I love the juxtaposition of thinking a ‘97 Camry is anywhere close to $10k while at the same time a $3k piece of lab equipment is “Christmas present territory” :)
It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?
It is genuinely disheartening when people in this board start talking about things they buy when they're WILDLY out of my price range. It's almost like living in a flyover state and working in education isn't optimal for income. Weird.
I'm an IT that has ethics, so I haven't made good money, ever. Choosing not to harm, or, in your case, actively doing the opposite, I guess we'll just have to live with being able to sleep.
Dude I have three thousand dollars net total in my bank account. I don't own a car or a house, don't have kids etc. I literally used to co-own 97 camry with bees in the trunk. I paid about $2500 for it. Hence why I say it costs the about the same as the spectrometer on eBay. $2500 is about $3000. However you and I both know that there are people all over this board who buy their kids macbooks for christmas
Hehe. Let me know if you have lived a whole life of only emotional neglect and abuse by narcissistic parents and if you share my exact autistic neurotype and maybe then we'll talk :)
That said this is getting into Christmas present territory:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167319991806?_skw=handheld+raman+sp...