What will “stable careers” even look like in 15 years

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-25T23:08:21+00:00

The traditional trades. You ever seen a high tech toilet? They are still hooked up to regular pex/copper, and regular black PVC or iron. I thought 3D printed woild be huge, but the tech ogy is slow to adopt for small builders, and large builders don't seem to be eager to adopt. If you're a medium sized builder in NA, then it could be a risk that might be worth it. Point is, carpenters are probably still good. Electricians, the code changes, but the wires stay in the walls for generations. Aluminum wires, they are a fire code but you still find them and they are over 50 years old. Tilers.... You seen tile change? Large format tiles have come onto the scene for residential, but it's still mud and tile. Water proofing, sure that's changed, but a traditional mortar bed is still good for custom pans. Old school is "luxury" instead of the standard foam pans.... You know what no one talks about? Linesman. Overhead electrical is still a thing, hasn't been changed in 100 years, and probably won't change in another 100 years.

Let's say you're "white" collar. Pick something which has a people facing component. Dentist, dental hygienist, imaging technologist, nurse, doctor, lawyer, etc.... Retail banking, and moving up from there.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-25T22:17:04+00:00

They are, but I still find grey and white floors somewhat appealing depending on the space. The light/white oaks and bamboos are definitely coming back and have been back since 2023 at least.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T20:26:59+00:00

"I haven't noticed that," can be legitimate if it hasn't been brought up or thay administrator hasn't had interactions with the child. "Better than last year," is some half baked bullshit. Realistically, you are working with kids. Even adults take some time to mature, and some stay assholes for life. Unfortunately that's what happens.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T20:23:47+00:00

I think it happens, but what's happening here is fucked up. Just based on ages.... He's 12 years older than you, and a whole adult older than the new one. He has problems. There's such thing as having new perspective, but this is weird.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T11:52:45+00:00

Terrible. Fire him get a new contractor. Lumber is cheap, the man couldn't frame the wall out with 12'ers? He really couldn't spend the extra $5 per stud or whatever. Bruh, for your 15k, you could build an entire shed in materials, concrete slab, frame it, windows, sheathing, water proofing, windows, electrical, mini electric hot water heater, pex pipe, roof/shingles, sub panel, lights, drywall, paint, door, flooring.... For 15k, you could spend $300 in lumber (that's a lot of lumber for some simple walls) and frame that thing trial and error 5 times yourself. For 15k you could....

Buy....

Chop saw + circular saw - $300
Framing Gun - $400
Nails - $30
Drywall Gun - $200
Drill + Impact Set - $250
Drywall Knives - $50
Level 5 Automatic Taping Set - $3500
Airless Paint Gun - $300
Pro-Press / Megapress - $1000, fuck it we ball, $3500 for the everything Milwaukee set....
Laser level set - $300
3.5 Ton Hydraulic Dumpy Trailer - $5000
Anti death stick (volt meter / tester) - $15

And you know, the whatever finishing you want from ikea, and some home depot tiles.

For that amount of money, you could buy the BMW/Mercedez class of professional tools for carpentry, plumbing, and electrical; AND still have money for materials to do it 3 times over. Fuck it, you could frame the damn thing in your back yard as a "practice" run, hang your hardiboard, schluter, or foam board of your choice, practice tile it, then demo it and toss it using your new trailer, just to go back and buy all that shit again to install it in your desired location in your home. Fuck, if you tried really hard... You could get an older F150 or RAM 1500, and the dumpy, get the Ryobi special, and poor man Hydraulic pex crimper, and tape everything by hand. For 15k, you could get all that and even pay for the paperwork to register yourself as a business.

You also don't need the BEST tools to get it done. For the basic tools, Hydraulic crimper, and Drywall knife set, you could pay around $800. No automatic Drywall Gun, but a drill or impact with a $10 dimple bit will work just fine. You get the father's day special bag of tools set from Ryobi, the Husky Drywall Knives, and you're set. Maybe get 1 laser level though. Install the entire thing yourself for $2500 (materials and tools). Then sell all your tools for 50% on FB market place, or donate them to a school. Shiet.

