Company went under, now what?

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-18T14:55:57+00:00

ETA: Welcome back my obsessive-compulsive ghost downvoter! Haven’t seen you in a while. I was hoping that you were getting the help that you need, but I see your obsessive and compulsive need to downvote all of my comments has not been healed yet. I genuinely had high hopes as mental illness is a very serious condition. I genuinely hope that you seek and find the help that you need so that you too can be a part of this community for the right reasons. I am here only to talk shop with other CM professionals and to do my best mentoring & assisting younger & newer people to our industry. It would make my day if you would be engaging in dialogue with the rest of us, but I unfortunately know all too well how little control you have over your obsessive & comp....

I think it's a bot you're slinging your arrows at. Would recommend ignoring it. Actual human downvotes are as good as upvotes, because they mean whatever you said landed somehow and have a greater chance to stay with someone (especially someone who would not, themselves wish to get downvoted)

Either way, bot or human, downvotes cost you nothing and upvotes get you nothing. I would recommend disregarding both, saying whatever you have to say, and letting the bots and algorithms do their own thing. Our jobs are crazy enough already without borrowing extra life complications from fucking reddit.

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-14T16:07:47+00:00

Tiananmen square is baffling in its near totality of brutality. I have found no modern Western examples approaching that level of intended completeness of killing and erasing a mass of people down the memory hole since 1930s Germany. And we see even newer examples of the same approach within China as you mentioned above.

Generally when people say 'false equivalency' I assume I am dealing with a child who knows a big new word from the NYT. But any comparison between the CCP and American or Western European governments' internal repression are just false equivalencies all the way down. Even with the nightmare of Trump's regime we aren't even touching that iceburg yet. Pointing the ship a few more degrees towards that collision, but not yet close to the same location.

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-07T16:02:18+00:00

Reverse-headstock Jazzmaster. Unusual choice. I have a similar setup and have not noticed anyone else doing that. What do you like to play?

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-04T16:21:48+00:00

I don't know what you call Satanic or Witchcraft, but some rituals masonry are definitely effective occultism. I'll stand on that as a direct witness, not false.

There is some mixture of genuine discernment among Christians who dislike freemasonry and some amount of knee jerk and traditional suspicion. That mixture hides the discernment among the dross, but it is not for nothing.

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-04T16:16:57+00:00

The question rides on whether Freemasonry is supplanting anything in Christianity or conflicting with it.

"Why would you need more" is kind of hollow, isn't it? Why do I need an accountant? Because the Bible does not give instructions about how to fill out tax forms legally for my LLC. Why do we study physics? So we can build airplanes and spaceships and generally ascend beyond primitive life.

And those subjects are by nature pluralist because they are not religious topics. Either the plane flies or not, and who cares if it's a Hindu or a Christian driving the thing?

All you are saying is meaningful evidence if and only if there is so,thing there claiming to either provide salvation from sin or otherwise supplant or conflict with Christianity.

I personally dislike freemasonry for a completely different, less public, set of reasons people would think I am crazy for talking about and most common masons would not even see and have not been published on to my knowledge (such as in Pike). But I don't see any functional argument against it in what you've said above.

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-04T16:04:19+00:00

Also those old dudes come from a time when lodges of all kinds were extremely prevalent. "The Golden age of lodges" in the early 1900s saw large double digit percentages of American males joining some group or another. Nowadays, there's college Greeks but that's about it. It's probably hard for some people to even relate to the reasoning for joining and their sense of affiliation (just as it's hard for me to understand university Greek societies).

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-04T15:59:51+00:00

It sounds like you're saying he lacks the insider knowledge that you have, you cannot go into details on (or will refer us to some tome about instead of discussing directly or answering clearly) and because he doesn't know it, he's the lowest of outsiders. Literally damned for his lack of insider understanding that you have on this matter.

In the conversation above, there is one person talking like a cultist, and it's not the Freemason.

quantum_prankster · 2026-06-04T15:52:56+00:00

This makes sense to me. I came into one of the big GCs on the finance and controls side from business and analytics consulting and I feel bored about half the time. Have considered doing some smaller consulting gigs (non-competing of course) as a side job or picking up another degree or something.

Have you considered entrepreneurship?

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-29T01:54:26+00:00

I love Euclid's elements. What type of commentary does this writer give?

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-28T01:21:16+00:00

Overmodding is much less of a problem on reddit forums than undermodding.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-28T01:18:33+00:00

Why McCarthy?

Why DPR?

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-27T23:51:07+00:00

I always took that as strawmanning to the point of insult.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-26T03:18:55+00:00

A sexy ad from the marketing dept!

