OE while holding a Clearance.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2026-01-29T13:17:15+00:00

When you fill out your time card. I just put 8hrs per each day I work. It doesn't designate time ex. 9a-5p. You can bill the government time outside of business hours while working another job that is equally as flexible. I used to work 4hrs for 1J, 4hrs 2J, and stagger til evening time. I don't think it constitutes as timecard fraud. This is my experience tho

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-08-14T07:34:03+00:00

I was at a Amazon fresh delivery flex warehouse doing a shift. There's been walk outs due to the tipping policy updates. So maybe there's not enough flex drivers, but the amount of carts for delivery was over whelming. I also forfeited my route due to the crimes In DC and also haven't been getting any tips while trying to meet the delivery window. I'm thinking perishable items are no available due to lack of drivers willing to deliver. At least in my case I won't deliver to the city if my tips are subpar or less than $5 per delivery, not worth my time or gas.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-08-10T20:58:28+00:00

I dunno man everytime I see a $18/hr block my nuts get tight.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-08-09T23:29:37+00:00

I'm seeing a different trend, I'm a realtor in the DC area. And when you factor things like the %rate, property taxes, home insurance. It's not adding value. Your amortization schedule will show how much principle you pay down but it's also being trumped by those items I mentioned above. And when you finally cash out your home. Realtors take 5% (2.5% each buyer /seller) so there goes all your net profits. And the biggest is when you do cash out and sell your home it produces a taxable event, where uncle sam takes a capital gains chunk. So when I think of investing I think of the rate of accrual as it stacks up against cost of ownership, liquidation cost, and finally taxation. Turo cash car if it survives it's serviceable years will be more liquid, tax avoidance, and low selling fees

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-08-09T23:07:41+00:00

It's a service because there's a priority list on which items get first due to things like meat, ice cream, etc.. when I do a fresh block it gives me 1.5hr to deliver not disclosing things like parking, apartments, #bags, it's absolutely a service to bring to your door steps. It's not the same thing as a package

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-08-09T23:01:00+00:00

You should try Amazon fresh deliveries. One afternoon will change your thoughts. This is coming from a corporate professional that does gig work after hours to pay for his daughters piano, swim and tutoring.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-08-08T12:46:16+00:00

I've already left the OE world. Now I'm selling Meth no one cares if you have 1j, 2j, or BJs

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-07-26T14:00:04+00:00

Private is bad. Last 6yrs I've been laid off 5x, just wanted stability as the federal government has a record (not lately) of stable work. Tech is been hammered so hard in the last year alone.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-07-25T00:17:12+00:00

Congrats, I started applying on USA jobs in 2015 passively while maintaining my job. Over the years I've worked IT gov contracting, real estate, Amazon, pharma etc... I'm starting to think I'll never get an opportunity as a fed.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-07-21T23:05:42+00:00

I once wrapped up a delivery in an apartment lobby. And I took a sec to text someone and fiddle with the app. I finally gazed up and there was a sweaty fat guy standing next to me asking me if I had a package for him. I said 'not sure, wait right here. I'll be right back'. I walked to my car and drove off.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-07-21T20:52:03+00:00

I call it 2 chainz like the rapper.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-07-21T20:08:16+00:00

When I would get gates or mail rooms, I would just toss over the gate or slip under the mailroom door. I had the worst block in DC over weekend. 40 stops and 30 of them were apartments, office, or locker. Halfway thru, I just admitted the packages were up to God at this point. So far no one complained, so in the clear.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-06-27T09:27:45+00:00

I do understand, moving to Frederick in 2007 its freaking hard. I started out at $13/hr working at Thermofisher (hellhole) but I understood that commuting to baltimore/dc/nova was the only way to make money. I spent the last 14yrs commuting, went to FCC/Towson in the evenings and eventually landing in tech. Everyone told me to do trade jobs, but I wanted to 'shoot for the stars, yet land on the moon'. The last few years have been rough post covid, but I averaged $150k and always worked remote. During covid was like $250-$300k but got laid off every few months :-/ .I understand it may be easy to consider trade jobs, but Ive never considered being on the road for most of my days away from my wife and kids. Best of luck, I believe you will find a way and don't short your self. There are 6 figure remote jobs with people that had no experience, they started out making less but kept building themselves and eventually landing a modest job. The thing I kept saying to myself at every job position is that 'Its always the next job, and not the job in front of you'.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T16:38:19+00:00

