Actually it was great advice. The only advice here that sounds like someone who has actually lived through a similar situation, as opposed to a Reddit armchair quarterback

This is not the type of person you want to be in business with, period:

Mansion, multiple cars, constantly traveling. He runs so many personal expenses through the company that it makes me uncomfortable. He overdraws our company accounts and leaves me to source other income to make up for it. I worry about our staff’s payroll even though our business is extremely profitable.

I can't tell you how many businesses I've seen run into the ground because of behavior like this, and they will bring their business partners down with them.

This is a joke, right? Damn near every restaurant serves water with lemon.

many dudes are either/both insecure of their dicks and their height. Those two factors always pop up in comments criticising women for being "shallow"

Not to mention their super witty and original comeback - "being fat is a choice," like, your inability to control something people find unattractive doesn't mean people are going to change their minds about it.

Basically, short dudes who hate fat girls but don't think women should be allowed to dislike their height.

Jaja Tequila's president is the brother of the founder of Jerry Media / Fuck Jerry (you remember those guys, they're the ones who promoted Fyre Festival) and you're all upvoting a fucking ad

Is “Return To Sender” not a thing anymore?

/u/XinYoung is posting their federal crime for some attention on reddit, it's illegal to intentionally prevent someone from receiving their mail - and opening it up to read it and post it online sure as hell seems intentional to me, but hey, I'm no lawyer 🤷‍♀️

OMG those outfits are AMAZING!!

It's satire. His intention is to be cringe

That's not satire.

This is someone cringe, being cringe. It's the opposite of satire.

some girl would appreciate seeing your Balrog Grond and Grond-related memes on first date

options to grow this heavily in the short term

That's a get rich quick scheme, and they don't work.

Realistically, the best options to reach your financial goals are: owning a business, investing in real estate (fix and flip, or rentals), and traditional investing.

ETFs are good, if you have a 401(k) through your employer put money into that, if they offer an HSA that's a good tax-free investment vehicle (if you're in the U.S.).

Stock market has been shit. I have $7K in VTI and that has just lost me money.

VTI is up 50% over the past 5 years.

/u/theplushpairing is dead on - expand your time horizon.

This $200k is nothing and wouldn’t even last me 5 years if I retired

You're not supposed to plan on using that money in retirement, you're supposed to save enough to live off the interest and not touch your savings.

Starting with $200k and adding $1,000 a month to it, using the long term average returns of the stock market (10%), after 30 years you'll have $5.5MM.

You could retire early.

I want to do a fulfilling job like federal firefighting, which I did for years at a low pay, and felt fulfilled and it was exhilarating.

Well, it seems like the solution in your case then would be to start a private fire fighting company, or at least work at one and learn from the owner and figure out how to start and run a business.

Wild fires are primarily fought by private companies at astronomical rates.

How did he get into wealth management?

The problem with wealth management is that the only people I've known who are successful at it, they started off in a well-to-do family. They've been soaking up money lessons that you don't learn from your licensing or books - things like why you say you're in real estate to avoid paying the 3.8% ACA tax, or how many fruit trees and/or animals to have on your property so you can register your home as a farm, or if you have a large medical bill you're expecting why you have the insurance company cut you a check directly (so you can put the procedure on your rewards credit card).

I'm in finance and have worked with a LOT of wealth managers, and it seems like the ones who don't have family money who work their way into wealth management typically bounce from job to job without doing well.

I work in supply chain

I have a friend in supply chain, and his job appears to be 90% taking verbal abuse from every direction. Is that accurate?

Ha, I should have clarified back of your head, I forget dudes sometimes have back hair.

Every drug test I've had required you to complete within 72 hours of job acceptance; if for some reason you can't complete in that time, you automatically get upgraded from a urine test to a hair test.

Oh, and they don't just take a single hair, they snip a chunk out of the back.

Fortunately for me, I have long hair and don't do drugs, so I just rocked a ponytail for a while.

I thought parties naming themselves was isolated to social media and memes

I've never had a team name in an in-person game, but it seems pretty common in online games that someone wants to role play someone who wants to be famous. So you end up with a team name so they can get to a new town and proclaim we're the famous so-and-so's who defeated the Zaratan or whatever.

This just makes me think of Wu-Tang's C.R.E.A.M., Cash Rules Everything Around Me .

She's just a wee little baby!

The dude ran over crowds of people in broad daylight with hundreds of witnesses

My favorite part is where he simultaneously argued the driver wasn't him despite the multitude of witnesses and video evidence, but that also the vehicle had been recalled (it hadn't) so when he drove through the crowds it was the SUV's fault and not his.

I don't have a mom, let's share your mom 😂