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HonorableTB posted:If you knew layoffs were coming you should've told those people you rear end I always do. It's amazing how many people wouldn't believe me.
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jon joe posted:What's truck equity look like in the apocalypse? Zombie movies show a market crash. Buy a green Hyundai Tucson. It will stay pristine and washed through three seasons of zombie slaying Nail Rat posted:30% canned food "... but you can only carry 200 lbs of food back to the wagon"
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HonorableTB posted:If you knew layoffs were coming you should've told those people you rear end After you lined up your own new employment, of course.
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Feb 12, 2015 21:53
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Barry posted:After you lined up your own new employment, of course. "Good with income, the networking megathread"
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Feb 12, 2015 21:55
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I took the least ballsy EE path, power engineering. I'll never be fabulously wealthy, but I'll always be gainfully employed, barring a complete societal collapse. Sometimes I wish I'd rolled the dice and gone into tech or become a programmer... stories like that make me pretty thankful I didn't.
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Feb 12, 2015 21:56
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Comrade Flynn posted:I always do. It's amazing how many people wouldn't believe me. Games industry always has layoffs. I don't know how people could not expect them. The movie industry is the same but the layoffs are usually announced a few months in advance and those who are prepared to move usually leave months before the end of the film they're working on. Just the nature of these businesses unfortunately.
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Feb 12, 2015 22:13
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You could replace game industry with vfx industry and had the exact same last 2 pages of this thread.
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Feb 12, 2015 22:23
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Go into digital marketing instead. The income-per-unit-knowledge/competence is incredible.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:07
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Comrade Flynn posted:Yeah, what do I know. I only support my family while working in video games.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:08
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Cicero posted:Have you been laid off every year or two, forcing several awkward moves and financial instability? No? Then what I said doesn't apply to you. Yes. Try reading what I posted.
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Comrade Flynn posted:Yes. Try reading what I posted. edit: wait, "Yes." makes no sense, you already said you handled the layoffs without it impacting your life, therefore what I said doesn't apply to you. edit2: Doing quote:It's just a matter of being smart and keeping your eyes open. I've been doing this for 5 years and have been laid off twice. I knew both layoffs were happening months in advance because I kept my eyes open and saw what was going on, so in both case I had jobs lined up that were promotions. I'm always shocked when people tell me "I had no idea this was coming!" I knew your company was doing layoffs and I don't even work there! Cicero fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 23:14
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Comrade Flynn posted:What about gold bullets? Silver bullion is both a hedge against inflation and werewolves
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Radbot posted:Go into digital marketing instead. The income-per-unit-knowledge/competence is incredible. Seconding this. The platform rules/methods change so quickly that years of experience isn't super valuable. You'd basically be able to do it in 6 months and if you were good, you could be making 100K+ within 2 years.
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Feb 13, 2015 01:02
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Nail Rat posted:30% canned food I think you might be overweighting the basil - you should probably diversify into international spices, or at least other herbs.
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Feb 13, 2015 01:03
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Cicero posted:I did, hence why I spoke for you already in my reply with the 'No?' bit. I thought he came off as more clueless than selfish. He kept doing the same thing without shaking off an iota of his naivety over the course of his falling-down-the-up-escalator disaster of a career. It's a workable industry if you accept and plan around its realities, but this guy clearly did not.
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Feb 13, 2015 01:35
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Not a Children posted:I thought he came off as more clueless than selfish. He kept doing the same thing without shaking off an iota of his naivety over the course of his falling-down-the-up-escalator disaster of a career. It's a workable industry if you accept and plan around its realities, but this guy clearly did not. Pretty much this. Cicero: maybe I misunderstood but it looked like you said working in video games is selfish. The guy is in a lovely situation because he was dumb and/or naive. I guess you could argue that's being selfish.
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ohgodwhat posted:I think you might be overweighting the basil - you should probably diversify into international spices, or at least other herbs. Or perhaps a car and scuba diving equipment.
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Comrade Flynn posted:Cicero: maybe I misunderstood but it looked like you said working in video games is selfish. edit: I agree that he sounds clueless as well, but really, if he can hold a decent white-collar job down, he should be smart enough to know better.
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Feb 13, 2015 02:07
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The Nards Pan posted:If the whole thing goes belly up and our currency is worth nothing and we're living in Mad Max times - I don't think I'm going to give a poo poo about gold and can't imagine I'd barter any of my food or skills for metal I can't eat. Really, those people seem to have forgotten that the value of precious metals (aside from a select few industries unlikely to survive total societal collapse) is just as arbitrary as that of the ones and zeroes on your bank's servers.
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Their logic is that someone in a better position would give a poo poo about gold, or that whatever caused the economy to collapse will eventually be rebuilt so that while dollars of the former U.S. are useless gold nuggets aren't. Really if Mad Max is any indication you should be stocking up on oil/gas or a really nice arm crossbow.
