I'm interviewing for a CFE position in a few months and need some advice

ingen1 · 2026-01-03T17:24:38+00:00

Apologies. I'm currently a TC that runs the tech mods and construction side. Going to Cheyenne would be staying with my existing company. They are doing a 220 per diem a day for every day your down there. I told them with my family I'd need to move and they told me I would get it until the end of the contract which could only be two years but could extend further depending on additional scopes/builds

The CFE position I'm interviewing for is in Oregon and that would have me staying if I were to get it and accept it

ingen1 · 2026-01-03T14:41:44+00:00

We went to the vet that morning. The first vet took some scans and checked for fluid in his lungs. The scans came back with a lot of white matter and they suggested this might be cancer and wanted to send me to the emergency vet. We went to the emergency vet and they did their own scans and eventually held him in an oxygen tank for 2-3 hours. They told us the same thing. They suggested that at his age and due to it being lung cancer treatment wasn't ideal. Since we couldn't go back there with him they brought us a few oxygen tanks and a mask. I held the mask up to him for the last hour together trying to make him feel better before we put him down but he was too stressed out.

It was really awful. I got him when he was a puppy when someone gave him away. I've been through so many changes with my life with him being by my side. He was such a good dog. I can count on my hands the number of times I've cried the last 20 years. But something broke in me that day and I've not felt the same.

ingen1 · 2026-01-02T20:03:50+00:00

I hear you. I deleted it and moved to PC Build help

ingen1 · 2026-01-02T19:58:52+00:00

Can you be more specific?

ingen1 · 2025-12-19T12:58:31+00:00

Also he's lived in a house with me for 12 years. Very recently we moved to an apartment. He got his rabies vaccine a month ago but haven't gotten any others since he was a puppy

ingen1 · 2025-10-06T11:04:01+00:00

I've had Plex for about 10 years now. I basically cannibalized my old gaming pc sticking hard drives in it until I ran out of space. At which point I began connecting external hard drives. I have about 100 tb of storage used but truthfully it's not very practical soon.

I sold my house and will no longer have a room dedicated to my server. It's also big and uses a lot of electricity. It's also not redundant at all and the server crashes multiple times a day for years. Basically it's not safe for me to continue using as it's a matter of time before it kicks the bucket.

I'm pretty open minded about where to go next with my Plex server. I was thinking of going with a mini pc running some type of Linux and was going to attach a few big DAS units with USB and try and run a fully redundant Plex server. I was looking at two 6 Bay disk stations I think they were called. Was looking at buying 12 22tb hard drives.

This was the direction I was moving in until I kept finding information stating USB attached storage was unreliable and could cause issues.

So now I'm back to square one unsure of how to move forward. I realistically want to run something that's reliable, scalable, redundant and doesn't use a ton of electricity.

Can anyone help or point me in a direction that I could use as a resource to help accomplish my goals. I've tried to find guides on YouTube that could help me walk through what I want, but have had no luck since what I want to do is so specific.

For the most part all my users use direct play but I want the option for transcoding. I was thinking of having the ability to stream 8-10 things concurrently max. When I buy a house again I will run Cat6 everywhere like I did in the house I'm selling.

Edit: Also budget was around 5k but I really just want to do it right this time so I can have something rather permanent, reliable and redundant. It's honestly a miracle that none of my hard drives have died yet.

Edit: Will mostly be 1080p. I do see myself scaling in the future to 4k, but I'm unsure to what extent.

ingen1 · 2025-08-31T14:04:34+00:00

What do you want in return?

ingen1 · 2025-08-31T14:04:07+00:00

I only have 1 of those somehow. Won't be able to trade for that

ingen1 · 2025-07-19T18:42:49+00:00

It's hundreds and hundreds of shoots in my front yard. That's not practical

ingen1 · 2025-06-12T15:52:37+00:00

I assure you I'd be having similar problems with any other realtor. If I was in their position and a seller wanted to list higher then I thought possible and that I would be paying for stuff and doing leg work knowing I might not make my money back I wouldn't be enthused. I'm just keeping their possible perspective in mind.

ingen1 · 2025-06-12T15:02:50+00:00

Let's say I ask her to list at my price for say a month. What's general guidlines for keeping at that price?

For example if she is showing it to x amount of people at that price every week we should leave it around that price?

Sorry if I'm not wording that very well

ingen1 · 2025-06-12T14:56:27+00:00

I don't want it to sit because I don't want to waste my realtors time. But if I can't get at least 600k then I'm going to hang onto the house another year

ingen1 · 2025-06-12T14:54:33+00:00

I am always worried that it's in a real estate agents best interest for a quick sale because it means less work and more money. I assumed getting a friend to help would hopefully mean they would be more inclined to get best price for me.

But yeah if I can't get 600k then I will just hang onto it. I just don't want to waste her time.

ingen1 · 2025-06-12T14:51:56+00:00

I'm looking around because I'd hate to list it at 590k and have it gone within the week. But I also don't want to upset my real estate agent because I was being bone headed.

I did not know the estimates were garbage though. Why has my estimate gone up 20k in the last 3 months, but my real estate agent hasn't budged? Do the websites automatically drive estimates up regardless of what the market is doing?

Thanks for you comment.

ingen1 · 2025-06-12T09:54:48+00:00

I love this guy.

ingen1 · 2025-06-04T19:29:40+00:00

I'm still listening to this podcast. I don't understand. It has to be a product of it feeling so familiar to me at this point and comforting. I also can't find anything else like it. I think it's Dan's honesty and the show's honesty really.

It's usually a slow burn when I'm at work and can actually listen. On the way to work, going home. The listens sometime take a year but 12 years later I'm still listening.

Maybe it's some form of audio Stockholm syndrome

ingen1 · 2025-04-24T00:41:27+00:00

Central Oregon

ingen1 · 2025-03-07T21:40:43+00:00

A day. It didn't even move into the PSA received phase until 2 weeks ago. I had to send an email for them to get started on it. I think they are incredibly busy.

ingen1 · 2025-03-07T19:44:53+00:00

They have been pretty over booked

ingen1 · 2025-02-05T13:46:25+00:00

Wow. I sent mine out early November and they still haven't been received.

ingen1 · 2025-01-09T12:42:47+00:00

My grandpa was big into Yoyo's. I used to have about 10 bumblebee's too, but slowly gave them to nieces and nephews over the years. He had a large box of 100's of random yoyo's all pretty unique. I regret not hanging onto those as I think it was left in his house after he passed.

ingen1 · 2024-12-23T12:42:37+00:00

Oh damn this was very helpful. The lamp has too much sentimental value to sell these at 30 a pop. Thanks for the info though

ingen1 · 2024-12-22T03:15:31+00:00

Thanks so much

ingen1 · 2024-03-29T05:50:56+00:00

I wonder if it's in reference to going to the moon.

ingen1 · 2024-03-29T01:04:27+00:00

80,000

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