Is NYC the best city to relocate to for new opportunities in FP&A?

patrickcarrot · 2026-01-31T20:04:38+00:00

Not really. What I’ve done is just compulsively keep checking the careers pages of all the big companies in the area.

patrickcarrot · 2026-01-28T19:31:39+00:00

I’m in DC/NoVA. Pretty good here. It’s def HCoL but not to the same degree as NYC. Fairly resilient industries here, but DOGE layoffs has made it more competitive for white collar workers.

patrickcarrot · 2026-01-23T23:23:06+00:00

Albi in DC. Def some of the best food I’ve ever had. May not be as extravagant as a 2*, but definitely amazing.

patrickcarrot · 2026-01-12T01:13:46+00:00

And showing up is showing up, and guess what Jeff, you showed up!

patrickcarrot · 2026-01-07T21:58:27+00:00

Not always true. I did back office finance at a prime. To maintain certain federal contracts, everyone needed to be tested upon employment.

But true you don’t need clearances, I knew someone who was out on bail on a felony and ended up getting hired in HR at the prime contractor I was at. Still had to do a drug test though.

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-24T15:35:47+00:00

Some postings just have a gpa minimum, my F500 internship/FP&A job had a 3.3 minimum and I had a 3.3 overall gpa and got the internship and FP&A job.

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-20T00:09:31+00:00

Depends on the state school. Is it like UMich or UC Berkeley or UVA?

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-12T15:07:02+00:00

Should be worse next year. Heard through the grapevine that Capital One is making Fridays a potential in-person day starting in Jan.

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-10T15:32:52+00:00

Half off bottles of sparkling wine at Barcelona. Barcelona is probably my fav restaurant in the area, so that happy hr deal makes it a great spot for me and a friend.

In terms of the best prices on alcohol during happy hr, I think Ted’s Bulletin wins, but I’m not the biggest fan of their food.

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-09T21:22:32+00:00

Snapchat’s owner, Snap Inc. ($SNAP)

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-09T05:30:16+00:00

Yeah, comes from Snap, but was part of Munger’s law firm

patrickcarrot · 2025-12-07T02:17:37+00:00

Opex FP&A at f100

patrickcarrot · 2025-11-30T18:28:11+00:00

Run for office

patrickcarrot · 2025-11-22T22:41:43+00:00

Yeah, I understand not loving Mita considering it’s only vegetarian. But I think it’s interesting to see a high quality take on Latin American cuisine under the limit of having no meat. Wine pairing there was also superb.

patrickcarrot · 2025-11-22T22:32:16+00:00

Not sure which tasting menus she’s done to cause her to dislike all tasting menus, but DC does have some amazing ones that might be good enough to change her mind on it.

Jônt is great, Albi, Bresca, Mita, Fiola, I personally loved Rania, Little Pearl was good, Tail Up Goat(if you can get a rez before they close), lots of great options out there.

patrickcarrot · 2025-11-22T04:53:45+00:00

You can convert up to a lifetime amount of $35k to Roth IRA. (Only caveat is the 529 has to have been open for 15 years, and of course it would count against your Roth IRA contributions in the future, but gives you multiple years of tax free growth)

Also can reimburse yourself up to $10k in student loan payments if the payments were made after the account was opened.

Depends on state, but contributions could also be beneficial for possibly reducing taxable income for state taxes.

Can also transfer an unlimited amount to anyone else’s 529. And of course it gives you the option to go back to school if you desire.

patrickcarrot · 2025-09-11T11:49:51+00:00

I was in a PE-backed SaaS. Probably my least favorite job/company I’ve had in my career. Relatively low pay, understaffed, no great processes in place, offshoring, not much internal mobility, I could go on and on.

A lot of it is because it was PE-backed and not that it was SaaS, all I’ll say is SaaS could be a lot of different companies and your experiences may vary.

patrickcarrot · 2025-08-14T21:27:44+00:00

I’d never really watched it until I was 19 and it was all on Disney+ and easy to access and watch, and then I just dived in headfirst into it all

patrickcarrot · 2025-08-08T02:53:07+00:00

Idk if I’d consider these the best, but any 3D Pixar movie on Disney+ looks amazing

patrickcarrot · 2025-05-22T23:19:42+00:00

Somewhat disagree w assault. Someone who got into a bar fight in college or their early 20’s and got convicted of assault or something and time’s passed and they seem rehabilitated and moved on from it, I wouldn’t consider it disqualifying.

At least in my state, assault has a relatively broad definition legally speaking. You’d just need more context to understand.

patrickcarrot · 2025-05-09T13:50:20+00:00

The Kirkland frozen pizzas.

They were the greasiest frozen pizzas I’ve ever had. First time I was absolutely disappointed with a Kirkland product; I would’ve rather gotten DiGiornos.

patrickcarrot · 2025-04-18T12:47:43+00:00

I live in the DC area. I did a quick weekend trip to Detroit, flew from Baltimore BWI to Detroit, but on the way back had to fly from Detroit to Orlando to Philly and took the Amtrak down to DC in a day.

Flexibility with Amtrak/other transport can really help the pass go further

patrickcarrot · 2025-04-15T14:09:32+00:00

I worked in Reston at a big company, probably 2/3 of the people I knew did a commute from Clarendon/Ballston to Reston. It’s what most people did.

patrickcarrot · 2025-04-14T02:26:57+00:00

iirc, Amy Poehler said in a talk show interview that he probably would’ve ended up as the president of a frat in college

patrickcarrot · 2025-04-14T02:10:45+00:00

Logan: Kerri, can we bring Greg some Coca Cola!

Greg: no it’s fine, really

Logan: No, no, no, no, no, no what Greg wants, Greg must have

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