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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I very intentionally received only an associate’s degree with the plan being to immediately get a job and start learning from there. It’s worked great. Except that was 20 years ago and now many jobs “require” a bachelor’s or otherwise have the nerve to say that 4 years of on the job experience is the same as 1 year of college.

    In my experience, I’ve seen the same thing. The university time kick starts things. But university lessons are so different than real on the job work.













  • Things have changed considerably since you were 19.

    I’m younger than you but not by a lot. When I was 19 I moved in to a 1 bedroom apartment for (inflation adjusted) $700/month. That exact same apartment now rents for $1445/month.

    A couple of years later I bought 1 acre of land and put an 1800 sq foot home on it for (inflation adjusted) $275k. That exact same house was sold in 2021 for $433k.

    I’m choosing housing here because it’s easy, but I could just as easily pick college, general cost of living, etc…

    My point being that you (and I) were set up a lot better to save for the future than the 19 year olds of today.

    [Edit] guess I went on a bit of a sidetrack. I’m not sure you were even talking about today’s 19 year olds…


  • I ran a Synology setup that ultimately I replaced with Unraid. I love the flexibility that Unraid provides, but Synology’s software really is top notch. I’ve pieced together various docker images with Unraid to make something comparable functionality wise, but no where near as integrated or seamless