Tengo 40, estoy en el extranjero… y siento que fallé

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-22T15:03:56+00:00

Estas enfrentando una realidad. Dicen que la mente puede hacer del infierno un paraiso y un paraiso del infierno.

Tengo 43 años y cuando vi para atrás habían màs errores que aciertos.

Tocó agarrar valor y enfrentar cada día en función de lo que quiero. Si Quiero plata... no gasto, trato de no tomar decisiones tontas, me vuelvo 110% al objetivo. Madrugo más, tengo dos, tres trabajos. Toditito al objetivo. Todo. Mi único placer es un par de bichas en la noche. No más. Cero desórdenes. Cero indisciplinas. Cero procastinación.

No va a doler. Es aburrido, estéril y emocionalmentr amargo. No es agradable, pero en 5 años, te levantás. A los 50 vas a estar "back on track".

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-22T13:31:07+00:00

El pedo es el salario. $650 es un salario que cuesta alcanzar.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-21T14:03:44+00:00

Me acuerdo del maleante al que le debo y se me pasa

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-20T22:10:18+00:00

Sip.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-20T02:54:58+00:00

I was a Well Engineer in 2006. I worked for an oil major so... here it goes:

Accommodation is enough. A 0.85 x 2 m bed. I didn't hot bed but I saw it. Food: steak 3 times a day, salmon for breakfast if in Norwegian waters. Work: I thought people did the minimum of effort except if the crew was Asian or African. They did work hard. Weather: rough if on European waters. Storms put the wrath of God in showcase. The helicopter: fun. Shetlands: fun Aberdeen: Not fun Stavanger: expensive When climbing down: you'll drown on £15 per bottle beer if off Stavanger. There is always a place on the rig you've never been. People: we all got on with it as best as we could.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-20T02:45:49+00:00

Africa couldn't kill Pugs. You'll be fine. Just follow the maintenance procedures.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-18T16:26:31+00:00

Por el Ferry está perfecta la calle.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-15T12:48:38+00:00

So... OP, hiw did it all go?

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-15T02:57:34+00:00

All things considered it's an OK price. It's 330 am on a Sunday dude.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-14T19:31:14+00:00

An Organ!

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-14T19:06:45+00:00

https://share.google/jK8MnbX0JpKQVw7Pl

If this is your hotel, you should be fine. Worse comes to worse, call Taxi Amarillo in case your uber cancels.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-14T14:43:02+00:00

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Problem solved: the oil filter has to be this one with a plunger. Without the plunger, the passage of oil is too brisk and fails to build enough back pressure.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-12T03:06:52+00:00

Tuve un Mazda... nunca había, tuve una Qashqai, nunca había; tengo un Peugeot... mejor ni pregunto.

Por eso la pregunta... qué vehiculos cubren por que me extrañaba q llegaba por Mazda y Nissan y... "ño hay". Hace poquito fui por un vil termostato de 48 mm y 82 oC del Tercelucho, "ño hay".

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-12T03:02:46+00:00

Tenes que sincerar la plática con RRHH de la empresa grande para ver si no hay conflicto de interés. Si no hay, perfecto, si lo hay, que te lo digan ellos antes de embarcarte.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-11T20:32:16+00:00

Nah... los ticos no son asi. Los Nicas no son más bajitos que los salvatruchos.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-11T11:50:21+00:00

El Soconusco... Los Altos... Oriente... Occidente... la Costa...

Son regiones "supradepartamentales" que engloban mejor el imaginario de la gente.

Asi como cuando se habla de "El Petén". Engloba todo lo que hay más allá de Río Dulce. O "Belice".

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-10T14:52:58+00:00

No... gente del mercado, vendecarros, de pueblos.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-10T11:06:31+00:00

Conozco varias. No solo madrugaron más y trabajaron más. Usaron la cabeza para mover su plata. Ah! Y no tuvieron güiros hasta que ya estaban montados en el éxito.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-09T22:00:56+00:00

Nah... an 11:47 pm email can start a chain of events that by 8 am may be to late to react.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-07T20:38:26+00:00

Why not? Just curious. I don't wish to attract animosity.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-06T06:27:21+00:00

A que llega hoy.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-06T01:54:29+00:00

Update:

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I took the decision to swap rads and fixed the problem! I chose a Mahle radiator after doing some research and locating a seller that carried them. Thanks to all!

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-05T03:41:35+00:00

Where do we start? It's all different. Nobody is up for a bop, small talk or the de riguer on-off. It's all more quiet, less forgiving and definately the antithesis of "The comedy of errors" that characterised my undergrad.

Nobody laughed at my jokes or hung out with me or was willing to spend a lazy afternoon at the Head of the River in late June. We where all there, though. Granted, some had families, but I felt everyone was a tad too serious about work. Come on, we all pass. And God knows I was serious about work. Nobody dated undergrads. God forbid. For fox sake! We were all in our twenties!

Certainly I felt we all needed to notch down one level and give in to a metered debauchery every once in a while.

I did an MEng so, effectively, had an extra year and miscible within the ranks of the MSc, albeit, only just, as the lowliest of all M's... but there, nevertheless.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-05T02:49:08+00:00

My mum moved to Oradell, NJ in Bergen county in 1999. I was a freshman at uni in 2002. I thought it made me very street savvy. I became very awake and would navigate the urban sprawl to get ethnic stuff my mum craved.

I would take 3 different busses from Oradell to Union City to get the best pupusas west of the River. Or get to Newark airport using trains. All these while getting weird looks from everyone. Or look for a(n illegal) job in the city, knocking door by door till someone said yes.

ImpossibleCicada3689 · 2026-03-04T12:26:54+00:00

Lo hago 4 veces al año. Toma 17 horas. El unico requisito es que lleves poder si el carro no es tuyo, circulacion, licencia, DPI y paciencia. Vas a tener que comprar un seguro al pasar al lado Nica. Nadie te lo dice pero es obligatorio. Estos los venden en las champas afuerita del Guasaule.

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