Kinda Wish I Was in Austin...
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@ajstringham said:
If it was a six-figure job, I wouldn't have been recommended for it.
Did the person who recommended you know both the position and your experience well enough to match you?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
Homeless temporarily and rich long term? Or poor and never be without a home.
I lived in my car for a week in 1997 to get through.
The thing is, I don't have a big car. I'm a big guy. I suppose it's feasible, but I like coming home to something.
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
If it was a six-figure job, I wouldn't have been recommended for it.
Did the person who recommended you know both the position and your experience well enough to match you?
I know the person who recommended me a little. I hung out with him on Monday with @dengelhardt . He's been watching me on SW I guess.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
Yeah, I did it in NY where I got to have a blanket, not worry about lacking air conditioning.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
Yeah, I did it in NY where I got to have a blanket, not worry about lacking air conditioning.
I have no AC in my car...
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
Yeah, I did it in NY where I got to have a blanket, not worry about lacking air conditioning.
I have no AC in my car...
I am not going to press the issue anymore. If you were serious about advancing your career and grabbing an opportunity when it came you could make it work. You never know how a person is living till you walk in their shoes. You may work or be friends with someone whose situation isn't ideal. You could really make it work if you wanted to.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller , I doubt it's a six-figure job.
How could it not be with that description?
I would be surprised if it's six figure. But still applying and interviewing for jobs is always good experience if you don't take them. You know how many interviews I've had in the past 2-3 months that I've had to turn down due to the pay being to low for the drive. A lot!
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
Homeless temporarily and rich long term? Or poor and never be without a home.
I lived in my car for a week in 1997 to get through.
The thing is, I don't have a big car. I'm a big guy. I suppose it's feasible, but I like coming home to something.
You can rent a car if you need one for a few weeks til you can move.
That wouldn't be cheap. If I got the job, assuming I interviewed and found a way to make this work, I'm just trying to figure out how this could be doable...I need to talk to someone I know.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
Yeah, I did it in NY where I got to have a blanket, not worry about lacking air conditioning.
I have no AC in my car...
I am not going to press the issue anymore. If you were serious about advancing your career and grabbing an opportunity when it came you could make it work. You never know how a person is living till you walk in your shoes. You may work or be friends with someone whose situation isn't ideal. You could really make it work if you wanted to.
Exactly you can't expect things to be handed things in life. You need to put in effort for them.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
Yeah, I did it in NY where I got to have a blanket, not worry about lacking air conditioning.
I have no AC in my car...
I am not going to press the issue anymore. If you were serious about advancing your career and grabbing an opportunity when it came you could make it work. You never know how a person is living till you walk in your shoes. You may work or be friends with someone whose situation isn't ideal. You could really make it work if you wanted to.
Exactly you can't expect things to be handed things in life. You need to put in effort for them.
Not expecting them to be. I'm just trying to figure out how this could be doable.
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@ajstringham said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
Sleep in your car until you get that first paycheck. You will be alot better off in the longrun
And be homeless?
You don't sleep anyway, right? You will still have your Dallas apartment as your legal address anyways. I am talking about doing this for a week or two. You could drive back to your Dallas apartment on the weekend
I don't sleep very much, and not really soundly, but I don't think I could sleep in my car. Besides, living out of my car for 5 days a week is not appealing.
For a week or two? I spent a week in the everglades a few years ago. You want to talk about uncomfortable?
Yeah, I did it in NY where I got to have a blanket, not worry about lacking air conditioning.
I have no AC in my car...
I am not going to press the issue anymore. If you were serious about advancing your career and grabbing an opportunity when it came you could make it work. You never know how a person is living till you walk in your shoes. You may work or be friends with someone whose situation isn't ideal. You could really make it work if you wanted to.
Exactly you can't expect things to be handed things in life. You need to put in effort for them.
Not expecting them to be. I'm just trying to figure out how this could be doable.
Stay in your car on weekdays and drive back to dallas on weekends. Join a Planet fiteness gym for $10 a month and use their showers before you go to work.
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I'm looking into this right now.
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Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
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@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
Throw it all out and start over
A UHaul or even a minivan might do it. Are you moving furniture too?
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@IRJ said:
Stay in your car on weekdays and drive back to dallas on weekends. Join a Planet fiteness gym for $10 a month and use their showers before you go to work.
Great idea on the showers. The office might have showers too, lots of them do. It's been years since I couldn't shower in the office.
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@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
At this point, I would say do the interview and land the job. Then figure it out. No sense in thinking too hard about it when you may not even score the job.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
At this point, I would say do the interview and land the job. Then figure it out. No sense in thinking too hard about it when you may not even score the job.
That is how I operate too. I am a perceiver, not a planner (aka the judger.) Move forward, tackle the issues as they come. Don't plan for situations that don't exist yet. If you get the job, you will figure out the other stuff. There are millions of factors that you know nothing about yet such as if you want the job, how much it pays, when they would need you to start, if you can work from home for a while, are there showers in the office, can you break your lease, etc. Once you land the job you will have the information necessary. Any planning done now is wasted effort for a situation not likely to be an issue.
Judgers need to plan things and often start planning for scenarios that will almost certainly never exist because they like to develop as many plans in their mind as possible because they struggle to see opportunities happen in real time
