Being around alligators every once in a while has killed my sense of fear of them because I haven't had the luck to see them do anything.
Looking up alligator deaths on Wikipedia, it looks like it is mostly getting attacked due to having dogs that are about the right size for prey, being a child that is about the right size, or swimming in the water with alligators.
One week ago: HR sends email out to everyone asking for t-shirt/polo sizes so they can get company shirts
Me: *sends size*
Today: HR sends another email out with a giant list of people asking for shirt sizes again
Me: "Fucking, okay, guess she never got it" *forwards first email passive-aggressively*
Today, ten minutes later: "Hey.. I’m getting emails from the people on the list… I HAVE their size… I need the people NOT listed."
*avface*
Actual fucking professional team lead (not my own), fifteen minutes later: *breaks the list down into teams for better readability, highlights names of people on HR's list to easily identify who hasn't responded, provides sizes of people on his team, both that have and have not responded*
This jealousy.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k
...
The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.
This is a roadmap for failure.
Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.
Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.
Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.
Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.
But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.
It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.
Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.
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Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k
...
The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.
This is a roadmap for failure.
Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.
Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.
Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.
Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.
But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.
It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.
Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.
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Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k
...
The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.
This is a roadmap for failure.
Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.
Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.
Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.
Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.
But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.
It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.
Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.
That also raises flags for me honestly.
If it's such a relatively small amount than it seems like it wouldn't take that much more effort for you to just be patient for a short while and obtain it without kablooeying the money in that 401k that is going to increase multiple times over if it just stays there.
winky one additional thought to consider is that the US may* enter a recession this year and that could impact your job prospects in the near term
if we're able to move this year we'll probably rent for a year instead of buying a house, for example, as I'm pretty jittery re the possibility of prices tanking etc
I wonder what it would be like to have a 401k or savings
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In this video, two grown men role play space alien Gritty, trying to pass as a human, eating a Snickers bar with his asshole. Among other things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtsNwwg-XTY
Just go into business for yourself and deplete your savings while trying to get enough people on kickstarter or patreon to fund your idea. That's how it all works in 2020 right?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Alright, I'm pretty settled on my course of action, which is that I'm going to save for the next few months, then cash out my 401k
...
The only reason I'm so comfortable with cashing out on my 401k, of course, is simply because my actual retirement plan remains what it has always been; inheritance.
This is a roadmap for failure.
Define failure. I'm fucking sick of living scared in the shadow of wealth.
Winky, tanking your financial stability by simultaneously leaving your job for an independent venture, pulling out from your 401k, and tapping your backup inheritance plan for money is way more likely to result in you being stuck in a corporate job "in the shadow of wealth" than going about things in a less risky way.
Pursue your projects, sure, but don't do so by simultaneously cutting or straining every anchor you have. Leave the 401k alone, set up the independent freelance work before doing the projects, and guarantee the projects with your own cash or family loans instead of your 401k.
Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.
But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.
It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.
Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.
That also raises flags for me honestly.
If it's such a relatively small amount than it seems like it wouldn't take that much more effort for you to just be patient for a short while and obtain it without kablooeying the money in that 401k that is going to increase multiple times over if it just stays there.
It just seems like a really rash decision.
Yeah, I may just be too eager to get out of here. Waiting an entire six months to a year sounds incredibly unattractive to me, but it may make more sense. I guess I'll see after I've discussed with my dad and my boss.
Just go into business for yourself and deplete your savings while trying to get enough people on kickstarter or patreon to fund your idea. That's how it all works in 2020 right?
Worked for Star Citizen!
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
winky one additional thought to consider is that the US may* enter a recession this year and that could impact your job prospects in the near term
if we're able to move this year we'll probably rent for a year instead of buying a house, for example, as I'm pretty jittery re the possibility of prices tanking etc
This is actually something I wanted to get ahead of if I could, but I realize that's absolutely playing Russian roulette. I'm going to be in a much worse situation to be unemployed for a few months and then just get hired back up after the recession hits than I am before it does, but if the recession hits in the middle of me being unemployed I'm fucked either way. Then I'll probably be waiting things out for even longer.
Just go into business for yourself and deplete your savings while trying to get enough people on kickstarter or patreon to fund your idea. That's how it all works in 2020 right?
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take it up with the sign
*takes drag off cigarette*
la petite mort
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
ahem, his name is Sobek
Alligator stepmother porn doesn’t give you the cummies?
This jealousy.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
https://youtu.be/5FktneT6l6U
This joke she's the best.
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Hm, if I spend a few more months working here and/or can get a family loan I may actually be able to avoid cashing out the 401k, and I agree it's a better plan in terms of hedging and stability. If it's possible I'll take that route.
But my 401k is not huge, it's not like I'm abandoning years of building it, cashing out on my 401k right now would set me back about a year. And as for leaving my job; my skills are a ridiculously hot commodity right now. This is about the most aggressive labor market for what I do that there has ever been. I'd be better off trying to take advantage of that hiring frenzy now by trying to establish my own projects in the next few months and then pull the rip cord back to a corporate job if I can't make it happen while this is still the case rather than waiting for a time when job security might become a much more attractive prospect for me.
It's also the case that stability is and always has been the thing I value least. I know for a fact that in the past I've been able to support myself off my own projects and was doing better then than I am now until a series of bad decisions led to the project's failure, but I also legitimately believe I've learned the most important lessons I need to in order to not fail a second time, at least not for the same reasons.
Doing this now is not exceptionally more likely to condemn me to a retirement eating rats than it is to condemn me to one-to-two more years of having to work before I can retire. The honest truth is that I have way more faith in my own marketable skills and connections than I do in my 401k.
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Well the patriots lost, so they are probably still in mourning.
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but its 1 pm
Boston airport is nice, the checkin desk gave us free drink vouchers after intuiting we were on our honeymoon
Getting there is a bit hell, the elevated highways play hell with GPS
These are the taeks I appreciate from you jersey.
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That also raises flags for me honestly.
If it's such a relatively small amount than it seems like it wouldn't take that much more effort for you to just be patient for a short while and obtain it without kablooeying the money in that 401k that is going to increase multiple times over if it just stays there.
It just seems like a really rash decision.
look we have an image to maintain
Low bars to clear, high balls to take I gotcha.
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if we're able to move this year we'll probably rent for a year instead of buying a house, for example, as I'm pretty jittery re the possibility of prices tanking etc
more high balls than a pantsless rollercoaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtsNwwg-XTY
You never have enough of either and constantly look at both as another example of somewhere in your life you've failed.
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It's not too bad. Sometimes I think about cashing it all out in pennies and building a swimming pool full of pennies...
I wonder how much that would weigh.....well some quick googling says 181 pennies per pound, so...
Oh that gets heavy fast.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
Yeah, I may just be too eager to get out of here. Waiting an entire six months to a year sounds incredibly unattractive to me, but it may make more sense. I guess I'll see after I've discussed with my dad and my boss.
Worked for Star Citizen!
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This is actually something I wanted to get ahead of if I could, but I realize that's absolutely playing Russian roulette. I'm going to be in a much worse situation to be unemployed for a few months and then just get hired back up after the recession hits than I am before it does, but if the recession hits in the middle of me being unemployed I'm fucked either way. Then I'll probably be waiting things out for even longer.
Yeah but I did this before and it worked.
Can you offer me a bare bones tech demo with a promise of grandiose things later at exorbitant costs?
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We're a dying breed nexus. When we lost Robin a huge hit to our fandom went away.
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Well, your avatar is hot enough :P
the invisible hand of the market beckons to you