u/spoon_bending

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I can afford up to $1800 in rent but I only want to pay $1200 so I can have an emergency fund. My standards are not too high. I just want a dishwasher, shared or in-unit laundry, cats allowed, access to transit within a few blocks (especially green or pink line) and a decently safe walkable neighborhood with park(s) and at least one library plus cheap grocery stores like Aldi.

Is that too much to ask for? I have been searching on apartment sites but I see that most of the options for that price with those amenities are in bad neighborhoods that don't have what I am looking for. It confuses me because my rent now is $900 for a 1br and I live in a bad neighborhood but I have access to things in walking distance (groceries, library, huge park with pool facilities, several bus/train lines) so I figure that if I pay $300 more it should get me into a decent neighborhood. It's not like I'm trying to live in the upper crust neighborhoods or anything. When I say 'decently safe' my frame of reference is that I have lived on the South Side or West Side up to this point and nothing bad has ever happened to me because I'm not foolish or involved in gangs, etc. so that right there eliminates 90% of potential crimes.

Is it unrealistic or are there just no options right now during this time of year? Not trolling. Also I am not open to living with roommates AT ALL at all under any circumstances.

I did some money magic after a long time of not engaging in my spiritual practice, and I'm amazed by my own results. I got a job that pays double what I was earning to do the exact same work (same job description). It's spooky how powerful my magic turned out to be especially because I had doubts and felt foolish doing it.

• Wrote down how much I wanted to earn at a job on a piece of paper and put it on my ancestor altar along with a dollar bill
• Made a money bowl with my intention petition buried in the rice ("more and more money just keeps coming my way", "new and better career and business opportunities just keep coming my way", etc)
• Sex magic calling for the amount of money I wanted to earn at a job
• 7-day money candle with the same intention petition as the money bowl
• 7-day candle for getting the job after the phone screening
• Tealight candle domination/binding spells over the 1st + 2nd round interviewers
• Listening to spell-charged audios I made
• 'Dark energy' alchemy on the day of the final interview (this was last-minute and I only spent less than ten minutes total doing this)

Throughout the day BEFORE the last interview I had a sense of knowing 'I got the job'. Not affirming that I got the job (actively trying to attract something by stating it is true), but just knowing it for a fact like you know the sky is blue. It was just a quiet thought that would appear in my mind and I would feel so giddy.

Right after the last interview I pulled tarot on the situation calling information/guidance from my beloved ancestors and I got that good news was coming. Immediately after that I got a call offering me the job. It was part of the pattern of immediately being offered the next step right after completing the last one (immediate 1st interview invitation after the phone screen, immediate 2nd interview invitation after the 1st, immediate offer after the 2nd interview).

It's all surreal. I have gained so much confidence in my craft from this as well as assurance that my beloved ancestors are very powerful and responsive to me. I got a higher salary than what I initially wrote down! Keep in mind I also do offerings to my ancestors regularly.

Also, dark energy and sex magic are not bad things. A lot of misconceptions are taught around these things to instill fear. Dark energy is just creating things out of the void and sex magic can be done alone. It was my first time working with either of those energies but they definitely made a contribution. In particular, when I was using the dark energy creation technique I suddenly thought of more ways to prepare myself for the final interview BECAUSE I created the job offer in the void space.

Do magic, folks. Never doubt your craft or your ancestors.

Hello

TL; DR: I signed a job offer and my start date is in two weeks. I don't want to burn bridges but I also don't want to put myself in a bad situation if the job offer gets rescinded for any reason. Should I give my two weeks notice, or should I quietly leave?

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I would appreciate some advice about giving two weeks notice. I just signed a job offer for a role that pays double my current salary for the exact same job description. They gave me a start date two weeks away, presumably time to give notice at my current job and time for the background check and fingerprinting to clear.

At my current job I have been treated well and in fact it's got the best management and company culture of any of my jobs so far, even though the pay is horrible. I don't want to burn a bridge and end up with no positive reference.

But I worry about the job offer being rescinded because I have seen stories of people getting job offers rescinded at the last minute for no fault of their own (like a sudden hiring freeze, company eliminated the role after hiring, etc.) and advice like "NEVER quit your current job until you are for sure starting the new one".

I have also seen stories where people get fired after they put in their resignation. I don't think I'm in danger of that because I just got a glowing performance review actually, but it's a possibility.

What should I do? Should I put in the notice now or should I just quietly leave when I start the new job?

What happens if I put in the notice and then the job offer gets rescinded? In that case can I retract my resignation and tell them that I will stay after all, or is that ridiculous to even consider?

Would appreciate advice. This may seem like a dumb question but it's my first time having a 'big girl' career move like this. Don't want to accidentally screw up my future.

When I try to change it in the app, it tells me to contact member services. When I contact member services over the phone, they send me a link to complete the verification with my updated ID/DL and a selfie.

Fine.

Except the page never loads and hangs on 'loading...'. Already did all the common-sense troubleshooting and followed instructions from the agent on possibly getting it to work. Nothing works. It works fine on my computer but they said it has to be on a phone.

They won't let me send my documents via email or any other method, and insist it has to be done through a webpage that doesn't work. So I can't update my cards to reflect my legal name. This is a huge issue and no one has offered a resolution...

I prefer the term "manic depression" over "bipolar" because I find it more descriptive of what bipolar disorder actually entails. Especially because it clarifies that people with bipolar experience depression, which is something that many people from the outside looking in don't even realize about bipolar.

I know it's outdated and there are probably reasons why it's no longer used. But I like it better. Thoughts?

Bipolar destroyed my career before it even began. I was a high-achieving student with merit full-ride scholarships at my dream school for an in-demand major (Computer Science) and lost my scholarships and barely graduated. As soon as I graduated I had my first psychotic manic episode and never began a career because I was too busy being clinically insane. Now I'm 5 years out of school, never used my degree, and am stuck in a shitty job.

I basically peaked in high school thanks to this disorder. Anyone relate? It's so painful to be a loser and have no money even when I know it isn't my fault.

Bipolar destroyed my career before it even began. I was a high-achieving student with merit full-ride scholarships at my dream school for an in-demand major (Computer Science) and lost my scholarships and barely graduated. As soon as I graduated I had my first psychotic manic episode and never began a career because I was too busy being clinically insane. Now I'm 5 years out of school, never used my degree, and am stuck in a shitty job.

I basically peaked in high school thanks to this disorder. Anyone relate? It's so painful to be a loser and have no money even when I know it isn't my fault.