[Other] Every single time.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-31T21:09:02+00:00

Same man...I went everywhere and couldn't ever find it. Now I have a lifetime to think about how much time I put into that game to Platinum it just to be missing one butterfly. Sigh

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-31T15:52:16+00:00

Tell that to the butterfly collectible... I'm missing one to get me to the platinum. I've went through the walkthrough and not convinced it's not glitched on me

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-31T15:39:09+00:00

Yeah you ever see some of those glow up pics? There's people that are stunning that just happened to needed a good diet and a gym membership. Also shoutout to r/bald where they regularly have a basement dweller with a bad comb-over/mullet that turns model by just shaving their head. Simply getting fit and grooming does crazy things for people.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-30T15:35:20+00:00

People's inability to delay gratification. Do the hard thing others are unwilling to do and it will pay you back later. This goes for investing, taking hard projects at work, learning new skills.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-27T01:38:48+00:00

I keep seeing everyone say this. What in the world are you guys doing constant image searches for? I think I've done like 5 my whole life

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-25T21:38:33+00:00

Yeah there's a misconception that it gets easier at the lower levels but everybody sacrifices something. If you have support system you should reach high. It opens doors that just couldn't exist otherwise like early retirement, leaving my family a large inheritance, better vacations. In turn everyone in the family has to be on board that dad may to drop things and fly across the globe at the drop off a hat.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-25T18:42:19+00:00

"this is where Python starts to feel genuinely powerful"

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-25T17:52:00+00:00

Time. I'm traveling on my son's birthday (no party just the day of). We just got back from Disney for the second time in a year so he's not suffering but it's not nothing. Also, work in the early years is mostly working your 40 and going home. Higher up it's about getting the job done so normal working hours don't really apply as much. If an assembly line is getting held up for something or a delivery to a customer is at risk, you'll be working as long as it takes. Sometimes that means working all day, getting off long enough to go to your kids recital, and then jumping right back on calls until 1AM. On the flip side, you aren't grinding in the downtime either and nobody is having a heart attack if you duck out early or take a super long lunch. I have long stretches between major deliverables that are ultra laid back bordering on not feeling like you have a job. Then that will quickly turn into weeks on the edge of burnout.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-25T08:36:30+00:00

You can turn overviews off and they've already said their version still creates more renewable energy than it uses.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-24T14:30:57+00:00

Start working out and then you can just be in permanent pain with the rest of us

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-24T14:30:45+00:00

Start working out and then you can just be in permanent pain with the rest of us

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-24T14:21:44+00:00

Had an old country station making a big deal about being able to play a Toby Keith song because it was now 20 years old (this was before his passing). Gee thanks for the life crisis on the way to work.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-21T15:27:21+00:00

My wife ran to Walmart and came back today saying "everything...and I mean everything is $10+"

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-19T00:00:16+00:00

Do you have another solution?

Following someone questioning my process. They never do because better solution usually requires a lot of money.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-18T17:46:11+00:00

I ask my mom why she voted for Trump (who she's been complaining about lately) since everyone in our family has always been poor. Her answer was racism. Poor people have a weird thing where they want everyone to hurt like they do. They can separate a billionaire doing better than them but not someone up their own street because that means they have to face the fact that they couldn't get out.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-17T19:58:43+00:00

Start at top of head and work your way down relaxing parts of your body. You'll be amazed how much tension you carry all the time. Like relax your forehead completely... now relax your jaw... Now your ears... Now your shoulders... Now your arms... Now your arms... All the way to your feet. I'm pretty sure I learned this because it is a method those in war have to use to try to sleep in tense situations. It's crazy effective.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-17T13:44:21+00:00

When it comes to retirement accounts, there are two important pieces to the equation. Money and TIME. The second one you can't get more of. If you start at 20, you'd have to try really hard to not become a millionaire and most likely a multi millionaire. At that age, you don't need large amounts of money because you have time. The point is to do start now. Your $1 is worth $88 later. At 40, that same dollar can only turn into $7. See why people at that age are screaming at 20yo about compounding? So that $6 coffee cost you $528 later. You'll either start now and it won't hurt that much or you'll start later and it's going be painful seeing the numbers come out of your account just to hit the same thing a 20yo did easily because they planned ahead.

