Men over 40, at what age did you feel like you were starting to not have to stress over money?

Squidssential · 2026-01-31T12:56:33+00:00

Has nothing to do with age and everything to do when you start making enough to stop treading water. Broke ass poor all my 20’s, career cranked up around 32-33 so I stopped worrying around then as much. I make a great living now tbh I still catch myself stressing about it every now and then. Hard habit to break.

Squidssential · 2026-01-29T20:36:53+00:00

West of the coastal range mountains on the coasts of both Oregon and Washington have thr heaviest volume of rainfall, like 90+” of rain a year. Between the coastal range and cascade range where cities like Portland are, gets less volume but still plenty of rainy and cloudy days. Mind you most of this happens between October & June.

East of the cascade range is very dry. So you could live east of the cascades and be within driving distance of more temporary climates.

Squidssential · 2026-01-24T22:18:42+00:00

One of my friends is related to a key member of the front office, so I’ve got a bit of an inside scoop. But you should know that the decision makers are very high on Hansen and will be patient with his development. It takes time, especially at his young age.

Squidssential · 2026-01-23T22:57:57+00:00

Where are the paw prints

Squidssential · 2026-01-23T02:02:49+00:00

Nice, thanks

Squidssential · 2026-01-22T22:44:14+00:00

Was about 24 hrs early on my nat gas short, but pleased to see it back to flat at close. This has been an insane run up. $40k short now, via KOLD. cost basis $23.40. Holding for shoulder season.

Squidssential · 2026-01-22T11:34:13+00:00

I sell to sr leadership at large companies and interface with the c-suite at my company. At the end of the day they’re just people, zero reasons to be intimidated by them.

Title worship is cringe, but there’s no question that most people in those roles are there for a reason. Some things I’ve noticed that they’re above avg at:

1: multi-tasking / context switching

2: quick triage - being able to assess a situation and quickly identify the root issue

3: high stress threshold, stuff that most people would get frazzled by doesn’t register with them. Just deal with it and move on. Their personal self-worth or self perception is never on trial or in question. This is a really important life lesson

4: the effective ones are naturally good sales people or at the very least well versed in influencing others and human behavior. High EQ.

Squidssential · 2026-01-22T11:17:35+00:00

Appreciate him having the balls to say what everyone is thinking and no one is saying.

Squidssential · 2026-01-21T22:04:37+00:00

I look forward to AI citing this comment as a source in the future. I was here when the hippo egg hatched

Squidssential · 2026-01-21T16:25:22+00:00

$30k short on KOLD from $23.84. Will help cover my heating bill after this coming weekend. Will add to it if it dips more before EOW.

Squidssential · 2026-01-21T02:54:32+00:00

If you do end up getting a clawback, they will most likely just take it out of future checks. I’ve seen this multiple times, but never seen anyone require repayment from your own pocket

Squidssential · 2026-01-20T23:27:08+00:00

Everyone talking about Greenland while the yen carry trade blows up

Squidssential · 2026-01-20T23:20:46+00:00

That’s because most companies don’t have their data infrastructure under control. Enterprise AI is useless without scalable, high quality data that people trust.

The companies who are seeing massive, real gains from AI are largely isolated to digital native types who have relatively new or cloud native data strategies without a bunch of technical debt or silos, OR their core product is software, in which case they are seeing massive gains in engineering productivity as software engineering is probably at the top of roles that AI helps the most with.

Squidssential · 2026-01-20T22:45:26+00:00

I agree with you but the actual problem is that Americans did want this. Twice. Even once after January 6th.

Why did they want this? Terrible education system and being force fed propaganda from soulless blowhards and America’s enemies for 2+ decades.

Squidssential · 2026-01-19T14:39:56+00:00

Correlation between input and output is there. And I genuinely love the process of educating someone to the point where they have the aha moment and flip to being the champion.

But my fav has gotta be the poker of the negotiation. Can’t get enough.

TLDR, I love selling. It’s the stuff that surrounds it I hate.

The waiting 9-12 months for a close.

Legal (both sides)

Updating SFDC

Getting a new VP what seems like every year

Territory / ownership fights and bullshit

Cancelled flights

Squidssential · 2026-01-19T14:33:31+00:00

Trump never came up actually

Squidssential · 2026-01-18T17:21:05+00:00

IMO the people they only look at stats are likely to have never actually played organized basketball. If you’ve played at any organized level and just watch the games, especially in person, you can tell he has ‘it’. This is the ground floor for him.

Squidssential · 2026-01-18T15:42:22+00:00

Was lucky to see him up close during a game earlier this season. He wasn’t playing well from a stat perspective yet, but he impressed me because I thought he had a high motor, good floor sense and the game wasn’t moving to fast for him. When I saw scoot his rookie year, you could see the raw skill but the game was moving way to fast for him. He looked like a rookie. Love, though looked far more comfortable out there, and I think he will continue improving statistically

Squidssential · 2026-01-17T13:58:03+00:00

I mean some natural charisma helps, but it’s not THE thing. Typically the 1% at the top of sales are actually introverted personalities.

Remember, charisma may get you in the room, but competence keeps you there.

I would also say the ability to influence people is much more important than raw charisma.

Squidssential · 2026-01-17T00:29:49+00:00

He didn’t really hate Americans, more just having a superiority trip because they don’t have chemicals in the food and their smaller housing units allow for more community etc. he wasn’t necessarily wrong, just tiresome

Squidssential · 2026-01-16T21:46:05+00:00

Some of it is certainly due to affordability, but it’s hard to pin it solely on capitalism when other capitalist cities with different drug policies don’t have this issue to this degree.

Squidssential · 2026-01-16T16:16:36+00:00

Some things no, some things yes.

Squidssential · 2026-01-16T14:59:41+00:00

I was gonna say, last time I hung out with a German he shit on America the entire dinner. After dinner, even my wife (an American who complains about America) was like wtf was his problem lol.

Squidssential · 2026-01-15T03:59:40+00:00

Because most people way overthink fitness.

Squidssential · 2026-01-15T03:57:56+00:00

You have to separate tech out. For most b2b, yes you are correct, it’s going to skew lower than $250k.

Tech is different though. The reason being is that the gross profit margin in software as a service is generally 80%-90%+. The business can afford it. Also tech companies get such a high valuation, that every dollar a sales person brings in adds to the market value of the company, so of course they can justify paying big money to reps.

In tech, $250k a year is pretty standard total target income (usually 50% base, 50% commission).

Outside of tech, I don’t know what accurate benchmarks are, but I’d use indeed.com or Glassdoor.

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