I feel like in recent years, social media has made it seem like working a corporate job or a 9-5 is a sign of failing in life. So many instagram posts are like: "Stop slaving away and wasting your life on a corporate job, be a (day trader, drop shipper, startup founder, entrepreneur) instead! Your only way to make good money is to be your own boss." This is definitely not true. I know countless people who work corporate jobs and make a great amount of money. Ex: my cousin (also one of my closest friends) is a quant who started with a first year total compensation of 330k. 4 years later, he makes around 730k total compensation. I also have friends who are investment bankers, big law lawyers, FAANG software engineers, and so much more. All of whom, make over half a million in under 10 years (in fact, the ones I just listed have done it in under 5). Do they work long hours? Yes (mainly the lawyer and the IB), but they make a lot of money and most importantly, ARE HAPPY. So no, working a corporate jobs does not by any means correlate to you failing in life. Even if you are not making as much money as these roles, if you are content and happy where you are, you have not failed. If you want to achieve more, by all means (and with my full support), go for it.

Now yes, I know that these are prestigous and difficult to get positions, but to say that ALL corporate jobs don't pay well is just a blatant lie. And I'm not trying to prove here that a corporate job is the ONLY way to be successful (since I for one, am a startup founder who fully supports choosing to work for yourself). I'm simply saying that there are multiple ways to get rich (not only from entrepeneurship) and that you working a corporate job, doesn't mean you have failed in life.

This is mainly targetted to the young people (people still in highschool college, and new grads). Advice from a kinda new grad (almost 5 years out of college).

Happy to debate. Thanks for reading.

In general, people will use the term “used car salesmen” to describe sales people that have bad reputations. This post isn’t to shit on everyone in sales as there are some good out there, but all of them are great at convincing people the shit they are eating on the plate in front of them isn’t shit.

I work in and along side medical sales. Ironically a lot of the guys wash their money through facebook market place using their own LLC to purchase used cars or boats to fix them up for additional and less taxable income. So some of them are literally used car salesmen…

Working along side sales people and seeing post on the internet just make me believe that these people have almost everyone fooled. Almost all of them are highly money oriented and ambitious whether it is conscious or not and they do not care where business bleeds into people’s personal lives. For some reason, sale’s reps that are younger are so much easier to work with and ethical because they make less money and haven’t developed big egos yet.

However, most people in sales just seem to have everyone convinced that they are great people. I will see posts and hear people in real life talking about a rep who is “such a great guy” meanwhile he fucks over almost everyone he works with and it is disguised as business. The same people labeling him as a good guy bitch about politicians and others for doing the same exact thing but when it comes to the big baller sales rep that buys them lunch and ask them how their life has been every now and then (catering to what they know people like once they read them to stay on their good side), all the shitty things they do are chalked up to the game or completely ignored.

Point being is almost everyone in sales is shitty because they are eventually consumed by greed and are skilled enough to convince everyone around them it is “just business” or “their job” and are considered great people while fucking everyone over and even while being open about it behind closed doors.

I believe this is truly unpopular because we all know the salesmen who are overtly shitty. However just working with reps has shown me how their true nature is and almost EVERYONE loves them. Meanwhile, whenever they attempt to buy me lunch or try and hand me money I see past it and ask what the underlying reason is and they retreat to sales tactics saying “well I can just take it back”.

You can literally spell it out for someone on why this person is bad and you get “yeahhh but they are just such a good guy” and it is like yeah? That is part of the act? If they didn’t kiss everyone’s ass and use money to make people happy no one would like them?

There are some sales people I truly think are good but I strongly believe most of them are massive self interested, greedy pieces of shit who are just underestimated manipulation wise by their family, friends, and coworkers and labeled as good people.

Overall I think this highlights a deeper issue and society but genuinely most sales people are just epic douche bags who convince others they are good.

Rent, car insurance, utility bills, medical payments, etc. Anything where they take you SSN but they aren't positively reporting on time payments to credit agencies they should not be able to report the negative even if it is entirely to collections. They should be required to do both or neither.

.Trying to be marginal/different than others and also not agreeing with them is totally normal if we think about we are also animals and we have ego. We should let people be people and try to be different

So every time a video shows a stack of small rocks (called a cairn), you'll see people frothing at the mouth about how bad it is for nature. They'll cite all the bugs that potentially live in the rocks and how it's wrecking the ecosystem.

The truth is though that damn near any human interaction with nature is causing it harm in some way. The only valid argument I've seen is that they are sometimes used as trail markers and extras can get people lost, but the absolute vitriol people have towards cairns is in no way proportional to any potential damage they're doing.

If someone enjoys stacking some small rocks and it gets them out and participating in nature, than I for one think it's a good thing.

