pickle-wizard

I've been considering getting a masters. The thing holding me back, is that I worked full time while getting my bachelors and it was a grueling 9 years. I'm not sure I want to go through that again. Though I do dream of quitting my job and going back to school full time. I think that would be fun. I have the money to do it, but the opportunity cost is just too high.

Though I do spend a couple of hours most weekday mornings learning stuff I want to learn. I get up about 5 spend a couple of hours studying and then head into work. The nice thing about studying on my own, is that I can take a break if I need to. Like right now work is real stressful, so I decided to take a week off studying.

Samsung did expand the building a couple of years ago. IIRC it was to expand the NAND production.

In my case I felt the 1% was fair. We had brought on a couple of people to help and we had offered them 1%. So I ended up getting what they got. I should have mentioned that my post, but its been so long I forgot about that. I might should have fought for more, but I was having some pretty severe health problems I needed to focus on.

I think it is important to honestly look at it. Not with what if, but how likely something is to happen. How likely is it that it can be sold as is in a month? How likely is it is that it is going to be profitable? How likely is it that more development work needs to be done? My gut tells that the answer to the first two questions is pretty low, as if there was a really good chance of making a profit or selling, you wouldn't be wanting to leave. Instead you'd be looking forward to the incoming money.

Do you have any sort of a written agreement, or was it a handshake deal.

If you feel that you are wasting your time here, then there are two terms I submit for your consideration, opportunity cost, and sunk cost.

By pursuing this startup, what is the value of other opportunities you have to pass up. If you think the value of the startup is higher than those, then stick with the startup. However it sounds like you don't feel that way. If the other opportunities are a higher value, you should pursue those instead.

So far it sounds like you are mostly out time as you can get your cash back. If the business is not profitable and you don't have a good outlook on it. Then your time value so far is is lost, or sunk. Sunk costs, are sunk. You can't get them back, and people have lost a lot more trying to get them back.

As others have mentioned about, try to negotiate are prorated amount of your shares. If you can't get thank, don't keep wasting time here. Cut your losses and learn a lesson from it, then move on.

From my personal experience.

I was a co-founder in a startup. It was split 50/50. I did all the development work and my partner did the business development work.

I had to drop out due to health reasons. I retained 1%, which I felt was fair. The main thing is they needed to bring in new people to replace me and needed equity to offer them. We did formalize it, and I have the legal documentation showing my shares in the company.

They have gotten investment so I'm sure my share is diluted quite a bit by now.

That was about 5 years ago that I left. At this point I'm ok if I don't get anything out of it.

The MacPro is built by Flextronics and they have had a factory in Austin for a while. Not sure when they opened it, but I used to work at a building in the same complex. It was there when I was at that job in 2011.

Though there are fabs in Texas. The 2 that I know of for sure are Samsung is Austin about 5 miles down the road from the Flextronics plant that builds the MacPro.

National Semiconductor has a fab up in Arlington Texas.

I'm not sure if Texas Instruments still has their fabs open or not, but they had several at one point too. Sure there are more that I don't know about.

A low stress job is so nice.

For the first time in my career I have a low stress job. I feel like a totally different person.

I big difference I've noticed is that I watch a lot less TV now. I used come home burned out and would just crash in front of the TV.

Last weekend I set a deadlift personal best of 405lbs. I am pretty happy as I was stuck at 385 for the longest time.

My next goal is to drop 45 lbs and get to a deadlift of 500, so that I can lift twice my weight.

I find myself un motivated to study/work on projects after work.

About 6 weeks ago I've decided to start getting up at 5AM and work on them before work. I find that works much better. I work on my projects for a couple of hours and get to the office about 8AM. Then that way when I leave the office I'm done for the day.

I was out with a friend a few months a go, who does not like seafood. I ordered some crab rangoon. I offered him one. He said he doesn't like seafood.

I told him to trust me and just try a bite. He ended up eating most of them and now every-time we go out to Chinese, he orders them.

I've discovered as I've gotten older. It is not so much that I don't like foods, as I don't like ways of preparing it. For example I don't like cooked fish, but I love sushi. Seriously I can go to a sushi restaurant and spent $150 by myself. Something about cooking fish gives it a different taste that I don't like.

I bought my house in Austin 4 years ago in a pretty hot market. The advice I can give is don't let yourself get emotional. If you get outbid on a house, there will always be another one you can bid.

I ended up putting in offers on 8 houses before I didn't get out bid.

