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Renegret posted:Wait I don't understand, why are the trainees being paid to go? Where can I get paid to learn technical skills? It might be a local state unemployment skills training initiative.
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Renegret posted:Wait I don't understand, why are the trainees being paid to go? Where can I get paid to learn technical skills? Seriously. I'm the one feeling like I'm BWM now since I paid to attend bootcamp despite it eventually leading to a pretty substantial payrise. Now I'm reading not only could I have done it for free, I could have gotten paid for it? gently caress my life.
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Jul 5, 2016 18:16
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I know plenty of people in Philadelphia area who would kill to attend that sort of paid training. Where can I get more information?
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I know several people who have been through relatively well-regarded coding bootcamps, both as friends and a few that my company hired. My hot take is that you get out of them what you put in. The handful of people I know who have been successful post-bootcamp all busted loving rear end and were hustling to high hell. They were all highly motivated and reasonably technical people to begin with, had some basic programming experience but just didn't have the demonstrable skills or network to have an "in" to professional development, or even software QA. Those guys would have eventually gotten into dev jobs after more self-study and lots of interviewing, but instead they bought a fast track ticket and it has worked out well for them. I also know a couple of people who went through bootcamps that were less technically savvy to begin with, did not work their rear end off, and did not hustle and network. Months later they are still looking for full-time gigs. They treated it like a lot of people treat university: just show up and expect a job at the end. It just doesn't work that way.
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Guinness posted:
I have a friend in this situation right now. He paid something like $6k for a 10 week java bootcamp, but didn't do anything extra and expected a free job at the end of it. He also has absolutely no social skills, so he bombed every interview he's done.
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Pryor on Fire posted:I've helped with those types bootcamps several times, just getting people who can show up every day for a few weeks is the hardest part. It's amazing, we offer to pay people $20 an hour to teach them super hip technical and biz dev skills which would then lead to a full time salary that is way higher than that after a few weeks, and even then like 1/3 of people would rather fake their own death then show up for eight hours stay relatively sober for that time. Where do you work? My husband is smart, driven, and out of work on Colorado.
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Not as good as most other horse chat, but a friend of mine is looking for apartments around South Austin, and found this Craigslist post in a nearby town of someone else needing lodging during her search
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Jul 5, 2016 20:48
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SpelledBackwards posted:Not as good as most other horse chat, but a friend of mine is looking for apartments around South Austin, and found this Craigslist post in a nearby town of someone else needing lodging during her search I'm combining all of this information in my mind and I think this person is a character from some sort of anime my college suitemate watched a few times.
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SpelledBackwards posted:Not as good as most other horse chat, but a friend of mine is looking for apartments around South Austin, and found this Craigslist post in a nearby town of someone else needing lodging during her search I guess all people can say is no. Or see him for his inner beauty as they take care of his horse while he's gone at stuff all the time. Wouldn't 500 barely cover boarding the horse?
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Jul 6, 2016 04:27
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That would barely cover the cost of butchering the animal. Which may be worth it, depending on your culinary peculiarities.
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cowofwar posted:So your company layed off a bunch of experienced devs and hired on a bunch of budget devs? Maybe update your CV. Yeah  Edit: Also, what's up with paying people to attend boot camp? I have a friend in Washington who recently discovered that's he a pretty good programmer, and I bet he'd jump on something like that. Centripetal Horse fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jul 6, 2016 |
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Pryor on Fire posted:No this is for entry level training, zero education or experience required. Lots of folks who literally have never worked anything besides food service/construction before, but have demonstrated some level of interest and aptitude in tech.
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For real it almost sounds too good to be true! Most of the personal time (unpaid!) I've invested in self-teaching computer skills such as photoshop and html/css has paid off in spades, and I can think of like a dozen people off the top of my head who might literally murder for this kind of opportunity. More info please?
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cowofwar posted:Dating advice: buy a house Before or after upgrading my car to something flashier? Come to think of it, driving a safe and functional but crappy looking car might be a good way to quickly filter out the kind of people you really don't want to be long term dating anyway.
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Someone was just telling me about his doormat of a friend who is planning on breaking up with his girlfriend, but won't do it right away because they have a trip to Thailand and a trip to Vegas planned. He wants to instead break up after they get back from both. Gonna love looking at those photos, remembering that trip for years to come 
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canyoneer posted:
Photoshop can fix that.
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canyoneer posted:Someone was just telling me about his doormat of a friend who is planning on breaking up with his girlfriend, but won't do it right away because they have a trip to Thailand and a trip to Vegas planned. Let me guess, she's paying?
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SpelledBackwards posted:Not as good as most other horse chat, but a friend of mine is looking for apartments around South Austin, and found this Craigslist post in a nearby town of someone else needing lodging during her search That price is actually reasonable in some areas, though probably not anywhere near a major city. A lot of horse people build small apartments over/attached to their barns and rent them out. A "dry stall" (only includes use of facilities, horse owner is responsible for everything else) typically goes for $50-$100/month, so add that to the rent for a small apartment in the middle of nowhere.