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Feb 13, 2015 03:20
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Blackjack2000 posted:It's really easy to say "hurr, just freeze the leftovers!" I'm sorry this is so late, but JFC this is not okay. This is not normal. Onions take like, loving months to sprout. They cost less than dirt and every recipe worth making uses them. And I've never seen an orange dry up because they are good for eating. My wife and I eat out twice a week tops and I almost never have to eat fast food. I work ~9-10 hours a day, and she works equivalent hours while on rotating shift work. We cook and clean after ourselves all the same. It's not that loving hard. It's not some loving gigantic dichotomy between freezing a half ton of meatloaf and doing whatever terrible with money and health thing it is you're doing. Being a grownup means that work, cooking, and cleaning are priorities over loving World of Warcraft. I leave for work at 6 am, get home around 5 pm, and then I deal with the basic loving necessities of life, like cooking, cleaning, and doing my own laundry. Amazingly, I can sometimes even accomplish two or three of these things in one day! Giving yourself loving food poisoning is not normal.
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Nibbles the Shark posted:I'm sorry this is so late, but JFC this is not okay. Woah there, tiger. I agree for the most part. (try living in Florida. Onions sprout in days) I work 60hrs/week and still find time to cook a hot meal eveny evening. It's usually something simple like tonight we had potatoes pan fried with bacon and veggies with a egg over easy on top. It took about 25 minutes to throw together and was hearty and healthy if you're reasonable active. However, I don't really judge people who don't. I've spent well over a decade in the food industry. Most people have never done menu planning or pricing out meals by the serving, and don't have a repertoire of hundreds of recipes committed to memory, and don't get the joy and satisfaction out of cooking that some do. Efficient and tasty home cooking is a skill that takes time to develop. I think it's totally worth it, but not everyone can have every skill. There just aren't enough hours in the day. I save money by cooking, but I pay someone to do my graphic design for me because I decided to spend my afternoons chopping onions instead of learning photoshop. Everyone has their own value system. Being bad with money is spending large amounts of resources on things that yield disproportionate amounts of value. Most often we see this manifested in situations where someone will sacrifice their future happiness for a brief thrill. (buying a truck is quite the dopamine hit) For a lot of people, eating out ends up being a really big sacrifice to their future, but they are addicted to it and make all sorts of excuses to justify their behavior. They should probably at least familiarize themselves with Marie Calendar's offerings if they are dead set on not learning to cook (oh god, so much sodium), but for other folks, cooking on a daily basis just doesn't make sense.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:but for other folks, cooking on a daily basis just doesn't make sense. Bullshit. They are either lazy or retarded and need to learn to like eating like adults. This poo poo isn't hard. It takes a half hour max to chop up a week's worth of stir fry vegetables and meat and put them in containers. I get home, I throw a handful from each container in a pan, pour on a sauce I like, and in 15 min I have hot food that isn't going to break me or put me in an early grave. And it's GOOD. Or hmm, if I cook 1 chicken breast it makes just as much sense to cook as many as will fit in the pan. So I eat one that night however I like, put the rest in the fridge, and I can think of 4 ways right now to finish that off in the next 2-4 days that are all 1. different from each other and 2. Prepared in under 10 min. Yeah, roasting a loving chicken, whipping potatoes, and crafting a 16 ingredient side salad every weeknight doesn't make sense for most people. But don't pretend like cooking food and eating like an adult is some monumental undertaking. Granted, it's a lot harder to do if you insist on eating nothing but fish sticks and tater tots, vegetables definitely make it a much nicer deal, but it's not remotely difficult. If someone's going to make the case that it's cheaper for a single person to eat out than cook, they had better live in Vietnam or be using the McDouble as their argument, not a goddamn 8 dollar lettuce sandwich.
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NancyPants posted:If someone's going to make the case that it's cheaper for a single person to eat out than cook, they had better live in Vietnam or be using the McDouble as their argument, not a goddamn 8 dollar lettuce sandwich. It's cheaper for me to eat out than to cook, but I work at a cafe and get food at cost  I actually really miss taking bagged lunches, because I love cooking and eating good food, and needing to heavily plan your meals around using up fresh produce before it rots is both monotonous and stressful.
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NancyPants posted:This poo poo isn't hard. It takes a half hour max to chop up a week's worth of stir fry vegetables and meat and put them in containers. I get home, I throw a handful from each container in a pan, pour on a sauce I like, and in 15 min I have hot food that isn't going to break me or put me in an early grave. And it's GOOD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUbWjIKxrrs quote:Or hmm, if I cook 1 chicken breast it makes just as much sense to cook as many as will fit in the pan. So I eat one that night however I like, put the rest in the fridge, and I can think of 4 ways right now to finish that off in the next 2-4 days that are all 1. different from each other and 2. Prepared in under 10 min.
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You don't need to spend a decade as a chef to know you shouldn't give yourself food poisoning from eating ancient moldy poo poo because "lol bachelor what else am I gonna do."
