What Are You Doing Right Now? (146 Viewers)

[IliveForJuve]

On track to retire by 30?

Making progress.

Still waiting for my first big break tho.

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so what are you doing for work?

I have an e-commerce store and a side business in distribution.

 

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[Quetzalcoatl]

Making progress.

Still waiting for my first big break tho.

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I have an e-commerce store and a side business in distribution.

 

[.zero]

Turn that spider sense on

Sounds like I'll need to brush up on my mexican judo

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Just make sure to take the most cost-effective route. Are you in the corporate world? If so, I can understand your frustration.

I'm in the banking sector, you could say I'm well paid compared to others my age but I just can't imagine slaving myself 40 years into something I hate. I have some side-hustles but I'm not settling, I want to be a millionaire... I know I'll make it. Hopefully we're all gonna make it.

Definitely corporate, almost finance. A shit industry to be in if you don't have connections. My role sucks though, and I get pigeon-holed into it so when applying to jobs, my resume is immediately discarded because of the title. So I've had enough, and after paying off my loans, starting a 401k, and saving up a good amount of money, I can now attempt to switch over to a new industry as I originally planned.

That must be rough. I know the hours are tough to handle for sure, I'm still at work at the moment 12 hours later so I get it. But I bet your late days are a lot more frequent than mine and I'm sure you're getting paid substantially more. If that's your goal though, you're certainly in the right place. Just keep at it and remember to take time to recharge yourself. Don't burn out.

 

[ALC]

You guys are depressing me with this work talk.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Sounds like I'll need to brush up on my mexican judo

Just be on your toes, and stingy with sharing personal info with strangers.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Just a way of speaking, I will make it work. There are some free options as well, but I think I would benefit from a classroom setting considering that's what we've been trained to learn in since birth and it's a bit more structured. There are low cost options, I'm looking into two right now. As for the bold part, always my friend.

It's really difficult to find the discipline to really learn on your own. They will also give you assignments I suppose. That will force you to learn by doing (the best way of learning).

I find that many people waste their time reading books and doing other non practical chit. They never feel ready so they just keep absorbing useless material. They feel like they never know enough. And that's a bullshit way of doing things if you want to go places.

It's always better to focus on learning how to fix the problem sitting in front of you. You have no idea how to manage Facebook ads? Well, fuckin learn when you need to apply it. And DO IT. Fix the problem and move on to the next thing.

 

[.zero]

Sometimes experience is the best teacher

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Inshallah

 

[.zero]

Shallah Raekwon

 

[swag]

im just not into Asian girls, seafood or over crowded cities

Ahhh, Asia. Who doesn't like smelling an open pit toilet while eating questionable meat on a stick over a sewer?

@Kyle

Speaking of asians. Did you see this? Happened in BC recently.

Not to be a racism apologist, but I still subscribe that people, when being dicks, will often grab the first weapon they can use to strike at someone with. Often that comes up as their race, gender, etc. I'm pretty sure the woman doesn't believe she's a racist, just that she had a confrontation with a person she didn't approve of. She's clueless.

See now we talking split that shit open like a watermelon on memorial day

It’s that time of the year again. Another hurricane coming our way and it might turn into a category 4. Fun times!

Trump going to Mar-a-Lago again?

Bogotá

Home of the Boga-Tatas.

Sounds like I'll need to brush up on my mexican judo

You gots the brown thing down pretty well. Trick is to glue on a cheesy Freddie Mercury moustache and don a 1980s Member's Only jacket so someone might mistake you for one of Pablo Escobar's henchmen.

Sometimes experience is the best teacher

Big Ballz Bethany does it for me.

 

[.zero]

@swag How goes it sir

 

[CrimsonianKing]

Trump going to Mar-a-Lago again?

Maybe the hurricane could just stop there doing it's thing and leave the rest of the state alone. Wishful thinking ha!

But seriously this mofo could be the strongest hurricane since Andrew. Now I wasn't here when Andrew came kicking the shit out of everything in it's way but I did experience a Category 3 in '06 and that wasn't fun.

No electricity for 2 weeks, no phone signal, my city was pretty much looking like a war zone, now I don't wanna see what a cat. 4 can do.

The missus is a nurse and can't leave the state so we're staying.

 

[InterMerda]

Definitely corporate, almost finance. A shit industry to be in if you don't have connections. My role sucks though, and I get pigeon-holed into it so when applying to jobs, my resume is immediately discarded because of the title. So I've had enough, and after paying off my loans, starting a 401k, and saving up a good amount of money, I can now attempt to switch over to a new industry as I originally planned.

That must be rough. I know the hours are tough to handle for sure, I'm still at work at the moment 12 hours later so I get it. But I bet your late days are a lot more frequent than mine and I'm sure you're getting paid substantially more. If that's your goal though, you're certainly in the right place. Just keep at it and remember to take time to recharge yourself. Don't burn out.

(1) That is so true, I got my job cause my parents had strong connections with the major shareholder of the bank. Yeah, you should definitely pay off your loans ASAP.

(2) TBH no, I almost never work long hours. I've been on this job for three years and I can count the times I've had late days with my fingers. I had a shitty salary until recently, when I was offered a better salary at another bank for the same position (Corporate Credit Risk Analyst). I told my boss I received a very good offer somewhere else and that I was leaving lol. He spoke to the GM and got me a raise matching the other offer. I felt so good man... I felt appreciated.