My current company provides lunch. I take 15 minutes to eat and then go home 45 minutes early. A lot of my coworkers do work the extra hour.

I mentioned this above. The relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1357/

Relavent XKCD https://xkcd.com/1357/

This reminds me of a conversation I had a few years ago.

A guy wouldn't eat Quaker quick oats because it was processed.

It is literally the regular Quaker oats chopped up in smaller pieces. I got a good laugh out of it.

Basically I know what my costs are today. I take that number and adjust for inflation. I use 3% for that number. I know that some costs will go down, for example my house will be paid off. I know some such as health care will go up. I figure it will be a wash budget wise. That gives me a future number I need to adjust for.

I then take the current value of my savings, plus future planed savings and estimate their future value using several different rates of return. That gives me a savings rate that I need to shoot for, which I generally try to exceed that rate.

Several years ago I wanted to learn Olympic Weightlifting. So I hired a trainer and have made good process considering that I was in my mid 30s and have never been active in my life.

These folks are gaming the system and getting something for free, that I've paid thousands of dollars for. That really grinds my gears. As far as I'm concerned his clients are just as complicit in this fraud as he is.

I checked my doctors on that a few months back.

I found out that one of my doctors received $200K for the last reporting year from the manufacturer of my medication. The medication is $600/month. Granted the medication does work for me and insurance picks up most of it, but it still seems like a massive conflict of interest. I honestly have half a mind to switch doctors.

It is nice to get to that place where you have enough.

I'm at the spot in my career, where I don't want any advancement or promotions. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I've got a nice nest egg saved up, so money isn't that big of a motivator.. Really at this point my career is on cruise control, just biding time until I can retire. I'm still learning new technologies, but it is because I want to, not because I have to. Really takes the stress off.

I worked for a startup that went out of business. There is a whole of detail, but basically the last client canceled the project and they ran out of money. So I was laid off.

That is what I tell people. They understand that as companies run out of money all the time. The important thing is that in my experience people take it at face value.

What I don’t do is air the dirty laundry about how the company got into that position in the first place.

Maybe a few years down the line I’ll tell people about it over beers as we are exchanging war stories. However it is not some that you need to mention while looking for another job.

I really hope the Pi 4 Compute Module breaks out the PCIe on the edge connector.

Don't know why you are getting down voted. I have the same machine and use it for development. Works just fine for me, and I have a couple of VMs running with my stack on it.

The only thing I've found lacking is the Kerbal Space Program doesn't run very well on it. It runs but the fam quickly ramps up to 100% and get annoying.

When I found that sub, I had hoped it would be a bit more hacky. Like this is how I build a vSAN cluster out of a bunch of Mac Minis the office was throwing out.

Instead it is just people who buy an bunch of old enterprise gear on eBay. Though every once in a while someone posts something really cool, which is the only reason I stay subbed. Like a little while back someone figured out how to add 10Gb Ethernet to a NUC.

I have a couple of old Dell T320s that I bought for a project last year. I finished the project and powered them off because they make my office too hot. I really should think about selling them.

I am getting ready to to build a cluster out of Raspberry PI 4s as there is some cloud services that I am paying for that I want to host at home. At least those are pretty power efficient.

I didn't know about that sub. Thanks.

Anyone have a non-paywalled source? Looks like they figured out the private mode work around.

I personally am not a fan of canceling student loan debt. However what I am a fan of is lowering the interest rate to nearly 0.

I still have some of my student loans left and most of them at at 1.8%. However I have some friends who went to college after me and theirs are at nearly 7%. That just doesn't seem fair.

I bought my house in Austin 4 years ago.

I was looking toward to the low end of the market around the 140K to 150K price point. I found that I kept getting outbid by the investors. They would come in and offer a cash deal and a closing in 7 days. I just couldn't compete with a 30 day closing and a financing contingency.

I ended up having to up my range to 200K. Once I did that I wasn't competing with the investors. Which over 30 years I guess spending the extra 50K isn't that big of a deal. I still ended up buying below my means. However I know several who that would price them out of the market.

Last year VMware demoed ESXi on ARM. With the Raspberry PI getting 4GB of RAM that would be usable. Hopefully they release it. It would make a great low power homelab.

I worked for Microsoft nearly 20 years ago. They were understandably real big on using the latest and greatest of their own products. This lead to some weird problems with the corporate infrastructure as it was always on the bleeding edge.