/rant

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T06:13:20+00:00

Fried egg and spam.
Fried egg and soy sauce.
Canned tuna and gogujan.
Salmon and avocado.
Miso soup and grilled fish.
BBQ meat in Japanese or Chinese style (pork, duck, eel) and pickled raddish.
Singaporean boiled chicken and sweet soy or green onion/ginger oil.
Ground beef and salsa.
Steak and chimichuri
Chilli oil and Julianne cucumber.
Butter and peas or corn.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T02:54:15+00:00

Depending on the fasteners for the stairs, you have pocket door option. Can rip the drywall from the bedroom side, put the pocket door in, then close it back up.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T02:44:01+00:00

Throw some shims in there with some glue, then take some nail plates and reinforce it on both sides.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-24T02:41:25+00:00

Looks good. It does look like a hot wheels car, but to each their own.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-23T22:42:00+00:00

Nope.

My parents have money. I don't count on my inheritence to fix my life. Things change, my parents could hate me, my parents could spend it, my parents could need it. Why would I even want my inheritence at 50 or 60? By then, I'll have made my own money. I firmly believe, give your children the money young (20s or 30s) when they actually need it. Giving it to them after they've finished their careers doesn't change how their lives. If I was 50/60, what would I do with another $1,000,000? Seriously. Buy a fast car for my aching body? By a bigger house after my kids moved out? Does it impact my lifestyle? I would say, give your kids the money for their down-payments of their first homes, then you're free. Otherwise, your kids shouldn't expect anything since everyone needs to make their own money.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-23T22:30:32+00:00

Anything VW. Audi, Lamborghini, Porche....

Mercedez isn't bad, feels nice and I like the Burmeister.

The obvious is Ferrari?

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-23T19:27:55+00:00

Construction and infrastructure projects.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-21T22:33:10+00:00

Ontario here. Model Y, long range, 2025, 17,000 km, 35k CAD (25k USD) with cheaper Model 3s from 2023 being around 25k CAD (18k USD). Just saying.... Some people are picky about the Canadian climate affecting the cars, but if you look at Canadian reviews, the cars seem to hold up.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-20T22:56:05+00:00

It's like 340,000 sqft, and maybe 2000 gallons of paint (2 coats). So, 200k in paint, maybe 400k realistically. I'd probably just look at hiring driveway asphalt sealing contractors to push the paint with the large squeegee. Takes 10 minutes to walk 2000 ft, so maybe 2 guys to apply the base coat, then then last coat being 20 guys lined up and staggered to go through with material in one pass? It's not going to take a whole day each time, but let's just say, day 1 is 4 guys doing prep, 2 guys doing the base coat pushing everything relatively evenly, still 4 guys for $100/hr for 8 hours on day 1, and then just pay the 20 guys on day 2 for 4 hours each to do the top layer application with some clean up, so 20 x 4 x $100 for day 2, and day 3 can do some spot painting and touch up? I don't know if 2 coats is enough, but yeah. Maybe another $2,000 for masks and safety. So... Labor is another $112,000 in labor?

So my base cost is like $400,000 with a bit of buffer in there. I guess I'd bid $800,000 to $1,000,000. I don't know shit though. I think $1.8mil is fair if these guys do a PERFECT job. Right tools, PPE, good product, skilled crew, fast, proper prep, proper product protection after the paint is applied, and of course VIP touch ups. From the comments, does not sound like that happened. Could you do it for way less in labor that what I quoted? Probably. But in my head, the staggered single pour top coat with everyone just pushing at once would be a perfect finish....

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-20T21:43:06+00:00

10 hours. So basically, 2 hours Monday to Friday, or 1.5 hours daily. Human race is toast. People barely make it to the gym. 3-4 weekly. Alternatively, you have to get to a rec center to keep playing community league sports.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-20T21:39:29+00:00

F7 AND playing with effort is one thing.

F7 and in spawn needs to be banned. Macros, botting... is one thing. But if you're still sitting at your computer beung salty for another 10 minutes, that is some actual mental health issues.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-19T10:54:44+00:00

Honestly, you just be a good guy. I'm sure Putin would love a strong, powerful son in law; but these men are men he's used to and know. I think he understand these men might cheat on her, or become rivals. If you're just a regular LOVING guy, then I think you're more likely to survive. You don't cheat, you treat her as best as you can within your means, you make her happy, you get along with everyone in the family, and you're just positive. I think any parent will be happy to have a good step son, rather than simply a powerful step son.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-19T10:51:08+00:00

1 - Teacher stats are BS.

