DarkBlade2117

Hoooly shit I might finally and I mean finally have a job to stick to long term and make into a career. At minimum, I am 100% finishing my one degree to be able to transfer uni's and not have to retake a bunch of classes. I believe the one I am waiting on a background check to clear before they confirm an offer. I have an interview for another dealer tomorrow, on top of potentially a few others as I just recently applied to about 6 others.
 

Potential job opportunity in sales.. I have a bit of sales experience and the idea of a sales position isn't what entirely worries me. I guess what does is seeing a big paycheck and wanting that again and again and again and ending up creating a not good work-life balance. The first 6-8 weeks will probably suck because I'd not make a whole lot since it's almost entirely commission based. Depending on how it could work out, I'm hoping I'll either be able to stay at my current job for a few more weeks to offset the temporary decrease in pay or potentially get approval to work part time hours until I fully transition into the new job. I'll have to see what ends up working out in the end

My Micro Center got 200 5600x's in lmao
Might go and exchange the 3800x for one.

Considering I got $700 off Dogecoin I am now again tempted to buy a 6800 XT

We heading out to Micro Center in an ~hour. Mine isn't super big and usually have their trucks unloaded by 11 so we'll see.

Well we start a new job tomorrow..  I walked out, found a FT position not 2 hours later and a start date was confirmed the next day.. at the end of it I'll come out with ~30% increase in pay with 2.5 hours less per week. If I get any OT I'll make more in a week than I did in 2 weeks at my old job.

As messed up as it is, my job has lost all respect from me and any hope of receiving more than a day notice of my leaving. It's quite nice hearing the people making 3-5x what you make being disrespectful towards you instead of directly coming to you to deal with issues and the overall toxicness of the job. I have an in to a traveling position that pays well, travel is paid for on top of 2/3 of your meals etc so going to see how that works out. Going to try and save up as much money as I can and start budgeting myself to pay off my car, the rest of my schooling and go on some adventures for the next 1-2 years to really narrow down what I want to do for 30-45 years as a career.

Man I feel lost at what I want to pursue for as a degree.. I think I want to switch but at the same time I don't entirely know. Like I honestly can't see myself doing what I am going for. It's not too late now, I'd be dumb not to finish my classes considering I am getting it paid for by my company whether I pursue the degree or not.

Almost done redoing my cars audio

Alpine iLX-W650 Head Unit
Kicker 46CSS654 (Front Doors)

Kicker 46CSC674 (Rear Doors)
Kicker 43VC123 with Kicker DXA250.1 Amp (Got for $100 for both)
I installed the door speakers myself and had someone else install the head unit and sub/amp cause I don't really have a day to give up to do it. Only thing I gotta do is upgrade the stock tweeters on my dash and add an AMP to hopefully get rid of distortion at higher volumes. Other than that I super happy with what I've picked up

This is the only place no one I know, know's about..
But it's so disheartening to get to know people over the past year or year and a half and when you start to open up a bit about your life some of the fade away. It's showing some peoples true selves but at the same time I also feel a little betrayed

I think the next generation of GPUs/CPUs will be when I upgrade.

Hm.. anyone got suggestions for a wifi router for 400 down/up for a fairly big house? ~3500 sq ft.

What are the chances a wall-mounted monitor mount exist for 3x 32" monitors?

Moved the setup to the other side of the room and cleaned literally everything of dust down to the micro USB cables

I was a little worried as I didn't know if the plug I was using was on the same breaker as the A/C in the room but all good.

The only upgrades i can reasonably make right now would involve almost completely redoing my setup.
I'm thinking of getting a 3080 and a new CPU... and then doing a custom loop
I've also thought of getting two 21:9 monitors to go on either side of my main gaming monitor and then like a 42" 4k TV for watching videos/movies etc above it all but that's a lot of money I don't have lol
I could just completely destroy myself and get one of those 43" 4k 120hz monitors that cost half a kidney but I'd also want two ultrawides on both sides of that..

Man the idea that I could be apart of the design process of some motherboard or GPU PCB etc is good enough motivation alone to get me through these degrees. One day

By time I get my Bachelor's I'll have at least 3 years of work experience in the design and manufacturing process of various electronics, circuit board etc. I then have to decide if I want to take it up a level and pursue a Master's in Electrical Engineering, Comp Engineering or CompSci to give me an opportunity to work for bigger companies. The two big pro/con's of the degree I'm in is you get substantial real life experience and job opportunities handed to you on a silver platter. They won't even give you your degree without 2 years of work experience. Downside is a lot of the credits don't transfer meaning it'll take me a little longer to get a masters.

Ha today's class was great
Turns out that almost every major university in my state hates the program I'm in, to the point where they took it all the way up to the governor.
They tried telling companies they can't call students out of this program engineers and multiple companies laughed at them. These Universities are mad that they'd rather take students directly out of or even in the first year of our program then students in their programs. Every class that is in our program is only in it because some companies wanted it in it. The highest math we have to take is stats, no calc or anything. There's around ~250 internship opportunities that are local alone all pay between $10-$20/hr for an internship.

I love this degree already
One of my classes gets me IPC certified, I get like 1 or 2 others from another class
All these classes go hand in hand with one another and because I already have a bunch of classes done I don't have to even worry about fussing around with like a fucking english class.
They worked with around 120 companies to build this degree to focus exactly on what they want and you're required to do two paid internships to get the degree. Everyone whose gone through with the program and made it through has been given an offer from at least one of the two internships and various others.

I'm confused
Insurance sends me a letter yesterday saying they approve an MRI on my knee and today I get a letter saying they denied it??? The MRI is tomorrow and I am not forking out $4000 for it >.>