Kinda Wish I Was in Austin...
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@IRJ said:
Stay in your car on weekdays and drive back to dallas on weekends. Join a Planet fiteness gym for $10 a month and use their showers before you go to work.
Great idea on the showers. The office might have showers too, lots of them do. It's been years since I couldn't shower in the office.
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@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
At this point, I would say do the interview and land the job. Then figure it out. No sense in thinking too hard about it when you may not even score the job.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
At this point, I would say do the interview and land the job. Then figure it out. No sense in thinking too hard about it when you may not even score the job.
That is how I operate too. I am a perceiver, not a planner (aka the judger.) Move forward, tackle the issues as they come. Don't plan for situations that don't exist yet. If you get the job, you will figure out the other stuff. There are millions of factors that you know nothing about yet such as if you want the job, how much it pays, when they would need you to start, if you can work from home for a while, are there showers in the office, can you break your lease, etc. Once you land the job you will have the information necessary. Any planning done now is wasted effort for a situation not likely to be an issue.
Judgers need to plan things and often start planning for scenarios that will almost certainly never exist because they like to develop as many plans in their mind as possible because they struggle to see opportunities happen in real time
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That is a big reason why I operate very well in community forums like this. My "P" leaning, which is very strong, means that I am able to take a situation that I am reading about, ask the necessary questions and provide feedback and then, immediately, move on to something else. I deal with the decision making in the moment allowing me to move from moment to moment discussing and thinking about completely different issues.
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!?!?!
Ok I apologize. But seriously.... WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?! I feel like you're looking for excuses and not taking a very worthwhile opportunity, even if it is at this point just an interview. Career changes come with risks, career changes come with... wait for it... change. No one likes change if it requires them to get out of their comfort zone. But you have to do that in order to get to where you want to be.
DOOOO ITTTTTTT.
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@SarawithanH possibly my greatest strength in life is that change and discomfort IS my comfort zone. To me it feels natural - being overly comfortable or stagnate make me feel uncomfortable - but I have come to learn that few other people have that same feeling. I don't like things being easy.
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@scottalanmiller I've never realized that was a strength. hahaha growing up my dad told me it was being wreckless because I never had a "plan", that I was "going out of my way" to make things more difficult than they needed to be. I don't think I'm on the same level as you, but I constantly will undertake things that make me nervous or uncomfortable in order to better myself, be it personal or work related.
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Seriously, AJ, do the interview or stop complaining about how unhappy you are with your current situation. Change what you don't like or shut up.
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@SarawithanH I would say that your Dad's reaction is because he's a planner, like me. It took me a long time to understand that aspect of Scott's personality, and it took him even longer to understand my need to plan!
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@Dominica It's only been since I've become a mom that I've learned the necessity to plan for things. It still trips me up sometimes. But thankfully I have a patient husband.
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@Dominica said:
@SarawithanH I would say that your Dad's reaction is because he's a planner, like me. It took me a long time to understand that aspect of Scott's personality, and it took him even longer to understand my need to plan!
ENFP here. It's amazing how true that assessment is. The only one of those characteristics that is in the "middle" at all is the F/T portion. I'm an F but only barely.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
Throw it all out and start over
A UHaul or even a minivan might do it. Are you moving furniture too?
All I have that's really worth moving, furniture wise, is my TV, desk, bed and a dresser. A 15ft U-Haul would probably be plenty.
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Even a trailer might be enough. You might know someone with a truck that could move that amount of stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
Ok, so assuming I interview and land the job, and maybe they let me start in February, which is all speculative at this point, what is the cheapest way to move a small apartment's worth of stuff?
At this point, I would say do the interview and land the job. Then figure it out. No sense in thinking too hard about it when you may not even score the job.
That is how I operate too. I am a perceiver, not a planner (aka the judger.) Move forward, tackle the issues as they come. Don't plan for situations that don't exist yet. If you get the job, you will figure out the other stuff. There are millions of factors that you know nothing about yet such as if you want the job, how much it pays, when they would need you to start, if you can work from home for a while, are there showers in the office, can you break your lease, etc. Once you land the job you will have the information necessary. Any planning done now is wasted effort for a situation not likely to be an issue.
Judgers need to plan things and often start planning for scenarios that will almost certainly never exist because they like to develop as many plans in their mind as possible because they struggle to see opportunities happen in real time
I definitely overplan for everything.
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@Dominica said:
@SarawithanH I would say that your Dad's reaction is because he's a planner, like me.
I was thinking the same thing as I read that. Judgers and Perceivers struggle to understand each other. I literally have no ability to plan. I cannot do it. That part of my brain is completely missing. But if forces me to live in the moment and build an ability to react to pretty much anything because there is no other way for me to handle it.
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I'm going to follow-up with the contact I have at Spiceworks and tell her I'm interested in pursuing the opportunity. Maybe I do just need to live in the moment more. I was much more spontaneous when I was younger but have become a lot more like my father as I've gotten older.
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@scottalanmiller And I need to imagine every scenario and possible outcome, and plan my reaction to each possibility. I think one of the reasons we make a good team is that we temper the other's tendencies to be at extreme ends of the spectrum.
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@Dominica said:
@scottalanmiller And I need to imagine every scenario and possible outcome, and plan my reaction to each possibility. I think one of the reasons we make a good team is that we temper the other's tendencies to be at extreme ends of the spectrum.
Like how I don't plan paths when driving, I just start the car moving and figure it out from there.
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@Dominica said:
@scottalanmiller And I need to imagine every scenario and possible outcome, and plan my reaction to each possibility. I think one of the reasons we make a good team is that we temper the other's tendencies to be at extreme ends of the spectrum.
You and I are exactly alike then. I have contingency plans for my contingency plans. I try to see every possible outcome, then the next possible outcome for each of those outcomes. While it can be good, I will often get fed up trying to figure it all out and just do something and go with what I get from that. It's a weird dance I do with myself...
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@ajstringham said:
@Dominica said:
@scottalanmiller And I need to imagine every scenario and possible outcome, and plan my reaction to each possibility. I think one of the reasons we make a good team is that we temper the other's tendencies to be at extreme ends of the spectrum.
You and I are exactly alike then. I have contingency plans for my contingency plans. I try to see every possible outcome, then the next possible outcome for each of those outcomes. While it can be good, I will often get fed up trying to figure it all out and just do something and go with what I get from that. It's a weird dance I do with myself...
this, like many other things going on with you will inhibit your ability to grow. risk/reward. If you were interested in the job you'd do whatever it takes to get it. You must not be too interested. Scott says its a 6 figure job. I know a couple years ago, I would have slept in my car or used couchsurfer for a few weeks to secure a legit job like that could be.
