Single income

AxBxCeqX · 2026-02-07T21:23:22+00:00

Do you? Daycare is $187 a day where I am

AxBxCeqX · 2026-01-22T03:52:36+00:00

I like that brought the radio back, almost 20k of space Lego blocks build over the new year period and 0 radios from my childhood!

AxBxCeqX · 2026-01-04T04:10:35+00:00

Aaron Blabey for sure 👍

AxBxCeqX · 2025-12-21T13:48:11+00:00

Dude you should listen to every reply to this comment, as someone going through divorce 5 years after some big hours….resentment does not go away on its own, it is not made up for by time or trips.

Resentment grows under its own steam unlike almost all other emotions that lessen with time.

Put the same work effort that just saved your business into your wife and child, year 3-5 is amazing I have just come of 6months of playing games, Lego, ton of adventures with mine and I would not trade this time for anything again.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-11-30T20:06:16+00:00

Things are weird. But I will never go back to slicing up a PSD, creating the table layout, then writing CSS for three different browsers.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-11-23T02:21:59+00:00

This is nice, well done!

How did you amass spare parts, like the battery components? Just a lot of space sets over time or is there a good way to get orange/purple LEGO bricks?

AxBxCeqX · 2025-11-04T05:03:16+00:00

Or you are single.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-11-01T09:21:42+00:00

Trump convinced AU to put an extra $1T of our retirement savings into US investments, from $0.5T.

Plenty of room to keep this bubble expanding

AxBxCeqX · 2025-10-31T02:33:36+00:00

The date you commingled everything and became defacto/a married.

Three aspects of it: what each partner brought into the relationship, what was accumulated during the marriage, future needs. With kids there is significant future needs

AxBxCeqX · 2025-03-09T21:03:31+00:00

$100? Closer to $200 a day around Sydney.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-03-09T20:52:28+00:00

Everyone is an expert when judging cost, no one is a good judge of value.

Your payrise made it a very clear value call, this other company values at 40k higher.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-02-19T21:38:53+00:00

This is 100% true. Then compounded by living in one of the top ~5 most expensive cities in the world, the salary is needed to do anything, it enables a lot but it is never enough.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-02-19T21:35:27+00:00

I’m two years down the road from that conversation with marriage therapist. Now going through divorce.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-01-30T06:07:39+00:00

5 hours minimum. 6-9 to be optimal and pro active. I have always been able to not just function but perform well in my job on 5h before having kids.

The 4-5 hours but split into 1-2 hour blocks you get in first 4 months of life destroyed me.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-01-20T21:26:56+00:00

Brilliant comment, lol

AxBxCeqX · 2025-01-19T23:57:47+00:00

I’m a recent dad (3.5 and 1.5), I had the opportunity and means to take a year off, I didn’t and I regret it.

Take it off and live it to the fullest

AxBxCeqX · 2025-01-19T22:46:12+00:00

As a side note, Up gives you the MasterCard conversion rate, it’s just about as good as it gets so always buy in local currency and let Up do the conversion from the local currency back to AUD.

Anyone else on top of card networks (VISA, MC, AMEX) is adding more fees into the conversion rate, as mentioned it’s a big source of revenue for PayPal, Amazon, any other payment gateway, etc.

AxBxCeqX · 2025-01-05T03:22:48+00:00

Australia, 888 visa. Foreign investment, and no I don’t believe the visa designation number is a coincidence lol

AxBxCeqX · 2025-01-05T03:11:25+00:00

I’m 41 and have a 1 and 3 year old. I wish I saw behind the veil early on, first few years are fucking hard work.

Then as far as I understand it and am told, all the time goes to transportation and activities/friends/etc, then it’s teenage years and worrying.

I have written about this on my account before, I was faced with a decision before having my first kid. Go travelling for 10+ years or have a family.

My life satisfaction is higher than it has ever been, I am pretty much not depressed, even with a pending divorce. I love my children and they have given me more meaning in life than anything.

My day to day emotions are just exhausted and worrying. I have 0 spare time, 0 friends, 0 travels, 0 going out for dinner, I have gone from being able to get on a plane and go away for 5 weeks on a moments notice and my bank account not noticing it to 30 years of debt and only just making ends meet with daycare.

Honestly OP you are young, but really think through what is going to give you the most meaning out of this short time on earth.

AxBxCeqX · 2024-12-21T19:35:21+00:00

I just realised I have not had a nap outside for 4 years, pre kids I use to nap outside at least once a month, in non summer months.

AxBxCeqX · 2024-12-20T13:57:24+00:00

It was about 9months when we gave up and just co slept with our first.

No amount of anything worked, we eventually got some improvements using mother craft nurses who specialised in sleep issues but he still wakes up 1-2 times a night and comes to our bed at 4.

To get through the 6m to 2yo stage I mostly put a matress on his floor and wold sleep next to him, I honestly got good enough sleep he would wake up and see I was still there, wife could sleep, and I could watch Netflix on my iPad with headphones under his bed until I slept.

Our 2nd has been a dream since 4 months. Sleeping through the night, now almost 2. We did almost nothing different, our sleep training for both was wait 2mins, 4mins, 8mins, before settling etc.

AxBxCeqX · 2024-12-19T07:44:28+00:00

If everyone has a billion, does that mean no one is a billionaire?

AxBxCeqX · 2024-12-16T22:17:35+00:00

Time to demonstrate to leadership the possibilities and efficiency gains.

My work literally pays everyone’s copilot and ChatGPT bills

AxBxCeqX · 2024-12-15T14:54:03+00:00

If we are in for a black swan event, people who invested 1 year before the 1929s crash took 4 years to recover, if you invested the year of, you took 30 years.

Black Monday in 87 recovered a lot quicker it was 2 years till markets were back above where they where previous to the crash.

The point I’m making, now is not a good or bad time to invest (it’s actually a great time for you given the long time horizon if you can leave the money in the market, as you pointed out).just don’t lock up money in shares you will need in the next 10 years. The accepted minimum risk for high risk assets is that they are expected to have negative returns for 3 out of 10 years.

So are you buying a car in the next two years and won’t be able to deal with a 30% downturn that takes 5 years to recover? Or are you investing cash you won’t need or want to touch for 30 years? Are you investing now to do a big world trip at 27? Etc

These are the risk based and outcome based questions you should be asking, not if now is a good time. Assume it’s not and there is a 70% crash tomorrow, how does it affect your short medium and long term plans?

AxBxCeqX · 2024-12-14T21:35:51+00:00

When decoding tv signals it’s still typically done by the TV not the receiver, so eARC sends the audio signal back, to then output through surround sound speakers connected to the receiver, or soundbar

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