u/Honest-Selection1347

A few years ago I got G in a section and when I applied for an internal job and they loved me but it just came down to what my previous year’s reviews were. And the hiring manager said he loved me but his higher ups just couldn’t do it.

Now this past year I got another one. I’m not going to go into the reasons. There were some traumatic events that happened in my life. Tried to get my boss to understand it and give me an O but was told nope.

Been wanting to get out and go somewhere else. But I’m wondering if having a G previously means it’s pointless. I don’t think they’ll care about the reason. I know that the new performance rating has changed so I don’t know how much that’ll matter

Seems like they finished their dilution (for now). But they delayed their commercial service to February 2027… but they’re sold out with their $750k per ticket seat showing strong demand

Decided to look up the concepts for L1 on some of the questions I wasn’t sure about that I remember seeing today on the exam and to see if maybe I got them right and so far over half of them were actually wrong…

Yay fantastic. More evidence to suggest I failed 🥲

Just finished L1. Like wtf was that?? I just walked out feeling like I basically saw this stuff for the first time despite prepping months for it.

At the end I still had like 15 questions left with 10 minutes left and I end up just randomly guessing it… yeah well I’ll see you guys in November then…

I’m only taking L1 tomorrow. But I’ve heard basically everyone say it was incredibly hard. One guy earlier said he’s been in market risk for 5 years with MBA from tier 1 university and felt that was tough… well for the rest of us inexperienced, we’re screwed…

I guess I’ll try again in November if I fail tomorrow… 🤷‍♂️🥲

I’m scheduled to take the P1 exam this week. I’ve been studying like crazy but I’ve also noticed that I can only remember so much especially I don’t do this job on a daily basis. I know there were concepts and formulas I remembered just 2 weeks ago and thought I had it done and I’m already like “uhhh what was that?”

And frankly I’m sure GARP doesn’t expect that we remember everything. Actually Schweser even said that it’s impossible to remember everything. It’s just too much info.

Like I don’t think even though I have a masters degree I don’t I’ve ever had to go through 4 textbooks and do a cumulative exam at the end.

I usually get my paycheck like 2 days, sometimes even 3 days before the actual pay period. Anyone else that usually get that not get paid today?

Trying to prepare for the L1 exam. I know there’s 2 that they give you and you can pay $75 for the third one. For those of you who have taken all 3 of them which one did you find to be the most challenging?

I’ve been preparing for the August exam. Have done all the readings but trying to remember as many of the formulas as I can. From doing some mocks, it seems like the common ones are:

Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio, beta, CAPM, SML, Bayes rule, VaR, forward rate calculations, black scholes for calls and puts, call put parity, convexity, effective duration, expected loss (insurance). So I’ve been trying to memorize them all.

Anything you guys think I’m missing?

I know that recently GARP has turned more theoretical rather than quantitative but I feel like knowing these by hard is still helpful with theoretical questions.

I do believe that space is “the next frontier” as humans have dreamed of space for centuries and I think that this generation is the first to be able to allow the common people to do that.

I decided to check this stock out as I wanted to try and invest. I did some reading and research on this. While I do believe in space travel and what this company wants to do, the balance sheet and the lack of execution over the past 2 decades and especially delays after delays after going IPO just makes me question this.

The dilution just seems to become an ATM machine (not at the market) for them. It just seems to risky that they are basically banking on Delta ships this year and it’s either bang or bust for them.

For me, the skepticism comes from numerous broken promises I’ve read and I’m not convinced that they won’t break another promise.

Before you tell me to invest in other space companies, I already have. I have RKLB and I have ASTS.

I know we get those free screenings every year where they prick our fingers to get our lipid levels and our blood sugar level.

But I am sincerely questioning some of it. Less than a month ago I did my screening and I got a A1C of 5.7. I just got my blood test done today with my doctor where they drew blood through a vial and it came out to be only 5.2

For those of you that don’t know, that’s a huge discrepancy. That’s the difference between telling someone they’re prediabetic and someone who is healthy and your A1C doesn’t drop that much in that time frame. My doctor said that the finger pricks are not as accurate. But i have never seen a variance that big. I trust my doctor and their lab because it’s a well established and large hospital that I got my annual screening from.

So if your results look weird I’d get a second opinion of blood draw from your doctor

My wife is a Spanish teacher and has taught for a few years managing like 100 plus students at some times but wants to leave teaching to maybe work here. She’s considering something a little lighter and would like a “boring job”. She thought about maybe an executive assistant.

Any thoughts on if her background could qualify as well as what the job is like? Also assuming you typically work under an MD, you’ll have to be under the same office as them?

Travelled to an offsite this week. It’s not one of those tall skyscraper buildings. Saw like 5-6 what you would call “young able bodied” people all standing there waiting for an elevator on the first floor when the stairs were right there. And this isn’t the first time I’ve seen cases like that.

I literally walked to the 2nd floor, grabbed something from my desk, walked downstairs, and they were still there…

You can use the stairs people. Get your steps in considering we all sit at a desk all day.

Usually I have a button up or maybe a collared t shirt with jeans and dress shirt but I’ve been seeing people doing a t shirt and jeans on even tennis shoes on Fridays now.

A close family member passed away several years ago, every year around the time of their passing, I take a few days off (despite us being busy around that time) to spend time with our remaining family and grieve.

He initially said “yeah that’s fine” since he knows I’m doing it. But something happened this year and we had some random crap happen so the team was even busier than usual. During our 1x1 he basically begin to guilt trip me like “I mean I know you have your thing but we sure could’ve used your help”….

Like wtf?? Oh I’m sorry that my family member “decided” to die that day a few years ago and I spend just like 3 days of each year to grieve. And you know this was happening since every year I do this. I even put my PTO in like 5 months beforehand so he knew well well beforehand

Been seeing her on everywhere even wall street bets and memes. Idk the whole story but from my understanding that guy made the story up.

I want to make it clear that I’m not “listen to all women”. But from a post that I read yesterday that were supposedly things she said sounded straight out of a “corn” video or erotic stories.