Kinda Wish I Was in Austin...
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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
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That is a big reason why I operate very well in community forums like this. My "P" leaning, which is very strong, means that I am able to take a situation that I am reading about, ask the necessary questions and provide feedback and then, immediately, move on to something else. I deal with the decision making in the moment allowing me to move from moment to moment discussing and thinking about completely different issues.
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!?!?!
Ok I apologize. But seriously.... WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?! I feel like you're looking for excuses and not taking a very worthwhile opportunity, even if it is at this point just an interview. Career changes come with risks, career changes come with... wait for it... change. No one likes change if it requires them to get out of their comfort zone. But you have to do that in order to get to where you want to be.
DOOOO ITTTTTTT.
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@SarawithanH possibly my greatest strength in life is that change and discomfort IS my comfort zone. To me it feels natural - being overly comfortable or stagnate make me feel uncomfortable - but I have come to learn that few other people have that same feeling. I don't like things being easy.
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@scottalanmiller I've never realized that was a strength. hahaha growing up my dad told me it was being wreckless because I never had a "plan", that I was "going out of my way" to make things more difficult than they needed to be. I don't think I'm on the same level as you, but I constantly will undertake things that make me nervous or uncomfortable in order to better myself, be it personal or work related.
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Seriously, AJ, do the interview or stop complaining about how unhappy you are with your current situation. Change what you don't like or shut up.
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@SarawithanH I would say that your Dad's reaction is because he's a planner, like me. It took me a long time to understand that aspect of Scott's personality, and it took him even longer to understand my need to plan!
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@Dominica It's only been since I've become a mom that I've learned the necessity to plan for things. It still trips me up sometimes. But thankfully I have a patient husband.
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@Dominica said:
@SarawithanH I would say that your Dad's reaction is because he's a planner, like me. It took me a long time to understand that aspect of Scott's personality, and it took him even longer to understand my need to plan!
ENFP here. It's amazing how true that assessment is. The only one of those characteristics that is in the "middle" at all is the F/T portion. I'm an F but only barely.
