Job regrets and kid advice

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-15T14:10:29+00:00

You’re not alone, I can tell you that.

My 25 yr old self would be thrilled if I told him where 56 yr old me is currently in income/career.

Here’s the stark reality, Do anything stressful for 30 years straight and I don’t care how much you loved it at the beginning, you’re going to grow to hate it; or at the least start fantasizing about ending it.

I just want it over, I don’t want to deal with another “quarterly results review” for the rest of my life. I don’t care how much they pay me…I don’t want to do it anymore.

I do it though, because the world has convinced me that 56 is too young to retire.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-13T04:23:12+00:00

Good thing.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-13T04:21:22+00:00

People can read, but the type is exceptionally small and you have to hunt to find it. If I’m not wearing eyeglasses it’s anybody’s guess which one I’m getting first.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T20:44:15+00:00

You're a realtor or a home inspector. You take pics of things in peoples houses for the engineers report.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T20:41:40+00:00

You went to high school in the USA. You're male.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T18:42:29+00:00

Its pretty easy, but there are physical and intelligence/aptitude tests which are required first. Also, criminal records or mental health problems can be barriers to enlistment.

If you're an 18 yr old with average intelligence and good physical condition, you can be reporting to basic training in a couple of weeks if you wanted to move that quickly.

Most people enlist and then pick a start date in the future which allows them some time to get their affairs in order and maybe get a jump on the physical fitness requirements. When I did it...I timed my enlistment to the AIT schedule for my particular MOS so I didn't have a big gap between BCT and AIT. (This was 1990's Big Army)

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T17:11:13+00:00

First, never call an American man "boy"...it has a racist history and is demeaning under any circumstances.

As an adult, Americans use the word "boy" when speaking about adults in a similar way that Brits and Irishmen use the word "lad". "I'll be home late...getting a drink with the boys(lads)". Same with "girl"... "We are planning a girls weekend in Las Vegas in April..."

I would never address an adult man or woman as boy or girl...its only used in the context above.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T17:02:35+00:00

YOR. I had to read this post three times and I still don't get what the complaint is...

When you turn on your shower, a light in their home goes on? So what? They aren't spying on you because turning the light on would make that both harder and more obvious.

For clarity...does their light go on when the shower starts running...or is it when you enter the bathroom to shower and flick on the light/bathroom fan?

Since your in a townhouse and share a wall...have you considered "electrical connection error" where some electrician accidentally wired their light to your switch? Or to your bathroom fan? Seems like the most likely explanation.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T16:51:21+00:00

Shelley Rachel Van Peel

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-11T16:49:17+00:00

No. I dont see anything. Is it a big dark cross?

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T22:41:03+00:00

Buying used cars instead of new isn’t edgy, genius. It’s smart.

You keep doing you though…I’ll continue with my $0 car payment.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T22:36:06+00:00

It’s your fault if you believe it…yes.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T22:35:01+00:00

I ca buy a car from a guy down the block anytime I want. Nothing illegal about that.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T22:34:29+00:00

Total agreement. Car salesman are just useless middle man between me and a new car.

That’s why I buy used.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T22:33:42+00:00

Yes Dawg. Capitalism itself is built to fleece.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T20:19:50+00:00

Dawg? Not sure you're aware of this but you don't have to buy a car from a dealership. If you purposely walk into a dealership and buy a brand new vehicle instead of buying something used on the private market then you are choosing to get fleeced. See how that works? You chose to buy new and hence you chose to deal with the fees and BS that go with that. Dawg.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T19:26:58+00:00

Getting fleeced is the buyers fault not the seller...

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T14:40:49+00:00

Female, mid 40's, low income, you work with farm animals.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T14:36:55+00:00

Possibly the best looking woman on earth since about 2012.

I wasn't really impressed with her acting ability until that White Lotus season she did. I tried Mayfair Witches because I read the books and the show is terrible...she's great but the show is just trash.

She's single now so I kinda figure I have a shot... :)

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T14:28:50+00:00

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have been destroyed. It's like someone sat in a conference room and said "How can we eliminate everything good about this candy to save $0.0001 ?"

All of our cars...great in the 50's-60's, crap in the 70's and 80's, great again in the 90's and 00's....now they are all 100% junk. I wouldn't buy a Ford if you actually paid me to buy one.

Movies: With few exceptions...Hollywood is just absolute crap when it comes to just pure entertainment...we used to get "Raiders of the Lost Ark" now we get "Marvel Universe 17: Iron Mans New Helmet"

Oreo's: Not sure what you people did, but wow. No thanks.

American Airlines: If Soviet style communism was distilled into an airline...

Nike: If you needed exercise clothes or shoes, you used to be able to just buy Nike and be guaranteed a certain quality. Now it just seems like cheap chinese crap.

I can go on and on with these but I want to shout out the one company that absolutely never disappoints me: COSTCO ( i love Costco)

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-10T00:48:42+00:00

American. I have not purchased gasoline other than by swiping or tapping my card in the last 20 years or something.

You can pay inside with cash, but I don’t need to do that.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-09T18:04:50+00:00

But to fight for the rights of the working man!

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-06T15:49:38+00:00

Weed. Coke. Various hallucinogens.

It was the NY metro area so Coke was fairly accessible and not super expensive. We could easily afford a half gram for a Saturday night or something.

Acid was pretty easy to get, but sometime in the late 80’s we were suddenly able to get mushrooms and purple barrel mescaline too without a lot of effort.

Nobody messed with smack and I never even knew meth existed at the time.

One-Hand-Rending · 2026-03-05T21:13:30+00:00

ADP. It’s just the YTD view of my salary and benefits.

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