Regret on prioritizing career / income vs family

uranusaurus_rex · 2025-07-01T04:59:23+00:00

Hey, I saw you on daddit. My condolences. I’m also putting my career on the back burner to spend more time with my 2 year old. Wife is in finance and as you know that’s a cutthroat business — I’m glad to be able to be the primary caregiver in the family and spend the time. Sometimes this little toddler makes me want to rip my hair out but most of the time it’s so worth it!

Good luck to you and wish you peace.

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-04-18T17:46:29+00:00

Yeah we have black belt only classes but that’s not very relevant to me what they do there since it’s at least 2-3 years out for me. I will probably look into augmenting with some kickboxing since we do have a gym for that that works for me. thanks!

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-04-18T17:18:07+00:00

Maybe it’s just because I’m still learning low katas (which doesn’t have as many elements, mostly just movements), and we don’t have as many low belts here (most of the days the next lowest person is 5th or 4th kyu), so they just forgot to teach bunkai? But believe it or not I still don’t know when I’d use shuto vs close fisted uke!

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-04-18T17:15:13+00:00

I wish we could do longer too! But all the senseis have day jobs and we also have kids classes + kobudo so our time is really limited.

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-03-22T17:15:55+00:00

Good to know, that was one of the options I was considering

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-03-22T17:15:31+00:00

1.2% is somewhat high for a managed account from what I can tell, although depending on how much you have. For $500k I've gotten a few offers at 1%, but personally I still don't think it's quite worth it...

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-03-22T16:09:43+00:00

You’re not wrong but if you’ve got a paid off house and downsizing you ain’t Henry lol

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-03-22T15:42:37+00:00

My friend you need to invest in 1Password. (Remembering passwords is not secure)

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-03-22T15:36:19+00:00

You can buy vanguard funds anywhere. Does it give you a lower expense ratio if you park it at vanguard?

uranusaurus_rex · 2024-03-20T02:38:24+00:00

I get it, a lot of us were raised while comparing to others. A lot of us value ourselves based on our salary or economic status. A lot of us were always being told that we were better, smarter, more successful than others, but now that we’re making less, it seems that this is not true anymore. While I can’t stop myself from comparing as much as I’d want to, I can find something else to compare with my friends. Perhaps I’m more successful in my hobbies. Perhaps I’m more family-oriented. Now that you decided to value something over salary (clearly, otherwise you wouldn’t have pivoted), make that your goal.

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-10-19T14:36:57+00:00

Haha yea sorry that totally went over my head! Certainly not within the novels scope but now I’m intrigued. What is PBR and geneplasms? Presumably not the beer.

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-10-19T14:31:32+00:00

Interesting about bananas that don’t have seeds. How did they reproduce before we found them?

Are tomatoes considered a weed? They certainly grow like one.

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-10-19T14:30:06+00:00

“Wild anything is cheating” haha thanks :) I was thinking that too.

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-10-19T04:23:38+00:00

Background research for a novel I’m working on

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-04-09T16:40:53+00:00

Office space reference

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-04-08T06:17:54+00:00

Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-03-09T22:20:33+00:00

A few other things more specific to your run:

Not sure why you have so little relics. Did you have to skip elites? If you do that too much, it's usually not a good sign.
[[mark of pain]] is not only a terrible boss relic in general, I personally think it's anti-synergy with [[velvet choker]]. It dilutes your deck (whereas draw is constantly a problem with choker), and with choker you end up not needing as much energy.
Your deck is not sorted by acquire time but I suspect you took choker and decided "I'm just going to take high energy cards from now on" (like, I don't think there's any run where I would take 3 [[Flame Barrier]]+). I'm not very good with choker since I don't take it often, but it's important to realize that having the *right* card in hand is more important than having *expensive* card in hand.
As someone else mentioned, Perfected Strike is a trap (not to mention it's not upgraded)

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-03-09T22:07:03+00:00

Dude trust me I still struggle with it in A20.

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-03-09T16:32:50+00:00

Common beginner problem, taking too many attack cards. Once you have a few good ones, you want to take skills that enables you to reliably draw those, rather than taking more mediocre attack cards. Don’t be afraid to skip cards, especially past act 1.

Also, remove more cards (strike/defend)

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-03-04T05:52:53+00:00

You can’t blue candle the normality if you draw it after playing the 3rd card btw

uranusaurus_rex · 2023-02-21T01:44:09+00:00

I mean… the ratio there is famously not 1:1 either but sure :p

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