At my last interview, I was already making 10k more than their ceiling. I just said “my current salary is x, I’m not looking for a pay raise but could you match it?”. They did! I think it was a one two punch of showing off my worth with having a high salary but also being humble by not asking for more. It also helps to approach it as a matter of fact yes or no question and not as a negotiation.
Accounting is a goddamn mess. There’s lots of mistakes in accounting, finance, banking, etc but we’re supposed to act to outsiders like they never happen. Publicly traded companies (US) get audited every year, but no audit company would give a paying customer a failing grade. New grads are funneled into working for public firms - the 10 or so companies that cater to the world’s audit, tax, and consulting needs. They’re supposed to teach discipline, but in reality they only teach you security theater. You’re worked to the bone until you either burn out or agree to perpetuate the system to keep your job.
And the only reason it continues to work is society’s social contract agreeing that it has to work because we don’t have any other options. All it takes is the rumors that the idea is failing - like in the silicon valley bank run - and we’re all out of luck. With the speed of information these days all it takes is a few minutes for a situation to spiral out of control. It’s bonkers.
I got into accounting because I enjoyed bookkeeping in high school. Now that I’m in it I refuse to work for anything larger than a mid sized, non public company.
Where I live we call it “Minnesota nice”. As a transplant I can’t speak it well, so I have no idea what anyone thinks of me. It’s pretty frustrating.
My mom quit her job and expected me to support her when I was 16. It was like the work and expense of suddenly having a baby - I had to buy her all sorts of food, entertain her, clean up all her messes, etc because she simply didn’t feel like adulting anymore. She had no reason not to work other than the fact that she kept getting fired for being a slacker. I had to drop out of high school to get a job.
At 20 I had enough and moved out without warning - which I could do since our apartment was in her name only (even though I paid the rent!). She immediately broke the lease and moved in with the first guy who would take care of her. She ended up abusing the poor guy while I finally had enough time/money to make a stable life for myself. I cut her out of my life completely after she got bored with her boyfriend and was making jokes bout moving back in with me.
My life is awesome! I went to college while working full time, and eventually graduated. Got a nice career going and have more money than I need. It’s been difficult doing everything alone, but my life is much more stable. I’ll never be homeless again, never have to go without power because someone else drank the money away, never skip meals so someone else can eat, never have to put my life on hold because of someone else’s selfishness. It took a long time to realize how bad my baseline was because she trained me my whole life to enable her. Sometimes I hear through the grapevine about all the lies she spreads about me, but it doesn’t matter since anyone who would take her side isn’t someone I’d want to associate with.
The two big risks with jailbreaking are:
I wouldn’t recommend doing anything that requires your banking or personal info. This device should get its own apple account and if you need to pay for something, use a gift card. Only use jailbroken apps from trusted sources - after all this time, most sources that are malicious for older app versions should be easily identifiable with a little research. There is also iSecureOS which can check if you downloaded something bad or have a third party connected to your device.
The internet itself isn’t a risk, it’s what you do with it. Don’t use your device for general web browsing, don’t use the device outside of your home, don’t use the internet after the device is set up, and use iSecureOS regularly to check the health of your device. As long as it is set up correctly and you’re only using the iPad for one specific project, it should be fine.
If you have questions about how to jailbreak or where you can safely find apps, I’d recommend checking out https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/
Jailbreaking allows full access, so you can sideload and there’s an alternate app store called Cydia. Sometimes jailbreaking instructions will include installing it, or you may need to install it separately. You’ll also need legacy iTunes. I haven’t worked on anything quite that old but there are some YouTube tutorials still floating around.
I don’t think jailbreaking would allow you to upgrade your operating system, but you could download/install apps yourself instead of using the app store. That would allow you to use older apps that meet your system specs.
When I Google “how to jailbreak iPad 1” there’s lots of results. Is it a problem with the operating system being too old?
It’s an older meme, so it’s possible OP just googled a quick template and didn’t realize it wasn’t the original.
US Midwest - the restaurants I visit don’t have iced tea (IF they serve cold tea, it’s the premade kind at the soda fountain). I get a cup of hot water, a single bag of black tea, and sometimes a lemon slice. If there isn’t sugar at the table you have to ask for it.
Oh man, you guys are thinking way too big. Become the CEO of 3 small companies! Abscond with your 3 100k paychecks while working 10 hours a month. You’ll never make the news. Enjoy the easy life.
I know about 5 different people’s names at work. If I meet someone new, I forget someone else’s name.
Cause that’s how brains work.
Me, who’s saving up for a house
If an employee delivering pizza harassed me, they would be fired. They couldn’t be hired at that same pizza place again - they’d have a blacklisted ssn.
If a gig work worker harassed me, they could easily resign up using someone else’s info. In fact, that’s a common method for harassing women - they sign up with a fake woman’s profile so you let your guard down.
At my org, edge for all outlook links rolled out last week. Not only does it not let you use your default browser, half of the screen is taken up with a popup asking to make edge your default every time!
Whoops, based on that prompt I was expecting the topic to be self help books. I will say The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Teens (based on the adult version) changed my life when I was 13. “Begin with the end in mind” is such a simple little phrase, but it applies to EVERYTHING in life.
Basically, picture yourself at the end of the process and figure out the steps you need to take to get there. Work backwards until you get to the beginning, and that’s where you start. I feel like I have more direction in life because I’m working to be the person I see myself as 5 years in the future.
My roommate is big into magic, but he refuses to spend a lot of money on it. He makes counterfeit cards of whatever he wants and gets a deck custom printed for $40. He’s also part of a discord group that makes cool fake cards or changes artwork on existing ones.
They’re not allowed to have the official back but since he uses sleeves no one can tell. He’s really up front about it and talks about how he couldn’t get into the hobby or make the decks he likes if he had to pay for real cards.
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I recently moved to a new area and got a card in the mail telling me my polling place. On election day I showed up and found out three districts use that building.
So I asked the volunteer which district I was in. He asked for my address, then said, “I don’t know where that is”. K thx, buddy. Then he whipped out a 20 year outdated paper map and asked me to find my house. The street wasn’t even there! After finally stepping out of line (and some exasperated groans of relief behind me) I did 15 minutes of frantic googling to find my district. Then I had to go to the back of the line and wait again.
I was lucky I had the day off work for all that nonsense. Most people don’t have that luxury.
It depends on what variant you get. Older strains could become symptomatic up to a week later, newer strains as little as 1-2 days. It’s nearly impossible for the average person to know what strain they have and the older ones are still floating around.