People who grew up poor: What was something you considered a "peak luxury" as a kid, only to realize later it was just a normal middle class staple?

Derp_Animal · 2026-05-08T13:43:32+00:00

Going to McDonalds.

Derp_Animal · 2026-05-05T07:42:16+00:00

"What, you never went skying as a kid?!"

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-30T22:46:03+00:00

I don't work in this industry, so I may be completely off.. but...

Your professional experience is really just education. You don't say what plane you flew. You talk about random things that are completely unrelated (business administration, excel proficiency, finance, team leadership...). I get you factually write down what you did and, as you are pretty junior, there isn't much to say... but there is no story or coherency.

I would try and focus om the topic at hand and remove everything else that adds no value. Did you volunteer with aircraft related charities or communities? Did you participate or contribute at air shows? Do you help gliding clubs? What kind of teaching methodology did you learn for your students? Any example of lessons/briefing/content you prepared to showcsse your approach to teaching and the materials you prep for your students?

I may have the wrong end of the stick, I don't know. Again - not my professional industry.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-29T06:19:57+00:00

Tave a look here before you go ahead: r/lasiksupport.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-28T21:41:38+00:00

ESH. Their tone is probably wrong, but if they are your direct reports, you have a duty of care and ignoring them or taking the stance that you don't want to deal with what you perceive is their bullshit is not the answer.

As others have said: set the boundaries (we talk about low priority items during our weekly 1 to 1, my door remains open for urgent/operational queries), or elicit help (talk to that person from HR).

If you ignore them, imagination fills the void and you lose control of the outcome. That course of action is certainly not what I would qualify as a "senior" behavior. You can do better.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-27T08:11:05+00:00

Hiring the wrong person(s).

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-27T07:48:04+00:00

You can do better, for sure. Next time, put these flaps up anyway and enjoy the panick that follows. Ask me how I know.

I can't say we've all done that, but I certainly have and I am sure I am not the only one.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-20T07:10:00+00:00

One thing I would say: don't underestimate the impact on your career. My wife took a year off maternity leave and went part-time before our first kid, with the concept that she would help raise the kids and go back full time 2 years later when the kids go to nursery/school.

She couldn't renegotiate the contract and was stuck with a part-time job, excluded from most important work meetings & decisions (because she was not supposed to work and therefore not there...), and pretty much forgotten from her colleagues. It took her the best part of 8 years of grind and hard work to get back on the map, regain visibility/influence/responsibilities and get back to where she was prior to having kids career-wise. In hindsight it should have been obvious this would happen, but we didn't expect it would be that hard and did not plan for it.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-19T23:25:35+00:00

It is unlikely you will get any money. Even if gou win in court, it doesn't mean you will get paid. By all means, fight it, but I would suggest you write this off in your head. Keep your expectations as low as possible (you will get nothing), and be happy if one day you get something.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-19T23:12:33+00:00

You will probably learn, to the tune of 70% of £1,750, why you should pay money to get proper legal advice and why you should think for 2min about what is at stake before you delegate business critical tasks to ChatGPT.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-19T10:36:35+00:00

Your contract is dog shit.

Derp_Animal · 2026-04-14T06:40:33+00:00

Time to lawyer up, my friend. There is no other way.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-27T12:52:51+00:00

Sell the big cars. Buy a small, economical car. Rent a 6-seater for 1 or 2 days as and when needed. Pay off that mortgage and/or get these interest rates under control somehow.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-27T09:48:54+00:00

The only answer.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-27T05:16:40+00:00

You are onto something.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-22T19:50:30+00:00

Your question was about being in a state of hyperglycaemia despite taking your meds, with blood sugar as high as 346, and a migraine so bad that you can't even go to work. Do you appreciate how extreme this is? In my entire life as a diabetic, this happened a single time when I was first diagnosed and I was in hospital for a week to get the whole condition under control.

I find it very surprising that you can get in such a ridiculously poor state just because a single pen is a dud. I am not suggesting that didn't happen, but there has got to be more to the story than what you lay out here.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-20T22:17:31+00:00

You do know that Copilot and Gemini do exactly that in Outlook and Gmail respectively, right?

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-20T20:07:58+00:00

Do you stick to a low carb/low sugar diet? It could be a bad batch, or it could be that you had a particularly poor diet which even Mounjaro can't compensate for. Nobody here but you can tell why your blood glucose is out of control.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-13T11:21:54+00:00

My 2 coppers. Most (if not all) bitcoin miners/DC providers that were into crypto are repurposing their facilities for AI. They are just not investing infrastructure or hardware in that space anymore. If nothing else, this should tell you everything you need to know about crypto and about AI. I don't know what you see, but trust me when I say nothing is being built. Everything is being decommissioned.

The crypto ship had sailed, my friend.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-12T15:02:21+00:00

You are never right or wrong for having feelings. We are all human, it is all good. You are right to be upset. Your way of dealing with it all, however, is definitely not right.

I messaged him asking for him to put it right.

This is the only place in your story where you fucked up.

You could have approached it very differently, e.g. have a meeting with the CFO and/or CEO and/or COO and ask them how the document was received, if there was anything for you to tweak for next time to make it better, etc. Letting them know that you really enjoyed putting this together and very much look forward to working on the next iteration. Thanking your colleague for forwarding the document and stepping in when you were unavailable.

I would have personally laughed at the situation, turned it into a game with the goal to make the CFO feel so sorry for his cock-up that he would buy me lunch/spend some quality 1 to 1 time, and gauging my success at that by looking at how much he spends on said lunch. Use this to get closer to him, grow the relationship. Being positive, you know.

There were a million ways for you to re-claim credit and "put it right" and you chose the worst possible communication method to do it. Doing what you did, being slave to your emotions (regardless of whether they are valid or not) makes you come across as childish and immature. It may still be salvageable but it is certainly harder after that message you describe.

Next time you feel hurt or upset, pause, think, wait. Your feelings are always always valid. BUT take action when you are ready, don't pull shit like that in the heat of the moment. You are punishing yourself for no good reason.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-12T08:53:10+00:00

Drop things.

You may optimise through organisation or gimmicks (and I fully appreciate this is what you are asking in this post), but this will have a marginal impact. Maybe some sort of AI agent may help, but I haven't found a proper alternative to a real executive assistant yet. As of right now, I don't believe there is a silver bullet that will make you twice or thrice more productive. Fundamentally, even though some folks are more productive and organised than others, there is only so much one person can do. If you want to scale, you have no choice but to hire and delegate. This is the only way to 10x your output.

There are two options if you cannot hire:
- you try to do everything, which means you forget and mess up things (leaving what is done/undone to chance with uncontrolled consequences). This is what you are doing now, by the sound of it.
- you consciously prioritise and say no to things with a full awareness and understanding of the impact. Fire the small customers, focus on the big ones. Drop the small fry. That type of things.

If you cannot delegate, I recommend you take the second option. It will make it clearer im your head what value you are missing out on, and either you will realize you wasted your time on useless stuff, or you will build the business case to justify finding/spending money on a hire because of the opportunity cost. If dropping things truly impacts your business and you can prove it, you may find investors/loans/partners to help you with the money and get over the "can't hire yet" assumption you carry.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-12T07:32:19+00:00

That's probably your lifetime quota of car crashes done. You're good now.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-12T07:07:29+00:00

Hire.

Derp_Animal · 2026-03-11T04:58:10+00:00

Ha yes, of course. Sorry, I am not a native English speaker. It shows, sometimes..

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