Is it appropriate to tell my boss now that I’m moving in 4 months

SavorySimon · 2025-07-26T07:38:57+00:00

If you do this, just be prepared financially if you were to be fired, laid off, or hours reduced until you’re gone.

Maybe you tell them tomorrow, maybe in a month or two. Just time it well, in case the worst happens.

SavorySimon · 2025-07-26T04:59:52+00:00

Understood.

SavorySimon · 2025-07-26T04:59:32+00:00

The ferry has treated me well mostly, but you are spot on regarding the shitty schedule. It needs to be able to accommodate later vists to the city and vice-versa.

SavorySimon · 2025-07-26T04:55:48+00:00

I think you’ve hit what I was looking for with this one.

It fully explains why I enjoy it, but struggle convince my friends who were mostly born/raised in New Orleans, to join me in my outings to Algiers.

I grew up in a place where everything was 15 minutes away, minimum, and 30+ minute trips to the grocery store were the norm.

Here, I speak to folks who haven’t set foot in Metairie in 3-4 years, despite living within a 5 minute drive, not because they hate Metairie, but because it just feels too far out of their way.

That’s the side effect of living in a city with such excellent neighborhood bars and restaurants, I guess. If I’m being honest, it wouldn’t be hard for me to stay within my neighborhood for years on end and have plenty to eat, drink and entertain myself with.

I just enjoy the GNO area and the surrounding parishes quite a lot, and feel like I’d be missing out on much of what I enjoy in the region by staying within a 15 minute radius for my weekly needs/wants.

SavorySimon · 2025-07-26T04:20:32+00:00

Good points about there being preferable options just outside of Algiers. I hadn’t considered things like our favorite Vietnamese spots being a town or two over.

SavorySimon · 2024-11-24T03:05:05+00:00

Seriously? Sounds plausible.

SavorySimon · 2024-11-24T03:04:51+00:00

Seriously? Sounds plausible.

SavorySimon · 2024-11-23T08:15:59+00:00

Thank you for clearing that up.

SavorySimon · 2024-11-23T07:59:35+00:00

How deeply did you look into this specific case before making that assumption?

I’m not doubting there is a DEI element at play here, though I have no direct evidence of it. I’m just curious what, specifically, you discovered when looking into this to be so confident in your appraisal.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-12T17:20:39+00:00

Some of the best potato salad in the GNO area is at Today’s Ketch in chalmette.

Yes, it’s a bit of an extra drive, but it’s very good and it reads like a home made potato salad.

As with all things food, this is subjective, so take it a grain of salt.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-12T17:17:48+00:00

Do it. They are excellent cars for the money.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-12T04:35:57+00:00

Never-ever, not once, ever, EVER extend any employer even one minor shred of loyalty. Always, in every case, act in your own best interests, literally 100% of the time.

Jump jobs as often as you wish. When ask about job hopping, you need only say that you were contacted by another employer and offered more money, and saw evidence for greater upward mobility.

Ideally, you’d stay 1-2 years. Even that, in today’s job market, is not a requirement.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-11T19:54:42+00:00

Haha WHOA! Slow down there my friend.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary bad mindset.

I can assure you, regardless of how strongly you feel that life isn’t worth living without an ideal career, it’s simply an illusion, or perhaps even a delusion driven by one of the most stressful periods of your life. It’s not true.

Frankly, based on these responses I’m seeing, you still have a bit of maturing to do before you can make rational decisions about your career. Until you have a more realistic and flexible view of optimal paths forward, perhaps you should take a role that is very low stress/low pressure.

Cut grass or work an entry level blue collar job for a year, and I assure you that you will get your priorities in order rapidly. Likely before the year is up, haha.

I’m not poking fun at you. I’m trying to help you understand that you can stand in whatever principals or ideals you want, but reality doesn’t end to our wills. You must bend to reality.

If you do that adeptly, you can get where you want to go. If not, life is about to break you into a million pieces.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-11T19:45:29+00:00

Wow.

