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I need to contact a Pro Max adult
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An adult. Fuck'n A.
Granddad was the Adult Pro Max in our family. Since he passed, Mom and I are both bad at adulting, so we just call each other to commiserate. :P
Look I love my mom.
But one of us has a therapist and a taste for new interesting foods. The other has anger issues when the food isnt Banquet Turkey in gravy with boxed mash potatoes.
I'm hesitant asking my parents for advice because it will be grounded in their... *clears throat* outdated worldview.
The only advice from them I take seriously is stuff that has nothing to do with society as a whole. Basically stuff like what to do about some random bug in my apt. Sometimes I bounce ideas around about something I'm considering doing (which is mostly just me thinking to myself but with an audience).
Yeah. When I was 2 years into my working life (in tech), I was still taking advice from my dad (who worked in two government agencies his entire life). When I told him I'm switching jobs (for the first time), he told me to consider working in government because the longer you work there, the better your pension at retirement. This was at a time when the tech boom was starting, IT jobs were becoming the highest paid in the market, and switching every couple of years gets you paid better than a promotion. As a 20 year old in tech, the low salaries in government wasn't exactly enticing.
I don’t understand, that is decent advice. Pensions are nearly impossible to get outside of government work.
If he suggested not moving companies because you’d be wasting time towards a pension at that private company, that indicates an outdated worldview, because that used to be common and no longer is. He correctly has identified that government work is one of the only ways to get a pension these days.
Because back in my home country, government salaries are abysmal. Yes the pension is great, but you’ll basically be living on a low salary that is just enough to get you by, your entire life. A career in tech paid more than double (sometimes triple) and you can invest for your retirement in other ways to supplement your social security benefits.
It was basically advice from someone who lived in a time when government was your best option for a job, and tenure was more valued.
I'm pretty happy with how I'm adulting. I cook a bunch, I fix just about anything, I am a pretty solid home DIY person, good with plumbing, electrical, cromulent at basic carpentry and drywalling.
My money is OK, could be better, most of my relationships are healthy, I'm doing OK physically.
I read a lot of books, prioritized emotional health and growth, I like a lot of things, I'm pretty bad at the piano, but I try real hard.
I don't know if I'm pro max but a lot of my friends ask for my advice.
Also, what is that strange curly cord in the picture.
Im like half of this. I'll never compete with my father, though, lol. He just seems to know how to fix and do everything. The only thing I can do for him is computers, and I feel bad because it's nowhere near what he can do and has done for me. Like how im basically broke and in debt and needed a car bad since my last one was 18 years old and he didnt want to keep fixing it or want to fix it because something bad was probably gonna happen soon. So he loans me the money and we buy my cousins car they were going to trade in... within the first month, the entire engine is shot. Dealership wants 9k, so he's like, nah. Tow to his house, and he buys a new engine online for 3k and puts it in himself. Took him some time, but he just finished a few weeks ago and has been driving it for 500 miles to make sure it's OK. I'm about to get it back this weekend.
My entire basement flooded a month ago from leaky water heater and then find out after everything was demolished and removed that there were also 5 different leaks in water pipes as well. He just came by and replaced all the plumbing with new pipes while it was exposed in 1 day.
The list goes on, but you get the point. I seriously have no clue what I would do without him, and I know he is getting older now so its kind of scary to think about. I got about 1 more year of debt, and I should be ok after that, thankfully. I'll never forget everything he has done to help. It sucks that a lot of people never get to have something like that.
That's the phone cord.
Wow, thats wild, why would you charge a phone with a weird curly cable?
The curls make the electric go faster!
I'm really considering making an askLemmy post for career advice and I don't think Lemmy was around at my parent's time
Base model adult right here.
Must be one of these "Alpha Males" I keep hearing about. People need to wait until the male is at least at Release Candidate state before deploying.
SMH my head
Can't talk to my my mom about deep stuff because her anxiety is much worse than mine. She wold never sleep.
Gotta be able to afford the Pro Max subscription.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2025
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