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Why is it a bad idea to iron your four leaf clover? Because you shouldn't press your luck!
Why did the elephant quit his job? He was working for peanuts.
She can study theatre at VT. Then do a one year master's anywhere she wants.
A degree, while not strictly required, does prove something about people, and does expand their horizons.
Eddie V starts us off with a WIN
Identify need, save, buy...rinse and repeat...except very few do this.
Without trying to go too close to the TOS, I always told myself after watching the 2008 collapse (and basically seeing it wipe out my in-laws retirement cause they had a corrupt AF investor handling their money) that if I felt extremely strong about the market being on the verge of a major downturn, I would freeze assets until it settled down. And the whole threat of tariffs and a trade war with our biggest trade partners on the global market had every single red flag going off. And the way in which it has been happening definitely seems a bit like market manipulation with every threat being foreshadowed and every implementation being met with an immediate hit to the stock price of those being impacted.
And I'm not actively trading, definitely can't on that account, and even on the ones where I can I have so little equity left that I'll get hit on capital gains for anything I move to money. I'm just going to let the dust settle before throwing it all back into the funds it was in before. I mean they got me 200% returns in 3 years, absolutely going to ride that wave again.
Yeah definitely guilty of only reading part of the comment. I got ahead of myself. Congrats on the new (better) role. Feel for your manager. Similarly, in the job I lost the manager had absolutely no say and is expected to hire our replacements from a restricted pool of candidates. She's not enjoying life right now.
Dammit Skippy, take your leg. But I'm not happy about it.
Checks out for a school that paid $1M+ to create an awful alternate academic RC car track looking logo
Thanks for the reminder. Just joined in!
I enjoyed that also.
I dont really get that last part. You probably have 15+ years before you're touching your 401k, the current volatility doesn't mean anything unless you're actively trading. Just total markt etf and chill
Read the next paragraph, lol!
I had about 3 hours of WTF before my contact at my recruiting agency told me they already had something else lined up. And even better, its more of a consulting role rather than hands on keyboard, which should make things a little easier to navigate over the next few years.
And let me tell you, my manager from the first role was pissed about the layoff. He had absolutely no say whatsoever who stayed and who left. There were some terrible FTEs he was forced to keep and would have loved nothing more than to let go and keep a contractor, instead (which would have saved the company money in the long term, but....). And he had spent months building out an entire team, utilizing contract to hire just because he was told to build it out fast and it was the easiest way to get it done. In one move, everything they had done since the summer was wiped out. And if I told you what company this was, you wouldn't exactly be surprised. Anyway, last I heard he had already requested a transfer to somewhere else within the company, and I don't blame him at all for it.
But yeah, a couple weeks ago I definitely moved my entire 401(k) into moneymarkets and bonds just until the current turbulence calms down.
Did you know that neither Beethoven nor Mozart ever wrote any music or at least there is no proof that they did. Ever since they died, they have been decomposing.
Starting up in several minutes. Anyone have a schedule on which mats each of our guys will be starting on?
Hipolito sporting a new look - almost didn't recognize him - but as long as he wrestles like he is capable of he can go deep.
LETS GO!
damn, dude! that is brutal AF. Sorry to hear that for you. Here's hoping you land on your feet somewhere. i'm sure you will, you seem to always do so
When people with 890 credit scores are being charged 8% interest for a new car or motorcycle- they should fix that first. I think credit card interest should be MUCH higher than transportation and housing.
Somehow we've worked our way into believing that everyone should all have the same stuff, and due to credit and credit cards, we pretty much do.
An interesting side to that will be if they can actually pass a law capping credit card interest rates at 10%. I think credit cards are going to be all more frugal about limits and who qualifies.
Hope you survive.
Yep, tales of woe are increasing, it seems. Glad I'm retired.
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My heart wants you to be wrong, my head says you are right.
Every now and then I debate moving from consulting to public sector to pick up the pension. But at this point I would need to work into my 70's to be fully vested in state retirement and I don't want to do that.

Politics are ridiculous, but you know truly is backwards? Ylurt