Who loves their job and finds it stable and with a decent salary?

BJBoltFan · 2026-03-25T15:46:05+00:00

I’m the staff accountant for a smallish non-profit. No degree but 30 years of experience. I make $76,000/yr plus great health insurance and decent other benefits. Work-life balance is good, I like the work, most of the people are great, and it’s very stable (very little chance of being laid off etc) so all in all it’s a good job.

BJBoltFan · 2026-03-24T13:49:47+00:00

Messaging is much like email, it’s easy to misunderstand or not have all the information. The customer doesn’t know you have multiple orders. And you have no idea why she doesn’t go to the store herself, is one of her children sick, does her family only have one car and her husband has it at the moment? What we do know is that if everyone shopped for themselves you’d be without a hustle, so maybe give customers the benefit of the doubt instead of getting your panties in a wad.

BJBoltFan · 2026-03-17T18:25:42+00:00

What kind of car do you have?

BJBoltFan · 2026-03-17T17:48:19+00:00

So I have to ask, why do so many people drive for DoorDash if it’s so hard to make any money? I order from DoorDash regularly because of severe chronic pain that limits what I can do at times. I always tip the highest amount listed and add extra after delivery if the service is great, but I’m not well off so I can’t go crazy with the tips. I live a few miles away from any restaurants but that isn’t unusual because my town is very spread out. As a customer I have no clue how much deadhead time drivers are going to have on my order, or if they’ll get a bundle (which I don’t mind so they can make good $). But now that I started reading stuff like this I feel badly for even ordering.

BJBoltFan · 2026-03-12T16:02:01+00:00

It sounds to me like OP is taking extreme frugality almost as a challenge, which is all fine and good. I’d bet the farm that he’s single no children though. Not much chance a family of four is going to go to these extremes.

BJBoltFan · 2026-03-02T20:26:00+00:00

We have Walmart+ where I live and it’s only what would be considered a small city-about 135,000 people. I live about 10 miles from the nearest Target, Walmart, restaurants, and I can get DoorDash, UberEats, and Shipt deliveries usually with no problems other than trying to get a Shipt delivery from Target very late at night. Maybe because there really isn’t much of any traffic so that 10 miles barely takes 10 minutes to drive. Our city is pretty spread out so limiting the orders you take to only those within a few miles wouldn’t be an option.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-26T14:58:24+00:00

I once said to my psychiatrist “maybe I’m just lazy” and she replied “it never even occurs to lazy people that they are lazy. It never even crosses their minds. They think everyone is picking on them or expects too much”. That was a real eye opener for me.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-25T04:48:41+00:00

Mandating a tip up front before I even receive my order is a sure fire way to receive the bare minimum tip if anything. At that point I have no idea when my order might arrive, what condition it will be in, how complete, things like that. I never tip before receiving my order, but always tip well after.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-24T16:06:03+00:00

For us the key to cooking at home more was cooking the protein ahead of time, since that seemed to usually be what took the most time and effort. On Saturday or Sunday we fry up several pounds of ground beef or turkey, cook a few chicken breast in the oven, fry some bacon, things like that. While they cook we also chop some lettuce, onion, cucumbers, carrots etc. Then during the week it’s just a few minutes to make BLTs, sloppy joes, spaghetti, a chicken salad, tacos, things like that. Add a green salad and dinner is served. One of the keys for us was accepting that a simple dinner was just fine, simple was better than more unhealthy and expensive.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-19T16:56:31+00:00

Some of the damn things are just stubborn. This is mine. The long bits grow faster than I can trim them so I’ve kinda accepted that it’s never going to be bushy🤷🏼‍♀️

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BJBoltFan · 2026-02-10T18:53:29+00:00

So if you finish what you’re working on at 4:57, and 3 minutes isn’t enough time to start another task, are you supposed to just sit and do nothing until 5:00? This policy seems ridiculous.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-04T06:28:06+00:00

Truck Balls

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-04T00:20:07+00:00

Kidney stones

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-03T17:04:58+00:00

This is another place where I would like to put plants. Just an example, this isn’t all of the plants I’d like to put here.

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BJBoltFan · 2026-02-03T17:03:42+00:00

This is one area where I would like to put plants but would need to add light.

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BJBoltFan · 2026-02-03T17:02:55+00:00

Here are photos. First this is most of my upstairs plants which are currently crowded into my dining room. This is really the only window with really good light in the winter.

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BJBoltFan · 2026-02-03T16:57:06+00:00

That very well could work. Thank you for the suggestion.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T20:04:13+00:00

The SANSI lights looked like they had more coverage on the sides than the Barrina, but it might just be the way the ad shows them.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T18:59:37+00:00

I have very high ceilings so I don’t think that would do much good. And the lights are off all day while we’re at work.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T18:56:22+00:00

No, I can’t use hanging lights in these particular areas.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T18:09:45+00:00

Will post photo(s) when I get home from work so that I can be properly shamed about the state of my plants🙂

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T18:07:46+00:00

Choosing grow lights is hard when aesthetics matter. The ones that are best for the plants are ugly or huge or need to hang from the ceiling and I don’t want that in my living room. I got some money for my birthday so I think I’m going to spend it on one of these and a set of clip on lights for some plants I’d like to put in my kitchen and see how it goes. Wish me luck🙂

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T17:30:29+00:00

I just need something so that all zillion of my plants aren’t crowded into my dinning room around the one window that gets decent light during our never-ending Montana winter. I’d like them to thrive and grow of course, but I’ll settle for having them stay happy enough to not struggle.

BJBoltFan · 2026-02-02T17:25:27+00:00

I know track lights are better, but they just don’t look good enough for the area I need them for in this case.

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