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  1. GAME05
    My brother's engineering firm is hiring. What kind do you do and I can see what he's looking for.
  2. GAME05
    Yeah, that could well be. Fortunately this isn't my career and so it'll only cost me $5 in sales when I tell her to pound sand.
  3. GAME05
    Sorry to hear that, man. Hopefully something else comes along quickly. If you wanna run a park lemme know:)
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    That's largely my thinking, too. I have a little ways to go yet, so not quite at that "keep what you have" stage. So can I make more than 7% buying up Disney or Netflix now? Yeah, probably. Heck, there's even indexes which short the market. People still drink coffee. Probably smoke more cigarettes if they're hurting, too. Is there really a world of difference between a bond and buying gold? No guarantee, sure, but about as safe as safe can be.
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    Learned of somebody who is 50/50 on applying for the same promotion I'm going for, and he'd get it ahead of me for reasons I could only say on Political Scene. Felt a little weird encouraging him to apply, but it would be a good move for him and he should. Since I'm only applying for the money and because I kinda have to retirement-wise, but I also don't really want the job, there's a good part of me that hopes he applies because then I have a good excuse for staying put.
  6. GAME05
    My Food Manager test is tomorrow, which I guess isn't totally easy. But worst-case I spend another $150 and take it again in a month. And after 1.5 years I finally secured my commissary. So once I pass the test I can then get my Vending Permit and then I'll be good to finally start vending hot dogs! And even if it still takes a while my work schedule is such I don't have time for it, anyway. Met another cart owner in a nearby small town and he said he nets $200-250 per day, and my location is a little better balanced out by me not being able to have a regular schedule. It'll mean a bunch more work on my off weekends, but also not super-stressful work.
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    Can't remember the exact name of that bond, but a cousin and my father are pushing to invest in the same one. The cousin has been searching for something super-safe for a while since he's close to retirement and that was the best one he found.
  8. GAME05
    Well, down roughly 70% on owned assets, but at the same time buying as much as I can right now. Sure, maybe we'll see a 25k Bitcoin or maybe even 20k, but you'd think we gotta be at least somewhere near the bottom........maybe. I wasn't in crypto but I recall a $0.02 Cardano as the bottom of the 2018 Crypto Winter, and of course we were all jealous of all the folks who were able to buy at that point and see it climb to $2.80, so hopefully now is that same sorta moment. I'm usually more into gaming/metaverse, but I may have to eat whatever losses and move things to more-secure L1s, because along with that $0.02 Cardano there were plenty of other projects which died permanently.
  9. GAME05
    I have some thought to picking up Disney and Netflix, but at the same time I don't have the impression they're looking to do anything different going forward. Although it's hard to imagine the Disney CEO could keep his job after all this, which I don't mean to be political, just that if you're leading a company which loses that much share price, you should be out, regardless. I'm still basically 100% in a commodities index. Up about 25% so far and going forward I'm just making the assumption that if we do have some food shortages that it should keep on growing as prices increase. Or maybe because I'm not particularly confident in the rest of the market for the time being.
  10. GAME05
    A little bit has changed with the coming promotion opportunity at my job. I didn't want it because I thought it was only going to be a 10% raise and that wasn't worth the extra stress. But I guess it should be more like 30%. I still don't want to do the work, and in all the job doesn't really suit my skills and interests. But since I'll be retiring on only about 60% of a full pension, I think I have to go for the opportunity. Between that and selling hot dogs (which the current boss has said should be manageable) I should be able to put away an additional $2000 per month in addition to the roughly $500/mo I'm putting away now. Plus it'll bump my pension from roughly $1200/mo to maybe $1400/mo. In all it looks like it'll mean being able to retire at maybe 56 y/o (45 now). Otherwise you tend to get force-retired at about 60. As well as having a good enough income up to and including whatever Social Security might be there (but that won't be much, as I haven't paid much in).
  11. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  12. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  13. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  14. GAME05
    Great write-up, Tim. Really terrific use of both quotes and heavy statistics to back it all up. Hader embodies my frustrations with the budget disparities in baseball. He's a guy who the Brewers would love to keep long-term, a guy who would probably love to stay in Milwaukee, but ultimately has to be traded eventually because we just plain couldn't afford to keep a player of his caliber.
  15. GAME05
    Since we're on a baseball board, I definitely recommend "Nine Innings: Anatomy of a Baseball Game". It's about one single baseball game, everything leading up to it and during, between the Brewers and the Orioles in 1982. Currently reading "Is God a Moral Monster?" and looking forward to the Andrew Klavan book coming out next week how classical literature mirrors the Bible.
  16. GAME05
    I became a Bob Uecker fan well before I became a Milwaukee Brewers fan or a fan of baseball in general. I started listening in the dreary days when losing 90 games a year was pretty standard. Oddly enough I tended to enjoy the games when the Brewers were losing badly more than when the game was close, because as he still does, Uecker understood that calling the plays when you're already down 10 runs wouldn't hold the listener, and so he will just start telling baseball stories. He'd go on and on with some funny story with a quick little "line to LF for the second out" between telling you how he created the game "Ugly".
  17. GAME05
    I became a Bob Uecker fan well before I became a Milwaukee Brewers fan or a fan of baseball in general. I started listening in the dreary days when losing 90 games a year was pretty standard. Oddly enough I tended to enjoy the games when the Brewers were losing badly more than when the game was close, because as he still does, Uecker understood that calling the plays when you're already down 10 runs wouldn't hold the listener, and so he will just start telling baseball stories. He'd go on and on with some funny story with a quick little "line to LF for the second out" between telling you how he created the game "Ugly".
  18. GAME05
    I would only imagine the co-workers would understand that you negotiated the title only for resume purposes. They're navigating the same job-world, too.
  19. GAME05
    I don't really want the Superintendent position at my current work. Even other superintendents say not to do it for all the stress. But I'm leaning toward applying, anyway. I started this career at 38, so I'm way way behind in retirement savings, and I'm not sure I can pass up an opportunity for another $1000 per month.
  20. GAME05
    Nice thing about suit jackets is you can take them off and suddenly you're more casual if needs be. Just hang it over the chair.
  21. GAME05
    My work has now stated that no clothing choice can be held against a candidate. You could go in your underwear and still get the job, no joke.
  22. GAME05
    Hopefully everyone is ok today. I'd moved mostly into a commodities index fund a month or so ago and it's basically holding even today. Probably a lot of other plays to be made with Taiwan unfortunately-probably upcoming, though doubtful any that I'll strongly pursue.
  23. GAME05
    They probably need a WR in the 1st whether Adams is back or not. Heck even if they got Judy back in the trade they probably need a WR in the 1st.
  24. GAME05
    Thanks for the tip and I'll definitely keep that in mind. For this year just wanting to keep things simple and then do more as I get used to vending and based on what customers are requesting. There's the potential for vending at fishing tournaments which would be a $2000 day as well as maybe leasing the cart out to someone else. I make some flat fee but also avoid the burdens of having an employee.
  25. GAME05
    They're not called "brats" down here. It's just "sausage" or a "sausage dog". And everyone here likes the BrightLeaf hot dogs, which are regular hot dogs died red which I think is off-putting. I'll likely offer a brat and maybe also a BrightLeaf (those would require me picking up my food from two different places, though). Apparently mayonnaise on a hot dog isn't uncommon.
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