Current state of the country: my barista has a degree in biomedical engineering. My bartender has a masters in finance from Dartmouth, my Uber driver has a PhD in philosophy, and my waiter has a chemical engineering degree.
I am begging, crying and screaming for people to stop telling those laid off from corporate jobs to "just wait tables 🤡". If you're a restaurant manager, are you hiring someone with 3 years of recent hospitality experience or someone with 5 years of data analytics experience? Be so for real.
Honestly surprised just how emotional and irrational a lot of people on CT are over simple analysis stating facts is not FUD just because you do not like the truth
I hate when jobs ask you about your yearly goals. Because they won’t accept you saying, “I actually don’t want to grow in my job. I want to coast. I’d prefer to grow in my real life outside work”
Lighter TGE is over, my watch as a lowly $LIT hater is over Congrats to the farmers, big cook if you were early 💪 Personality think it is very overvalued, it may get a “day1 dumpoors must feel regret pump” but beyond hopes, prayers & CT tropes like ‘mindshare’, ‘non consensus trade’ and ‘hated rallies’ there aren’t many compelling arguments for why a protocol earning $50M a year is good value at close to $3B FDV Good luck to all 🫡
Americans pay insane levels of tax to fund immigrant fraud schemes, Israeli genocide & politician insider trading then if they have any savings left, it is being destroyed to inflate the stock market all while public services deteriorate
Twenty months ago I was making $72K. Today I’m laid off from a minimum-wage job before New Year, relying on food pantries and applying to DoorDash. Life can flip fast.
I feel the need to explain something to the generation that does not remember, or never saw, a world where one person with a high school education could support a family of 5 comfortably. This was real. For millions of families. It was *normal.* It was stolen from you.
Unpopular opinion: I don't think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition. I think it's okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die