A small dose of selfishness is necessary to live life with sanity
It’s called healthy egoism
That which you consider to be your necessary expenditures will always rise to meet your income unless you protest to the contrary.
–The Richest Man In Babylon
As a young teenager: Do not start working until you have to. Once you start, you’ll never stop.
Depends on if you have found your passion. I found the career I was passionate about at age 14 and now have more experience than the vast majority of my peers. Until just recently, I had never managed someone younger than me, and I’ve been a supervisor for a very long time now.
That’s true. I started at the ripe old age of 12, and I haven’t stopped since.
“Get off the drugs, dude.”
Just needed a friend to care enough to say something so simple, and it changed my life. Sobriety is terrifying for so many, but in my experience it was absolutely worth it.
I’ve never touched the stuff, but sometimes I wonder if life would be less horrible if I was numbed to it. What makes it worth it?
Being myself, knowing myself without the dull edge of substances, actually being present in my life and in other’s lives. Drugs were an escape, a place to hide and avoid. Facing reality, while difficult, was such a more fulfilling experience than when constantly running from my own existence.
No, drugs only solve problems temporarily, very temporarily, and then they bring a bunch of additional problems into your life.
And then you get drunk again and forget them, rinse and repeat.
Physiological dependence ends within weeks, and they say after that people relapse basically because their life is bad and they miss being a checked-out junkie. OP’s response kind of reinforces that; they have a life now, and they enjoy it, so they don’t want to go back.
Obviously from everyone else’s perspective it doesn’t help. That and your reasoning are basically why I’ve stayed away from drugs and alcohol completely (and avoided caffeine), but I pride myself on being open-minded. As weird as it sounds, I need to at least consider that the guy on the piss-soaked mattress might have a point, or I’m not being intellectually honest.
Being a drunk is great fun. For a time. Then it stops working, and you’re left with the original problems, plus a bunch of additional misery.
When I was getting started in my design career getting jobs was hard. I had a good portfolio but not much experience. Met another designer one day and told her my dimena. Her response: Just lie. She told me everyone does to get work. So I took that advice. Next job I got paid me 2x the previous one and soon enough I wasn’t lieing anymore. You think Musk got where he is today thanks to ethics and honesty? Jobs and Gates both stole either knowledge or actual products from others. I still have friends submitting resumes with large gaps, asking for help. They send it over and I embellish the hell of it, always works.
Eh, Steve Jobs didn’t steal his product. Steve Wozniak created it, and Jobs marketed it. Jobs bought the mouse technology from Xerox, who didn’t understand the value of what they had. Jobs pushed for quality on-screen typography, and pioneered the windows based interface. I think you might be thinking of Bill Gates, who stole the Windows interface from Jobs. Apple was a truly pioneering company, which is why so many investors were interested in this company run by a few college kids out of their garage.
I’m fixing up my resume right now and I don’t know how to lie (I’m a student with little experience trying to land and entry job). What did you lie about?
What is the entry level job for and is there anything school related you could attribute yourself to. I went to college for industrial design so I could have made up some lab supervisory role that included my experience with the tools, helping other students, fixing machines, etc. anything that made me look like I had tons of ambition.
A specific example would be the time I applied for a web dev job. I knew front end and some backend but they needed a php person. I lied, said I had learned it at a previous job and could do whatever they needed. I counted on being able to research the solution but more than once I hired a php dev to do the simple fixes. 99% of the job was design related but I got that php issue solved at the beginning and there was no doubt from them what I could do after.
I’m going to school for cs and I’m just trying to land an entry level IT job.
Can you do some volunteer work with your schools I.T. department. Or even some job shadowing. That’s one thing I would try. Even without pay it shows ambition. Other than that, do you got a friend that needs a network setup or Linux install? It becomes “I.T. consultant for Echelon, a student-based startup. Focused on building an ethical solution for AI in education.” You can peer review these entries and make sure it sounds believable, don’t get greedy and don’t overreach. Looks for steps maybe a little above your capability but you were heading that way anyways.
If you have ever done something (even a bit, even just in the classroom): you are proficient in that thing. That’s the lie.
“Can you do this?”
" Yup sure thing. I have experience with that. "
Be warned, they may test you. Cram to refresh if it seems relevant.
Make the lie believable. Keep it simple so it’s easy to remember.
Give yourself a little experience. Maybe having done a small job at another company. Don’t go over board.
Protip: don’t claim you are a Navy SEAL.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/10509027302965
What makes a good portfolio? I feel like I’m constantly lying and it’s a pain in the ass to find clients, even though I’m confident in my technical skills.
