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yofuckreddit
1d ago
Earned $400 extra from opening a new checking account at Wells Fargo
I get these offers all the time and wonder why people aren't taking advantage of them more. I'm getting some for up to $850 at this point (from crappy banks but still).
These take an hour of effort, you can do them once every 2-3 months roughly, and even at this stage in my career I'm not making $400/hour. After taxes it's a bit less but still.
Not to blow up your replies here, but gog has it right. Millenial parents are really fucking up a lot, IME.
Kids are given tablets and television, so many toys that they fill entire rooms, wall-to-wall activities that require dozens of hours of investment per week, pharmaceutical drugs, spots in the marital bed at 3,4,5,6,7 years old because they just can't say no....
Any fool can make their job insanely difficult, given a weak enough backbone and poor decision-making abilities. If you figure out how to get good advice and think long-term about your children you're going to have a far better time.
(Also note - once your children become a whole person [pre-teen age] your amount of control will diminish. I won't rate myself as a parent until they are in their early 20s, but I can tell you that as of this moment I can judge parental skill for kids under 10)
yofuckreddit
2d ago
Absolutely love this comment. Agreed on almost all counts, though I agreed to subsequent kids because I liked their predecessors so much (whie dreading the lack of bandwidth for each one it would entail).
Have things improved with your wife post-kid-2?
yofuckreddit
2d ago
Two points:
1 - Even if the true joy of parenting is ineffable (unfortunately the case) you can get an approximation by experiencing them in some way. Maybe it's "Kid's say the darndest things", hanging out with neices/nephews, or just being attentive at a playground while you eat a picnic lunch. This is hard, but I've already had 4 things happen today (despite having a job and typing out this reply) that I would classify as super cool and worth it.
2 - Think about how many people have to lie consistently over thousands of years for your thesis to be true. In the entirety of human history... wait, no, in the entire history of this planet for every form of life, Parenting has been worth it. And yet, only with the advent of social media and the mass delusional influence of women it enables in just the past 15 years... now we've finally woken up to the fact that procreating actually sucks? Just use your common sense here. How likely is that?
Yeah, changing a DD target is just filling out a form in a web application for me, so if it's lamer than that I get it.
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