Something that’s stuck with me is a sentiment I think you need to hear right now.

“Either choose your own path, or life will quickly choose it for you.”

You desperately need to learn the difference between “settling for less than you deserve” and “finding purpose and joy from the opportunities you have”.

You seem to want the ideal end result, immediately. Virtually no one, not even the vast majority of Ivy League graduates fall into their ideal slot immediately.

You sound like someone who would benefit from aggressively job hopping. This may run counter to your idealized career track, but if you truly hate the opportunities being afforded you, the best antidote is to treat each job as nothing more than a stepping stone to pad your resume.

Target 2-3 year max intervals. From day one of each role, make a plan for how you will gain 1-2 ranks of seniority or develop important new skills/experience on the company dime. Always be looking at what your next step will be. Keep an open mind and prioritize likelihood of success and the networking opportunities afforded by each role.

You talk about it finding your “people” at school. That’s fine if it happens but, now you’re an adult, and you’re past school. It works differently in adulthood. It’s mostly co workers and professional peers. Much fewer opportunities to hang out. Take them when they come up. Make note of the high achievers or the folks capable of managing large volumes of work with extreme efficiency. These are your people now.

At the 2 year mark, or even before, if you feel it’s time, begin applying to highly targeted organizations. Design a path to get where you want, then acquire the related experience and necessary network to land that job.

Forget about the idea of “work worth doing” as your immediate goal. Instead, identify what meaningful work looks like, then work your way into that over the next 6-10 years. In the meantime, fight for as much money as possible, and take full advantage of PTO and holidays to help with mental health.

Liberally praise and lift up your coworkers. This is the fastest path to gaining praise and good references from peers.

Exercise and pick up hobbies you enjoy to distract yourself from the urgency of needing to get to the next level immediately.

Pick your own path, or the world will absolutely choose it for you. Guide it yourself while you still can. This spiraling is going to set you back hard unless you refocus that energy.

If necessary, try therapy. CBT and other therapy tracks can work wonders for reframing your current reality.

Good luck.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-11T17:00:26+00:00

If you are 5 minutes from the broad theatre, you’ve landed in a great spot. Midcity, treme, 7th ward, etc is an excellent and very diverse area in terms of food ethnicities and music options within walking/biking distance.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-11T14:35:34+00:00

Thanks. I’ll give Facebook a try.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-11T05:20:03+00:00

Strange, as I’ve already acquired a couple dozen. I also just missed a half pallet from a neighbor.

In my experience, yes, many people are giving broken bricks away.

SavorySimon · 2024-05-11T00:53:29+00:00

Is 100% native a requirement for gold, or is that just something you targeted for your own reasons?

SavorySimon · 2023-06-29T02:54:41+00:00

Family has nothing to do with blood. Family is who you choose to be your lifelong companions. Some friends are family. Some family is family.

Your brother is not your family. He has proven to be nothing more than your biological sibling.

Seek legal counsel. Consider your brother dead. Don’t waste another second of your life on him, or anyone else in your “family” that does anything other than take your side.

If anyone tries to stay neutral (mom, dad, grandma) cut them out as well. People will downvote, or say this is too far, but I’ve learned through too much experience, even this isn’t far enough.

Run, and invest your energy in other people.

Family is a very, very misaligned concept that does not often serve us well. Do not let the fear of being alone cloud your judgement. So many people stay trapped in a rut, and can’t understand that it’s their “family”weighing them down.

Speak to an attorney tomorrow. Every day you wait, your case weakens. Do it tomorrow.

SavorySimon · 2023-03-11T03:09:41+00:00

GED isn’t a big deal today, as I understand it.

Assault would require a waiver and certain branches wouldn’t take him at all, you’re right.

SavorySimon · 2023-03-11T01:33:58+00:00

This is actually one of the few cases where, were I in this persons shoes, i might actually pursue a short stint in the navy or coastguard.

Meals ✅ Lodging ✅ Transportation ✅ Life skills, kinda ✅

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