I would only want to watch the revanant in a theater and only once.

Miami, Andees, and the rest of my fellow timeout holders,

Brag: Just offered a substantial promotion (benefits, pay, and title)
Beat: Job I hate
Variance: money tho

Cliffs are I've been a contractor in finance for the past year. I sort of enjoy the work (my time outs prior to this job were way harder). I have just been offered a permanent position which includes a better title (good for future job prospects, most important part actually imo), a 12% raise, and huge benefit increase (benefits for contractors are lol).

Downside is its into a role that I know sucks. Lady prior just quit, which is why it opened up.

I've done this dog and pony show before (in the corp world it's called "paying your dues"), and I hated it (taking a new role solely for career enhancement)

BUT, I'm a contractor (i.e., expendable, esp if I turn down decent job offers)

So, take the role of senior time out holder? Or stay a contractor?

Poll:

1). Suck it up you p***y
2). Lol first world problems
3). Stay contractor, keep looking for fulfilling work
4). I like turtles

Take the job but keep looking for fulfilling work?

I think it really depends on how much more miserable your life will be in the new role vs. current contractor role (increased stress level/hours etc) and what your tolerance level is.

I've been there myself (also in finance) and 50-60hrs+ p/w doing a job you despise isn't sustainable and probably won't end well.

Good luck

Don't think I have enough info about current situation / options / etc to give real advice

I work a **** load - likely more than anyone I know (friends/family/etc) but I also like my job more often than not. Not hating my job is the difference between handling 70-90 hr weeks vs. hating life working 45-50


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Hating work life atm- definitely doom switched myself earlier


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Heh yea, that's what will likely happen. I should have been more clear on why this is a problem.

Basically as a contractor I am a free agent, I could quit tmrw and my relationship with company X still looks fine, as I'm just doing contracted work. So on a resume, "contractor, Analyst, Apple" for 6 months looks significantly better then "analyst, Apple" for 6 months (which would require an explanation)

I've been doing a lot of work looking into different opportunities and wanting to ground my career again, possibly moving out to California, etc. As a contractor that leaves my with a lot of wiggle room, as a "Senior Time Out Holder", well I can't just have a 3 month stint for that on my resume.

Thanks for the well wishes though. Curious, did you leave finance?

Preaching to the choir. My first job out of college I was put on a big project finance team and I loved the work. Building financials for $100M+ projects, hotels, restaurant chains, etc. had a great/brillaint boss that took me under his wing.

But yea worked 70 weeks and loved it. That team was disbanded, I was put in consolidations finance, and started hating 40 hour weeks. Haven't stopped hating finance since.

Haha. I showed Miss Ava your first post and she basically said "well he's a better man than I". We both absolutely hate the corp world man. Perhaps smaller enterprise is the way to go but we're both pretty jaded on corp. finance at least.

12% increase is monster.

I recently moved to a new lab in order to diversify that offered a 9.4% increase and turned down a position that is in the same field for a 17% increase.

Experience and knowledge pay dividends in the future, definitely a consideration. Same benefits tho.

I guess I won't be going to the movies with DGAF.

Tried to watch The Drew League last night. Kept waiting for it to morph into something cool. Instead it was interview after interview of someone else saying the same thing. "This place is a great spot in the community where the gangs and violence can be put on hold and the love of basketball will just be shared and cherished." Ok we get it.

So I know you guys are into actual shows/movies with creative plots and complex characters, but Below Deck is my new guilty pleasure. Can't get enough of it.

It's a reality show that follows the crew of a yacht as rich people take it out for charter.

Makes me wish I just started deck handing at 16.

Also have a man crush on Ben the chef

1 & 2.

(take the job quit if/when you don't like it)

I think the families that started/run the league are incredible. I also really like how accepting the league is (as long as you keep the crime outside the gym as you mentioned), especially wrt the Mexican looking equipment dude (I think that was his role, either way you could tell the league meant EVERYTHING to him) and the dude who was Baron Davis' rival and ****ed up in all kinds of ways before finding himself. Idk, there just seemed to be a lot of love and realness that I just don't see anywhere very often.