This was the late 90s and I did a lot of experimenting with flash. It didn’t take much to impress people back then. Yugop really inspired me so i did a lot of studies on interacting with the audience and it got me in the door with a prestigious ad agency and that made the rest of my career. Sometimes it’s not just about client work. What is trending now? AI related projects. You could do a study for yourself about AI and marketing, Ai and web interaction or whatever. How do you think it will work? Show your creative problem solving. Get out of the conventional thinking and do something in an unexpected way. With design they love to see your progress so I always added that material. Every place you apply gets a lot of responses, it’s hard to stand out but necessary.
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Shave with double edged razors. The razors are more extensive (compared to disposable anyway) but you’ll save money on the blades.
I bought a razor for £30 and £7 on 100 blades. That was 12 years agoml. I’m 2/3 the way through my razor pack.
I found no difference in how close of a shave I got and while it takes a bit more skill, I got the handle of it after a few shaves.
“You can love the company as much as you like, but the company will never love you back.” - My dad.
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Have an emergency fund and pay yourself first.
The emergency fund comes first $1000 or 6 months expenses tends to be the sweet spot. It keeps you from taking on bad debt like credit cards and pay day loans. 5% of your paycheck is a good place to get started, that’s usually enough to build up funds fairly quickly without hurting too much.
Retirement doesn’t have to be a ton of money each pay check, especially if you start early in life, but if you ever want to retire you have to start as soon as possible because the later you start the more money you have to put away. Take the company match on a 401(k) or 5-20% of your paycheck. Invest in a target date fund or S&P 500, Russell 2000 fund, or whole market fund (and look at the expense ratio, you want that to be as low as possible) and call it a day. Individual stocks are for suckers, but if you want to gamble with individual stocks use 1-5% of your portfolio to do it so it’s not the end of the world if you pick a loser.
Finding your target for retirement is a big step to knowing what you need to save early. Play around with some retirement calculators and debt payoff calculators fairly often as your target number may change based on your lifestyle.
pay yourself first
Did you get this from The Richest Man in Babylon? I just quoted another part of that book for this thread. That’s one of the core lessons of that book.
Probably, I’ve read it before.
“Don’t forget to breathe.”
A wise person once told me don’t commit misdemeanors while you’re committing felonies.
Why is this good advise?
Al capone was arrested for tax evation. I think one of the famous serial killers or mass murderers got caught because they were pulled over for something like speeding (granted, they probably would have been caught eventually anyways, but it happened a lot quicker).
Al Capone had no choice but to commit tax evasion, all of his income was illegal.
The IRS says you have to report illegal income and pay taxes on them.
Yes, but when you do, they arrest you for illegal activity. So not reporting is the only real viable option. You can launder it, but they’ll still get you for tax evasion if they can
One crime at a time.
Never commit more than one crime at a time
Hahhaha
There are so many laws that it’s impossible not to break multiple at once if breaking a big one. Like planning and executing a heist requires you to break a hundred different laws.
I think it’s more like “don’t drive fast with a tail light out” or “come to a full and complete stop at a stop sign if you have (illegal) drugs in your car”.
Nailed it, haha
Well then don’t do those, lol
“Don’t trust her…”
Don’t panic.
It’s easier to apologize than to ask for permission.
We best lead by example.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes and your ears open.
Don’t cheap out on the things that separate you from the ground (shoes / tires / mattress / etc)
Buy cheap, buy twice. Buy once, cry once.
imho the 2nd and 3rd contradict each other a bitt possibly
The best I ever received? Start saving and investing when you’re young to benefit from compound interest over time. I didn’t take the advice, but I received it!
Did you have money to invest when you were young enough for the advice to matter?
If you worked for $8/hr and took 5% of your income and put it towards retirement (I know 5% is a lot when you’re broke) from age 18-67 assuming you got a 2% raise every year, you could retire with ~$385,000 in the bank and it would last you until you were 79. That’s using the default numbers from Bankrate. If you could bump your savings rate up to 15% using those same numbers (which is admittedly unrealistic) you would be a millionaire at retirement. The moral of the story is start early and be consistent.
I’m not going to point out the ridiculous problem with this, since you already did before bowling over it. I’m just gonna disengage.
The fucked up thing about plain money is that even if you have a million today, that million will be worth less than half when you retire, due to inflation and nrtions that keep printing more money to cover their expenses.
People with money usually don’t keep it as plain money though. On average, if you just invest it in S&P500 (assuming historical returns), it’ll be worth at least 4 million after adjusting for inflation after 30 years. 3 million dollars reward for having 1 million dollars. But even if you’re like a gold-standard fanatic and just put it in gold, the same applies.
Which is why the second part is to invest it.
If you’re making $8/hr, your head is going to be incredibly deep underwater. 5% is not remotely possible at that wage. At 15% you may as well be living in fantasyland.
Most people wouldn’t remain at $8/hr their whole life, you would likely earn more as you gained training and experience. My point was that at the extreme low of full time wages, your savings rate at an early age helps determine where you would end up. It’s doable especially at hire wages.