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The last two times I've gone into a vehicle dealership I've enjoyed it because it's one of the rare opportunities where it's appropriate to be a polite confrontational rear end in a top hat. The first time you walk out of dealer and the sales person immediately switches gears it's like a switch flips in your brain and you immediately understand the difference between the relationship they try to establish and the relationship that exists. When you carry that swagger into other deals sales people can read it and behave accordingly.
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Jul 7, 2016 15:48
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Can someone repost the horse rant for me please I need to send it to someone.
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Dwight Eisenhower posted:The last two times I've gone into a vehicle dealership I've enjoyed it because it's one of the rare opportunities where it's appropriate to be a polite confrontational rear end in a top hat. The first time you walk out of dealer and the sales person immediately switches gears it's like a switch flips in your brain and you immediately understand the difference between the relationship they try to establish and the relationship that exists. Is this actually in response to anything or related to the thread content at all, or did you just want to talk about how great you are at negotiating? Edit: here, a BWM car decision waiting to happen. 27 year old finds out he's going to be a father and now wants to buy a $40,000 car. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/4rj4sv/is_40000_too_much_car_or_am_i_too_cautious/ Eldred fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Jul 7, 2016 21:43
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Yawn, guy with $160k income exclusive of retirement contributions wants to buy a $40,000 car
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Yawn, guy with $160k income exclusive of retirement contributions wants to buy a $40,000 car 160k gross, the $100k net number is the one exclusive of retirement contributions. Idk, I still think it's pretty BWM. He's using the kid as a reason to get himself an expensive hobby car. You don't know what kind of medical expenses and poo poo will happen when the kid is born, it's a huge life change. His actual liquidable savings aren't that high, despite the very reasonable net worth. He should 100% wait to see how things fall out, then re-evaluate his financials. Without the kid incoming, I'd agree though. Rurutia fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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If you ask /r/personalfinance, nobody should ever drive a car newer than 10 years old or worth more than $5000 unless you are a multimillionaire. And even then you can't really afford it because cars are an absolute waste of money, no exceptions. Granted a lot of people make bad car buying decisions, but they have a huge irrational hate-boner for cars. Agreed though he should probably wait until after the kid is born and re-evaluate, but yawn he'll be fine.
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Rurutia posted:160k gross, the $100k net number is the one exclusive of retirement contributions.
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Eldred posted:Edit: here, a BWM car decision waiting to happen. 27 year old finds out he's going to be a father and now wants to buy a $40,000 car. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/4rj4sv/is_40000_too_much_car_or_am_i_too_cautious/ It's bad with money because he could own a used prius outright and spend the remaining $25-30k on his beater BMW. Daddy needs a turbo.
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I saw a horse rolling around in the pasture like a dog, can someone morph that into a BWM story for me please?
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Sounds like it's time for a horse groomer appointment.
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NancyPants posted:I saw a horse rolling around in the pasture like a dog, can someone morph that into a BWM story for me please? Was probably trying to kill an imaginary fly, will likely have a heart attack from panic and die next time.
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Tales from Reddit: quote:https://www.reddit.com/r/StudentLoans/comments/4qhg11/how_to_show_my_so_my_roi/ Crazily enough, his 33-year old (debt-free) girlfriend was not thrilled to find out that her boyfriend is an idiot who has $320k debt from his engineering undergraduate & master''s degree, more credit card debt on top of that, and a rock-solid 520 credit score. https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/4rooh3/me_33m_and_my_girlfriend_33f_had_a_discussion/
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"she believes I should pay back the full amount borrowed...our views on this differ" Also, "how can I make her understand this is under control" when he's also run up an 8k bill at 18% that he can't pay off because "[he] doesn't have the money too" but it's under control guys!  edit: also, he makes $85k at age 33 and he thinks he's getting to $150k just by making project manager. I don't think so buddy, at least not for another decade, a decade in which if you have kids/a house you will go even further down the death spiral of debt. Why is she so mad, it's not fair! Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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Jul 8, 2016 13:45
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It would take him ten years spending half his net pay to pay off the principal. Jesus.
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Jul 8, 2016 13:46
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Hahha wait has he been strategically only making minimum payments forever for some reason?
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cowofwar posted:Hahha wait has he been strategically only making minimum payments forever for some reason? Well, you get a tax deduction, right? I, uh..
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The credit card debt is the delicious cherry on top of that sundae.
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New reply from himquote:Why would I have to break up with her when she's willing to work with me on it? It's the single selfless thing anyone's ever done for me. This guy sounds like such a loving rear end in a top hat. I'm sure no one's ever done anything nice for you before, you self-pitying poo poo.
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He has two private loans too of like 150k. So the loan forgiveness thing won't even do anything to those in 20 years.
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On the flip side, she's mentally retarded if she sticks around, so she deserves whatever they get (spoilers a life crushing debt).
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I guess you have to ask yourself if you love someone enough to devastate both your savings and your savings potential for the rest of your life. Sometimes the answer is yes?
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