im 23. I have about $40k in total assets spread out among savings, stocks, gold, and bitcoin. im a teacher and I make ~$60k a year gross, but I havent moved out of my parents house yet
I see lots of people around my age who are signifcantly behind, but also many who already own houses and such.
where do I stand realistically?
back when credit cards first came out, the majority of people were convinced that they would never become popular because they werent "real money". nowadays almost everyone carries a card.
how long do you thing itll be until bitcoin does the same thing? feels like were currently in the same stage of people thinking its not "real money"
ive never thought of myself as an addict but I think im getting there. the casino has always been alluring to me since I was a kid and I went the night I turned 21.
since then, ive been gambling very regularly. not always big amounts, but I do it at least once a week.
lately the amounts have been getting big. just this past weekend I lost over 5k, including 4k in one night.
I honestly have no plans of quitting completely, but I feel guilt. ill have to work for several weeks just to recoup this weekend's losses. I feel shitty
but today is a new day
may we make history by being among the first to stack sats
23m. ive always though of myself as boyfriend material. ive only had 2 relationships in my life, both of which were in high school. got cheated on in both.
since then, ive been rejected/ghosted/led on by dozens of girls. until recently, I refused to acknowledge that the problem may have been me.
the process is similar every time: I meet a girl, I try to be friends / make moves on her, she returns platonic friendship, I eventually get ghosted or led on, which I interpret as disrespect.
after interpreting this disrespect, I turn nasty. if I know these girls on any personal level, then I say the rudest things I can think of as revenge for them disrespecting me. in my mind, any prospects of a relationship are already doomed, so I might as well get my moneys worth.
often, these girls use my negative reaction as justification for why they disrespected me in the first place; I deserved to be ghosted or lied to from the start because im an asshole when I dont get my way.
as I watched Obsession, I found myself relating to bear on a semi-concerning level. the biggest thing was when nikki asked bear to kill her and my first thought was "wow, she would rather die than be with him, how rude of her."
the good news is, im realizing that I have this character flaw, and id like to work to improve it.
any advice on how to better navigate situations where I may be getting ghosted or led on without reacting negatively would be appreciated
how come when a doctor successfully removes a cancerous tumor from a child, people thank god for helping the doctor remove it, yet never blame him for giving the kid cancer in the first place?
how come when people survive a natural disaster, they credit god's intervention with saving them, but they dont blame god's intervention for sending the disaster in the first place?
there are countless other examples, but it seems like god gets all the credit for the good in the universe, but none of the bad. how does that work?
if you could design a poster for obsession using a single shot from the movie, what would it be and why?
I think a good one would be bear staring at the duct-taped door. I feel like it really captures the movie's essence; bear has trapped himself in this situation with his selfishness
im working summer school at a new school. ive been given a partner teacher to run my class with. this past school year was my first year as a teacher, and this is my first year doing summer school.
my partner teacher is a seasoned vet, 20+ years at this school.
every day, she talks to me like im a complete idiot. she ridicules me for the smallest things, even in front of the students. she blames me for things that arent my fault, such as my computer not working. she gets mad if I dont take care of housekeeping-type things around the classroom (like changing the date on the board), but she doesnt take care of them herself. she also does things like change our schedule and get upset if I try to stick to the established schedule
how do you handle this? I (thankfully) didnt experience this at my regular school
bear doesnt start the movie as a villain; he slowly becomes one over the course of the movie.
he clearly didnt know that the wish would actually work when he made it, but he shouldve become suspicious pretty early on.
the sudden freakouts shouldve been an obvious clue, but its possible that someone as dumb as bear could overlook them.
the point where he becomes irredeemable, however, is at the restaurant when nikki confirms the exact wording of his wish, she reveals that she lied about her dad, and bear still takes her home and fucks her afterward.
"doesnt matter to me"
at this point, there is no reasonable doubt that she is no longer her own person, and bear should have done something about it. instead, he essentially commits a rape. in my opinion, this is the point where he 100% becomes the villain and stays that way for the rest of the film
just watched Obsession and realized that it would be cool to do a weekly trivia night or something like they do at the start of the movie.
anything like that around york?
cant tell with all the other noise going on lol
id give mine a 7.5/10. plenty of room for improvement but also lots to be thankful for.
how are yall feelin?
ive been into bitcoin since 2023, bought in initially at 60k and have been on a steady dca ever since.
at this point im down overall, since my dca took my all the way up to 120k and all the way back down
feeling like this is my first true test as a hodler. will i crack under the pressure and pull out? or will i establish myself as a true bitcoiner and diamond hands my way through this?
im a first year middle school math teacher in a title 1 school. in case you dont know, a loudermill hearing is a mandatory meeting where a public employee is given the opportunity to defend themselves before being fired or suspended without pay.
first loudermill was a few months ago because I supposedly sent students to an unsupervised classroom to finish a test. in reality, the reason I sent them there was because the principal had taken a group of my students there earlier, and the office directed me to continue sending kids down in my other class periods. she brought me in, I explained why I sent the students down there, and she apologized to me. no disciplinary action was taken against me.
this time, we had a meeting a couple weeks ago to discuss how my lesson plans werent up to par. she told me to prepare better ones and that we would meet in a few days to look them over. no follow-up meeting was ever scheduled.
now im being pulled into a second loudermill hearing because I didnt bring my updated lesson plans to the follow-up meeting... which never happened.
it feels like a regular occurrence that I get blamed for things that arent my fault, and apparently the same thing kept happening to the teacher that was in my place last year. she was a first year teacher last year and im a first-year this year
am I cooked? my union rep is behind me on this, but I feel like im being set up to fail
im a first year teacher. ive made a few mistakes this year and have met with the principal to talk about them. todays meeting was a little different
she admitted that low test scores and bad behavior has been a problem in our school for years, before either of us arrived here. but then she started talking about how she wants me to be the one to break that trend, and in order to ensure my success with doing this, she would be setting up a pip for me
this pip will supposedly outline steps that I need to take in order to ensure that I, a second year teacher, will be the one to end the epidemic of low test scores and bad behavior in our school
not sure how to feel about this. on one hand, im glad she has faith in me to fix the schools problems. on the other, isnt a pip a bad thing? could it be that shes holding this over my head in order to basically force me into fixing years worth of mistakes, or else be thrown out? seeking advice!
heard this when I was 16 and never looked back. I never was into religion growing up and my religious dad knew it. he always tried to show me the way to "salvation", but it never made sense to me why a god who is all good and all powerful would let bad things happen in his universe. this question is always answered with "god works in mysterious ways", but as I got older, I started to realize that this was just a fabricated explanation for the random misfortune that happens to people.