esp. people who don't know what they're doing

Yeah I know how it feels

My last boss couldn't even work with excel

hahaha really

He's a good guy and all

Yeah

I had a lot of recommendations

And helped streamline a bunch of stuff

Made excel templates for them to work with

i feel like such a douche getting all the MOS certs

It's not bad to have on a resume

But a lot of employers test candidates now

that's what i realized when i was at CMU

there was one other white dude there

everyone else was chinese or indian

this was around 2006

I like rice based foods more than corn based foods

Better on the digestive system

Have you set up a savings acct?

Put 10-20% of your earnings in there?

Id recommend something like Merrill Lynch but they were acquired by Bank of America

But putting some money into savings is good to do. You'll forget about it and it'll build up

$500 is pretty hard to survive on nowadays

How's your property tax?

Does it increase each year?

Sorry to probe too much

With that kind of salary, it's difficult to plan for the future

Can't really afford having kids and such (if you wanted them)

I set up a savings last year that was deducted from my pay

I only accrued $600 in it, but that's $600 that I would've blown on trivial stuff

Like beer

I didn't notice it being gone from my pay

500$ in USA has to be pocket change

I had days when i would be penniless and would get outside to see how the day goes without any money, and those usually turned out to be funny days

well i had this cafe where i would aways get free coffee and shit

and i wuld start from there

people still keep slapping me with miserable offers for my synth

and so on

You played synth in public?

Like on a sidewalk?

Nope

I played a guitar on sidewalk but i suck at guitar

I don't actually know many melodies on keys, but i improvise whole day

It's completely doable to live on $500 a week, but it's hard to chart out long-term plans

And if something unexpected comes up, you might be in a bind

ah ok, 500$ a week is ok

thats average monthly salary here

I survived on $12 / hr for a long time

Had a nice apt on some swamps in tampa

Nature preserve

It's doable

Very nice, but i hate combination of humidity and warmth

I'm used to it. It doesn't bug me

are you good at spending little ?

Okinawa was hot and humid too

Yeah, other than being a drunk

lulz

I don't buy things

For books, I volunteer here and there at the library. So I get first dibs at their book sales

cool, land of opportunities

Literally $0.25 for most of my books

i've made recently a dramatic step at applying for a job

actually quite a fancy one at a local telco

Are you British?

No

Where are you at? Canada? Sweden? Brazil? South Africa?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro

Southern euro

Say, do you like spicy food?

Nope

@deadite and I were discussing that southern euros like spicy food whereas northern euros hate it

He's Greek, loves spicy food

I'm mainly Hungarian, I love habanaros

Our traditional cuisine here is diary, a form of spinach, river fish

and smoked ham

Doesn't sound bad at all

but obviously people eat all kind of modern shit today

Good luck with the job

Traditionally we're a nation of shepherds and rebels

Hence my former gab name that i still use here

Kinda like Scotland

Yes we have similarities

Our territory is also ehavily hills and mountains

Nice. Doesn't sound like a bad place

Except that we are not so stingy as Scots

Our urban areas pretty much suck, except for couple of touristy places

we have those

but nature is awesome, and my dream is to move somewhere in the wilderness

Agreed

Hails to nature

I've already got a plot of land in a quite remote place, but building it back to life will be a dauntingtask because it's 3 hours ride from my home, and there's no water pipes (though there are many wells in the area)

Oh wow. So you've already started the transition of moving out there

I haven't bought it. My ancestors hail from there. But we have only a couple of very aged and worn out objects there

My idea is to tear them down and build sth new

I'll post a link, check out all the thick forrest that there is in the area

when you zoom out

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Montenegro/@43.1767523,19.5255572,211m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x134c3217242c1fcb:0x384c9d866effd346!8m2!3d42.708678!4d19.37439

and though it cant be seen from the map itself, the property is actually situated on top of a hill

Cool looks like a nice area

SHEEP ARE FUCKING HOT