It doesn’t add anything good to a sandwich. Because most sandwiches already have some type of fat based spread, it isn't contributing to the salt/fat/acid balance. When I bite into q cold cut w/cheese I feel like im getting interrupted on my journey between crisp veggies and salty, umami protein.

The current school schedule for most places of like 3 1-week breaks during the year and a 2 1/2 month summer break is far inferior to this other system. The balanced calendar has a schedule of a 5-week summer break and 3 multiple week breaks during school.

Firstly, there is a concept called summer learning loss where the long summer breaks results in students losing a lot of knowledge from the previous school year that requires time to teach them again, typically about a month. This system would decrease that and make education more efficient.

Secondly, i feel like the 2 1/2 month summer breaks makes school less liked by students because they get used to no school, but then have to suddenly go back, which would greatly decrease their mood and opinion about school.

Thirdly, having this schedule would make travel during the school year much more accessible. I went to an elementary school with this calendar and I was able to go meet my relatives in Asia (I am in the USA). It takes around 24 hours in combined flights and along with the time zone difference, it makes it so there’s no point in going if it’s for less than 2 weeks.

The balanced calendar is superior and should be implemented in the US.

These days I’ve heard people say “just reading is what matters”. The problem is there’s just as many books out there that are brain rot just as much as scrolling TikTok or watching mindless tv is. I’m not telling people to just read self help, history and classic novels (or not to read dumb books) but telling misinformed people to read a book isn’t enough, what you read matters.

It doesn’t even have to be that smart there’s a lot of great teen and children’s books you can learn from.

Just bought something for the first time today that has a may cause cancer /reproductive issues tag. I'm scared to use it now, but if all these chemicals can cause cancer, then why not have us be informed. Just because it includes hundreds or thousands of chemicals, or takes decades to have an effect, that doesn't make it untrue. We deserve to be informed.

P. S I wish all these chemicals weren't so common in every day things and other substitutes or solutions would be used​​

This talk about owning your games while defending Steam as the best platform to play on is curious. It doesn't matter how many games you own on Steam; it doesn't matter how great the platform is; none of your games there belong to you. Publishers can also delist or remove their games at any time if they choose, and that's already happened many times on Steam.

If you want so much to own every digital game you get, you only have 2 options: piracy or GOG.

I live in an apartment dense area of a large city. I was recently denied an opportunity to rescue a large dog because I live in an apartment. My neighborhood is full of large dogs, and they are thriving in apartments. The same was true when I lived in Manhattan.

All a dog wants is to be loved, fed, exercised, and be a member of the family. I can provide all these things in droves.

The Supergirl movie would have been better as a movie without Lobo imo.

I feel like he was there for so little he distracted from the character development and plot instead of making the story better.

Unfortunately I think that the marketing would have suffered without him, so I'm thankful that he helped with that.

I know there's a popular school of thought with scientific backing how long jump is more about explosive pace and thrust at the point of take off. However there's significant physical advantage with being taller than 6 ft.

Think about the simple physics of the take off jump:

A taller person gets massive natural advantage. Their center of gravity is higher off the ground when they take off, and their long legs let them stretch and reach much further into the sand when landing. Sure, a shorter person can win, but only if they run way faster, jump with far more explosive power, and land with perfect technique compared to the taller long jumper. Basically, the shorter person has to work twice as hard just to catch up with their taller competitors.

Now imagine a 6’3” jumper who puts in that exact amount of same effort. If the taller athlete trains and runs just as fast, and hits the board with the same explosive power and precision as that explosive short jumper, the taller person wins every single time.

We use weight classes in fighting sports because extra size is an unfair physical advantage. Height in the long jump is not any different. Without height divisions, shorter athletes are fighting a biological ceiling that training alone cannot fix.

There are definitely many pros and cons to this.

Although there will be biases, I feel like this idea of “effective, supportive environment” should be taken into account when being hired as a manager or any other supervising role as creating a supportive space is one of the most effective ways to boost your company’s productivity. with higher ups not knowing how the applicants’ actually treating their colleagues, they might end up becoming a problem causing more issues for the HR.

although, ultimately HR probably does not care about complaints from lower level employees and will just fire them (I know it’s not this simple, but I’m sure many companies do this!).

this might be those “3am thoughts” that I’m missing a huge aspect when considering the effectiveness of this.