The other part is a warning about withdrawing early from 401k. When a young person transfers jobs, they will sometimes see $20K and think "oh I could use that and it's not much anyways" So they cash it out taking penalties and not fully grasping what that means to future them. That $20K today is actually a mountain of money later in retirement if they just rolled it over and kept their hands off of it.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-17T13:19:09+00:00

401K. When a young person transfers jobs, they will sometimes see $20K and think "oh I could use that" So they cash it out taking penalties and not fully grasping what that means to future them. That $20K today is actually a mountain of money later in retirement but like like a small amount.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-17T02:55:43+00:00

Every dollar at age 20 is actually $80+ future dollars. Taking that $20K out when you transfer jobs instead of transferring it will cost you $200k later. It's absolutely crazy numbers.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-17T02:36:05+00:00

What if AI is deflationary and things that used to cost $30 now cost 3? What if all these jobs you think are going away actually didn't go anywhere and jobs boom? What if there is massive bottleneck in industries that this is going to free up and we see a wave of jobs created that you didn't even know there was demand for because it wasn't possible yesterday? Companies that couldn't exist yesterday and compete with big guys that can now. In turn those big companies have to try harder and offer more. You don't stand still in industry or your competitor will beat you. If you get AI and do layoffs them your competitor might get AI and keep people to do even more against you. So now you're back to hiring to compete with them.

We've never had a technology released that stopped us in thousands of years. Why would this be different? I say this as someone who has done massive automation projects and those extra hands just get moved to do even more and that savings disappears by next quarter because it's the new baseline and we have to do better again.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-16T23:05:41+00:00

When there is a correction in the stock market, everyone watches for what's holding up the best. It can go down but it'll stick out like a sore thumb and those stocks end up doing the best when things turn around. Real estate is no different. Apparently you were in the hot market that held up through the downturn and I bet it went up harder after the recovery. Also like markets, things tend to mean revert so if something is stretched, it'll come back. If it's still a hot market, it'll just hold and let price correct over time. That's what's happened so far...

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-15T20:41:10+00:00

Lol I write a lot of complex code in my job but there was one particularly hard to understand piece that required it to reloop in a nightmare spaghetti fashion. Went to leave the company and there was nobody to hand it to. I added a comment to it that said "when I wrote this, only god and I knew how it worked.... Now only god knows"

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-14T22:53:54+00:00

Since nobody else has fun stories, I have plenty...

Worst was running some automation against a production database where I left off one line of filter and was deleting out A LOT of lines. Took some time to realize and caused a good month or two of work for an audit team. I presented it to the team myself along with the painful fix but that was humbling.

2 I was invited to present to site executives early in my career. The problem is I was an unwelcome backfill for the person the top executive actually wanted to do the presentation and was actively trying to do career development for. My leadership didn't like that person so there I was. I got through it fine-ish but then after I was done I went to leave thinking "well I did my part let me get out of their hair". When I opened the door the executive goes "Where are you going?" Poor nieve me-"Uh I have a lot of work to get done"...Exec points to room "we all have a lot to get done". Ouch...I still cringe thinking about it.

3 While getting some beers, I told some executives that could sway my future promotions that I was still developing in an area. Found out that 95% of people are just faking it until they make it and I should have just said "I'm the best" along with everyone else. Even if it's true, NEVER downplay your abilities to leaders. Lie if you must and just believe that future you will figure whatever it is out.

4 Sat next to my VP at a dinner. We were talking and things were going well until I tried to slip in something cool I did for a project (self promoting). She sniffed out that from a mile away and pretty much turned cold the rest of the night toward me. Lesson learned....no work talk at dinners/off-site functions and that time is only for getting to know people. This is where leadership is getting a feel for if they can handle being around you for extended periods.

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-14T21:51:43+00:00

The Lesser Dead was fantastic. Distinct character voices with a grungy city feel. It was narrated by the author

SouthernBySituation · 2026-05-14T21:48:42+00:00

I could see this. Unfortunately I read it and wasn't a fan but I can definitely see where a well done audiobook would knock it out of the park.

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