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My meeting with the prospective commissary (commercial kitchen) went well and it looks like I'll be able to use them this coming Spring to vend my hot dogs. Storing food at home is illegal, so I just need a place to keep food and wash dishes. And the place next door I accidentally walked into first is owned by the guy who runs that town's hot dog cart, so he gave me the low-down on all the other places to vend around here. He said he makes $250-300 per day which is roughly what I was figuring and he's in a not-great location.
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I'll have to ask my friend again for the specifics of the story. I thought Chevy was the character that made Community good. His character provided some negativity and pessimism, and above all grounded the other characters and restrained some of their lunacy. Post-Chevy the characters just went off the rail.
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For the past couple decades he's been running around Hollywood trying to get work because nobody will go near him. When he joined Community I figured he'd work hard to change, being that it was clearly his last chance at redemption. But nope. I'm bungling this story, but I guess many years ago Chevy was in a movie with a first-time director. Chevy was so difficult to work with that he made the director quit. It being Hollywood you'd normally figure quitting your first movie would be a career-ending move. But as the director tells it, he'd tell producers about why he quit his first job and they would say "No, if it was Chevy then that makes sense."
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I used to be a proofreader, and yeah, that was definitely always a concern that I might misspell a word in my letter and not realize it. I'm at a job now as well as that proofreader job where there was an HR rule that we had to call all references. I've known of some terrific candidates who couldn't be hired because we could never reach their references.
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There's a section in "How to Win Friends and Influence People" which talks about cover letters, basically what is attractive to hiring managers and which aren't. The whole book is great but that would be a particular section worth looking over.
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Based on not a huge ton I keep thinking 32k might be right around the bottom. A friend of mine thinks 29. Kinda same difference, though either way I just have a hard time seeing it fall much further, especially having seen it hit 67 not very long ago. Long-term crypto folks sometimes have a way of dumping on Bitcoin holders because it doesn't offer the home run that the small stuff at least has the potential for. But you'd have doubled your money just playing the major highs and lows of it last year, which I don't exactly consider timing the market. Ignoring all the going-for-100x people that's an amazing return. Not counting this latest crash, gaming in general did something like a 5x last year. I'm still optimistic on the sector because right now the standard-bearer is Axie Infinity, which isn't even that special of a game, which says to me the formula is a valuable one and nobody has really capitalized on it yet.
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No, haven't staked anything just yet. I've been waiting for the bottom of the market to start doing all that. I didn't sell at the end of November like I should have, so now I'm hoping for maybe one more week of green, then cash out and hold until the market bottoms out.
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My father has a second house near Phoenix. He can walk to the football stadium. It's not listed, but he's still getting two calls per day to sell at some very high prices. He was really tempted to sell but my brother I think correctly reminded him that since he's set money-wise, what's the point of selling? Unless there's a plan to actually do something with the money to better enjoy retirement, then there's no value to just having more money. My father is a good example of what consistent savings can do for a person. Never made more than $40k/year and the mother only occasionally worked. But the father saved 20-30% of every paycheck and was blessed to only be out of work for six months of his entire career. It meant stretching every penny, certainly. We never went out to eat, etc. But now someone who never made much money never has to ask himself if he can afford anything anymore. If either of them end up needing long-term assisted living we'll actually be able to pay for it.
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Digital Asset News the other day mentioned cryptotrader.tax, and it looks like that will be in the neighborhood of $100 to do the uploads and forms, so I'll probably use that. I had been trying CoinTracker.io, but it doesn't read Metamask and the forms it was getting me were a mess. ------ I bought Moonbeam (GLMR) way way way too early yesterday before it really had the chance to settle down from the KuCoin listing. Took a big hit on that. Up a lot today though I'm still not even. Nice to see what the market has been doing lately overall. Folks really over-reacted to the Fed rate increase even though everyone knew it was coming. Instead they just pulled all their money out of everything. But people don't tend to hold majority cash long-term, so I'm optimistic this year that as folks buy back in they may well do so via crypto because they're still market-averse with more rate hikes coming. We never really saw that "market is going crazy!" rise like in 2013 and 2017, but I guess the converse of that is maybe maybe maybe we don't really see the same fall. Volatility is more fun and more profitable, though.
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I'm curious to hear more. How old and where are you currently at with retirement money? I'm 44 and I don't think I'd crack $50k in retirement savings just yet. I'll also have a pension but that won't be more than about $1200/mo. Another benefit is work will continue most of my medical benefits between retirement and 62. Between this and my side job I should be starting this year, saving $1000/mo is realistic if not somewhat conservative. Although I'm a little unsure yet just where to save it all. I have a 401k and a self-directed IRA, but also taxable stocks/crypto. I'm in work housing, so when I retire I'll need a place to live. Sounds crazy right now but I still hope to retire before 60. I've heard rumor you can withdraw from an IRA early without the penalty in order to buy a house, but I also doubt I'll be buying one. So at least for now I'm stuck with capital gains. And since I'm single no kids I have ambitions to retire in Belize. No income tax, no capital gains and a slightly lower cost of living.
