I confess I am not ready for adult life.
I have no concept of how to deal with adult problems (e.g. finding a place to stay, filing taxes)
I also don’t know how to handle finances outside of “spend as little as possible”
Change this to “as little as necessary” and you are halfway there. Finding an apartment or living space isn’t bad (apartments.com and all that).
Filing taxes - you can hire a guy for that. Taxes also aren’t bad if you are single with only one source of income.
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Give “The Richest Man in Babylon” a read sometime. Its like the Super Squats of finance. Easy to read, simple and brutal advice. Timeless
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How would going to church or reading the Bible change you as a person and more importantly, what actions you do and what choices you make?
Nah. Same one. No better or worse. Some may consider that alone a demonstration of gods grace (I do) because it wasn’t likely at all that I would have lived through the night on that one.
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32 years in and I’m still not too great at it.
Hell, I know 50somethings with the functional capacity of a 9 year old, and they’re doing fine.
You’ll probably be ok.
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“Duck on the water” is my mantra
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None of us are, sweetheart. None of us are.
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Confession:
I love the company I’m interning for right now (steel subcontractor). I like how transparent they are about how they’re trying to make money and not trying to sell some superficial corpo bullsh*t.
On one of their training slideshows it had this quote:
"Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence”
@unicornsandrainbows My supervisor (who got promoted to project executive yesterday) has been showing me his techniques on how to charge the general contractor more money via change orders. He also showed me how to budget the profitability of his projects using some accounting sheet comparing it to the lead estimators true budget, and agreed contract with the GC.
Obviously the agreed contract amount with the GC is going to be higher than what it actually costs to build all the scope items. It just puts more money back in the companies pocket that can be used later on or for profit.
Now I know how to think, when it comes to being employed in the future.
I gotta read more books, this business stuff is fascinating. Seems like ironically learning more about how a business operates/financing or whatever could lead to being a better employee or starting your own firm.
Read my essay @Bauber
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100 years in school / books could not teach you what a couple years in actual business / the real world will.
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I’m still not ready. 43 this year. 
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1 week of getting thrown into the deep end is enough to know how much knowledge is actually usable. Like 1%…
*To students, this does not mean the knowledge you acquire is wasted. The need for it surfaces sporadically and you will probably POTENTIALLY be able to utilize 30+%. The problem is that you will not know what to use for specific situations. Because of this, you will not remember what you have learnt when there’s a time to put it to practical use. You have it stored according to chapters and topics meticulously, you still won’t know what to look for lol. What you need to do is go WORK on something for a REAL EMPLOYER. Do it for free or some shit i don’t knwo what it’s like in the US. But do some shit that makes you accountable to someone who knows the standards required in the industry for the results. Then you will have an idea of how to organize the knowledge you are ingesting while in school. You will then be able to retrieve what’s relevant when you need it for real shit while being able to pass your exams.
Seriously, it’s not that professors don’t know shit although lots don’t. They have the responsibility to make sure you acquire the textbook knowledge. They do not know what industry you will end up in and which parts will be required. That’s up to you to find out.
I did a project for a professor in a local uni who teaches entrepreneurship. He needed someone to design a plan to launch a side business. Irony? Huh? Gave him a recycled plan that took me 10mins to draft. That’s the shit you keep. It worked for previous projects and can be reused like code. He thought it was something novel. His students aren’t going to know something this basic that can potentially save you weeks and lots of sunk costs both with regards to time and expenses depending on the complexity of your project and the number of parties involved. Brilliant guy academically, though. He writes beautiful stuff about government rent seeking behavior. Just shouldn’t be teaching entrepreneurship without practical knowledge.
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From what I gather, you are looking at processes. If this is a natural inclination, you should look up on workflows from a company perspective and how to automate this stuff from a nerd tech perspective. There are various cloud platforms that have AI powered app builders that will build a basic one for you. What you do is look at how workflows - events and triggers - are automated and think about how they apply to what the company you are working for does manually. You spot the stuff that shouldn’t need to be done manually and reverse engineer the processes. This is what is the trend. “Citizen developer”. It’s not about delivering an app. It’s about describing your ideas with something a non-tech person can see and touch. Someone who has the brain matter to get the concept will only require this to validate your ideas regardless of how shitty the pof is lol.
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Sounds like you are absolutely in the right place. Project Management is all about the money and working with people. It is more about that than actual construction. You could take this experience to any type of company you are interested in.
It makes me super happy to see you with an awesome teacher. That supervisor sounds like a great leader and mentor.
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Holy shit, my student advisor just called to tell me I finished my Associate’s Degree and Programming Fundamentals Certificate
I confess, I had no idea about either of these things
Time to go get a couple degree frames I guess
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Congrats man!
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So my son wants to get into golf.
I haven’t had much interest in the game ever but I have a friend who is very generously donating a set of nice older clubs to my son and a set to me.
Looking up the game it’s interesting that I am drawing parallels to lifting. Mostly parallel in that it is more about technique than anything to drive good results.
Wish me luck not to make a complete idiot out of myself on the course…
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Yay, now you and your son can make business deals!
Or become a degenerate gambler
Does that actually happen? Seems like one of those things that only works in the movies.