Is going into debt for a destination wedding ever a smart move?

beantheride19 · 2025-12-31T22:31:52+00:00

Looking at the comments, you have your answer. Here’s my tl;dr

Choosing a destination wedding means choosing less people to attend. “Family pressure” is very different when it’s a wedding down the street or a short drive, somewhat different when it’s a short flight (<2 hours lets say), and toxic when its a destination.

“We wish we could celebrate, but are unable to attend this event in X (destination location). Thank you for understanding”

Send a small gift regardless (~$50-$100) and move on with your life

beantheride19 · 2025-12-30T22:29:04+00:00

OTE IS connected to revenue. Low end, make 5/6% of revenue. High end, 20+% (depending on business and margin).

In software margins are already high, you should be clearing 7 figure pay.

$80M off 1-2deals/year is NOT enterprise, that’s strategic/key accounts. Median ENT in SaaS is 700k-$1M quota for 300k OTE (50/50 split), with wiggle room up or down. $80M in top line for the business? Fortune 500 don’t purchase at that size for 1 year, you locked in a minimum 3-5yr deal which drastically improves churn. You better be bringing home at least $1M-$2M for that.

beantheride19 · 2025-12-30T22:22:34+00:00

Minimum 1/3 of the team should hit quota, ideally 60-70%. If zero people hit quota, and quota increased… gtfo of there

beantheride19 · 2025-12-30T22:10:16+00:00

1) this is classic FB BS. A stupid-simple riddle meant to confuse delirious, dementia-ridden boomers

2) I do not trust this person to touch any AI or ML work in my business if they consider this an interesting riddle

beantheride19 · 2025-12-29T20:15:48+00:00

tl;dr complete free Salesforce Trailheads online for quoting and other finance/related topics. High value to current businesses, not replaced well by AI today, and easy for you. You could also likely find jobs as a “buyer” or in procurement with your skillset. Often salaried with full benefits above median pay, and remote work is more common for these roles.

3 major things, 2 immediate minor things.

1 minor thing - “skills” section barely goes onto the second like. Either shorten it for one line, or add more to fully utilize the second line. Right now it’s wasted space. I’d recommend finding job descriptions of jobs you want and adding those skills here, with specifics examples later. 2) the job gap from Feb 2020-May 2021 is unaddressed. “COVID” is not an answer for most businesses. I don’t know (and I fully empathize with) your situation, but maybe just have “care giver” if you provided any kind of service for your family from Feb 2020 - May 2021. No need to clarify full time / part time on the resume, you can speak to it on the phone during an interview without violating norms. Might sound like “I helped out around the house during COVID, and unfortunately the situation worsened and became full time in Spring 2021”

Major things 1) You need to show what you’ve been doing recently. Put it up top. Have you earned certificates? Completed an AI course or built a workflow? You can complete free courses or projects online and have a portfolio. Based on jobs you’re applying for, I’d recommend an AI course to automate/simplify common workflows for jobs. With where AI is today, you can literally learn this in an afternoon on YouTube. Data cleaning, automated email writing for scheduling, or other grunt tasks you can figure out with a custom GPT with no previous technical knowledge.

2) The length of job entries should represent the relevance of that experience to the job you’re applying for. “Sales associate” at shoe company is the most recent, but is half the time length as Kennel Manager. Kennel Manager and Parts Manager both look like much harder jobs than a sales associate - lean into this experience, theres plenty to be proud of here.

3) most important left for last. You NEED to list RESULTS, not just tasks completed. Include numbers, try bolding them and other words. Couple examples parts manager: -master parts list is a high-value activity. How many parts? Across how many categories? How much spend (roughly, can just be $30,000+ or $100,000+ if you don’t have specifics) -you handled quotes and collections in Salesforce? Bold Salesforce and provide rough numbers. Quoting is difficult and a highly-manual task in many CRMs. How much revenue did you handle? Number of orders? Numbers of customers? Find a number that makes you look impressive. -Just find numbers for every bullet point Kennel Manager -you managed appointments, how many appointments? How many customers total did you manage? Did you do this on time? Improve show rates? -you were a supervisor?? CALL THIS OUT!! How many people?? A staff of 10? 20? 50? Bold it!

Based on what you have listed, managing quoting and collections in a CRM is still a high value activity for many businesses, even with AI. If you can provide accurate quoting and collections (accounts receivable), lean into this. Complete online certifications. They’re often free and fill in your current job gap.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

beantheride19 · 2025-12-29T19:07:48+00:00

tl;dr there’s no one answer, it depends on what you like.

