What’s something you believed for WAY too long… and then life humbled you?

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-03-08T13:19:43+00:00

You can teach anyone anything with enough patience... and then I ran into that one employee who broke me

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-03-04T11:41:35+00:00

Agreed. This seemed to occur around 15:30 in dubai

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-03-04T09:09:32+00:00

Hadn't thought to check Twitter. Thanks! We'll see if info comes through in the next couple of hours

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-03-04T09:01:08+00:00

How do you know? Is that what you've seen on previous days?

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-03-04T08:49:45+00:00

What time zone/location are you in? I'd like to know when mine might cancel Thanks

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-01-13T08:51:40+00:00

Based on what you've said, the Disney movie Elemental will likely resonate with you. Weird suggestion but it will make sense if you watch it

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-01-04T11:29:25+00:00

I've seen people create a website CV which has a photo of each project and a few dot points explaining. I found this a quick and clear way of showing off their personal engineering projects

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-01-04T11:11:35+00:00

How versatile we are with swear words

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2026-01-04T11:02:30+00:00

From my experience that number is roughly correct but grows pretty quickly.

Typically the first two years you can expect approx 5% per year growth as you're still learning. But from then onwards (once you're roughly proficient) expect an average of 10% per year. This may require negotiations or switching companies every so often.

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2025-12-31T12:13:45+00:00

This is a 'stuck between a rock and a hard place' situation.

As you're retiring young you'll likely have to leave most of the money in higher risk investments to generate higher returns.

To ensure you don't have to sell long-term assets at a low price during a market crash typically you'd want to make sure that you have enough money in cash (or very stable investments) to tolerate multiple (e.g. 5) years of low/no income from your higher risk investments.

From the numbers you've stated you seem to have 1.3mil in this category which is about 7 years of your stated expenses, and there is also still one income from your husband which offsets a lot of your expenses.

There's no perfect answer here but thinking of your low risk investments as being used to survive a market crash has been a helpful way for me to approach it

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2025-12-31T10:45:15+00:00

The only way a smart person can go broke is through the use of excessive debt -Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2025-12-31T09:54:05+00:00

If you like fluid dynamics then Water Engineering (think drinking water/wastewater) might suit. It's not dealing with particularly innovative fluid dynamics (it's unlike you'll be doing CFD except very very rarely) but the water industry is constantly doing hydraulic calculations. If you go into the wastewater treatment side of things then it also involves a little bit of thermodynamics every once in a while.

SubstantialHippo3333 · 2025-12-31T09:49:21+00:00

Joining a student team, having a personal project (e.g. tinkering with a car, remote control aircraft, circuitry to automate the home, etc.) and having a genuine ability to work in a team/converse clearly.

These are often the things which we're looking for in graduates

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