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Date: May 11th, 2024 6:56 PM Author: Burgundy office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654380) |
Date: May 11th, 2024 6:59 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university We are actually entering into a business cycle where it will be pretty easy to get new jobs. So you can just work for 2 years. Take 6 months off. Work for 2 years, take off 6 months. Switching careers is also getting easier. Maybe you won't be as high of an earner on this route, but after you save up a couple million and have it invested what you are making in salary matters less. Just keep working, keep saving something (even $5/day), and doing your thing but not spending more than you make. Never retire. You'll never run out of money on this plan. |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:00 PM Author: Burgundy office The opportunity cost of a resume gap is simply too high (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654389) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:04 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university I'm telling you though, this doesn't matter any more. You're scared because a resume gap was basically a professional killer all the way up to about 2021. Now, nobody cares. Actually, they used to say that for your resume you should only include about 15 years. I'd only include the last 5 years. Nobody cares about ancient history. Also, just save up your first $3m or whatever and then who cares if you only make $80k as long as the job is good? Just find a good job and take it and live off of what you make and let your savings continue to grow. That's the way. Find a way to make it from day to day and enjoy your life. The actual dollar amount you're getting paid matters a lot less if you have $3m+ already saved/invested. |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:05 PM Author: Burgundy office I make low seven figures. Switching to a path where I can make $80k literally costs me million and millions of dollars (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654398) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:07 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university Well are you making low 7 figures at an awesome job that you really like? I have a miserable job and I make like 1/5th or less of what you make. It's a fucking joke. But on the other hand, I could get another job in like 6 weeks if I tried. |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:08 PM Author: Burgundy office No, I don't like it, but paying millions of dollars not to do it would be foolish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654402) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 8:33 PM Author: coiffed flesh cruise ship mad cow disease totally hear you, but at some point you have enough saved up where not being miserable can maybe be considered (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654589) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:21 PM Author: green haunting tattoo menage What's your annual salary? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654443) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:26 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university garbage I make more from investments |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:27 PM Author: green haunting tattoo menage Is it more or less than $200k? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654463) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:28 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university it's garbage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654466) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:15 PM Author: Appetizing mexican Perhaps you could put in that you were being a mother or something. Saw a recent resume like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654419) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:17 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university That would certainly scratch that weird little HR itch for no gaps. It's kind of brilliant too, because most people won't ask you about something like that. They'll just let it slide. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654426) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:18 PM Author: Appetizing mexican It also gives you a diversity bonus imo. Plus possible discrimination lawsuit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654429) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:20 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university That's why you won't get asked about it. I don't know that it gives a diversity boost. You have to be able to check a box for diversity. Just being a mom or a dad checks no boxes. |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:30 PM Author: Appetizing mexican I think it indicates a certain level of maturity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654472) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:18 PM Author: Appetizing mexican WFH is the way out imo. You could be in the jungles of Bali and clock in at night for bed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654428) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:19 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university WFH is better in some ways and worse in some ways. It's hard to onboard in a WFH setting for one thing. |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:19 PM Author: Burgundy office I just want a few weeks without work. Totally impossible until retirement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654434) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:31 PM Author: green haunting tattoo menage Yeah, I take my laptop with my now when i go on vacation so I can get in a few hours at night or when the wife is shopping. I can never ever truly relax (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654476) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:33 PM Author: Appetizing mexican Just get a job where you can do absolutely nothing.
Unless you're in solo practice? |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:38 PM Author: green haunting tattoo menage Solo here. Do-nothing sinecures pay less than I make now and as a straight white Christian male I am anathema to them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654498) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:56 PM Author: Appetizing mexican Why not get a sinecure and just handle a reduced case load with your spare time? Apply some 80/20 to your life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654533) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:34 PM Author: Burgundy office Yeah, it's pathetic. Enjoy the spa, sweetie, I'll catch up on work! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47654487) |
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Date: May 11th, 2024 7:36 PM Author: Domesticated free-loading deer antler university Sometimes that's a good thing, but sometimes you just can't find the will to work hard at something you hate. I don't know the answer in that situation. |
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Date: May 12th, 2024 2:51 PM Author: light multi-colored organic girlfriend We are all in our 30s or 40s by now. You should be self employed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527615&forum_id=2#47655995) |