Looking for watch recommendations. What do guys in the industry typically wear. I want to dress well but also not pretend like I'm a bigshot trader before I even take on any risk if that makes sense. Want a watch that shows class and being put together without acting like I'm showing off or trying to one-up any senior traders.
Using Anki to just dive into a new subject or field and get familiar with the basics
This has been a very successful use of Anki for me, especially since I am always confused and always need to know about the jargon and specifically abbrevations of particular fields. And a lot of the stuff looks intimidating from the outside, but gets a whole lot better and you can at least start to sink your teeth into it once you know some of the basic terms.
Just some examples, understanding that LVN means Licensed Vocational Nurse. So when someone talks about a Vocational Nurse certificate, you know what they are referring to. Or knowing the full form of TLT means Tech Leadership Team in a specific context.
At the very least it makes you feel like you are making some progress or the other, and that's what it's all about.
Have heard that the way into power trading is first becoming a power scheduler to learn the market. Then if you are good might get a seat.
Any such aspiring power traders here? What do yall think about taking the ERCOT System Operator Certification Exam independently, will it help?
Have been using Anki on-and-off for at least a decade now. Mostly dropped off. But kind of just for the fun of it, created a new deck ignoring all the old cards and just started adding a bunch of cards and things that are just plain fun for me. Not even necessarily any career or educational benefit.
Things like the opening and closing times of local stores. Dates of obscure historical events that nobody cares about but I do, niche historical subjects. Birthdays I want to remember off the top of my head.
Been enjoying in particular memorizing some poems, and always been meaning to memorize the top 10 nominal GDP countries and top 10 by population. It's been pretty fun.
Next I'm going to be memorizing the WHO exercise guidelines. I have always just used them as a baseline would be good to always know what they say.
Bless you all and bless the developers of this wonderful app. And the way that the best way to remember something and learn is also the most fun way of recall.
Thinking about the NYC Pied a Terre tax that is for houses that are worth $5 million or more. Or Mamdani specifically going after Ken Griffin's penthouse second home.
My point is, if Ken Griffin stops living in that penthouse then I doubt that is entirely fungible with some person in a rent-controlled apartment getting cheaper rent. Or anybody else getting cheaper rent.
Or in the sense that, if there is less demand for luxury housing then does that decrease the price of regular housing somehow? A change in production in the long run and allocation toward regular housing supply? Does rich people moving out leave more housing for everybody else and drive the market-clearing price down?
Creating this job search council with a laser focus on power or nat gas trading. My friend highly recommended this Phil Terry approach from Never Search Alone so I thought I would give it a shot along with any other people here. This is NOT an ad and 100% free, just trying to make some progress in my career and it's better to do it together.
WHAT THIS IS GOING TO BE:
A peer-led group of 4-6 people considering and hunting for entry-level roles in commodities, specifically power or nat gas.
I have heard that this is mostly scheduling and/or analysis but whatever it is that is the way to break into those fields. We will serve as each others' "board of advisors" to keep ourselves focused, help each other, accelerate the hiring timelines, critique resumes, share leads, practice interviews etc.
I will volunteer to act as the group moderator.
REQUIREMENTS:
US based, or you are looking for work in the USA. Texas specifically is even better.
Power / nat gas only
Important: you currently have a job (any job) and are looking to switch, because the timeline is more urgent for unemployed people. But still DM me otherwise, if only unemployed people/in school then I will start it with them.
Committment: 1 hour/week via Discord. Exact time to be decided.
Committment: pledge to support every single person in the group until they have landed a job OR decided that this is not for them.
Protocol: strict adherence to the Never Search Alone by Phil Terry framework with structured updates, zero unsolicited rambling, and high accountability.
Duration: the job search council will stick together until everyone has landed a role or moved on and realized that this is not what they want to do. Either way, everyone will gain clarity on what they want before leaving.
