... is how you survive, I ain't tryin' to survive I'm tryin' to live...
This quote by Jay-Z was true when I was a poker player. Unfortunatly nowadays is all about survival, so this blog will be about regular 9 to 5 jobs.
My professional situation changed dramatically since last month. I was kinda worried that I would lose my job because my contract was ending at the end of april and I wasn't sure if I will get another one. I send some CVs applying for other jobs just in case and was invited on interviews in McKinsey and Credit Suisse.
Then suddenly in the middle of the recruitment process in those companies I was given a promotion and a raise in my current company and signed a new contract. Then after a week of silence I was contacted both by McKinsey and Credit Suisse for my final round of interviews. To get things short I got an offer from McKinsey yesterday and I am waiting for a response from Credit Suisse who are suposed to make a decision by the middle of next week.
Now to the point. I am kinda hesitant on accepting the offer from McKinsey. My current job is just super laid back. My boss is the most calm and smart person I have known, he does the majority of work to the point that I never felt ANY pressure when working on something and never did a single hour of overtime. To make things even more awesome I have a dinner break that can last 1 hour in the middle of the day, and I don't have to work more because of it. So essentially I am working 7 gours a day, great boss, no presure, 1 hour dinner break, coffe breaks as often as I wan't, very small workload. The pay is pretty good and I have a senior position after my pomotion.
On the other hand McKinsey is very tempting. I think the company has a great brand and will open many doors if I work there (anybody dissagree?). The pay is good + there are many additional benefits. But after doing some research I read that the workload is very heavy and You can avarage 60 hours a week. This is something I am scared of because as a former poker player I am not used to work at all and am struggling to endure 8 hours at my regular job.
Does anybody work or knows someone working as an analyst in McKinsey? I'm just trying to find out is it worth the long hours spend at work. How is Your experience working overtime?
Has anyone here watched this? I am downloading it at the moment. I am looking forward to watching this. I guess I am interested as I have finally finished watching the 5th season of the Wire, and I noticed David Simons speaks in this movie. So I am curious. Does anyone know how "credible" this is or is it one of them stupid conspiracy type ones?
So been with GF for 4 years, and i would say that for about 1 year its not been going too well (mostly since we started living together...). But its wasn't all that bad.
However 3 weeks ago i had the brillant idea to teach her call of duty 2. Since then, shes like playing this shit no-stop, going to bed at 4 am, not sleeping with me anymore, not eating much anymore, etc. Now the even more annoying thing about it is shes CONSTANTLY talking to guys on it, laughning etc, and doing god knows what with them. If i try to talk with her shes constantly interupting me to talk with them.
My first reaction was to kinda get mad at her, explaining her how this shit makes no sense. Her reaction was to change our relationship to "its complicated" on facebook, and completly stop sex, and tell me she will probably break up. When i try to say its ridiculous she destroy our relationship for a stupid game shes says game has nothing to do with it.
MY first reaction was kind of weak, telling her how much i care about her etc, asking for second chance.
Then seeing how this fails, i decided to just do the break up myself and act like i don't care (this actually confused her a bit...).
My current plan was to get myself my own place, ignore her for a full month, and then see whats up, but tbh shes so hooked on that game i'm not even sure she will miss me at all.
So just move on or what? i'm a bit frustrated cuz i actually loved her.
So I tried Dota2 for a bit. managed to put in 80 hours in 20 days while working lol.
The game is aight, players are terrible though in matchmaking so many games are just steamroll one sided or one disconnect. It crashed quite a few times for me and don't like stuff like small health bars, liked the dota ones better for last hitting.
The guides sort of take out the fun of dota. . . trying out new items now everyone has the builds right in there, it's all very aimed towards new players.
I like the commend and report systems, dota players are jerks including me but hunting for commendations teaches you manners
Anyway it was fun trying all the heroes in new graphics, but it's getting boring now so I'm uninstalling steam and going back to poker. I really don't have enough time to get to high levels where it gets fun
work
taking a 5 day break from work. There was a lot of stuff like getting paid £270 instead £750 one week, days that are wasted and I don't learn anything in the office, basically i want to do sales and this is still just surveying lofts and walls, and we have been promised a proper product for 4 months now, and this being boring with delayed payments, money taken out of our pay for no reason etc.
A bit negged out, tried playing poker on the side just got de-motivated when I had to take out 70% of my roll because didn't get paid properly. Set weekly goals with rewards for floorball equipment, reached the weekly target and then couldn't buy the stuff next week cause I didn't get paid properly. The owners are motivating us by chilling and telling us how much money they made and that we can do it too, but when your boss is lazy you will tend to do the same.
Was promised B2B product and alarms, which should be again fun though. I take selling as a sport or poker, the preparation is very much the same and it feels like performance, but I just didn't get that looking for walls and lofts that weren't insulated for free yet and then spending time on surveys and paperwork, this year feels wasted rly.
poker
well with dota there was no time, and I'm so rusty :D
I hit a downswing when I was ill, playing badly too but nothing serious. I will get back into it and start blogging again. Dota is such a poison lol.
