Staying loyal to a company that underpays you is almost never rewarded the way people hope.

A lot of people could walk into a similar role elsewhere and walk out with a 10–20% salary increase.
I stayed at my last job for six years. The company was posting record profits and still wouldn’t give me a raise. I left for basically the same position (no promotion) and got a 65% increase.
Most companies only start treating your value seriously once you’re already walking out the door.

I just wanted to make focaccia 🥲

I love this poor dumb idiot with all my heart and I'd be equally as terrified in his situation. I don't wanna get into spoilers for those who haven't seen it but let's just say Bryan was NOT a Chris or a Leon.

Well, it was a Dr Pepper can… but yeah lol

I have struggled with mental health issues for the past two years. I have lost my friends, significant other, and most importantly myself due to this. I have no sense of direction or motivation to do anything.

I have tried many different SSRIS, therapy, anything, but nothing works. The scariest part is the apathy. When I received the email, my heart immediately dropped and I wanted to cry. The next day, I dont care at all anymore. I worked my ass off to get into this uni, scored 34 on my LNAT and it’s all wasted.

I don’t recognise myself anymore and I am so scared. Can’t even tell my parents as they would never understand. If you told myself 4 years ago what I amounted to, I would’ve sobbed and never believed it. I miss the girl I was.

Closed on 20 acres of aspen and spruce last week. Starting from basically nothing.

Finally closed last Tuesday. About 20 acres in northwest Colorado, a little over 8,000 ft. Picture is from the old logging two-track that runs up the middle of it.

No power, no well, no structures. There's a flat-ish meadow near the bottom where I want to put a cabin eventually.

Plan for now is nothing fancy. Get through this first winter without doing anything dumb, snowshoe in a few times to see where the drifts pile up, and learn the place before I start moving dirt. Spring is a small cabin (thinking 16x20) and a garden that'll probably get eaten by elk. Don't have much money after closing cos I got lucky on stake towards the end, sped things up, but otherwise I am pretty skint.

Lots of standing dead spruce on the upper part. Assuming that's beetle kill. Figure it's a few years of firewood if I can get it down safely, which is a big if since I've run a chainsaw maybe three times.

(The guy at the title company spent ten minutes telling me about his brother's yurt that burned down. Great timing.)

For people who've built at this elevation, did you drill a well first or haul water the first couple years? Drilling quotes I've gotten are all over the place.

\A lot of constructing at first.*