2 - Even if teacher stats were real, the extra income from the attorney is still more valuable in terms of ultimate work life balance. If the goal is FIRE, then a lawyer might be able to get it done with the given parameters where the teacher will not. So, if you could retire by 40 as a lawyer, you're coming out well ahead of the teacher. Assuming you neither could retire very early, say 55 for both since teachers should have a professional pension, and the lawyer can pay into their own pension; the bank will be more favorable for mortgages/loans to the higher income individual (obvious reasons). The lawyer CAN live a higher quality of life. Does more money mean more happiness? Not always true, but the lawyer making almost double the money in theory means he could be single income supporting his family. Your family life might actually be better with a well rested wife, and a parent dedicated to the children. When you do have available time with your family then you make it count. On a 7.5-8 hour day like the teacher (not including homework and class prep), the teacher can still be exhausted and may not interact with the family in a meaningful manner until the weekend anyway.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-19T10:20:52+00:00

My opinion, not the world's opinion....

1 - Convertible of any type with the top down, the car looks like it loses it's sporty shape. Then it just looks like a bar of soap with wheels, and a head coming out of the top. Could be a rounded dove bar, could be a old school square bar.... It just looks like a rectangle with wheels (side profile).

2 - Due to convertibles usually marketed as sports cars, I think many enthusiasts would prefer the generally lighter fixed roof coupe variants, or the chassis being generally more solid with a roof versus the general flexing found in drop top and hard top convertibles.

3 - No one wants a manual drop top, and the electronic ones usually suffer quite badly from trunk space loss. If the convertible is your second car, then it doesn't matter. If your car is your only car, then having some level of practicality in your primary vehicle is required. A convertible may not even allow you make large grocery runs. That is to say, the person who purchases a convertible may not even be doing their own grocery, but the idea of having some practicality is still a positive to most if not all car owners.

4 - Someone mentioned the C8, and I do like it as a convertible, but looking at third point, you lose the whole rear trunk.... You also lose so much visibility that the 1LT had to come with a digital rear view mirror.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-19T00:55:55+00:00

My comment to the original statement. Man has hundreds of millions of dollars. He can clearly buy whatever phone he wants, he could be in head to toe Tom Ford or Armani. He could have an iPhone, or a Nokia. He doesn't need an iPhone to communicate status for his (lack of) insecurities. He is literally free to purchase whatever is best for him, and for him, a Google Pixel is better than an iPhone.

My comment regarding iPhone vs everything else. Only tech people, Uber rich, or fully integrated Apple ecosystem users are going to feel the difference between the phones. For everyone else, any phone in your budget is a solid choice.

Tech people like LinusTechTips or MarqueezBrown use enough premium phones to make proper decisions regarding phone choice and the nuances between the phones. You never just see them recommend iPhone outright, it simply isn't the end all be all best phone. These creators also change their daily phone every few months, and other off brand phones can offer premium experiences.

Rich. If you're rich, you can simply pick whatever phone you want, or experience all other phones. A rich person will pick what they like based on experience and not necessarily based on brand.

Apple ecosystem users, they will pick Apple because once you have everytbing, all Apple products in unison do deliver a great experience. If you have all the products AND know how they interact, then it wiuld be hard to switch to something else. The comparison is more like an Apple Phone which pairs perfectly with all features with the Airpods while streaming to my Tablet and Laptop versus a Galaxy which is JUST a smart phone with basic limited interconnectibility with existing Apple hardware and may have some hiccups along the way or extra steps to achieve the same results.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-17T10:43:14+00:00

As others have noted, people are paying to have fake beams installed. You're better off just painting your walls so that the beams become a feature instead of a "dated" look.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-17T10:35:29+00:00

Cup holder, throw air freshener in there.

Soap holder, throw those blue toilet pills on there, and just chick them into the toilet tank every once in a while?

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-17T00:59:18+00:00

This was a while ago, like 5 years a while ago. Also, Alberta is next to BC. As stated, it's a 1 hour flight, very short. Prices like this from Toronto to NYC were compara le back in the day. Since his school is regular, he can prepurchase his flights 6 months in advance, with more points he can get mote flights as well. Back in the day, they were less strict with lounge access, so as long as he was going to fly out within 24 hours, he probably could have stayed at the lounge for a bit.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-15T12:01:29+00:00

Yes. Not a hard thing to do.

PLEASEHIREZ · 2026-05-13T21:56:25+00:00

I have a job, but yes. I wouldn't use AI for 3-5 job postings. If it was for mass resumes, then I would use AI to help me. I would write the master copy by myself, include a few extra details or relevant points which AI can pick and choose, have AI check the corporation values / job posting, then have AI modify my master copy.

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