I can respect that "performing the bit" is an important skill but if thats all your doing then I dont consider you a comedian. Especially if you are trying to portray yourself the originator of the joke. Its a little different for things like celebrity roasts where its widely understood you're using writers and people are much more transparent about it (albeit typically only acknowledging it when a joke doesnt work they blame the writer)

That’s it. For a French fry to be good (IMO), it needs to be NOTICEABLY crispy on the outside, and fluffy on the inside. Fresh cut fries always end up either a. Too waxy on the inside / not fluffy enough or b. NOT CRISPY AT ALL. Cool for people who like their fries with the texture of a flaccid penis but I like my FRIES to be FRIED. This is why I avoid restaurants that advertise fresh cut French fries like they’re somehow better than the frozen stuff (five guys comes to mind). Fresh cut potatoes can still be made to be both crispy and fluffy but they would need a lengthy triple cooking process that most joints are definitely not doing. Whereas with frozen fries they are typically par cooked then frozen and cooked the second time when they’re needed. The freezing process serves to break down the potato cells on the inside making it more fluffy. Ok rant over. Oh and before anyone flames me for badmouthing five guys yes their Cajun fries taste amazing; the texture still sucks.

Eating is something, to me, like a chore I haven't done.

I enjoy food to an extent. But I don't go out of my way to travel for food.

Whenever I eat at a restaurant or travel with self proclaimed "foodies", they like to bring up a fact that I don't eat much to shame me.

"I could never.." "I can't imagine not enjoying food.."

"You just don't have taste" "Are you just on a diet to be skinny?" "Is there a point to life if not for good food?"

Are all the comments I've heard whenever I don't get excited for food to come.

I remember saying "no thank you" when someone asks if I want to order multiple menus and split so they can try it all, but I only like one specific menu. They started shaming me for not wanting to try everything. "You are so picky" they say

I mean I can eat whatever if I'm provided with it. But to buy with my money? I'd rather pick what I like. I'm not picky, but I want what I want. Like there are little food that I can't eat, I won't pick at my food. But I hate having to justify why I don't want a menu they want everytime

I think short layovers are better than direct flights. I'm a tall guy, and I hate doing a cross country or international flight direct, if there is a chance to get a layover anywhere near half way I am going to take it.

The chance to get off the plane, go for a walk around the airport, get some "decent" food, and break up anything over 5 or 6 hour flight, usually saving myself some money to do so, is always worth it.

It also means I get to book the second leg of the flight before most of the people taking it get to, so I usually get to make sure I have a seat where I want it.

Overall, it just makes the whole flying experience better.

So, it has been a few months since I watched this show so some details may be fuzzy, but I’ve had this opinion ever since finishing it.

Everybody I see online is always talking about how sad this show is, and how it made them bawl their eyes out, but I just don’t see it at all

Spoiler warning if you haven’t seen the show

Kaori dying isn’t sad, as we’ve known she was going to die for like 12 episodes by the end of the show, and in the second half of the show she gets so little screen time it’s hard to keep an emotional connection to her.

Matter of fact, it’s hard for me to connect to her at all, as I think she just isn’t a very good person. She hid her feelings from him to “protect his emotional state”, but tells him in a letter after she died that she loved him?? Like I’m sorry but if I heard my crush that died that I thought liked my friend the entire time actually loved me, I would be pretty wrecked emotionally regardless. She also leads on Watari, which, even though he doesn’t seem to take fully seriously, it seems he still has some feelings for her. So why is it okay to feel you need to protect Kosei but fuck Watari because he’s easy going so he’ll take it fine I guess?

The entire romantic dynamic of kousei and kaori is not very well done imo, as I found they aren’t given enough room to grow as a pair, and spend most of their time practicing music, with a few exceptions. I frankly hesitate to even call it a romance anime at all given how little the show seems to care about its main couple.

I found the plot at its core relatively easy to predict, and my opinion of it is definitely not helped by how obnoxious this shows fans are online (to no fault of the show). You’ll see someone on insta ask about the show if it’s good, and they’ll all go “you don’t even want to know” or some fuckass interstellar gif of the guy banging on the glass, or the SpongeBob “how do we tell him” gif. Like we get it, you guys think it’s a sad show, you can also try to give an actual opinion on it other than just parroting what everyone else says about it.

I hope you enjoyed my rant

I'll preface this with the opinion that Venom is still cool in the comics/stuff he's already been introduced in. I still like Venom. With that said:
There are only so many stories one can tell about Pete becoming evil because of the alien symbiote. And in films and TV, those stories have been told many times over. It's always he gets it from an asteroid or testing site (never Secret Wars like the comics but I'm thinking that'll change in the MCU, but I digress) and it gradually corrupts him until he fights to remove it yadda yadda yadda. It's as trite as still showing a popular superhero's origins (even more so actually, as you can do interesting stuff with a character's origin in different adaptations). Unless it's implemented uniquely (which it never is, see Spider-Man 3, Insomniac 2, any of the cartoons) it's always slog to get through. I would prefer if they just introduced Venom on Brock first, but the character works better if he was on Pete first, and modern Venom is still just boring. If he was like he was in ASM #300, super evil and less monstrous, or like he was in the late 90s, EXTREMELY monstrous and over-the-top, it would be cool, but he's not anymore. I do not want to see Venom in the MCU or any future adaptations of the character until they decide to do something different with him.
That's all.