Do you think the astronomical popularity growth of the league was mostly just random?

Meh. It was just slow af and super repetitive.

I'll tell you what rocked though. That mf Warriors game. Let's get some tickets and fly up Monday. Steve Kerr works out at my gym and his boy Jud lives next door to my surf buddy. I am too respectful though and never approached him so sadly despite feeling like I know him well I have never actually spoken to him. I am sure for the right price we could find some tickets and make it happen.

Just saw this. Woulda been sweet to be at game 7- even though I had my life on Okc winning it all. Nice knowing you guys...

I took the Warriors against the field so still some work to be done. I only bet my old man dinner so losing is ok since I am always happy to buy his broke ass a steak.

You didn't see that NBA switched ref rotation and pulled Foster from game 7? That's all you needed to know.


Just got tix for game 4 of the finals. Should be there to complete the Cavs sweep and enjoy the victory parade


But seriously Cavs in 6


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Although I'm a die hard Warriors fan, my superstitious side tells me that the league is kind of rigged. The Donaghy scandal, some EXTREMELY suspect calls by Foster in these playoffs (even more suspect considering evidence linking him to Donaghy in the past etc), the Patrick Ewing draft etc etc. Seems very convenient for the NBA and their ad partners for the fan favorite dubs to have a cinderella story comeback to win the series after going the maximum number of games. Tinfoil hat off now.


That aside, go Warriors! Think they will take Cavs in 6 if Love doesn't dominate down low. He seems pretty soft to me when the chips are down though, dubious to me whether he makes the impact needed for them to win.

I'm so torn. I have money on GSW from bets made a while ago, and yet I really, really want the King to bring Cleveland a championship.

Most sports fans are such results oriented fish when it comes to evaluating talent. Rings won is huge in most discussions of who the best of all time is, and yet it's such an insanely silly metric for a team sport (ldo). So Lebron winning or losing the finals this year doesn't matter to me- he's the best basketball player I've ever seen, but ****, Cleveland needs a title one time, no?

Gotta be better for the NBA if Cleveland wins, right?

Pretty crazy Foster is still an official...

JR Smith is playing amazing imo. Kyrie and Love are healthy/playing well. The rotation is way better without Mozgov/with Frye. These are a lot of positive differences for the Cavs compared to last year.

finals goes 6 games +200
finals goes 7 games +175

placed maximum allowable wager on both. there's no way this ends 4-1 right?

i would imagine it''s better for NBA if warriors win - casual fans love steph/his babyface, enjoy rooting against a villain (lebron), potential dynasty, etc

Either result is good for the NBA and the causal fan will jump on whatever bandwagon is hot


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Why is Lebron a villain? Because of The Decision and he complains to refs a lot (like so many other stars do)? Guy plays hard, plays team ball, is good for the community, good dad it seems, etc.

You may be right, I was just thinking what a story it would be if Cleveland got their first sports title in 50 years, especially on the heels of that 30 for 30 that came out recently. Also, a series win will really heat up the GOAT convo between Lebron and MJ. That can't be bad for the game.

Not to derail too hard- MJ is definitely in the convo for Goat but I'm not 100% convinced it isn't Kareem

Lebron is the best player I have ever watched for an entire career. I only got to really see Michael from 95+


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Also lebron will be a hero if he Cavs win + plus a true redemption story


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Yeah I am still on the side of MJ for GOAT. I don't really have any concrete evidence but my gut says so. I think it is basically this metric: If my squad is down 1 and we have the ball with 10 seconds left, I just want Michael on my side taking the shot more than Lebron. MJ had more of a rip-your-heart-out-win-at-all-cost mentality. There have been playoff games where Lebron looked disinterested, passive, and for lack of a better word, beatable. I never felt like that watching MJ.


That said, I haven't wanted to watch a player as much as Steph since MJ. He is probably the best pure shooter and dribbler the game has ever seen. That's something.