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but...

Is this all there is? I mean, I could ascend to CEO and then I guess everything would be different, but I thought the same thing before I hit CFO, Iono man, it all just seems kinda the same

also, I'm kinda over working for other folks. Again, this could be changed when I hit CEO, but again, past evidence says probably not.

Maybe it's time to just do my own thing.

and yes I know this shit reads, wah wah wah, poor little rich boy. lol

that being said...

wah wah wah.

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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do!" - Olin Miller

I somehow doubt becoming CEO would change much.

Turns out that success in business doesn't necessarily bring happiness or fulfillment.

At least with money you can remove *some* problems, but Ma$e rightly pointed out that having more money can sometimes bring more problems.

Doing your own thing seems like the next logical step, but there are many private company owners who are miserable too.

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seems wild. I been lightweight gunning for this my whole career then all of a sudden shit just kinda locked into place. *shrug*

Probably could have got here sooner had I not been bullshitting most of the time.

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congrats man, that's major.

I would suggest finding a charity or cause you can put some time into to fill some of that empty in your bucket.

cause the reality is yes, this is it

"A job aint nothing but work?" -Mo Money

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I wish the fuck I was, but not yet.

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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do!" - Olin Miller

I mean I have retirement savings, a condo and savings but I don't "feel" rich. (And by the IRS definition I'm not even 1/3 of the way there.)

I think someone with a $40k year job and $30k in the bank and a mortgage might think someone who owns a condo outright and makes $100k a year is 'rich.' But the person making $100k doesn't feel rich.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/income-level-considered-rich-140003986.html#:~:text=Based%20on%20that%20figure%2C%20an,%24819%2C324%20or%20more%20each%20year.

What Is a Rich Monthly Income?

The amount of money you need to make each month to be rich depends on which metric you’re using. If you’re going by the IRS standard, then you’d need to make approximately $45,000 a month to be rich. On the other hand, if you’re aiming for the top 1% as measured by the EPI, you’d need a monthly income of $68,277.

I'll bet you're rich compared the 25 year younger version of yourself!

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>I'll bet you're rich compared the 25 year younger version of
>yourself!

Well yeah! Of course, but honestly just feels like the same cycle of paying bills buying shit going to work as it always has

I got some cushion now. Couldn't say I'm paycheck to paycheck anymore, but I can't say I don't 'need' my job any less than I did then.

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I was joking but if you aren’t doing damn well as a CFO you got hosed on your title

I’m hunting right now but thankfully I have an emergency stash, a lil compensation package and a wife with a full time gig.

what I did realize is as soon as I got the slip, I immediately tightened my belt and realized I was just burning through cash because I was on autopilot.

Now I’m mentoring a young man at my kids elementary school and looking for a gig with a better work/life balance. I wasn’t getting home until 6pm and would only spend an hour with the kids before bed.

Get that money but live life and take ALL that vacation time to reset or remember what living is about.

Congrats on making CFO. That is some big dog shit right there.

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I'm doing ok on my title. For my industry and experience level, my salary is in line with standards.

I could be making more, and likely will a little bit down the line.

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Like, do you get a key to the 'special' bathroom like on the Simpsons when Homer grew hair? lol

Yes at certain organizations

but that's really only for LARGE orgs. I'm at a smaller one.

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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do!" - Olin Miller

I often see folks at director level and can't imagine how they keep up with everything on their plates.

lots of long days and reports out the ass.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

was at a football game out of state and towards the end got crazy bad floaters in one eye where I could barely see out of it

figured the stadium lights threw something out of whack and it would settle in a cpl hours. flight home nothing... try to sleep it off.. still the same. finally hit the ER the next day because incessant googling had me thinking I might lose my eye if I didn't hurry. They sent me to opthomology that day, turns out I have a small retinal hole and what I'm looking at is blood. They did a 5 minute laser procedure to repair it, and it's all done but I still gotta look thru blood for a couple months till it goes away.

overall just happy it was really minor. I might go get a pirate patch for when I need to focus though

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Shit was disgusting. Eyeball got deformed and gooey. And it turned into a lazy eye. Eyeball blob hanging over bottom eyelid, etc. I didn't have a detached retina but there was too much blood from the retinal tear so a laser couldn't do the job....

when I first got in to ophthalmology, the doctor asked me what could I see on the eye exam chart. That is, walk up to it until I could see. I walked up all the way to the wall and still couldn't see it was blurry/muddy/foggy.

It was my 3rd retinal tear in, like, 3 months. Both eyes. 2 in the left. The worst one in the right.