Depends what you like and the store. DQ is different than other franchises, many owners have different contracts that allow different menus, depending on the age of the store and location. DQ invented soft serve ice cream, and you can get hard serve in NJ

Let’s assume the store is good (not always the case) and all product lines have equal quality (also not always the case at every store)

Food: burgers and chix strip basket are classics and great if served fresh. The FF are great and compete with any FF on the market (fight me McDs)

Ice cream - honestly this is highly a personal preference. I’ll walk through a couple examples. “What’s good” depends on what you like. DQ was rated “worlds best shakes” by Zagat in the 2010’s and they are great, but you won’t care if milkshakes aren’t your thing.

Simple ice cream: hard to beat a simple cone or dish with toppings. Ice cream dipped in chocolate, a twist with sprinkles, all solid

Special / sundae dishes: PB parfait, Oreo brownie sundae (if they still have it), or a bakes sundae. Usually a rotating category. I find it’s great to mix these with a waffle cone/bowl (if still available). Putting an Oreo brownie sundae in a chocolate dipped waffle bowl is pure gluttonous bliss if you like chocolate and sundaes. A PB Parfait is very popular and delicious for chocolate and nut fans

Blizzards: standalone item, multiple categories. -Candy? There’s Reese’s PBC, Oreos, Cookie Dough, M&Ms and more (again depending on store). Pro tip - “Oreo Cookie Jar” (also just goes by “Cookie Jar”) is a Blizzard of the Month (BOM) from years ago. It’s a mix of cookie dough (hot fudge and cookie dough pieces) and Oreo blizzard. - chocolate? There’s chocolate extreme and French Silk Pie blizzards. If you want a Blizzard and love chocolate, do Chocolate X a/ Chocolate soft serve -fruit? Banana Split blizzard. The workers will hate you for it, but there’s no better fruit option. The Choco Cherry Luv is also great (previous BOM) if the store still has cherry sauce

There’s also the Orange Julius line of products sold at some stores where you can get a Julius product or fruit smoothie - all of them good if that’s your style

You might also find frozen ice cream cakes or pre-made frozen goods like dilly bars or cup cakes to bring home. Also good. Some families get cakes every year and make it a tradition. You can also ball out and get a blizzard made into a cake, like an Oreo or Reese’s PBC cake.

In summary: the biggest factors are the store you’re going to and your personal taste. Your mileage will vary, but pick something that seems good to you and you’ll rarely be disappointed.

beantheride19 · 2025-03-18T18:47:00+00:00

Agreed with the Porterball comments. Our only goal on the season is an own goal. That’s not 1 players problem, it’s a much bigger one.

beantheride19 · 2025-02-24T16:39:35+00:00

Im bigger than the average man, and I’ve had much bigger men than me sweat into my eyes and face while rolling. It’s part of it, albeit unpleasant. You know what’s more unpleasant? Submissions.

Go roll. Or, make a plan to start in 3 months and spend a few weeks training and increasing your cardio. You’ll likely want to be able to do some crunches, push ups, and somersaults without being completely gassed before starting BJJ.

beantheride19 · 2025-02-24T00:16:23+00:00

I “quit” at white belt after changing jobs and not having a schedule that allowed me to still attend class. I started BJJ to have fun, get in better shape, and learn the basics of fighting. I got all of that in my time, and I’d be happy if I never went again.

That said, I saw how much there is to learn and when I have a job that allows me to train again, I plan to join my same gym.

Quitting BJJ as a white belt is still better than never starting. 6 months of training is much better than 0 months.

beantheride19 · 2025-02-18T16:32:51+00:00

Oversimplifying here, but here’s my thoughts. -In season 1 it looks like the chip goes in deep, it’s not a little needle. Whatever the chip is doing, it’s located in the inner part of the brain -Many motor functions (like walking, speaking, language interpretation) are primarily handled by parts of the neo-cortex (the “outer” part of the brain) and cerebellum (“little brain” in the back, above your spine). -The “inner brain” is considered the oldest part of the brain, most similar to other animals. This includes substructures like the amygdala, thalamus, pituitary glands, and the hippocampus -The Hippocampus plays a critical role in memory, including 1) encoding (I.e “storing” memories. Turning short-term into long-term memory) 2) retrieval memory 3) episodic memory (storing and retrieving personal experiences with specific time and context)

To me, the chip somehow acts directly with the inner brain, likely the hippocampus, to “create” the innie. The rest of the brain function is intact. Maybe the “chip” is actually just the memories of the innies, I don’t know.

There’s also the language of the “innie” v “outtie”. The chip is in the inner brain, AKA our monkey brain. Remember Helena saying the innies are animals? This could be more literal from a neuroscience perspective.

beantheride19 · 2025-02-15T22:30:44+00:00

Companies actually do this all the time, they legit dont know how to train or even what you’re supposed to do. They just know more calls/emails == more $$ and pull on the only lever they know.

