Have you considered re-shaping it on your own? It isn't very difficult. They sell inexpensive steam guns on amazon, although I have always used my wife's iron.

Otherwise, the google machine tells me that there is a ladies hat shop in Brandon that makes their own hats so I'd imagine they'd be able to shape your hat for you. Try giving them a call and see if they can help

(802) 318-6853

Flipper? that you?

Unsecured load on roof. You think if the cops saw you driving around with a loose piece of plywood on the roof, they'd be like, "meh, hasn't fallen off yet."

Lmao how much weed do you smoke every day

I believe it is covered under "unsecured load on roof." Tie that snow down properly.

I will take your gun first

Depending on where you're coming from, it's quite doable. Compared to a lot of places out west, the money is better and the cost of living lower. That's been my experience, at least.

It's always a bit hardscrabble during the first few years of one's teaching career. Starting out in 2005, I pretty much lived paycheck to paycheck. (And I don't have a master's).

It's a pretty great state in which to be an educator.

80 minutes is greater than 60 minutes

Both my brother and my sister are teachers and when they graduated both move to Virginia to teach. Starting salary was like $15k more a year

You start taking classes right away to get your masters

I apologize, I took your first comment to mean you were suggesting they should get a masters first and I was just recommending that that might not be the way to go. Did not mean to (wo)mansplain.

I think my “If you’re single you’ll be fine” assumes that there is any housing you can find or roommates, so I might have been a little overly optimistic

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If you want some interesting insights into the profession follow /r/teachers. From what I have gleaned, we’re not great but not terrible. Indiana and North Carolina come up often as being pretty bad. It ranges a lot. Poor towns with people just starting out. $40,000 (maybe less in some). Rich towns with a masters and decades of experience $100,000 is possible but rare.

No one mentioned the “it’s a nor’easter” which is a term for a very large winter storm in this region

Source: born and raised 4th generation Vermonter

In my experience these are skier terms and fall into a category of kind of casual jargon/slang. Nuclear winter sounds plausible to me, though! So maybe more of a folk origin than anything else. I'm totally guessing though tbh.

Meticulous about maintaining the appropriate income level...presumably so as to stay below a certain income threshold, so they don't lose any city/state/federal benefits, the loss of which would not be offset by any increased income. In short, to keep from falling off the benefits cliff.

Still think Hill Farmstead is well above it.

Your reply would make sense if I had implied that OP should shirk work for a masters program, that isn’t the case and you’re kind of mansplaining this to me, as I am well aware. Perhaps DM OP, but I assume that since they’re a teacher they also know this stuff.

Vermont Country Store, a Western Wear Shop or Tack shop could refer you.

I’m a teacher in the northern part of the state. If you are single you’ll be fine. I have a wife and two kids and house and mostly living on my income. It is very tight. Rural schools generally pay in the 40’s, low 50’s for BA only. I have a masters + a lot of years and am just over 60. If I was in Burlington I’d probably be in the $80-$90K range, but I’d be paying on a $500,000 mortgage instead of a $100,000 one. It’s all relative. Don’t expect to be able to live an extravagant lifestyle, but you should still be able to spend some on fun.

Teacher salaries are public record, and there is a variation in salaries across the state. I recommend looking up the Town/City Report in the area that you're looking to move to, and you can review the salary ranges. Finding somewhere to live is probably going to be a challenge, as housing vacancies are very low, so also look at rental rates to compare.

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I have always used "HOT DAMN, IT'S REALLY COMING DOWN. SON. OF. A. BITCH. THAT IS A LOT OF SNOW. CHILDREN! DOGS! AVEC MOI! LET US GO FROLIC."

Get a job in the South Burlington or Essex Westford school district, they're two of the better/higher paying ones in the state. Once there, use professional development money to have the school pay for your masters.