JOINING:
DM me with your target role, background, and timezone and a confirmation that you are in America/are looking at working in America
Creating this job search council with a laser focus on power or nat gas trading. My friend highly recommended this Phil Terry approach from Never Search Alone so I thought I would give it a shot along with any other people here. This is NOT an ad and 100% free, just trying to make some progress in my career and it's better to do it together.
WHAT THIS IS GOING TO BE:
A peer-led group of 4-6 people considering and hunting for entry-level roles in commodities, specifically power or nat gas.
I have heard that this is mostly scheduling and/or analysis but whatever it is that is the way to break into those fields. We will serve as each others' "board of advisors" to keep ourselves focused, help each other, accelerate the hiring timelines, critique resumes, share leads, practice interviews etc.
I will volunteer to act as the group moderator.
REQUIREMENTS:
US based, or you are looking for work in the USA. Texas specifically is even better.
Power / nat gas only
Important: you currently have a job (any job) and are looking to switch, because the timeline is more urgent for unemployed people. But still DM me otherwise, if only unemployed people/in school then I will start it with them.
Committment: 1 hour/week via Discord. Exact time to be decided.
Committment: pledge to support every single person in the group until they have landed a job OR decided that this is not for them.
Protocol: strict adherence to the Never Search Alone by Phil Terry framework with structured updates, zero unsolicited rambling, and high accountability.
Duration: the job search council will stick together until everyone has landed a role or moved on and realized that this is not what they want to do. Either way, everyone will gain clarity on what they want before leaving.
JOINING:
DM me with your target role, background, and timezone and a confirmation that you are in America/are looking at working in America
After months of agonizing, trying to take action to make progress. Creating this job search council with a laser focus on power or nat gas trading. My friend highly recommended this Phil Terry approach from Never Search Alone so I thought I would give it a shot along with any other people here. This is not an ad and 100% free, just trying to make some progress in my career.
WHAT THIS IS GOING TO BE:
A peer-led group of 4-6 people considering and hunting for entry-level roles in commodities, specifically power or nat gas. I have heard that this is mostly scheduling and/or analysis but whatever it is that is the way to break into those fields. We will serve as each others' "board of advisors" to keep ourselves focused, help each other, accelerate the hiring timelines, critique resumes, share leads, practice interviews etc.
I will volunteer to act as the group moderator.
REQUIREMENTS:
US based, or you are looking for work in the USA. Texas specifically is even better.
Power / nat gas only
Important: you currently have a job (any job) and are looking to switch, because the timeline is more urgent for unemployed people. But still DM me otherwise, if only unemployed people/in school then I will start it with them.
Committment: 1 hour/week via Discord exact time to be decided.
Committment: pledge to support every single person in the group until they have landed a job OR decided that this is not for them.
Protocol: strict adherence to the Never Search Alone by Phil Terry framework with structured updates, zero unsolicited rambling, and high accountability.
Duration: the job search council will stick together until everyone has landed a role or moved on and realized that this is not what they want to do. Either way, everyone will gain clarity on what they want before leaving.
JOINING:
DM me with your target role, background, and timezone and a confirmation that you are in America/are looking at working in America
I have a job. I work in devops for a huge multinational. Not FAANG but like technology. It's a cushy job. I get to go and work in an office with some nice people. I get paid six-figures, an amount I would have never imagined making ever for my first job out of college. I was unemployed for a year out of college so I am just so grateful for having this job and being able to live down South in Texas where life is good, having my own car and house and some level of free time to do what I want.
But the word that keeps coming up in my mind is "drifting". Don't really know what I'm doing with my life. Feeling kind of lost. I get absolutley no job satisfaction while at work, it is one half-finished task after another in a constant stream. Always feeling behind at work, like I did not accomplish anything. I actually think of some kind of non-doctor medical career sometimes like nursing because at the very least I am out there helping people.
In the past, when unemployed I had a job where I was a sports store rock climbing instructor (indoor). I would hook mostly kids and sometimes adults up to the rock climbing wall and kind of watch them climb and give them support. I would also give the safety briefing and climb up to help them sometimes. Think that was the best job that I have had so far, the most fun really. I am an extremely extroverted people person.