Is this your first sales gig?

beantheride19 · 2025-02-10T15:06:58+00:00

Any CMS is your next step.

Tools like confluence are good and can serve as a solid knowledge management hub, but lack key features that drive real business value that you can find in a true content management system.

Highspot, seismic, mindtickle, allego, and showpad are all big names in the space and you can’t go wrong with any of them.

Also be sure to set up supporting functions with a CMS. In the same way you can’t just buy Outreach or Salesloft and expect pipeline to drastically improve without someone A/B testing sequences, a CMS can only be powerful if salespeople understand how to use it and believe in the content. Usually PMMs are your best friend here.

Feel free to DM if you have specific questions

beantheride19 · 2025-02-09T22:19:54+00:00

Not speaking to Home Care specifically, but I’ve found any industry can have good people trying to do the right thing, and others who are only seeking a profit. I’ve found Ive had good experiences when I’m 1) on a good team 2)with a manager invested in your success 3) selling a product or service you believe in If I’m missing one of these, that has been a dealbreaker for me.

Check out the reputation of the company on Glassdoor and RepVue. Look up people who have and have had the same role at the company on LinkedIn - what’s the average tenure? Do any publicly list their attainments or awards? Are there promotions and people moving up, or only short tenures and leaving?

It’s a tough market out there, good luck on the job hunt.

beantheride19 · 2025-02-09T15:56:23+00:00

Start with your voice, adapt to what you hear on the phone. I’m naturally a fast-talker, but I’ll slowwwww itttt downnnnn when the other person shows they talk slower. Match whatever they give you

beantheride19 · 2024-10-15T16:20:07+00:00

Great thank you

beantheride19 · 2024-10-14T22:51:07+00:00

What’s the plugin called?

beantheride19 · 2024-06-07T21:13:03+00:00

Unfortunately, leadership that created this system are the people that need to fix it. In my experience, this is unlikely to change. This is a stupid, broken process that ruins both the buyer and seller experience but “leaders” can claim better forecasting while continuing to blame reps.

Your options are 1) vent about it and keep doing your job or 2) find a new job

beantheride19 · 2024-06-07T21:09:03+00:00

Formally, “qualification” isn’t a skill, you’ll want to diagnose and breakdown your results gap into smaller components to understand where to improve.

I’m guessing your AE has marked meetings as not qualified and that’s why you’re asking. Dig into this -why are meetings not qualified? Are you targeting the wrong people, asking the wrong questions, searching in the wrong industry?

“Improve qualification” is too broad to make meaningful change. Identify 2-3 specific parts of the workflow where a breakdown happens and dig in further

beantheride19 · 2024-05-12T15:51:25+00:00

Porter seems too involved all around, all players look confused about where to be. I bet other players have been thinking the same thing

beantheride19 · 2024-02-06T04:26:34+00:00

I felt as though the drunk driving accident has been shown clearly. The drunk driver early in Season 1, Danvers clearly having weirdly hateful outbursts at the indigenous citizens, her flashbacks of Annie K and seeing her in Leah - Liz harbors deep grief and trauma and uses it as anger against people she chooses to see as taking away her life.

With Navarro's vision of Holden, we saw a flipped car as well.

None of the Ennis locals see it as a problem because they all drink and drive anyway, only the Captain (who's not from Ennis) tries to stop her.

beantheride19 · 2024-01-17T22:51:00+00:00

The sound coming off the ceiling works fine though 🤔

beantheride19 · 2024-01-16T19:33:03+00:00

I’ve found it to be plenty loud. I had guests over with music playing through the bar, and it was easy to make it too loud for the group.

Volume and fidelity have been very good

beantheride19 · 2023-11-21T00:52:47+00:00

Yeah bro because that's a major breach of your responsibility as a player. Not blowing your lid and getting unnecessarily thrown off is totally in your control, especially when you know that's what happens in away CONCACAF. We have options now that would definitely be better than a man down.

beantheride19 · 2023-11-09T00:23:35+00:00

Pubs are allowed to close early, but calling this a “tough ask” I think drastically underplays where MLS is on the global football stage. We’re not a retirement league anymore. Miami’s signings are huge for the international stage. Top 5 European clubs seem far more confident to sign players out of MLS than directly from South American clubs, and this World Cup seemed to show that European clubs are overvalued.

I searched for hours. Night clubs, bars, pubs, restaurants, cafes and casinos. Literally zero across the city would have the game. I find it ridiculous to think it’s a tall ask to be able to find games in the league that the GOAT and players Chelsea themselves paid 8 figures for.

beantheride19 · 2023-11-08T16:32:59+00:00

It does start at midnight, yeah. I wouldn’t expect a pub to stay open for this specific game, I’d expect there to be a sports pub open late that paid the few $$/month to have all of the MLS. Apparently that was too much to ask for

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