I hire electricians regularly. Driving a grounding rod is physically demanding. Moving conduit and hoisting it overhead for long runs is demanding. Carrying tools around, mounting light fixtures…and this is for light commercial work. It’s definitely not easy on the body and why older electricians want to transition in to design and engineering as opposed to field work.

These things are relatively physically demanding if your baseline is sitting at a desk.

But hammering a rod into the ground for 15 minutes, or holding some weight over your head, or carrying weight in your toolbag are not things that break your body down; they build your body up.

They do if you do the same type of motion over and over for years on end.

Nothing is more hacker news than somebody downplaying how physically demanding a trade is.

I think the key here is the extra income. He doesn’t need to grind as a sparky he can be very selective.

I have seen it in other trades. My family is GC, we have retired biz folks doing cranes, excavators, and some light hand trades.

I personally am considering starting an arborist.

Been on this thesis for the last few months. Any companies you think are interesting or have potential to grow during the energy crisis? Looking for more prospects to evaluate.

I'd look at generators in unregulated markets and suppliers of generation equipment.

Drivers don’t keep surge pricing anymore. Goes to the platform.

What’s one example of this working in the last 10 years?

This sounds like the equivalent of “get rich dropshipping”.

It works great for the people selling "get rich dropshipping" courses?

This is a PAGA lawsuit. Person filing it will get quite rich.

Ah, I’m in this boat. My advice: stop trying to force a job. Explore your interests until you find a spark. Talk to a lot of people about what they’re up to. Maybe you want to go on one of their journeys for a bit.

Similar situation. I ended up paying a few bucks for an extension/guest access pass at the local university. I just started auditing lectures in any and all departments, 20+ hrs/week for a few semesters. Eventually I found myself getting really interested in one subject, took all the classes available, and that's what I decided to do for career 2.0

i feel like a 30-50 year old sitting alone in a lecture with mainly 18-20 year olds is… not super well received most of the time?

I seriously doubt any student would care, honestly. When I was a freshman there was an older guy in our courses who was transitioning careers. He was a smoker like half of our group at the time, so we spent a lot of time just shooting the shit with the guy between classes.

Also, if the guy paid for an extension pass and was auditing courses "officially", he's well within his rights.

Best advice.

I agree that this is the best advice.

I was really worried about what I would do AFTER so I just kept working a day job even after I made FU money.

The difference was that I started working for different reasons which was meeting people and learning about the problems they faced.

Meeting new people and deepening relationships with people I already knew has been great for my mental health too.

It’s given me cool things to work on as well.

Well certainly, everything is a negotiation and boundaries are important. Commitment means different things to different people. 50% of first marriages end of divorce. If you’re asking for more commitment then that for these transient/ephemeral experiences, hooboy do I have bad news for you. Take what you can get but hope for the best.

Question: have you sat for a retreat? The reason I’m asking is I’m curious if it’s a “dosage” issue.

I sat for a 10 day goenka retreat and was shocked at how psychedelic the experience was for how little warning I was given.

Many schools, including Goenka downplay or ignore the risks from meditation.

Goenka is infamous in the serious meditation community, as they do not use qualified teachers in their retreats. The teaching is in the videos, the guides may not be able to help you if you start to freak out.

This was 100% my experience. The assistant teachers had no experience with anything beyond goenka vipassana courses. Was not helpful when I was encountering partial dissolution of the Self and high bliss states.

I’ve been for a 10 day Goenka retreat and did not experience anything psychedelic. However I did experience much calmness and continue to practice the techniques to this day. They have changed my life and made me a much more patient, kind, and reflective person.

I had a light psychedelic experience on my first retreat, with very noticeable visual object patterns and cartoons appearing in the heathered shirt of the yogi sitting in front of me, during a couple different periods of holding a stable meditation state. I've never had anything like that happen except on cannabis edibles or classic psychedelics.

I would recommend people sit their first retreat at a more supportive and forgiving retreat center. The 10-day Goenka retreats seem to vary in quality and sometimes unnecessarily harsh from what I've read, I've not sat one personally. I don't like the idea of getting all instructions from video also, instead of all the great living teachers out there today.

I'd recommend IMS on the East Coast, and Spirit Rock on the West Coast. They have really great teachers and very supportive schedule and environment for beginners. Downside is it's more costly than a free retreat, but I found it to be very much worth it.

Thank you for the recommendations! I've been looking at my next retreat and this is the second time Spirit Rock has come up. The goenka retreat was very harsh, very insightful, but ultimately lacking in teacher quality. From what I could gather the teachers available to me had only ever meditated in the vipassana style and were not particularly helpful.

Yep, same here. Definitely had some psychedelic moments. I think in part it's because all you can do is meditate. The sensory restrictions and the fact it's a silent retreat as well all help. Your brain goes in overdrive and comes up with stuff that you won't come up with when you have conversations or consume some content on tv or youtube.

My claim in mtgox was worth ~$2000. I almost didn’t file because I was busy running a growing business. Today it is worth 150k. File the claim. You never know what it ends up being.

Didn’t they value the claims with the BTC value at the time? i.e. it’d still be $2K?

Claim at the time of BK: 50 coins @ $100/ea. Was told that mtgox only had a small fraction of deposits left and there were non-depositor creditors suing. 10 years later and there’s ~20% deposit payouts happening in btc.

That’s roughly the situation. The trustee sold some of the coins so some will be cash.

Maybe whatever coins they recover increases in value substantially and creditors can be made ‘whole’ like with mtgox?

No.

Can I ask if you got anything back? My understanding was the trustee basically found everything, but never actually remitted settlements to account holders.

It’s a multi-billion dollar BK so they take a while to resolve. Payout amounts have been finalized and the deadline to provide your information is this week. I’m expecting a payment by EOY 2024.

When I studied GR my professor said that Maxwell was close and had he not died young it would’ve been him.

This is my reality as well with a family member. The only real option is to move to a state that has more effective mental health laws. The self-destruction that takes place during episodes isn’t fun for the niece either. Similar to my situation the government doesn’t make conservatorship easy to obtain. The practical solutions (10 day forced stays with up to 180 days involuntary) are nowhere to be found. Instead the govt thinks the best option is for the person to go bankrupt, burn all social relationships, and put themselves on the streets for a few months every other year.