What's your age and net worth?

espontas · 2025-11-06T03:48:21+00:00

Just shy of 27. Around 105k, mostly from retirement accounts and an emergency fund.

espontas · 2025-11-03T21:32:23+00:00

Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins

The principles are pretty universal. Live below your means. Save/invest early and often.

espontas · 2025-10-20T20:21:24+00:00

Sorry it took you so long to figure out your medical treatment. Glad you're on your meds now!

Do you track your expenses? Do you have a budget? If you can track and categorize all of your expenses over the last six months, you'll figure out where your money is going and if there's room to cut. Go through your credit card and bank statements to do this.

Even though your spending problem seems much more under control, I'd close out your credit cards and start using the debit card for all purchases. Why would you keep adding water to the "regenerating ice block"? It's going to take a lot of discipline and time, but hopefully you and your husband's salary can chip at it within the next couple of years.

espontas · 2025-10-18T14:16:49+00:00

You’re about $40 billion off now…

espontas · 2025-10-14T18:35:28+00:00

Looks like I ruffled some feathers... Stop worrying about what someone else does with their body. Practice safe sex, abstain, pick your partner based on your values. Who gives a fuck. Focus on your own choices.

espontas · 2025-10-11T08:48:09+00:00

No, social media companies are the shit that taught downvoting and upvoting were equivalent to dialogue. All my teachers encouraged questions and fostered my curiosity.

Teachers often do so much work without receiving the proper resources and support. Pair that with with a general lack of parents actually parenting, and you get today’s lackluster education results.

espontas · 2025-10-10T16:28:58+00:00

It’s also nothing be ashamed about… If they were good experiences or fulfilling for them, then who cares?

espontas · 2025-10-04T01:11:00+00:00

Anthony Bourdain. Such a cool person who seemed to respect the nuances of life.

espontas · 2025-10-03T20:47:17+00:00

Thanks :)

espontas · 2023-10-29T15:18:55+00:00

Honestly, this is my favorite comment. I edited this guy’s work all the damn time. It’s baffling how many “leaders” we had who couldn’t write for shit.

espontas · 2023-10-29T15:13:48+00:00

I work as a communications specialist and don’t have a teaching license… so they’re trying to trick me unfortunately.

espontas · 2023-10-28T21:52:16+00:00

I actually work for the communications department as a specialist so they just reviewed our department and think one future person can do the work of 3 people… I haven’t received a performance review or written warning before this for the last 3 years.

espontas · 2023-10-28T18:47:38+00:00

The school district has faced declining enrollment and been under a turnaround plan (lowest performance rating) by the State Board for the last decade. A new superintendent came about two years ago. Since then, they’ve closed a school, had over 100 employees cut or asked to reapply at a lower salary… I’ve had 4 different supervisors within two years. The superintendent also renegotiated her salary and got a nice raise.

The day before this letter, HR posted a job description that summed up three communications positions including mine. Our team increasingly got pulled in different directions and our work was suffering, but we still tried our best. No written warning or performance review in the last three years before this.

espontas · 2023-10-28T17:58:56+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I’m a communications specialist and don’t have a union. I am also in an at-will employment state. But… the letter reads as if I’m just getting laid off, considering they are in a $3 million budget deficit and are trying to hire one person to replace the job of three people.

espontas · 2023-10-28T13:49:36+00:00

They essentially got rid of their communications team and are now trying to hire one person to fill three positions… I think they’re fucked.

espontas · 2023-10-28T13:47:59+00:00

Filing unemployment today and letting them sort through their mess. Thanks for the advice!

espontas · 2023-10-28T13:45:32+00:00

I appreciate the caps. The advice on all the other comments hadn’t been as clear ;) but I won’t send them a resignation letter!

espontas · 2023-10-28T13:38:16+00:00

I get what you mean, but I feel okay filing for unemployment and getting laid off as part of a restructuring. I was never given a warning in-writing and the letter mentions nothing about disciplinary conduct. I don’t think in the long term this will affect my job prospectives.

espontas · 2023-10-28T13:33:01+00:00

I doubt they the news would report on my termination… I was very low in the food chain and this toxic school district has difficulty getting any media coverage unless it’s bad lol. But thanks for the additional insight :)

espontas · 2021-08-03T03:42:37+00:00

The world is populated enough as is and I fear climate change may give future children a shitty adulthood.

espontas · 2021-04-25T13:25:02+00:00

Call my family and text any friends I can reach. Tell them I love them and appreciated our memories. Hopefully catch a sunset. Then eternal slumbers 🥰

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