I wish you good luck in your endeavors dude. How old are you?

 

[Mr Chocolate]

It took literally 1 week to realize the finance industry, or corporate was not for me, seeing people checking share prices, reading and discussing articles of the sort whilst i'm watching golf highlights during my lunch break, I had the technical skills for it but I could not compete with people who literally live the job, and i did not want to turn into that type of person. Albeit i have never been ambitious, very happy to plod along, as long as i'm home reasonably and have time to golf on the weekends i am a happy man, spending 40 years under constant stress hating what you are doing, for what, makes no sense. Some people love the rat race, they love the corporate life, they love playing the game and they are good at it. id rather kill myself that do that shit, staying late, people wanting to one up you and get ahead, cant be fucked for those games.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

As we're on the topic...

I've been planning to make a move abroad for work. It's something I'm excited about, but it's a risk going into a new field in a new country, and I'm gonna have to borrow some money to do it (for a training programme), but in the long run should pay off.

Now my boss doesn't want me to leave, says he will make me a "big offer". I don't know what the offer is yet, but I have an idea of what the least is to make me reconsider. But I don't know yet what my choice will be.

It's a choice between taking a risk for the sake of a new challenge and a more exciting job, and getting to live in a new country which I have wanted for a long time while making less money for a few years. Or taking the easy route - stable, comfy, boring job, but finally making enough money to be content with (for now, maybe for the next 3 or 4 years).

 

[GordoDeCentral]

As we're on the topic...

I've been planning to make a move abroad for work. It's something I'm excited about, but it's a risk going into a new field in a new country, and I'm gonna have to borrow some money to do it (for a training programme), but in the long run should pay off.

Now my boss doesn't want me to leave, says he will make me a "big offer". I don't know what the offer is yet, but I have an idea of what the least is to make me reconsider. But I don't know yet what my choice will be.

It's a choice between taking a risk for the sake of a new challenge and a more exciting job, and getting to live in a new country which I have wanted for a long time while making less money for a few years. Or taking the easy route - stable, comfy, boring job, but finally making enough money to be content with (for now, maybe for the next 3 or 4 years).

Take a risk of course, you will have plenty of time to be a pussy later

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Take a risk of course, you will have plenty of time to be a pussy later

I hear ya, it'd be nice to have some breathing room and ball out a little for a change though

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

(1) That is so true, I got my job cause my parents had strong connections with the major shareholder of the bank. Yeah, you should definitely pay off your loans ASAP.

(2) TBH no, I almost never work long hours. I've been on this job for three years and I can count the times I've had late days with my fingers. I had a shitty salary until recently, when I was offered a better salary at another bank for the same position (Corporate Credit Risk Analyst). I told my boss I received a very good offer somewhere else and that I was leaving lol. He spoke to the GM and got me a raise matching the other offer. I felt so good man... I felt appreciated.

I wish you good luck in your endeavors dude. How old are you?

That's perfect man, good for you. A good start like that changes absolutely everything. Yeah, did it in 3 years by throwing everything I had at it, saved so much in interest payments. I fully admit I'm very fortunate in that respect.

Sounds like you're set up pretty well then. That's a hot title too, should be easy to move if you ever feel like it. I'm just "senior billing associate," you get no respect with that regardless of my company's name .

Thank you, you as well. I'm 28, in other words too old to be where I am now and dealing with this bullshit.

It took literally 1 week to realize the finance industry, or corporate was not for me, seeing people checking share prices, reading and discussing articles of the sort whilst i'm watching golf highlights during my lunch break, I had the technical skills for it but I could not compete with people who literally live the job, and i did not want to turn into that type of person. Albeit i have never been ambitious, very happy to plod along, as long as i'm home reasonably and have time to golf on the weekends i am a happy man, spending 40 years under constant stress hating what you are doing, for what, makes no sense. Some people love the rat race, they love the corporate life, they love playing the game and they are good at it. id rather kill myself that do that shit, staying late, people wanting to one up you and get ahead, cant be fucked for those games.

I feel you. People like that are sociopaths imo. Middle and upper management types as well. The field of economics is actually interesting, finance is just bullshit to make money.

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As we're on the topic...

I've been planning to make a move abroad for work. It's something I'm excited about, but it's a risk going into a new field in a new country, and I'm gonna have to borrow some money to do it (for a training programme), but in the long run should pay off.

Now my boss doesn't want me to leave, says he will make me a "big offer". I don't know what the offer is yet, but I have an idea of what the least is to make me reconsider. But I don't know yet what my choice will be.

It's a choice between taking a risk for the sake of a new challenge and a more exciting job, and getting to live in a new country which I have wanted for a long time while making less money for a few years. Or taking the easy route - stable, comfy, boring job, but finally making enough money to be content with (for now, maybe for the next 3 or 4 years).

I would say, consider where you want to be in the next 5 or so years. If anything, you could just save up money doing the second option for a little while so that you won't have to take out loans for the first.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I hear ya, it'd be nice to have some breathing room and ball out a little for a change though

But if i understand correctly it's not concrete, so practically speaking you have nothing to lose