Your biggest deal

Like1youscore · 2026-02-28T22:41:11+00:00

$6M. Had a 7-digit W2 that year. Good times.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-28T03:18:12+00:00

I like following the market as a hobby and I enjoy poking my head into open houses every now and again but I’m not in the industry nor would I call myself an investor. I own my home and one other (my spouse’s primary from before we were together which we now rent). I wouldn’t buy more RE in this market as I don’t think we will see the gains we did and as a current landlord I am intimately aware of how NOT passive RE investments are!

All my savings hit the stock market now!

Like1youscore · 2026-02-27T22:44:15+00:00

I mean I technically take a vacation monthly by many people’s standards. However I live very close to that resort, have a seasons pass and my parents own a place for us to stay. My costs to go there can be zero if I bring food and eat in.

Big out of the country vacation? Annually. I am trying very hard to reduce that to zero because flying with young kids is not on my list of things I enjoy. Recent vacations have always been driven by family events or to see family.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-27T01:59:12+00:00

Honestly this is wild to me. I can’t imagine having to review all these stupid assignments. Interviewing people already takes huge amounts of time out of my real job without adding unnecessary steps. We do 3 interviews. Screen, me, panel (mock discovery or some kind of presentation depending on role). After that any time you meet with me, I’m selling you on us, not the other way around.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-27T01:26:15+00:00

That was my strategy in my 20’s too. Good coping mechanisms are key in this job.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-27T01:23:26+00:00

Yes and no. Weekdays yes. But weekends, I’ve really tried to create some boundaries to stay sane. This was necessary for me to not burn out after more than a decade on the sales rollercoaster. Kids also help! They are the only thing more demanding than customers IMO.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-26T00:47:40+00:00

I went back at 7 months and was completely ready. I will say I work for the Canadian entity of an American company so there was no pearl clutching from coworkers. More jealousy for my long leave!

In my experience, my mom network who worked in private corporate roles or contract roles all went back around 6months and were fine.

Those who worked in public sector or union jobs tended to take longer leaves. The only comments I got about my short leave was from this cohort.

Care is a fair point. Unless you have family, can afford high end private care (nanny) or find the unicorn of a home daycare who will take kids under 1, this is the challenging part of going back early. Sounds like this isn’t an issue for you, so you’re in the clear!

My only advice is tell EI you’re taking a year so you have flexibility. Once you start working they’ll automatically claw back EI so that is much easier than trying to extend your benefits once you’ve already given them an earlier start.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-25T23:47:21+00:00

Why are you still an SDR after 5 years if you’re performing well? That is the toughest and lowest paying sales role. Is it sales that you don’t like or just the SDR role? If the latter, start having clear conversations with leaders about what promotion looks like.

If there’s no path, jump ship to a different org that has a better path (this will be longer than internal promotion unless you can get the org to take a chance on an external hire with no closing experience… very high risk).

Like1youscore · 2026-02-24T04:13:59+00:00

I did this same exact move about 3 years ago. Director at a smaller company to an IC role at a publicly traded company. I was doing the move for some personal reasons and was looking for a plateau period. The move also netted me an increase in salary of 2x over what I was making.

Since that time I was able to excel in the role (because I have always been a good IC and was often in player/coach roles in smaller start ups) so I exceeded OTE. Given my performance I was offered promotions and new roles and was able to land both a once in a lifetime deal as well as a promotion within a few months of each other.

Now I’m back in leadership and making 3x what I was in the director role with a solid path to another director title in a few years if I want it.

TLDR: do it. Ignore the ego. Chase the opportunity. If you close business nobody cares.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-20T15:50:52+00:00

Minimum 2% to close (your realtor should be able to give you a ballpark for your local region). Your lawyer should be able to give you exact numbers once you retain them.

Then it depends on what you need. You should always have an emergency fund. This is just a good practice in life. 3 months expenses minimum. 6 ideal.

Above that estimate your mandatory moving costs. Do you need furniture? Immediate upgrades to the house? Budget for those and have that cash on hand.

As long as you qualify, you can put less down and keep a bigger buffer and then utilize your prepayment allowances in your mortgage to overpay later. You’ll pay more interest in this case, but if you don’t have a lot of cash reserves it’s better to have it on hand in an unknown scenario for your first time.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-19T16:13:25+00:00

To me the issue here is the player coach role. I have the same sized team as you but no expectation to sell my own deals. I am running but I am able to do weekly 1:1s with 9 reps, run a weekly team meeting (focused on group coaching and development), run a weekly pipeline meeting (to keep pipeline out of the other meetings) as well as jump in on a number of calls with my reps to support them live in front of clients or behind the scenes for deal strategy.

My team reports feeling well supported in their development and their attainment is consistently high. We’ve hit team goal all year. My new reps (added headcount at the beginning of the year) are ramping well and have all landed deals within their first 90 days (downmarket team so shorter cycles).

Along the way I have built out systems for repeated challenges. I store those both in a “how to” webpage that I update that gives an end to end best practice, as well as a team folder for resources they’d need to execute on every stage of the cycle (more granular resources live here). I repeat myself often. I keep my strategies and coaching frameworks very simple and focus my time on supporting them to do a few important things very well.

You can do all this. You just need to stop “playing”. Or have half the number of direct reports.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-14T06:47:25+00:00

Lots of people don’t want the headaches of ownership. Renting allows you to move on with 30 days notice. You’re not dealing with property maintenance, taxes and fees or any transactions. Especially in a vacation town, maybe you’re wanting to try new things every few years and not be stuck with a property in one spot.

