u/honeybeebutch

Hey all, I would like to get into breeding eventually, but first I want to make sure I can reliably produce lots of feminized auto seeds because I'm not paying $15+ a pop for the rest of my life. From what I've been reading, this should be pretty straightforward, but I just want to check to make sure there's not something I'm overlooking.

I want to plant two plants from purchased F5 feminized auto seeds of the same strain. Then treat one with STS according to the proper schedule to produce female pollen sacs. Then in a well sealed tent, breed the two together, and harvest the seeds from the female once they're mature. This should result in lots of feminized auto seeds with the same reliable genetics as the parents, right?

Tldr, I'm considering selling our SUV and using Evie for our errands because the car payment was bad enough already and the cost of gas isn't going down any time soon. Is that realistic? It seems fine, but I worry there's something about Evie that I'm missing.

Long version with our habits and finances:

I have never had a driver's license (medical reasons) but my husband does. He moved here from FL in '22, I've lived here my whole life. Currently he drives a 2019 Subaru Forester that we pay $700/mo in combined loan and insurance payments, plus obviously cost of gas and maintenance on top of that. I lost my job in November, my husband is disabled and only works part time, and we've made it work so far but frankly the car is the only expense left to cut. It's a killer and we don't even use it that often.

Our primary, weekly errands consist of driving 15 minutes to Aldi and Cub and 5 minutes to the local pet store. Occasionally, I have specialty errands I need to run in Fridley, Bloomington, Roseville, and Plymouth, but we almost never need to drive farther than that. Sometimes we like to drive to Eagle Lake (about 40 minutes west) to stargaze. We don't road trip, and we visit my family 3 hours away MAYBE once a year. We don't haul things. My husband is a good driver.

We live in Whittier, so I think we'll be in proximity to several Evies at any given time. There's usually one parked outside our apartment, and there's a charging station 4-5 blocks away. I think my husband could easily drop me off at our door with the groceries, then park the car at the charger and walk home from there to get the charging credit on our trip. He's a student, and would likely qualify for the Access plan, so we'll be getting cheaper rates than the standard. By my estimate, we'd be paying maybe $200 a month to use Evie for our normal errands.

Am I missing anything? This seems like a no brainer, but I worry there's something I'm overlooking. But we wouldn't need to buy gas at all, it seems, even the gas Hourcars will pay for gas if you need to fill it up. And they come with parks passes, so we could even still take day trips to parks. $50 or so for a few hours at the hourly rate doesn't seem that bad for a state park trip when you consider we'll save more than $500 a month on car payments. I would love to get y'all's thoughts.

I (27M) usually work in healthcare admin (previous roles are usually reception/front desk work, managing staff on the admin side of things, etc). Been unemployed since November. I had an interview on Tuesday at a major local healthcare provider that I felt really optimistic about - it would be a step back from management, but a significant bump up in pay, and it's in a very specific field that I have a lot of experience in. I needed to ace this one, so naturally I prepared answers for common interview questions (biggest strength/weakness, why this company, why this field, a time I resolved conflict, etc) and practiced them ahead of time.

The interview lasted 15 minutes. The only questions they asked me were "tell me about yourself" and "tell me about a time you went above and beyond". Then turned it over to me to ask my questions of them. I managed to shoehorn in my strength and weakness answers, but besides that, I didn't really get a chance to talk at much length about my experience and qualifications. What do you do in this situation to still make a good impression and demonstrate your skills?

It didn't feel like they were trying to shut me down early (I was their first interview for this role, they said), it felt like they were unprepared to be giving an interview. They seemed to like me on a personal level, and I did submit an excellent cover letter (that they praised) that covers my bases on my specific experience, so I didn't have nothing. I just found myself taken off guard by not having the questions asked. I plan to send an email today thanking them for the interview and elaborating a little more on the things I didn't get a chance to say.