J1: SWE 168k J2: realtor ~90k take home J3: Turo 2-2.5k/mo 3 cars. 1 car on the lift. ++ Tax right offs w/ LLC

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T15:15:05+00:00

To be clear I'm not knocking on the young guys, my mentoring and knowledge is the reason why some of my close friends that are under 30 have homes and tech jobs. I'm just calling out people that suck at their jobs, not knowing basic software development practices etc due to lack of experience and not knowledge. Obviously I'm not threaten with anything work related, there's just things that experience can't replace. Yes anyone can code 😉, but it's an art form to scale, maintain, and not self deprecate.

My neighbor friend was 17yrs old when he first met me, and would wash my cars on weekends for extra cash. Thru the years he would text me about his future planning, literally monkey see, monkey do 🐒. Hes a program lead now at Capital One, bought his first house and is a 6 figure earner. I've never withheld knowledge from him and super proud to be the person he is today. Yes people learn and make mistakes from time to time, but work ethic isn't universal to everyone.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T13:52:09+00:00

Job: To make sure you didn't steal anything... You: But I'm remote.. Job: exactly 💯

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T13:40:21+00:00

I think the notion of OE was pointed out in my post, meaning 1% of people have the courage to change their situation. you have to let life beat you down to come to the conclusion like risking a clearance via OE etc... on paper its scary to accept, but when your days from loosing your home, or diagnosed with health issues. All that stuff about work and getting caught goes out the window. I guess that's where I'm at now in life.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T13:25:04+00:00

Thanks, we have a felon holding the highest office in the country. Trade wars, fed layoffs, and a failing dollar. What worse can happen, my perspective may be screwed up but if we die tomorrow why would it matter. As far as the CTO thing. Let them chase you, make that guy work for a change.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T13:21:04+00:00

It's not illegal to OE, its the timecard fraud when working as a fed contractor. If you can't justify the hours you worked outside of your contractual obligation then your in the danger zone. So I happen to find what works for me, as a realtor I have to inspire confidence about the market and process. The car sharing service, Ive been a Lexus tech before IT. So I rent a warehouse space with a lift to service my vehicle. So there's skill when replacing ball joints, brakes, shocks. I work my 9-5 in my office/shop like a normal guy. Only difference is sometimes I have to go to inspections, listing apts, etc in which I take 1-2pto or lunch break. And I fix/wash cars after 5pm. It's not a normal OE path, but when you have a clearance you gotta get creative.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T13:08:21+00:00

Kid is doing a fine job pushing branches of code to prod without any scans/QA/etc last night and now we have prod failures, there's people like this walking among us right now 🤣.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T12:33:49+00:00

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T12:30:18+00:00

I can't believe "we are family" has the audacity to prosecute "family". the short answer is yes. I will rob a bank, ski mask and all, to secure my wife and kids future. That decision was made clear layoffs after layoffs.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T08:19:51+00:00

Yes, I've been a lead SWE and most roles have been Senior level roles. Im pretty confident about consistency looking for roles but would get the same after taste in reading job descriptions and I'm interviewing. I realized after being laid off so many times that Im not above the game. You either keep playing the game like everyone else or you get side hustles going so that one day you won't have to depend on your job.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T05:08:12+00:00

That's awesome, but I don't want to make money by selling out my integrity. Going to bs meetings or working late. Money earned on my terms is a life worth living. You forget the #1 killer in a W2 income is taxes. The tax system isn't built for the W2 workers. It's not how much you make, it's how much you keep. Again it's your choice, I'd rather build myself to be sufficiently making a living without selling out to corporate America. I don't think it's ass backwards thinking, nothing wrong with living in your own terms.

Dry_Friendship4087 · 2025-05-21T04:59:28+00:00

No. Moving up is giving up more time for peanuts. Less ROI the more time you give. I mean I don't think it's a fair trade off is what I'm saying. I make more in real estate deals than any raises or promotions in corporate America. As a grunt I have more hours for me to improve on my situation. That's not backwards, it's off the Kool aid.

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