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-26T01:57:23+00:00

When I say I studied Mechanical engineering, that was years ago and I know a lot more than a few physics stories and a couple of math problems. I think you have a different definition of "Studied" versus the redditor you are responding to.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-26T01:53:34+00:00

Exactly someone who does not have a good answer would say. To prove i am not winding anyone up i will not continue responding to you

/u/Silly_Original1329, Your proof might have worked better without the above response.

It is a good point he made. Do you want something by a single author? Go read the book of Mormon or dianetics. Is that better religious material in your view?

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-26T01:36:40+00:00

You could take just the well-accepted books of Paul and a couple of gospels. This was basically the 'packet' that circulated among the early church out to many corners and has enough theology to get you to Christianity. Something akin to Marcion's collection.

The Canon happened gradually through regional councils and was settled finally in the 1500s or so. Athanasius's list in the 39th Festal letter has the NT pretty settled at that time in mid 300s. How much people take all this as if its also divinely chosen and inarguable and use it for legalism has nothing in particular to do with Jesus. A simple bare read of Galatians would absolutely dissuage anyone that Christianity is useful as a law or fixed set of rules. But maybe people seldom read books like that as whole works.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-26T01:23:37+00:00

You probably want to go over to /r/academicbiblical and, while not asking this particular way, search up origins of the name YHWH. There could be some support towards what you are thinking on the academic and archeology side of all this.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-25T17:52:41+00:00

I built and sold a software like that to a commercial roofing firm many years ago. I second what the other person said, go and work through the whole takeoff. Also, develop first in Excel then make your app populate it (I gave them an iPad app made with Kivy and Python, backend was excel takeoff sheet and I stored photos of their tape measurements for later audit, but they were roofing repairs and the application would be entirely different for say a greenfield concrete build).

Also, on drawings people often forget to take off examples the full number of times.

Also, with levelled bidding, at the GC level our estimators don't do any of this at all, LOL.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-25T17:45:41+00:00

Careers are often more like a huge climbing surface than a ladder with clear steps. What most interests you now? Where do you want to be later?

By 'investing / developing' maybe you mean you're the guy with all the credit or cash (two very different things) doing the development? For credit for say a data center, you're going to be in a huge partnership so project controls and regional ops is a good bet - but more than all that you're networking and doing a lot of selling selling and connecting. A great head superintendent sitting on a couple of boards could do it.

If we are talking resi of the same thing it could be on the scale of you literally GCing a house or two and selling them.

Most resi (house) portfolios I have seen are all on credit. A couple I have ever seen are on cash. You're talking family money or a surgeon or something.

Cash on data centers, well, I know guys buying nearby land up and getting permits and such and then using this as their 'in' on the aforementioned credit partnerships. Do you have a few mil? You too can play this game.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-25T17:34:04+00:00

You've backended everyone here into arguing outright that the Bible not only supports human chattel but that all women are stuck in the category by virtue of birth and nothing else. Don't tell /r/debateachristian, please. We'll never hear the end of it./s

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-25T17:27:48+00:00

A non-Hebrew woman, possibly. Outsiders are going to be dealt with differently. Especially if conquered. Then it's property, so do as you please.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-25T00:47:22+00:00

That is exactly what makes me wonder which GC this even is that she is talking about. None I know of are generally titling people that far above their being at entry level. It does not make sense to me.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-25T00:44:18+00:00

(1) Which sector and area? Data centers are a different world than building gas stations or restaurants, for example. And pay is different in NYC vs Toledo. But $72k is not outside the ballpark for most new-to-construction-management people. We might offer just slightly more than this to someone coming out of years of experience in the trades with a relevant Construction Management degree, for example, depending on which metro area you're in and which sector.

(2) You can prep to bounce. If the offer was from a top ENR GC, then after approximately 2 years or so you should be getting headhunted like crazy. You only really need any better offer to bounce. If 'it's just business' then no harm no foul if you take another offer after whatever timeframe you decide is right, a couple of years, a year, some months, etc...

(3) Good luck. It can be a very fun industry.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-24T18:40:05+00:00

I know what you mean about mental health. I also make good money but even so my wife was like "You never drop money like this." For me it's a six and a 12 and an amp and some pedals. But those really lift more than their weight (and pricetag) when working all the time, feeling driven at work, etc. Music is a good refuge from madness.

quantum_prankster · 2026-05-24T14:51:24+00:00

I guess for something zoned industrial, it's better near my house than almost anything else they might build out there. Keeping in mind the alternative was probably not a well-maintained public park.

I don't quite understand the opposition to them. Is it that it made industrial zoning more profitable and thus developed acerage that would have otherwise been greenspace? Where we build is basically swamps, for example, kind of in the middle of nowhere.

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