.52 for an SLPA to do an hour of therapy, I would offer $95.64 (85%), and if they average 25 hours a week for 50 weeks, they would make $119,550--triple what I made my best year.
I would keep $63,300.
Let's say that Year Three, I hire another SLP, pay her $103.97, and once I get her a full caseload, I start hiring SLPAs, eventually splitting the valley 7 ways, while I continue to see teleclients.
I have had clients for 4-5 years and would happily work with the same clients for longer as long as they are progressing, but having therapists spend as much time driving as actually conducting therapy just isn't viable.
In theory, my therapists would need to drive 25 hours to see 25 clients, and I want to avoid that as much as possible.
Driving 8 hours a week still sounds like a lot, but they would still have lesson planning, paperwork, etc.
I hate the idea of reassigning families when therapy is going well, but if I can continually give my therapists smaller areas, they could spend more time doing therapy, while driving relatively less.
I don't have any idea how teletherapy would fit in all of that.
I guess that I would specifically hire certain therapists to do teletherapy so they can focus on that and everyone else can focus on the rat race.
So, once we get established with virtual and home therapy, we could look into opening an office.
The smallest and cheapest local office space was 12x23 for a surprising amount each month, and a 2-5-year lease.
I would hope to be able to expand after a year.
The second-smallest and second-cheapest site would be big enough to split with an Occupational Therapist.
The state pays OTs $23.06 per 15 minutes, so also $92.24 per hour.
Since I would take care of bills and submitting paperwork, I would want the OT to pay 60% of overhead costs.
Anyway, there is a ton more, and I keep finding more aspects to research, but this only needs to be 1-2 pages, and obviously I will have much more.
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