Overall, 5 tears in 10 years. All laser procedures except the one cryopexy.

There's animation of how that black curtain would look like if you had a detached retina. I thought I was seeing that, but it was brownish. But it was just blood moving around my eye like a wave.

But yeah, any new floaters all of a sudden. Mine looked kinda like a tornado. Less so flashing lights/dots. Black curtain. Go to the ER or ophthalmologist, immediately.

all the examples I looked up were like no, no, sort of.. but I had no flashing lights.
Best I could come up with was it was like looking through a veil with a map design on it except it moves around with my eye. Tornado is good tho lol.
Looking forward (no pun) to it clearing up

but holy shit, why so many tears for you? all they told me for mine is that it's just age or could be genetic

Yea, man, all I did was bend over to pick up stuff from the ground (not heavy at all) and when I straightened back up, this huge swirl appeared whirling like a tornado. Lasted for a few minutes. Guess it was the initial rush of blood. Then it became a bunch of huge floaters, then blurry/foggy, then brown/muddy. However, for about a week before that, when I was reading I noticed at a certain spot in my vision that letters were incomplete. Like a gap in the letter o, a, m, for example. Also, maybe the night before, an arc of flash of light. So, I guess the initial tear happened a while before, but a blood vessel ruptured then it got bad fast.

The other tear before this, all of a sudden there were hundreds of tiny bubble floaters and flashes of light.

According to my doctor, nearsighted people are at higher risk for tears and detachment because the muscles pull more and apply more force on the retina. Odd thing is that the worst tear happened in my better eye. Another risk factor is how viscous the vitreous is. But, the good news is that the older we get, the vitreous becomes more fluid and less thick and less pulling force on the retina.

Impact/combat sports/training increases risk. High power movements, too, like Olympic Weightlifting. I've given up plyometrics and basketball. Even stopped deadlifting. I suspect that weighted neck training contributed to my most recent tear. I still train my neck, but do it slowly.

Doctor said sleeping upright/inclined would help clear the blood faster, but it still took almost 3 weeks for the blurriness/fog to go away. Beyond 6 months I still saw dried blood fragments (black dots).

Glad your procedure was just quick laser and it wasn't a detachment.

I read that about nearsightedness. Not nearsighted, even had 20/20 up until a few years ago, now wear progressives mostly for reading, etc..

I always associated "detached retina" with getting punched in the face, but all i heard from both eye doctors is "as we age..". I was like, I drank alot the night before, could it be that?" but basically they were like nahh you're just old Lol

Def gonna try sleeping more upright if that helps clear it sooner

glad you're okay.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

thanks man

That was years ago, and seems to have gone pretty well.

How are you feeling now?

>That was years ago, and seems to have gone pretty well.
>
>How are you feeling now?

I'm straight. the blood is lessening. part of it is I jist got more used to it but i can tell its a bit clearer. other than that I feel normal.

they said up to 3 months but i feel like it will prob be all gone in a couple weeks

...the parking brake. I get in the car after her and it's rocking back and forth, and I can't see if a car is coming when I first start pulling out.

She's from the south... is that what it is?

in the south on side streets or in neighborhoods

we dont give a fuck

but unless you are on a hill in Manyunk who the hell uses a parking break in Philly?

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...I always set it. Also, my college GF had a stick shift and she taught me how to drive one and told me it wears on the clutch if the brake isn't set. That, and the car could just roll away on a hill without it, lol. Not sure if that's true or not, but I just applied that to automatics. Our street is flat now so I guess we don't need it, but it seems weird to me to not use it.


>but unless you are on a hill in Manyunk who the hell uses a parking
>break in Philly?

I can't say if that's southern, but that's what a lot of people do rather than having to reverse getting out of the parking spot.

I rarely use my parking brake. maybe if I'm on hill.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

someone else getting it while I circle the block.

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nah, I get it. I park backwards a lot too.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

Like if she sees a spot on the other side of the street, she'll just cut across the street and pull in, instead of making a U-turn and parking.

Like the car in this article: https://www.kiro7.com/traffic/why-do-seattle-drivers-park-wrong-way-and-why-dont/246866990/

I could see if it's temporary, but overnight, nah.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

While working at a h.s. for a week and a student (age 16) was shot and killed about a block away coming out of a store. Why is it the school never made mention of the student, just continued business as usual. No talk of preventive measures to violence, no recognition of his young life and according to fellow classmates the kid wasn’t a banger etc.

I’ve never known a school to be so dismissive.