If anyone playing NL25 -50 wants to chat pm me your skype I'll be on over the weekend
spend the last 20 days of my life one-tabling 1,50$ Hyper Turbo HU SNG on Stars and managed to play 620 of those. It has a huge rake (1,44 + 0,06). In relation the rake of the higher buy in tourneys (6,85 + 0,15) is half of that. That's really annoying and I wonder if you can beat those games (the 1,50s) at all even if you have a huge edge. What you guys think?
I think I am playing pretty good right now and can exploit my opponents pretty well, especially with valuebetting vs guys that call all types of gutshots and call down bottom pair ALWAYS. Opening any 2 vs guys that fold too much preflop, shoving draws vs guys that fold 2nd pair to a shove on flop etc... It's only standard stuff actually.
Today our teacher gave us a thinking problem seeing if anyone comes up with an answer for tomorrow. Being stupid i cant solve it, so wanting to be baller for class i wonder if someone here can solve it: on a plain paper he places 4 coins total (1) in each corner. A random person blind/feel-folded is then selected. He doesnt know how the coins are faced in the start. Each round our teacher is free to spin the paper 90/180/270/360... And so on degrees. The blindfolded person is each round free to turn as many coins as he wants, his mission to win is for all coins to face the same direction. He doesnt know how many degrees the paper is spinned each round. Q: is there a stratey for the teacher to make him never be able to win? (Is there a straytegy for the student to win, is that the same q?). Hope i explained it well enough, gl
Mattress Buying + Parrilla Buildingby RiKD, April 15
Any tips, tricks, hacks, insight, anything in regards to mattress buying?
I just find the experience pretty horrendous. There are like 10 brands, 10 different types of 10 different 10 types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of ..........
The salespeople seem pretty lackluster although maybe not their fault since bed comfort is so damn subjective.
I like the idea of temperpedic "memory foam" but at the same time seems like it could be classic marketing mumbo jumbo in order to rape the buyer in the ass.
Everyone in the western world probably buys a bed at some point. There has got to be a way to make it suck less and actually find the right bed for the individual.
So now that I'm done complaining about beds...
For a number of reasons that I don't care to list (I already spent shit lines shit complaining) I have decided to build a motherfucking firebrick parilla grill that ate tokyo by hand. Who knows when the fuck it will come to fruition but when it does I invite any and all LP'ers to kill some choice animals (or buy some choice killed animals) and asado that bitch up proper.
If you are in the Northern Hemisphere cheers to shit hopefully blooming and being nice out.
If you are in the Southern Hemisphere cheers to that for why not.
Read through an old notebook of mine today while waiting on a car checkup. Came across a fairly interesting quetsions and possible awnsers regarding life. Thought I would share;
Point of life?
- to live/avoid death
- to experience
- to experiment
- to better the world
- to continue existance of human race
- add to collective conciousness
What is sucess?
- Aquisition of wealth
- power/influence
- harmony with the world
- to become admired/adored
- respect
Reality is...?
- A figment of Imagination
- based on your point of view
- elusive or non-existant
- what can be observed or experienced
these are from about 5-6years ago I wonder if I were to ask myself these questions again if my awnsers would change...
Just a couple of mins ago I was having a shower and caught on singing a song by Linkin Park - i haven't been listening to that band for like ages. However, the lyrics really caught my attention - I've tried so hard and got so far, in the end it doesn't even matter. That wouldn't be anything fancy, but after having a 60 hour workweek behind me, with not enough sleep and just preparing to set off to uni, I'm really asking myself - is it really worth? I know that I can't achieve anything without hard-work and that I don't want to live the life of average Joe, but well, for sure I know that I don't want to go crazy and just have a schedule like - work, 1-2 hours of free time (free I guess, but there's homework, things around the house, etc), sleep, repeat. How do you balance this?
Massive Strategy Game - basically has raped my life for the past week and a half... Also Victoria II but not the same extent.
Not sure how I missed this game but fuck it's good, would be cool to get a big LP CK2 multiplayer game going sometime :3
I'll get another Music You Should Hear blog next week - been listening to a few really cool tracks that I've liked a lot thus far.
Anyways <3 LP
ps i just found out that red green put up whole seasons online http://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV?feature=watch
one of my favorite childhood memories is sneaking downstairs after bedtime and watching a few episodes of red green with my dad. Awesome Show!
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Just won a 1$ 45 player sit n go. First prize was $12.73. It is my biggest score in a tournament to date. My previous biggest cash was 1st in the .25c 45 player for like $3.23 or something like that. $12.73 is nothing to the majority of you, but it's 1/4 of my bankroll so it means a lot to me and I just wanted to share. Maybe someone is interested.
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