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Cicero posted:Be careful. The gaming industry has a reputation of usually being a horrible place to work. Compared to non-gaming programming jobs, you can generally expect less money for more hours, and less stability. bringer posted:I think in Nevada gaming tends to mean gambling games, not EA or whatever. WobblySausage posted:Gaming probably yes. Yeah this. Sorry I should have clarified. I could never get in the video game industry. I still have this bookmarked from the BWM thread: http://kotaku.com/the-pizza-party-where-everyone-got-fired-1685455125
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Knyteguy posted:Yeah this. Sorry I should have clarified. I could never get in the video game industry. I still have this bookmarked from the BWM thread: Imagine working at a job and you freak out every time the company throws a party. 
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Sep 1, 2015 05:26
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See if Konami is hiring
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Knyteguy posted:I've been wanting to reply to this post for awhile.
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Devian666 posted:Imagine working at a job and you freak out every time the company throws a party. Yeah it's a rough business based solely off of that article. I know it pays terribly, comparatively too. il serpente cosmico posted:See if Konami is hiring Yeah not a bad idea. At one point very early in my career (before I started working at my current job) I programmed a basic little slot machine in C# WinForms. My career goal was to get a job at a gaming place since they're the biggest "tech" places in the city. Haifisch posted:Open a restaurant decorated in star wars figurines, and only take payment in bitcoin. Maybe add a scorpion mural somewhere. I'll need a pool table in a room that won't fit it well, a mini cooper delivery car (financed of course), a sense of iron-clad job security where nothing can go wrong, and to take a jab at myself, when the restaurant has a bad month I'll simply write it off with "the past is in the past." and justify an industrial sous vide cooker the next day out of budget (that won't get used much).
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So how did your budget go this month. What is next month's budget?
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n8r posted:So how did your budget go this month. What is next month's budget?
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Guys - calm down. He needs to reclass / move / napkin math all of his expenses so that it somehow makes sense that he overspent against budget, but don't worry he's going to get it back next month! It's just timing! /sarcasm At least I hope that isn't still happening. Also n8r posted:So how did your budget go this month. What is next month's budget?
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Bugamol posted:Also Well I had a big ol post talking about the budget and last month, but I lost it. I'll retype it sometime. Basically the gist is that August went really well, and I'm still working on September's budget (I know I know). As I said I'm pretty much there so it's not like we're frozen with being unable to get groceries or something, but I just still need to analyze the house for baby stuff. Probably gonna do a $700 payment to the car or so.
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Knyteguy posted:Well I had a big ol post talking about the budget and last month, but I lost it. No one ever believes this.
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Knyteguy posted:Well I had a big ol post talking about the budget and last month, but I lost it. I'll retype it sometime. Are you not maintaining YNAB anymore? Shouldn't you be able to just clip it into imgur and post it for August actuals?
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Bugamol posted:Are you not maintaining YNAB anymore? Shouldn't you be able to just clip it into imgur and post it for August actuals?
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Bugamol posted:Are you not maintaining YNAB anymore? Shouldn't you be able to just clip it into imgur and post it for August actuals? Ynab plus a cash envelope system is time consuming to manage. Basically I figure if we have no money left or some money left in the envelopes then we meet the budget. I still had $40 in discretionary leftover. I posted about pet and utility overages a few days ago I think.
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Knyteguy posted:Ynab plus a cash envelope system is time consuming to manage. Basically I figure if we have no money left or some money left in the envelopes then we meet the budget. I still had $40 in discretionary leftover. I posted about pet and utility overages a few days ago I think. Budget everything. When you take cash out and put it into the envelop, enter an expense. Payee: envelope; budget category: budget category; amount: amount. Simple. (I do record all cash transactions myself, but a lot of folks don't like doing that.)
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KG post the numbers please
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SiGmA_X posted:You don't log the cash and budget in ynab? Wtf? My solution is to just stay away from cash, but that obviously opens up pandora box to credit card spending, so definitely varies person to person. And I probably sometimes do spend more because of that.
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Duckman2008 posted:My solution is to just stay away from cash, but that obviously opens up pandora box to credit card spending, so definitely varies person to person. I rarely use cash. Sometimes I sell something on Craigslist and receive cash, or a friend trues up after lunch, etc. I log it all (with a balance adjustment every now and then..) because that's how I do. Otherwise it's CC so I can track it. If doing cash only, I think tracking is needed at least somewhat.