It is an office job at least. Don't get the satisfaction that I am building skills and working hard and moving up. I keep promising myself that I will do that but that just doesn't happen and it's been nearly a year at this point.
I have a bachelor's degree in computer science, I chose that for the stable career and so on. I guess I have somewhat achieved that after a huge struggle. But let me put it this way: I have never really in my life done any programming for fun. If I actually cared, I would have done some already. This was solely a career-based decision.
Really at this point on the fence about trying to pivot permanently into commodity trading. Specifically power trading because that is big in Houston Texas. You might laugh but so far the only two "goals" I can think of in my life is achieve a $5 million net worth by the age of 35 and be retired (not needing to work for money) by 35 (kind of like a FIRE thing if that makes sense).
Feeling lost and feeling like I'm just going to stay lost. The work isn't really that interesting. I would be happy to sell my soul and do absolutely soullless work and work my life away for my twenties kind of, but I want to be paid correspondingly. Don't really know what I'm doing right now at this point.
I have a job. I work in devops for a huge multinational. Not FAANG but like technology. It's a cushy job. I get to go and work in an office with some nice people. I get paid six-figures, an amount I would have never imagined making ever for my first job out of college. I was unemployed for a year out of college so I am just so grateful for having this job and being able to live down South in Texas where life is good, having my own car and house and some level of free time to do what I want.
But the word that keeps coming up in my mind is "drifting". Don't really know what I'm doing with my life. Feeling kind of lost. I get absolutley no job satisfaction while at work, it is one half-finished task after another in a constant stream. Always feeling behind at work, like I did not accomplish anything. I actually think of some kind of non-doctor medical career sometimes like nursing because at the very least I am out there helping people.
In the past, when unemployed I had a job where I was a sports store rock climbing instructor (indoor). I would hook mostly kids and sometimes adults up to the rock climbing wall and kind of watch them climb and give them support. I would also give the safety briefing and climb up to help them sometimes. Think that was the best job that I have had so far, the most fun really. I am an extremely extroverted people person.
It is an office job at least. Don't get the satisfaction that I am building skills and working hard and moving up. I keep promising myself that I will do that but that just doesn't happen and it's been nearly a year at this point.
I have a bachelor's degree in computer science, I chose that for the stable career and so on. I guess I have somewhat achieved that after a huge struggle. But let me put it this way: I have never really in my life done any programming for fun. If I actually cared, I would have done some already. This was solely a career-based decision.
Really at this point on the fence about trying to pivot permanently into commodity trading. Specifically power trading because that is big in Houston Texas. You might laugh but so far the only two "goals" I can think of in my life is achieve a $5 million net worth by the age of 35 and be retired (not needing to work for money) by 35 (kind of like a FIRE thing if that makes sense).
Feeling lost and feeling like I'm just going to stay lost. The work isn't really that interesting. I would be happy to sell my soul and do absolutely soullless work and work my life away for my twenties kind of, but I want to be paid correspondingly. Don't really know what I'm doing right now at this point.
Don't get me wrong, a victory for anybody is a victory for all of us. But all of us are out here trying to eke out a living. She gets paid an hourly wage above minimum. On top of that she is getting tipped so generously she can choose to work 4 days a week and support her daughter on top of that.
Yet she still told me that "living wage is $30/hour, and I am not making that".
Is it fair to complain about your customers, all of whom are drawing a salary and trying to make it themselves, about how they are not tipping enough when they themselves are working five days a week? If she feels she is not earning enough why doesn't she work a fifth day? This is madness.
How to respond to something like that? I was kind of taken aback in the first place since he is implying I am poor or acting poor. And there's nothing wrong with being poor in the first place.
But what is his alternative, to eat out for every single meal?
I was talking about the additional benefits of meal prep and how it changed my life. Things like being able to eat healthier, eat better food, not being hungry for too long while trying to cook something, generally getting better at cooking, saving loads of money and time. Meal prep has genuinely changed my life I really feel competent now that I have figured out a technique and a way how to do it.