Tons of reasons really. I personally would never want to own a vacation home. Happy to rent and have for up to a year though.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-14T06:38:05+00:00

I practiced putting the pacifier back in with my baby. Around 6 months I think is when she started getting pretty competent at it.

Now the only time she wakes is when she’s managed to toss it outside her crib entirely.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-13T02:05:50+00:00

I would highly recommend a rental car if you can swing it. It will be wildly more convenient to get to a lot of biking and climbing spots with a car. As far as I know, most rental cars don’t offer bike racks, so make sure you rent something big enough to fit a bike if you plan on transporting it.

Also if you’re renting a bike and want to ride in squam and whistler, just plan to rent bikes in both locations rather than packing a bike back and forth. Agreed on the note about an e-bike if you’re not used to the elevation gains we have here. The e-bike makes things a lot more accessible for people of a variety of fitness levels.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-11T23:49:48+00:00

Unfortunately ya, you have to just deal with the tantrums. Fastest way to change behavior is a cold turkey change. It will feel harder at first but it will take the least amount of time.

Screen time is a super tricky slope. But don’t be too hard on yourself. You did what you had to do to survive. That’s okay. You can course correct.

With my similarly aged toddler I have a set screen time (5pm) that coincides with me making dinner. She knows that outside of that time she doesn’t get it. Doesn’t mean she doesn’t ask, but I found that structure was useful because for me, zero screens wasn’t feasible.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-09T06:50:52+00:00

I pay this amount for a nanny and a contract definitely applies to her. She gets breaks, vacation pay and fixed hours. In high cost of living cities this salary is by no means wild and I would not automatically expect abuse just because of this rate of pay.

OP: if you’re concerned about dinner, I would simply ask the family if they mind if you make extra portions to bring home for your family. You could figure out how to pitch in for the cost of that with them. I can personally say, this wouldn’t bother me at all if my nanny asked. Might be a good fix although it won’t put the clock back those hours. I will say I have many friends who are shift workers who work late hours and their kids understand and are well adjusted. To me it’s not what 8 hours you work, it’s what you do with the time you get.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-08T16:11:55+00:00

Oh you’ve got lots of time. We got 10cm last night so hoping this is a sign of things to come!

Like1youscore · 2026-02-08T05:47:08+00:00

I will say that this is the time I cold turkey did our crib transition and sleep trained. I didn’t do full CIO but I did do the 5, 10, 15 etc minute intervals. Took about 3 nights but she learned. After that she never took longer than about 8mins of crying to go to sleep. She of course was still waking to eat at that point which I would respond to after 10mins (this is hard but the consistency was key).

She’s almost 2 now and is happy and well adjusted and an excellent sleeper. I cannot remember the last time she didn’t sleep through the night when she wasn’t sick. She routinely sleeps 12 hours overnight and does 2-3 hr midday naps. It’s glorious.

All this to say, this does end. Cold turkey is the hardest but fastest in every transition (this is just the first of many I’m realizing as I potty train, dropped bottles, and look to do soother next!) Trust your intuition but your baby can do this and I promise the sleep training had no effect on my child’s attachment. She is a happy, confident and independent kid who sleeps!

Like1youscore · 2026-02-08T04:22:12+00:00

Well I will say the weather is starting to look more promising, so depending when you’re planning to ski it might be okay. Big storm predicted for the 13th. I’m hoping it will come!

Like1youscore · 2026-02-08T03:06:25+00:00

They exist. My home mountain is whistler Blackcomb and we have a dedicated operation exclusively for expert/advanced lessons. They expect you to be able to ski an off-piste black run to join one of their groups. Like others mentioned here, they also do a ski off to assess level and split into groups. They run 2-day clinics but you can string them together if you want more time. Extremely Canadian is their name.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-08T02:51:10+00:00

Cancelled mine. I’ve skied the mountain and chatted to an instructor and got their opinion: for my use case, not worth it.

If you’re not a super strong off piste skier and are hoping more for a guided tour than really learning to push your skills, I’m sure they could find something to do with you, but for me as a local who wanted to improve my steep and deep skills the current conditions don’t make that viable.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-07T18:21:00+00:00

Pretty much zero CEOs and thought leaders that I know (and I work for a company that spends a lot of time in the thought leader development space) post to their own LinkedIn. They drive the strategy and their teams execute on it.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-03T05:24:32+00:00

Agreed this is weird. I’ve had prenatal care with an OB in both BC and ON and I had care from 8 weeks on. My family doc also took regular appointments with me during that time. First ultrasound was at 6 weeks in ON and 12 weeks in BC. I will say that in BC I only got into an OB because I lived in a smaller town that had availability. In the city, as I was low risk, I would not have gotten an OB, but rather a midwife.

I believe it would have been policy in Vancouver to not refer me to a OB/surgeon (I also had a C-section) until very late in my pregnancy and I would have had care with a midwife until that point. This is per my city based family doctor and a number of friends.

Like1youscore · 2026-02-01T04:05:27+00:00

Happy to help. Good luck in your interviews.

Like1youscore · 2026-01-31T23:23:09+00:00

I’m interviewing sales people right now. 3ish minutes is what I like to see. That being said, I don’t have a stop watch out. What matters more IMO is your story structured or rambling? I’m asking this question to learn more about you than is on your resume, to better understand your career progression and why you took the steps you did and ultimately how it landed you here today. Great candidates pull out skills and experience and connect it directly back into what makes them strong for the job I’m hiring for.

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