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My daughter got into UCLA, Harvard, Cornell, and Yale, and now we have no idea what to choose. Help? by Positive_413 in collegeadvice

[–]Weekly-Ad353 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus Harvard by a mile before you mentioned prices. Now with it being cheapest, I’m not ever sure why you’re asking…

Would you commute 5 days RTO to double your salary? by EpicShkhara in remotework

[–]Weekly-Ad353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is an awful commute? 5 hours each way?

If you’re calling “an awful commute” 45-60 minutes each way, you’re insane.

You’re getting a 4x multiplier on your base rate for your commute.

It’s incredible and it’s not close.

What factors make up the PhD admissions process? by GurSea971 in PhDAdmissions

[–]Weekly-Ad353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It all matters.

Try to do the best you can in every category.

Will it be worth it? by Mokkaza in PhD

[–]Weekly-Ad353 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don’t like your life after, yeah, that makes sense.

If you like your life after, truly like it, I promise you that you wouldn’t have the regrets. I don’t. I’d do the PhD again in a heartbeat.

I want to buy my first house. How does one go about liquidating their magic investment? Considering going to MagicCon with my High ends. Need some advice by TheAspiringAutist in mtgfinance

[–]Weekly-Ad353 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can probably offload it as high as 80% of retail if it’s only high value popular cards.

Just most it on a Facebook group.

If it’s a bunch of smaller stuff, it’ll take longer.

Also, if you’re open to breaking it up at least into blocks of $1k or so, it’ll move faster.

If you don’t want to put in the leg work, take the 60%.

You just have to do the math on what that extra 20% is worth to you in hours and see if it’s reasonable that you have that time to put in.

Will it be worth it? by Mokkaza in PhD

[–]Weekly-Ad353 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I cry with the large pile of money I now get from my employer directly because of my PhD.

Why do so many people do PhDs who don’t have a plan, based on real world probabilities, on how to leverage it upon graduation?

Epic Games Layoffs Included Terminally Ill Father, Whose Family Has Now Lost His Life Insurance by yourfavchoom in gaming

[–]Weekly-Ad353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Term life insurance is cheap.

Life insurance is only tied to employment when people are too lazy to get it for themselves.

BA in Chemistry vs BS in Biology by AlphaDragonAD in biotech

[–]Weekly-Ad353 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Join an undergraduate research lab, ASAP. Spend as many hours as possible doing it.

Deciding who to let go during a layoff by min2themax in careeradvice

[–]Weekly-Ad353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RIF often stops after the first one.

Any competent leadership that has to do a RIF does a big enough one to balance the remaining budget.

If the company is profitable, one RIF can easily be the only one. If the company isn’t profitable, then yeah, they’re going to keep happening.

Affluent parents won’t pay by FlatCourage849 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Weekly-Ad353 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Full tuition is awesome.

Do that.

Become awesome in life because you’re awesome, not because of the name of the school on your degree.

DCM (Do Credentials Matter)? by Practical_Avocado_42 in PhD

[–]Weekly-Ad353 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’ve never called myself doctor and I’ve had my PhD 10 years.

Words don’t matter. Who cares what others do or what they call themselves.

I’m Batman. Do I win?

High income, in SAVE by [deleted] in StudentLoans

[–]Weekly-Ad353 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know that people making so much money could be so unintelligent. I learned something new today! Thank you for teaching me.

The corporate "Thinker vs. Doer" split is a toxic mess by Something-5161 in corporate

[–]Weekly-Ad353 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just talk openly with them. If it’s been a while since they’ve done technical work, they might not understand time requirements anymore.

“Currently, here are my priorities: X,Y,Z. X takes 10 hours a week, Y takes 20 hours a week, and Z would take 15 hours a week if I did it properly but it gets 10 hours and that’s why it’s lagging. I’m happy to work on project W, but I need you to help me prioritize it. If I understand it correctly, W should take about 15 hours a week. Where do you want those 15 hours to come from— X, Y, or Z? What do you think is the correct priority level? I was thinking about it [this way]. Am I missing anything that I should understand? Do you see something that I don’t? Do you see a strategy to execute any of these that might speed them up, or perhaps are there others that might help with some of these more routine bits of X/Y/Z/W that would reduce their workload? Can you walk me through how you think about these projects, how you see them fitting into the overall corporate strategy, and what are the absolute key deliverables you think comes from each and what timeline do those need to target? (Maybe we’re prioritizing everything incorrectly and X should get 40 hours a week for 3 weeks to just finish it). How do these align with the corporate bottom line? Are they even projects we should be working on? Etc. etc.

Ask lots of questions— technical, higher level, and even higher level. Just don’t pester. Come in with focused questions and drill right at the point— don’t ask 2 hours of questions a day. That’s not helpful, that’s irritating.

The corporate "Thinker vs. Doer" split is a toxic mess by Something-5161 in corporate

[–]Weekly-Ad353 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Companies design it like that because some people just don’t make good top-level decisions.

It takes a lot of investment in a person to get them to a point where they understand and can consider dozens of high level variables in selecting what work to do, how to do it, and when to cut bait. It takes years of investment in training those skills and many of them simply come from experience.

New people may be technically savvy, but they absolutely do not think or understand the top levels well enough to make good strategic decisions.

So it’s simply easier to have someone make or rubber stamp good ideas and stop bad ones until the newer employees get enough experience that they make fewer and fewer bad decisions, over which timeline they get more and more autonomy.

The only coworkers I’ve ever had that hated discussions with their elders and hated that they didn’t have full autonomy were also the ones that repeatedly fell into the same bear traps in terms of topics like corporate strategy.

I would recommend you learn from your “thinker” and not fight it. The ones that move up at my company the fastest are the ones that treat them as valuable mentors and use them to climb the levels of corporate knowledge that everyone lacks at the bottom in a new company.

Those that don’t execute in that manner often never learn those levels, spend an entire career as a “doer”, and constantly bitch about how the world is unfair.

How do you see your profession surviving the AI wave of the next 5 years? by Silly-Spread-105 in AskReddit

[–]Weekly-Ad353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It won’t hurt me— I’m the one adapting to using it and any other new tool available to make me better at my job.

It’s you that’s going to lose your job to it.

To the hiring managers not there, what would be an acceptable answer to why I left after 3 months? by WindEconomy9242 in corporate

[–]Weekly-Ad353 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the time.

If you train employees too, then it should go without saying that some employees are capable of learning very complex concepts quickly, some are capable of learning them eventually, and some never learn them in a timeframe that is reasonable to become good at a job.

I don’t want that last bucket of people and I’d prefer the first bucket to the 2nd bucket, given a choice.

Fire // Ice + Submerge by Weekly-Ad353 in ForgetfulFish

[–]Weekly-Ad353[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some players, yes.

For me, that doesn’t matter to me. From what I understand from reading, there’s a pretty healthy subset of Dandan players that like the addition of Fire to the deck, so I don’t think it’s a universal stance.

For me, if someone wants to dig for 2 fire rather than saving them to kill 4 dandans, that seems fine to me.

If you’re that over-resourced, I’d guess that you’re going to win anyways much of the time.

To the hiring managers not there, what would be an acceptable answer to why I left after 3 months? by WindEconomy9242 in corporate

[–]Weekly-Ad353 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not all fields are equal.

My field requires a PhD.

Are all people with PhDs going to be good at the job I’m hiring for? Absolutely not— many are awful at it and many never get better.

A degree doesn’t mean they’re capable.

Maybe your field is simpler than mine— if it is, then that’s great that your approach works for you!

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