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Schwab has a referral code bonus where, if someone refers you and you open an eligible account, you get free $100 in a brokerage account. I opened a checking account and received the bonus. The only down side is that someone called me with some survey questions before I could receive the bonus.
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It's too late for the international trip I'm annoy to take this weekend, but I've known about the Schwab refunds for a while since my brother has had it for years. That's on me, and especially admitting because Japan is cash-heavy. Anyway, would I still need to open a brokerage account with them if my company 401k is already through Schwab? I'm guessing so.
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Jun 6, 2019 18:50
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Yes, I doubt that your 401(k) counts.
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Jun 6, 2019 19:52
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SpelledBackwards posted:It's too late for the international trip I'm annoy to take this weekend, but I've known about the Schwab refunds for a while since my brother has had it for years. That's on me, and especially admitting because Japan is cash-heavy. Anyway, would I still need to open a brokerage account with them if my company 401k is already through Schwab? I'm guessing so. Good news is the best way to get yen is via atm in Japan. Even after a 3% fee and ATM fees.
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Jun 6, 2019 20:26
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I know it doesn't matter but I like when my auto index fund purchase times the market. Go go Monday purchase
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Jun 7, 2019 16:59
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I know I’m gambling but BYND is up like 30% today! Buy buy buy!
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Jun 7, 2019 18:02
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tuyop posted:I know I’m gambling but BYND is up like 30% today! Buy buy buy! Well should have bought yesterday. I tried the beyond Burger last weekend. It was not so great. I will probably give it another go since I wasn't exactly sure how to cook kit.
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Jun 7, 2019 18:12
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My awesome, soon to retire, boss wants me to stay at their house while they are away on vacation for 3 weeks. Take care of their dog, take in the mail, water plants, etc. What should I charge a day? $50?
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Jun 7, 2019 18:19
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spwrozek posted:Well should have bought yesterday. It’s a loving revelation for vegetarian food on the road. It’s expensive but so great to just go into A&W and get a burger and fries and not have to worry about it.
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Jun 7, 2019 18:30
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internet says overnight pet sitters can go for up to a hundred bucks a day, on the quick search i did
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Jun 7, 2019 18:38
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:My awesome, soon to retire, boss wants me to stay at their house while they are away on vacation for 3 weeks. We used to pay our pet sitter $300-400 per week in a L/MCOL city. Plus all the booze that she could drink. What you want to charge can vary widely depending on where you live and what they want you to do.
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Jun 7, 2019 18:44
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spwrozek posted:I tried the beyond Burger last weekend. It was not so great. I will probably give it another go since I wasn't exactly sure how to cook kit. Haven't had the BB yet but the Impossible Burger (at Hopdoddy's in Austin) was genuinely good, and not just in a "good for a meat substitute" kind of way.
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Jun 7, 2019 18:54
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One of the local barbecue places has a whole jackfruit bbq menu. It's intriguing
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Jun 7, 2019 18:59
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^Jackfruit BBQ sounds really interestingTrabant posted:Haven't had the BB yet but the Impossible Burger (at Hopdoddy's in Austin) was genuinely good, and not just in a "good for a meat substitute" kind of way. Impossible is good, just wish you could buy it for use at home. Beyond is probably ok, I just need to work on the how to cook it portion.
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Jun 7, 2019 19:21
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:My awesome, soon to retire, boss wants me to stay at their house while they are away on vacation for 3 weeks. I think we pay a friend around that a day to watch our menagerie of animals and bring in the mail. Depends on how inconvenient his house location is compared to the rest of your life I suppose.
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Jun 7, 2019 20:18
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spwrozek posted:^Jackfruit BBQ sounds really interesting The new Impossible 2.0 will be offered for consumers to buy in grocery stores. I don't know if it will be refrigerated or frozen.
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Jun 8, 2019 01:39
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SpelledBackwards posted:The new Impossible 2.0 will be offered for consumers to buy in grocery stores. I don't know if it will be refrigerated or frozen. Oh nice and exciting! Hopefully soon.