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baquerd posted:It takes you that long? Just get one of these already: Batch breasts get cooked in the oven on cast iron, so yes. There's no loving reason to eat plain chicken unless it's been cooked over an open flame. Put some kind of sauce on it. That's 30-40 minutes I can spend doing other things that aren't cooking while they bake, or prepping the rest of the meal(s), cleaning up prep dishes, etc. Doing it that way is my perfect balance of batch cooking and not eating the same goddamn thing all the time.
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Feb 13, 2015 06:49
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Get a slow cooker. Throw random meat, random vegetables, and random liquid in before you leave to work. Come home from work to fully cooked meal.
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Boot and Rally posted:Forgot I was posting in the derails megathread so everyone is just looking for an excuse. lmao at the new thread title
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Nibbles the Shark posted:I'm sorry this is so late, but JFC this is not okay.  Yeah, anyone who doesn't live just like you must be a manchild sperglord who goes home with a bag of Five Guys and spends their evening greasing up their keyboards with an MMORPG. As someone who actually does work 9-10 hours a day, I'm guessing that you're either exaggerating or you're working a job that doesn't demand that much focus. I've never seen someone work an intense 9-10 hours and then go home and cook themselves dinner from scratch. Believe it or not, some people also just don't like cooking. I've had many evenings where dinner was a peanut butter and honey sandwich and a glass of milk. Cereal, trail mix, scrambled eggs. You get the idea. But I guess I'm not a grownup because every dish I make doesn't begin with a roux.
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Blackjack2000 posted:But I guess I'm not a grownup because every dish I make doesn't begin with a roux. Rouxby Tuesdays?
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Blackjack2000 posted:
Until recently my routine was seven ten-twelve hour shifts in a row (EDIT: A routine that apparently killed my ability to do math. Fixed now.). I still cooked, because I'm a functional human being who likes eating healthily and cheaply and I don't want to become another obese American shoveling chipotle down his gullet with a shovel three nights a week. Don't act like the expectation of basic human survival skills is some great horror (A roux! My stars!) because honestly, doing so does make you sound like a manchild. No one expects you to get home and make a roux. See that post from that dude about stir fry? That's how real people cook. It's fast and it's good and it can be done in literally the same time frame in which you can make scrambled eggs. You can even use store-bought sauce until you get bored with it. You can also use a slow cooker like another dude said. Or you can make chili, perhaps one of the easiest foods in the world to make taste good. It's all low cost, low time investment stuff and you can pretend otherwise but you're not fooling anyone but yourself. Ohthehugemanatee fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Blackjack2000 posted:
I'm an emergency MD that works 11 hour shifts and I come home and cook a meal nearly every day of the week. I get it. It's tough especially if you're new to cooking. It takes quite a bit of concentration whenever I learn a new recipe. But that's why its essential to give yourself the ability to cook 5-6 recipes without thinking. It takes practice like exercise. And just like exercise It's good for your wallet and your health to learn. Seriously the initial obstacle of learning cooking is worth the effort to overcome.
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why do people gert so weird about cooking habits. are you all like this in real life?!?!
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opus111 posted:why do people gert so weird about cooking habits. are you all like this in real life?!?! I don't know about you, but when I see that the random cooking habits of online people that I'll never meet in real life are different than mine, I GET REALLY UPSET.
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opus111 posted:why do people gert so weird about cooking habits. are you all like this in real life?!?! Uh, this entire thread is people ignoring the hilarious bad with money stories and getting really defensive/judgemental about some inane lifestyle choices. **Someone posts story about some clown spending way too much money. Goons point and laugh at the person in story. Another goon comes to the rescue and says, "well it's not that bad, I do it this way and it totally is normal." Goons tell them they are idiots. A few more goons come to the rescue while others tell them they are retarded. And that why this is the derail thread. There are about a dozen boring lifestyle derails that this thread cycles through. Learn to ignore them and you can read a few funny stories every once in a while.
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Reddit to the rescue!http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2vovxr/owe_money_to_the_irs_for_a_job_my_ex_husband_was/ posted:When my ex husband lost his call center job in 2011 we needed to pay rent and a friend offered to get him a job throwing newspapers. Because he didn't have a valid drivers license, we put the job in my name (contract job, income was as self employed) and he just did the work while I delivered pizzas. "I committed employment fraud, help me get out of my tax liability!"
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Not a Children posted:Reddit to the rescue! Yeah but realistically which is more expensive, paying fines or back taxes?
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NancyPants posted:Yeah but realistically which is more expensive, paying fines or back taxes? Option C, avoiding the former until you get nailed for being unable to pay the latter
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We plan our meals for the week, that way when you get home in zombie mode from work you just check the meal board and make what it says - no thinking. Most of our meals are fairly straight forward and take less time from start to finish than going out to grab fast food. Once a week I make all my lunches and breakfasts in advance and put them in tupperware containers so I don't have to deal with any of that during the week. This is just a really easy way to save time and money.
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