IMO:
- You want something about 5 years old, so it's already done most of its depreciation, but is unlikely to have issues for a long time.
- There are 4 cars worth considering: Tesla model 3/Y, Korean E-GMP (comes in Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5/Ioniq 6 flavors), Toyota hybrid (corolla, rav4, camry, prius), Honda hybrid (fit, civic). Everything else is worse or does something you don't want or need. If I had to pick one EV, Ioniq 5. If I had to pick one non-EV, corolla hybrid.
- If you have somewhere to charge it overnight, get an EV.
- Look into getting a Comma 3 unit for it. All the cars above should be compatible, but double check (Tesla compatibility coming soon).
I'm one of those boring ass engineers (also in infra) sitting behind a computer all day, but I've come to quite like my job, and I think I'd honestly rather do this than be most of those influencers.
Their lives look pretty hellish, waking up every morning to perform hedonism for an invisible audience. They have no community, no source of meaning. I think I'd go insane about a month after the hedonic treadmill kicked in. Compare that to my job which is interesting enough and very concretely useful to my society. To be fair, I think I'd go crazy doing one of those ultra-abstract tech gigs or OP's accounting job, and it helps I get to go commission the stuff I designed in the field every few months, so I'm not always in the office.
There are definitely people with better lives than mine, but I'm mostly glad they exist and look up to them as inspirations. They tend to also be clearly smarter and harder-working than me. Part of me is glad I'm in the middle of the hierarchy; it seems lonely at the top.
Maybe this is all cope, but it gets me up in the morning. I'm glad you could ditch the commute and I hope your job gets better.
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