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Jun 8, 2019 02:23
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Hello, I hate my job and need to better support myself and my family, but I am concerned I don't know what I'd be best at. Is there a reliable sort of aptitude test out there? Even if it's not free? I'm hoping to get some direction as to what sort of field I'd be best suited for. I am not in any education right now, and so don't have access to campus resources. Thanks.
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Jun 8, 2019 02:45
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Bare Bones posted:Hello, The Strong Interest Inventory seemed comprehensive and accurate to me, though I already knew what I wanted to do so maybe I loaded the questions.
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Jun 8, 2019 03:52
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:My awesome, soon to retire, boss wants me to stay at their house while they are away on vacation for 3 weeks.
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Jun 8, 2019 11:20
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tuyop posted:The Strong Interest Inventory seemed comprehensive and accurate to me, though I already knew what I wanted to do so maybe I loaded the questions. Is this good place to start to help decide what Degree to get? Could it potentially help me decide on a career, which in turn would help give me a degree to focus on to make that career goal? (For the record, I was working on an Anthropology degree a decade ago, but I dropped out. Because I am an idiot.)
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Bare Bones posted:Is this good place to start to help decide what Degree to get? Yeah that’s right. It’ll tell you, basically, your top 20 career options based on like 200 questions and then your Counsellor or whoever administers the test will advise based on local and regional education stuff. Or you can post your results here and maybe some goons will help. If you liked anthro, you may like teaching or archaeology or geology or maybe even community policing! Anthro is a very broad field. Or just go into nursing, find work, get good pay, die loved.
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Jun 9, 2019 04:07
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The economy is poo poo and almost nobody gets to do the job that actually excites them. Find the jobs that have the highest combination of pay and demand in your area. Pick the one that is least abhorrent to you. Nursing is a good choice.
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Jun 9, 2019 08:16
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:The economy is poo poo and almost nobody gets to do the job that actually excites them. Am nurse, can confirm. Also, nursing as a career isn’t a chain to the beside. There are so many things you can do, with options to work from home, just because you’re a nurse. It opens doors that you wouldn’t have had otherwise, or enables you to get through them easier. I didn’t last a year working in a hospital, but I moved to research. Very easy, low stress, better pay than beside. I have a job that doesn’t exactly excite me, but I do enjoy it and the opportunities it provides.
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Jun 9, 2019 13:40
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Cacafuego posted:Am nurse, can confirm. In my country there's even a hotline staffed by registered nurses who will give anyone calling free advice (like if you should go to the hospital, where to go/call if you're out of surgery hours and need to be seen but it's not worth going to the emergency department, etc). It's probably not the most exciting of jobs, but it's important. These days you can even get some basic scripts written by nurse practitioners (depending on where you live, of course).
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My company has a full time nurse who just deals with worker’s comp claims all day every day. She also does poo poo like vaccinate people in the office and give basic nursing advice when we show her gross stuff on our pale bodies. We also have camp nurses, basically the only medical professionals in a 200 miles radius for a community of 300 workers. They’re pretty cool.
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Jun 9, 2019 17:37
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Nursing is a highly versatile and worthy profession that also pays well (in most places) and will only increase in demand with demographic shift and climate refugees. If you can stand the fact that you’ll know what lymph fluid smells like, you’ll be in good work until you die. It’s also, like, probably what most people think doctors do. And it can be incredibly stressful and traumatizing.
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howdoesishotweb posted:At least you learned the important lesson of don’t mix work and friends/family unless you’re prepared to get screwed for the sake of that relationship. Great news everyone: I was fired on Friday due to my availability change. All the other workers there work 6 days a week, and they 'needed' me to work 6 days a week, too (even though they don't pay overtime for >40 hours worked). At least I don't have to work that lovely job anymore. 
