u/Calm_Clam_Bake

I see so many people who assume the bigger the house the better. It's not always the case. I lived in a 4500 sq ft home for many years. Never used 1/2 the sq footage. But I paid to heat, cool and clean it.

Downsized to a 1900 sq ft house, and it's perfect.

Obviously I'm not saying don't buy a big house. If that's what you want, awesome. Just saying, think about what you need and chances are the 2000 sq version will work as well for you as the 4000 sq version.

Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

Edit: Lots of comments to the tune of "we need all the rooms". I missed a part of my original post I guess. The number of rooms we moved from didn't really change. We went from 5 bedrooms to 4 bedrooms and an office (5th bedroom sort of but it doesn't have a closet so legally it can't be called a bedroom). Went from 3.5 bathrooms to 2.5. The difference is all the rooms are smaller. The master bedroom is probably 1/3 the size, but the old one was enormous. The new one is perfectly fine. The old one had a laundry room the size of some small NYC apartments LOL. The new one is big enough for a washer and dryer and some shelves. Things like that. I liken it to instead of getting the XL meal, we got the medium size. We still left the restaurant full, we just didn't over eat.

Also addressing money. The move wasn't to save money. The smaller house was more expensive. We moved from the exurbs to in town. The new house is 125 years old, in the historic district. Weirdly enough even though the new house is more expensive, the property tax bill is lower. Same county, so the formula should be the same. Which makes no sense to me, but hey I'm not complaining. The funny thing is the people we bought the new house from, moved out to the area we moved from. Grass is always greener I guess right? Different people have different needs and wants and there's a house out there for everyone.

I've seen a lot of comments here along the line of kids aren't rich their parents are. Is this how most people feel or is it the de facto snarky Reddit 101 reply?

This "the money is mine, you're on your own kids" is a foreign concept to me. I didn't grow up well off but when my parents talked about money it was always the family's money not theirs. We were all in it together as one family unit.

As a parent, my view is the same. What I have my kids have. It will all be theirs eventually one way or another. I either give it to them or they inherit it. The only question is timing. Why not make their lives easier and give them advantages?

I've told my kids when it comes to college, your job is to get in to the best college possible, my job is to pay for it. When they graduate and ready to settle down, I'll help them buy a house. I won't just shower them with money for the sake of it and they're not wearing $500 jeans or stupid shit like that. My oldest has had a summer job the last 2 summers and my youngest is going to get one next summer. I want them to appreciate the value of a dollar, the value of work and all that. But I'm not going to purposely avoid helping them out in life when I have the ability to do. It's not black or white. They'll become successful on their own and I'll help them get there a little more quickly and easily. I don't see why any parent would choose not to do that.

Apply at Salesforce

2 weeks later Recruiter gets in touch for initial screen. All right!!

1 week after that 1st Round interview is scheduled. Awesome!!

1 week after that have 1st round interview

1 week later hear back, on to 2nd round. Woo hoo!!

1 week later have 2nd round interview

1 Week passes, silence. Hmm, not a good sign.

1 More week passes, silence so I follow up with recruiter

That was a week ago.

I'm pretty sure 3 weeks of silence means it's dead.

All told about 9 weeks of going through the process all to be ghosted in the end? That's just not cool man. I'm not expecting to get every job I apply for. That's fine, you get some you don't get others. Whatever. But can we at least have some professionalism? A simple "thanks for applying but we decided to go with someone else" automated email at least. Is that so hard? I'm so disgusted with the whole thing.

It was only a matter of time.

Boomers are gone from the workforce for the most part. Oldest boomer is 80 after all. So now that they're on the golf courses of Florida, the yuuutes new a new Emanuel Goldstein for their 2 minutes of hate.

GenX has assumed that role.

In 10 years it will be Millenials.