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I'm actually quite far behind when it comes to retirement savings. Making little money in my 20s and being out of work for much of my 30s did the trick. Grad school was a waste of time and money, too. But now debt-free, credit cards at $0 and basically no rent for the house. I'll be pushing pretty hard to save over the next 15 years.
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I debated the same thing with my student loans and personal vehicle, but I paid them down instead of investing the extra. Sure I'd have made a little more investing, but I considered if something bad happened there's a bigger benefit to being debt free than still making monthly payments on stuff.
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What programs are you guys using to sync up your holdings for tax accounting? I'm trying a couple but they either have trouble grabbing everything or all I get out of it is a mess of numbers. ----------------- Have a bit of cash that I could add to the market, but I haven't decided yet whether the market is at a bottom or it has further down to go, so I figure it's best to just hold as cash for a while longer and see what happens. Although MonkeyBall got a ton of hype and is way down right now. DTravel is also way down.
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My retirement is confusing since I won't have 30 years in with the pension and paying a percent of health care benefit, etc. If it costs a couple hundred bucks to see a financial analyst that sure seems worth it to have someone else figure it all out for you, not to mention they'll know variables maybe you/me haven't thought of yet. And a lot of the times whatever company does your company's 401k will meet with you for free.
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Grad school and then not finding a job after the Crash sucked my savings dry. I've got a 6% matching 401k and what will be a modest pension, but I'm hopefully starting a second job soon and intend to put every penny I make into retirement. The second job is specifically because I need the extra income to retire. Ideally I plan to expatriate to Belize and if I can, a tiny place back in Wisconsin.
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I had a Wal-Mart thin crust yesterday and it was pretty good. I forgot the price so that makes it hard to call it good/bad. Tasted good, but if I paid $7, it didn't taste THAT good. I may be slowly turning toward the sausage preference, too. I love the caraway flavor. And the pepperoni on a lot of brands is way too spicy.
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No doubt the problem will only get worse. Not to mention all the people who lost money because they accidentally sent it to the wrong address. Still holding my coins. I think I just started to get bored and stopped paying such close attention to the market every day. And now that it's down I feel like now's a terrible time to sell. I sold out last week in the regular market, so that sure timed nicely, but not so with crypto.
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There are lots of different designs out there for making a brick oven. I've always wanted to make one, but I'm not in a permanent house yet. But it isn't something super-difficult.
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That does help, thank you. About what I thought the downsides were, but being told assets could be liquidated really confused me. I'm confident enough staking the Avax/Cosmos/Sol of the world, so I'll eventually have to take a deeper look and see what the APY is for them. I'll give Osmosis a look, thanks for the suggestion.
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Sounds to me like they had someone picked for the job already but just had to do the formality of posting the job opening, and so they paid about no attention to the other applicants. My first interview for the career I'm in now was like that--before any questions were asked the lead interviewer congratulated me for making it to the interview round.
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Thanks. Since you mentioned LP (?) and DeFi staking, I was reading that it's considered high-risk because if the market goes down a lot in the time you have it staked, you risk your assets being liquidated. Is that true? I'd been thinking I'm a bit over-leveraged and so I wanted to do something else with a chunk of my money. So all I could think of is staking non-Tether stablecoins. Otherwise I was just going to long-term-hold a bigger project like Solana or Avax after this current bubble settles down and then just ignore any dips. I feel confident I'll do a better job taking profits next year. Plus I hopefully have a second income coming which will be used as my "buy the dips" fund.
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Been a big learning year for me especially in terms of taking profits and using volatility to my advantage. My value-investing background says "The best time to sell is never," which doesn't so much apply to this market. I'm looking forward to next year now that I have a better sense of taking profits when a token reaches something of a high. I plan on checking the Fear and Greed Index a lot and using that as the big indication of whether I should be in or out of the market. Also may look to stake a decent percentage next year, too. I'm feeling like I'm a bit over-leveraged with what I'm actively trading, and so staking an L1 coin should be good to be able to ignore some of the ups and downs but make a small amount of interest on it.
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Yep. Cold oven @ 405. Pizza is ready about a minute after the oven dings that it's come to temperature. The thinnest of crispy layer on the bottom the way pizza is supposed to be.
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I've heard before that only certain types of flour work well if you're going to overnight-proof dough in the fridge. Anybody know what I should be using? OO?
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Thank you for that kind post. Unfortunately one of my faults in investing is I don't hold on to tokens long enough. I made some money off of AVAX but didn't catch the craziness. Fortunately, though, I'd moved it into FINA and Sandbox. I'm thinking next week I may start pulling out 10% per week just in anticipation of the crash. Dunno. But I'm scared of holding too long and just eating a big dip.