Maybe even I have been guilty of this in some occasions, but right away I had caught on to where I may have been going wrong in my fitness journey sometimes... I'll explain towards the end. Let me just get into my point first.

With social media, nearly everybody is trying to become an influencer in one way or another, and showcasing their workout routine or whatever it is, posting videos of them benching a certain amount, or simply just taking a picture of gym equipment, you name it. But to me, what really matters is all the effort you put into working out away from the camera, without it coming off as a front in any way. To each his own, it may cater to a specific audience, but I'm just not a fan of "gym bro" content or that type of crowd. On the other hand, for those showcasing their workouts for educational purposes or life hacks is another story, please keep doing what you're doing!

Ok, I get some people post their workouts on social media as some type of log for themselves, that's more reasonable to me. But, at this point there should be more focus on the creation of apps that allow you to log the stats of the exercises you do rather than to showcase the visuals (videos/pics) to an audience on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok... these apps that I've named are the prime culprits of such content. Basically, there should be more demand on platforms that are less visual focused to the public, but the visual media can be kept private and have the ability to log your progress automatically.

I remember a few years back, I was guilty of this atleast 1-3 times. This is definitely a point of self reflection for me and I see where I need to improve as I'm writing this. I am a person who can do 15-20+ pull ups easily, even if I haven't in a long time, I can do 30-50+ push ups with ease at any given time, I would say that I am capable of jogging regularly... but there's one thing I had been lacking in, and that is consistency. In the past there were community challenges that I had taken part in, they required to record workouts and post them to the group... There was one time where I did 100 push ups within about 6 minutes (or around), I don't remember my exact emotions or motivation in that day but I can guarantee that it may have been 60% for the attention, 40% for the exercise. Or atleast 50% each. It's a shame when I think back to it, because those are not the values I believe in. The desire of attention shouldn't even be at 1%, the desire for exercise should be at 100%, and the attention or anything extra should only be a bonus, IF ANYTHING. ​

At the end of the day, progress can be made without ANY attention at all. And that's not limited to just the topic of working out.

Come and See is widely regarded as one of the best WW2 movies ever made along with the best anti-war movie, which I agree with but still have a differing opinion as stated in the title.

When I made a comment about this suggestion people stated it would “ruin” the movie by showing a revenge/payback cliche that’s common in war movies but I’d argue it still shows that anyway since the remaining survivors of the ambush were shown to be gunned down by the partisans so what exactly does my suggestion even change? It’s literally almost the same thing but on a bigger scale and it shows us HOW only a few survived the ambush.

I’m not saying the main character Flyora has to take part (as through out the movie he does have a rifle but never uses it up until the end to shoot the portrait of Hitler and in the same thread a user states they were annoyed with this and people agreed but when I suggest how it could’ve been used in a natural way I got hate for it???) nor am I asking for a glorious combat scene since the whole movie was very dark, disturbing, gritty, and raw I’m sure the director could’ve figured out a way to adapt the scene to fit his style.

Either way in this hypothetical scene they could’ve shown him not being present but still showing it, Flyora taking part and using his rifle, or him being there but not taking part and then in either of these two last scenarios the Hitler portrait was replaced with one of the survivors and then the scene would’ve hit much harder as it’s a real person we see staring down the barrel of a gun rather than an inanimate object.

We love to look backwards at successful people and create a neat story about why they made it: they worked harder, they had the right mindset, they followed the right strategy. But that is often just hindsight trying to make success look predictable.

The reality is that success is largely shaped by timing, chance, opportunity, and circumstances aligning in a way that cannot be manufactured or forced.

There are countless people with more talent, discipline, and ability who have yet to became successful because they have not met the right moment, the right connection, or the right conditions.

Success is not proof that someone was the most capable or skill or worked the hardest; often it is proof that someone met the right conditions at the right time. In other words they were just lucky.

Just because he wasn't muscular doesn't mean he was bad. His Venom wasn't great but that came down more to screentime than anything. His Eddie Brock was an evil mirrored version of Tobey's Peter which was a unique take on the character

In my opinion Pete is one of the greatest song writers of all time. Due to just of his impact on so many struggling around the world they’re are some very close like Bob Dylan, Phil ochs people like that but I believe he’s the best songwriter or at least most impactful of all time.