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:KG post the numbers please Yeah, dude, how's it going?
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I've been sucked in by Star Wars Hoarder, but just wanted to pop in and say great work! Your commute and job conversation posts make me happy. I also agree that it sounds like it's time to move on, but hopefully keep it local. And why not take the gig at the parent company until you find something better? Also a big "I told you so" that your boss was open to other forms of compensation. Also a mile "tsk tsk" for not having ideas ready to go before you had the conversation. Gotta ride the wave of "yes" before he sleeps on it and changes his mind. bringer posted:I think in Nevada gaming tends to mean gambling games, not EA or whatever.
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Where be those numbers, bro? How's parenting going?
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If it's good number news no reason to wait on the good news. If it's bad or even "Eh" when you wanted it to be better, waiting gets you nothing, and the longer it takes the stronger the reaction might be. It is Labor Day night and all, but it's a work day tomorrow. You probably can spare 15 minutes to rush your numbers up.
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Meh sorry guys bunch of poo poo has been happening. Wife got sideswiped on the freeway in our car. Non-fault accident of course. She'll be calling their insurance today. Not much damage, but I'm betting shop time. My computer died (I think it's the mobo or cpu). Was out of town for the weekend. Bike gearing and chain got screwed up somehow, so I've been doing 10 hour days (wife dropping me off and picking me up). Will update and reply later.
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Knyteguy posted:Meh sorry guys bunch of poo poo has been happening. The good news is you're in a whole lot better situation to deal with these kind of issues than you would have been before! Thinking good thoughts for you, KG.
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IllegallySober posted:The good news is you're in a whole lot better situation to deal with these kind of issues than you would have been before! Thanks IS. Basically I've just been heavily preoccupied. The car crash was a scare for my wife (she's fine, baby wasn't with her), but beyond that (excluding the trip to visit family) everything has been a relatively minor annoyance. The bike being the worst of it since it means so much wasted time. I'll likely take that into the shop tonight. I'm not interested in screwing with bike casettes yet. But yeah for some financial perspective this stuff would have been far more than an annoyance before. One time our only vehicle's alternator and battery went out at the same time, and granted we were basically a 1.5 income family and very poor, but that crippled us with $700 in payday loans. This will be a high income month, too, since we aren't paying health insurance premiums, so we should still end up in a decent place comparative to last month (noting that I haven't forecasted).
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Dude that sucks. You'll bounce back though. Regarding the computer, I have good C2D and C2Q CPUs, mobos, and RAM sitting unused. If you want it just PM me and you can have it for the cost of shipping.
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Knyteguy posted:But yeah for some financial perspective this stuff would have been far more than an annoyance before. One time our only vehicle's alternator and battery went out at the same time, and granted we were basically a 1.5 income family and very poor, but that crippled us with $700 in payday loans. I want you to read this over again, and I want you to feel good about yourself for the planning and forethought that turned "multiple lovely things happened at the same time" from a potential crisis to an inconvenience.
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Horking Delight posted:I want you to read this over again, and I want you to feel good about yourself for the planning and forethought that turned "multiple lovely things happened at the same time" from a potential crisis to an inconvenience. This all day. You have made so much progress. Just keep grinding. Everyone has some setbacks, it's cool to see that you are not backsliding. Hope you and your family are doing well.
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:Dude that sucks. You'll bounce back though. Thanks man that's really generous. I'll definitely hit you up! Horking Delight posted:I want you to read this over again, and I want you to feel good about yourself for the planning and forethought that turned "multiple lovely things happened at the same time" from a potential crisis to an inconvenience. something clever posted:This all day. You have made so much progress. Just keep grinding. Everyone has some setbacks, it's cool to see that you are not backsliding. Hope you and your family are doing well. Thanks guys. Yep just gotta keep grinding as you said. I'll get some numbers posted for everyone soon. I'll try to do it today depending how busy everything is. I'm limited to doing it at work at the moment and I need to catch everything up. Since it was kind of thrown out there - I'm not apprehensive to post the numbers, they're just not ready to be posted. Old Fart posted:I've been sucked in by Star Wars Hoarder, but just wanted to pop in and say great work! Your commute and job conversation posts make me happy. I also agree that it sounds like it's time to move on, but hopefully keep it local. And why not take the gig at the parent company until you find something better? I had to stop reading. It started moving more quickly than I could keep up, and the whole beginning with the fake picture had me all  .Well I did have some ideas, but I wasn't sure I wanted to commit to them at that point (and it turns out I didn't). That company that interviewed me for that Angular role a month or two back wants to re-interview me for another position supposedly sometime this week. Maybe that will work out, as we've been through the interview process once before and I've already done some trial code for them. Same guys, so who knows. Working for actual casinos yeah isn't great. It pays pretty good once you move up in the ranks, but well you know it sounds like. The company I'm thinking about makes slot machines and stuff, but it's definitely a different type of environment and culture. Their engineers ride around on bikes inside the building and stuff to get around (it's massively big), they have a gym, normal hours, good culture, etc. Knyteguy fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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No August numbers still and no September budget. I hope that you are sticking with your envelope system, but when you go silent you seem to fall off the wagon.
