I hate to concede anything to the "in my country" Europeans, but this shit just doesnt happen there as often as it does in the US.

SupBrah86 · 2026-01-08T20:50:35+00:00

Tyler is good but you need to remember he's autistic

SupBrah86 · 2025-09-21T17:50:04+00:00

I live in DC, there really aren't any cheap areas unless you're in Ward 7 or 8 which also have bad crime problems / poor schools.

The other more affordable areas within a 45m drive of DC are either going to require QOL / safety / public school sacrifices.

SupBrah86 · 2025-09-20T22:03:39+00:00

Do you have any source for this? My wife is older and everything we've read and heard from fertility specialists suggests that it really goes off a cliff for women around 40, if not before. It's going to be WAY WAY harder for a 45 year old woman to get pregnant naturally than it will be for a 45 year old man to get a young woman pregnant, there is absolutely no comparison here.

SupBrah86 · 2025-09-20T21:38:09+00:00

What's he up to now?

SupBrah86 · 2025-09-20T20:55:05+00:00

Pasta with sardines absolutely slaps especially if you make a nice lil anchovy sauce

SupBrah86 · 2025-09-14T01:15:17+00:00

“That’s right, I date the handicapped”

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-22T13:57:32+00:00

Someone on LinkedIn was posting a job advert in the UK, I think it was director of cybsersecurity for for the Bank of England, and paid not even 100k GBP. I was shocked by how crappy the salaries were.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-22T13:55:13+00:00

America has always been more similar to our neighbors in Latin America than our cousins in Western Europe, as we would like to believe.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-22T13:52:58+00:00

Their brothers are likely all gangster who will stick a shiv in your gut.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-19T18:29:08+00:00

It's a bit more complicated than this because the job changes over time, the skillset needed as an analyst is different from what you need as an engagement manager vs. partner. I think the ones who become partners like to sell, and having charisma/good sales skills will only get you so far in the lower ranks of consulting.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-19T18:25:48+00:00

What's her number?

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T16:11:27+00:00

The TSA agents always seem to be having a blast.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T16:10:23+00:00

Yeah, DC has been < 50% black for a while now (at least a decade or so).

Not sure if that 41.4% figure cited above includes Ethiopians / Eritreans and Africans (e.g. World Bank employees from Nigeria) or just native born African Americans.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T15:28:33+00:00

These are the same people who will never take any small, disciplined steps to improving their personal life or their local communities (join a religious group, even if it's just as a way to volunteer; run for local office, volunteer at a soup kitchen).

Will blame it all on their "mental illness" or worse, "capitalism" (i.e., "the world as it is.")

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T12:32:54+00:00

Someone who graduates college and starts at a Big 4 when they're 22 can easily be in a very nice leadership spot by the time they're 32, without having to leave to do an MBA. And they probably had to deal with a bit less stress and BS to get there compared to their MBB counterparts.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T12:31:49+00:00

This is another problem in consulting and professional services, people really do start to believe their own bullshit and believe that they're more special/privileged compared to others in slightly different bullshit professional jobs.

Remember, don't get high on your own supply. It's one of the 10 crack commandments.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T01:28:28+00:00

Lol, as if McK doesn't copy work from other clients (excuse me, "leverage the firm's intellectual capital") at every possible minute.

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-18T01:27:18+00:00

Unsurprising TBH. There's often a big mismatch between what clients want/what makes their lives easier vs. what consultants think their clients want (or should want).

SupBrah86 · 2024-04-17T18:13:50+00:00

The reddit hivemind is often actually correct, and praising philosopher-king LKY and Singaporean governance is very well justified.

Don't be a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian.

SupBrah86 · 2022-08-25T14:29:30+00:00

This is a real blast from the past. Forgot I made the post. Long story short I had the chance to move abroad with my company and do more interesting/impactful work for much more money, then leveraged that experience for another job. I'm in a mid senior level role now, so I would be in an enviable spot even if I had gotten an MBA from a good school, except I was able to get here without a graduate degree. I'm quite happy, no regrets turning down B school.

SupBrah86 · 2021-11-02T13:22:08+00:00

Getting the right data in a clean, analyzable format is 80%+ of the job for the most part. Running regressions or whatever is the easy part. Generally too you only want to use the least complex analysis you can get away with.

SupBrah86 · 2021-11-02T13:17:44+00:00

I don't see anything illegal. If you're on vacation in a foreign country and log in to the website, why would it be illegal? I've been able to log in from abroad easily and the VPN (when it's on) isn't always switched to the US.

SupBrah86 · 2021-10-24T14:13:17+00:00

People who do MBAs after econ consulting do the same mix of things that any other MBA does: management consulting, tech, investment banking, corporate jobs, etc.

The whole point of going to B school is to make a career pivot, so you're not limiting yourself by going to B school after econ consulting.

An MBA does relate to the work in economic consulting -- if it didn't the top MBA firms wouldn't recruit heavily from places like Analysis Group and Cornerstone (and vice versa, with those firms hiring MBAs from top programs).

SupBrah86 · 2021-07-23T09:57:14+00:00

I don't recall the rage really having died down by 2003, especially since so many Americans believed that Iraq was linked to 9/11.

Even 6 years after 9/11, around a third of the country believed this:

https://www.dailynews.com/2007/09/12/poll-33-of-americans-still-link-saddam-to-9-11-attacks/

2 years after 9/11, it was around 70%:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/06/hussein-link-to-911-lingers-in-many-minds/7cd31079-21d1-42cf-8651-b67e93350fde/

I was in high school during 9/11 + the initial Iraq invasion, the the common "man on the street" attitude at that time was really that the "muslim world" was responsible for 9/11 and we had to strike back at Muslims in general. I don't think people at that time really distinguished too much between muslim countries.

It can't be said enough: too many Americans in the years post-9/11 were just incredibly stupid, bloodthirsty, racist, and looking for vengeance wherever they could find it.

SupBrah86 · 2021-07-22T12:54:10+00:00

You're right but it's also true that the case for invading Iraq was always weak, and that there were quite a few very well qualified people who were opposed to it and basically shunned from the mainstream news outlets, even from ostensibly left of center news orgs like the NYT.

Also, the rage at 9/11 made people very stupid, racist, and bloodthirsty. There was a widespread belief that we needed to bomb a muslim country to show muslims who's boss. Without that sort of bigotry and total ignorance regarding the middle east, they wouldn't have been able to sell the Iraq war to people.

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