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Jun 10, 2019 06:42
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I was just informed that I will receive a sizable (to me) stock grant as a part of my comp package. It will vest over a period of 4 years (1/4 after year one, and 1/16 each quarter thereafter). I'm pretty new to this part of a comp package so I'm interested in what is typical. Should I expect to receive an ADDITIONAL grant every year moving forward (stacking the stock grants and rolling them all together), or just expect to renew and increase after the 4 year granting period? How does the award typically work? for example, if I am awared $20,000 over 4 years. a. Do I have the $20,000 in shares at today's market price in my account on day 1($20,000 on day one, stock increases 10% by yr 1, I am now vested at $5,500 of $22,000), b. or will they release the funds and purchase shares at the given market price at the vesting date? (ex. $5,000 at year 1, additional $1,250 q1, etc.) This is a part of my companies Stock Refresh Program.
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I Love Topanga posted:I was just informed that I will receive a sizable (to me) stock grant as a part of my comp package. It will vest over a period of 4 years (1/4 after year one, and 1/16 each quarter thereafter). Basically A, you should be awarded X shares on a specific date based on the total grant divided by market price. Whether you get another grant yearly, around four years, or never, is entirely company and performance dependent. I would suggest assuming that you don't though if the company is reasonably large you can probably find out what is typical either online or asking your teammates and manager. The recruiter will typically tell you that additionally grants can be awarded yearly based on performance, but will either lie or won't know what level of performance is needed and what is typical.
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asur posted:Basically A, you should be awarded X shares on a specific date based on the total grant divided by market price. Whether you get another grant yearly, around four years, or never, is entirely company and performance dependent. I would suggest assuming that you don't though if the company is reasonably large you can probably find out what is typical either online or asking your teammates and manager. The recruiter will typically tell you that additionally grants can be awarded yearly based on performance, but will either lie or won't know what level of performance is needed and what is typical. Thank you, this is very helpful.
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literally this big posted:Great news everyone: I was fired on Friday due to my availability change. All the other workers there work 6 days a week, and they 'needed' me to work 6 days a week, too (even though they don't pay overtime for >40 hours worked). What the fuuuuuuuck?
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Jun 13, 2019 19:48
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FrozenVent posted:What the fuuuuuuuck? I think it is time to report the scumbag.
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Jun 13, 2019 20:23
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spwrozek posted:I think it is time to report the scumbag. Yep, get your reports going. Treating an employee as hourly < 40 but salaried > 40 (max payout style for an employee) is 100% illegal. Positive note: You can replace min-wage easy if there were no benefits being offered anyway. Sounds like there was no real benefit to staying there, so congratulations on being free from an abusive employer! 
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It sucks since the owner is a family friend's spouse, but really, they deserve it.
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FrozenVent posted:What the fuuuuuuuck? Get this: my last gig was at a fast-casual pizza chain in LA. On November 10th our store ran out of vegan cheese, so my manager called me up (I was off at the time) to pick a bag from another store in Newbury Park. My manager sent me directly into the Woolsey wildfire to pick up a bag of cheese. The best part? They refused to reimburse my mileage until a supervisor from another store confirmed that they had to. I was fired """for cause""" shortly after.
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But did the cheese melt?
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Simpsons Reference posted:But did the cheese melt? No it was vegan so it just liquified
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tuyop posted:Yeah that’s right. It’ll tell you, basically, your top 20 career options based on like 200 questions and then your Counsellor or whoever administers the test will advise based on local and regional education stuff. So, Thank you for some direction. I took a Strong and MBTI combined test, and had a meeting with a career counselor to interpret my results. I have always wanted to be a Doctor, and when doctor came up, very high on my list of professions suited for my type, I was very excited. However, after talking to some friends and family, I got a lot of suggestions to be a physicians assistant, as it required just 4 years schooling--less money, less time. Honestly, the profession does not speak to me; it still sounds like a second-banana of sorts, and I know myself, and what appeals to me. That said, I understood and contemplated the concerns being voiced. I would be 40 by the time I was starting to make money as a full-fledged Doctor. So, I revisited my list, and on it, at #1, in fact, was Pharmacist. Less school, stable hours, still in the medical field. I think this is what I have decided on. So I am beginning to investigate the specifics of what I'll need to become a pharmacist, and how to make it happen.
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Bare Bones posted:So, Thank you for some direction. So why not nursing again?
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