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n8r posted:No August numbers still and no September budget. I hope that you are sticking with your envelope system, but when you go silent you seem to fall off the wagon. We have a budget. It's just not in YNAB so I haven't posted it yet - since we're on the envelope system it's hard to get motivated to reconcile the numbers. Plus football season started and my home pc is going to be dead for a little bit of time. Phone posting is tough because my app crashes all the time causing me to lose posts I make (which drives me crazy). All of that (time, technology) is why I've been a little more quiet. If you guys want a spreadsheet version of what's going on, then I can likely oblige later today. YNAB will have to be a shoulder shrug, until next week some time. Wife got a new phone so cash transactions will be able to be entered on the fly now, instead of digging through receipts. Windows Phone doesn't have a YNAB app and that's what we've both been running.
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YNAB sucks - post a spreadsheet. Show the folks reading the thread that you're still on budget.
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n8r posted:YNAB sucks - post a spreadsheet. Show the folks reading the thread that you're still on budget. Alright will do. I'll try to do that tonight since we have another busy weekend. I've also started a business to get some side income going.Besides a domain I bought, and a product I'm developing software for which mostly came out of the business budget, there's really nothing else until the software is done. Should be exciting if it goes somewhere. I'll go into this more when something has actually happened. I also have been following up on all of the local job leads that I can in the meantime. Can't remember if I mentioned it, but that local company that contacted me about a solutions architect position a couple months ago emailed me about another position. Current boss said we'll probably get a bonus in April or May. I'm ready to move on.
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So you haven't posted spend or a budget in almost a month. Hopefully this is because you're boringly on track and not because you're way over spent. I hope you're still tracking your spending and/or at least not exceeding your envelope budgets. Don't forget history tells us when you stop tracking you start overspending. Hope things are going well Knyteguy.
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Bugamol posted:So you haven't posted spend or a budget in almost a month. Hopefully this is because you're boringly on track and not because you're way over spent. They're going OK. The past month of weekends has been just super busy. We've been tailgating, hosting get togethers, and doing family stuff every weekend lately. My sister is going out of town in October, so I'll be taking some vacation to watch the baby. That'll be nice, and overdue. So that's basically why I don't have spreadsheet numbers posted. However - I got my computer working again last night. I ended up taking everything apart, cleaning it all, and reseating the CPU / applying new thermal paste / reseating the RAM, and it booted up fine. Which is good because I need my desktop. Beyond work I'll be working on a learning software for the Oculus Rift, and I'll also be trying to make it compatible with consoles and mobile phones since they have their own VR solutions. Budget numbers: My boss is out of town today and I'm a little short on work. I'll do my best to take some time this morning to post the numbers. I may take a short break from the thread after that (a few weeks or so), as my attention is currently crazily tied up. I'll still track and budget though.
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Six months ago, instead of "I fixed my computer and it's fine now", you would have posted "I bought a new computer without asking the thread and put it on my credit card but I REALLY needed a new computer more expensive than my original one". (I really hope your numbers are on track because I'm gonna feel foolish praising you so much if you're hiding a budget explosion from us.)
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How hard is it to reconcile envelopes, why is it hard to count left over money in each envelope? KG, you mentioned upping your budget, where have you made changes?
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More accurately, why don't you want to reconcile your envelopes? Did you overspend somewhere? Is there something you're attempting to avoid sharing? You've been doing great, it's alright if you had a slip up, but you want to stay on track. Make sure you do your reconciliation!
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