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Purposely trying to downplay?

In a state of shock about what happened?

Not equipped to address?


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I was thinking the kid was banging and perhaps the school didn’t want to further put themselves in it but that makes no sense when the news already reported the kid was a student of said school.

I was also wondering if the school was just waiting for more info to come out in addressing the student’s demise, but as the week went by, nothing.

Now I’m thinking they just hope the story gets swept under the rug as shootings of black folks often do, and that it doesn’t have too much affect on next year’s freshman enrollment.

Still you would think the counselors would at least push to have an assembly to inform students on the importance of their lives and making good decisions.

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Definitely forgotten by the school system but thankfully his peers have not.

every time it gets close to the holidays they get fucking weird

this time my wife decided to remove herself from a nee family group thread her mom made because she added her sisters new new white husband who is SEVENTEEN years her junior to it.. lol.

I actually think my wife is in the wrong for thinking her opinion on this new white dude matters.

but her mom said if she left the group she was no longer family which is just dumb

mother/daughter relationships are so fucking toxic. I grew up with 2 older sisters so I’m a vet at this shit.

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Seems like she does not want to interact with that dude, and she's willing to cut off anyone that tries to get her to. I'm the same way, so of course I'd agree with that, lol.

Also, what kinda dude marries a woman 17 years older than him? Unless he's gunning to be on her multi-million dollar plus will, I don't understand.

Long-ass evolving dreams with plots, subplots, continuity and all that. Weed really does fuck-up the REM sleep. No nightmares so far, fortunately, tho that 'Philly Favelas' dream I had was kinda interesting.

For some reason, I'm also sleeping more and falling asleep much easier. Like, if I lay down now I'm OUT.

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...realized I didn't like that groggy head feeling that I get from smoking bud. I've taken a few T-breaks over the years, but I guess it's being older that made this one feel different. I thought I'd have more energy, but really I just feel more alert now when I'm awake.

Then there is the vanity aspect. I look better when not smoking, with no red eyes or bags. Been only 45 days, but I'm seeing my lips starting to lighten-up a bit.

Finally, there's the health aspect. I don't like smoking anymore. Before I stopped it was increasingly irritating my throat and lungs. I'm mid-40s, so I'm trying to build some new healthy habits so I'm not falling apart too much in my 50s & 60s. I was already considering switching to just edibles before I stopped anyway.

i mean...
its been scandal after scandal, yes
but holyshitthisisbasura

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

Uh oh, which Columbia? Chicago?

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

I saw some ads in the train station

--
Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/columbia-university-us-news-rankings.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/opinions/columbia-ranking-inaccurate-data-thaddeus/index.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-obgyn-sexually-assaulted-patients-for-20-years

Good for Prof. Thaddeus for taking one for the team.

I wish his efforts were a part of a coordinated effort to show all the schools in the top 10 are lying. Have to start somewhere I guess.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

the gynaecologist scandal - and how we buried it
how we are responsible for the poor reading standards across schools by getting rid for phonics - there's an entire podcast. we've failed students.
and being on this campus during this gaza siege. just off.

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

What an accomplishment.

You buried the lead.

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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

Makes no sense at all to me.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

but the office is all female doctors. this is probably why...

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-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

We just happened to be at NYU but it could have easily been Columbia. It's all around the time my wife was pregnant and in new york.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

results they keep getting.




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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

...ability or willingness to think through things like you do, and that their emotions and perception of the world is similar.

Personally, I've accepted that I do not understand most other people, and probably can't.

is far rarer than most think.

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I told them, shall see if they agree to it.

and just found out the guy I can't stand has been immediately placed on medical leave for 3 weeks after getting written up again.

if karma exist, this guy is getting it.

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Second only to an ex calling you up on some "Baby, baby, please!"

I'm pulling for you, fam.

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You got this fam.

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haven’t given an answer yet.

the caucasity.

Wife and I are crunching numbers to see if we can live off one salary for a few months.

I hate not having steady income but at the same time..

man, ionno.

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my old gig reached out a month ago and we have been going back and forth.

I been doing side gigs but not enough to say fuck you

but I haven’t accepted the offer yet.

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Lord help her kids.

♥ Inescapably Me ♥

"Love is never any better than the lover" Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)

sovereign citizen adjacent with black empowerment angle to it ... I am not sure but I can see this turning out poorly for her and the kids. I am not on Facebook or any of the socials so I have no clue what is going on here beyond what I can find from google.

♥ Inescapably Me ♥

"Love is never any better than the lover" Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)

And how are her kids taking it?