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[JPolen01]

Accepted my offer and put in my two weeks. So full of joy, dread, happiness, anxiety.

Ended up getting a 15k bump and I'm just shy of my goal to make 100k within 2 years of being graduated.

Congrats on the new role!

[Kaan]

Accepted my offer and put in my two weeks. So full of joy, dread, happiness, anxiety.

Ended up getting a 15k bump and I'm just shy of my goal to make 100k within 2 years of being graduated.

Congrats! Like RJ, it took me a lot longer to get there.

[Steve85]

Accepted my offer and put in my two weeks. So full of joy, dread, happiness, anxiety.

Ended up getting a 15k bump and I'm just shy of my goal to make 100k within 2 years of being graduated.

Congrats! Sounds like you described the feeling of not just being alive but living.

[.RJ]

Hey Kaan, lets drink expensive beer and go yell at clouds together that'll be fun

[Kaan]

Hey Kaan, lets drink expensive beer and go yell at clouds together that'll be fun

I pictured .... cold beers, rocking chairs, and yelling at cars in Reston as they pass by. "slow down!" "get off my lawn"

[Apoc]

Wife and I are starting to talk more seriously about moving back up north.  Probably not any time soon because we actually do like it down here, but being so far from most of our family with the little one on the way is kind of tough.  While it has a lot of benefits and most of our neighbors are cool, there is a lot about suburban cul de sac life that I don't love.  The idea is that we would move onto my family farm and either renovate the main house or build a new one.

I think raising children where your family is a hugely critical piece that is very helpful.  Not only to you but your child.

That said, I would say no to a farm.  I lived in a neighborhood growing up where I had to be driven anywhere to be around kids my age.  That SUCKED and was really hard in elementary school/middle/high school combined with the swap from private school.  I was always super jealous of my friends that had neighborhood friends.

We love our new neighborhood where our neighbors are our friends; and kids are outside playing and it's "walk to everything" (pool/playground/fields/lake).  Being secluded as an adult = awesome.  Being secluded as a kid = much harder. I didnt originally want neighbors I could see; but knew it was important for my children.

My wife grew up in rural Vermont, before the internet, and she hated it. My sister lives in the New Jersey suburbs where there aren't many kids and she ends up driving them everywhere. There are countless kids who grow up in rural communities, so it's not the end of the world, but I definitely want my kid to be in walking distance of friends.

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Hey Kaan, lets drink expensive beer and go yell at clouds together that'll be fun

I pictured .... cold beers, rocking chairs, and yelling at cars in Reston about paid parking

FTFY

[WRXtranceformed]

 Our primary motivator is the peace, quiet, quality of life and family we'd get being back up there.

Those are some rosy tinted glasses of this area there, hombre.

While day to day life might be peaceful and quiet, every time you have to drive into leesburg you'll probably want to stab yourself in the eyeballs.  Also consider that if you build a house on your family land, that money is gone, you'll never be able to sell it and get anything back out of compared to buying elsewhere.  And dont think that land wont be developed, either, the county supervisors around here have given the keys to the castle to the property/data center developers.  Hell, I'd rather just live in Leesburg proper and you can walk/bike to most everything you'd need....

Like Chris said, that's kind of what we're looking for is to get away from the burbs eventually to somewhere more private.  I lived up there for 25 years and we still visit every year so I'm aware of traffic, etc. going into Leesburg, Sterling, etc.  It is what it is, I don't mind making that drive into town and it's really not that bad compared to like Atlanta or NYC or closer to DC (15-20 minutes max via back roads or Rt. 15).  I also (right now at least) don't have to commute so it's not as big of an issue.  My mom lives in downtown historic Leesburg and it's cool and all but I'm not one to live in a city, it's just not our thing.  I can't speak for the rest of LoCo but the land around where we are is indeed protected.  Once that land is deemed historic it's not as simple as a developer giving the county a rub and tug and letting them build on it.  It pretty much has to stay what it is, indefinitely.  That's why my stubborn grandmother fought so hard for it NOT to be deemed historic, she didn't want someone telling her what she couldn't do on the land.  So we have this little oasis in the middle of protected land; it makes it much more valuable if we were to sell it.  Which gets to my last thought, if we're making that move and building a house it's not going to be for its investment value.  IE. that's going to be a very long term / forever move for us.  If we needed or decided to sell it we definitely could but that's not the goal so I'm not really concerned about it.

I'm also with DJ in that it is nice having kids in the same street that our son could play with, so that's what will probably keep us here for a little while, along with the convenience of fiber internet, shopping up the road, etc.  But we're definitely thinking more about it as a possibility in the not so distant future.

Edit: And congrats Taylor! That is awesome man! I did okay after college but it definitely took me more than 2 years to break six figures, well done!

[Apoc]

Ended up getting a 15k bump and I'm just shy of my goal to make 100k within 2 years of being graduated.

Thats much faster than I got there, so congrats.

I also fucked off my whole 20's and didnt invest in my career at all, and the whole housing crash economic crisis, etc....

You were also his age like 15 years ago. $100k today is like $70k when I was his age. Man, I'm old.

[WRXtranceformed]

Ended up getting a 15k bump and I'm just shy of my goal to make 100k within 2 years of being graduated.

Thats much faster than I got there, so congrats.

I also fucked off my whole 20's and didnt invest in my career at all, and the whole housing crash economic crisis, etc....

You were also his age like 15 years ago. $100k today is like $70k when I was his age. Man, I'm old.

That's a good point haha, I'm starting to feel old too

[Apoc]

P.S - I was most definitely NOT making $70k in 2002 money when I was 24.

[.RJ]

Well, I didnt get $70k then either so he's doing well. How else you gonna pay for parking?

[Kaan]

I knew I screwed up when I was interviewing college graduates that were requesting my salary to start on my project.

[Apoc]

I knew I screwed up when I was interviewing college graduates that were requesting my salary to start on my project.

You know what's really humbling? When new grads think your current, 20-year-experience compensation is too low of an offer for their first job and want to shop it to Facebook for another $150k.

[Senor_Taylor]

Sorry for bragging. I'm really proud of myself. I never imagined I would make this much when my mom was raising me and my sister working at a gas station. Really amazing she was able to give me such opportunities.

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[Kaan]

ha! the old folks are just complaining. Times have changed... that's all.

its good to be ambitious and to push yourself to be successful. Don't apologize for that.

[.RJ]

its good to be ambitious and to push yourself to be successful. Don't apologize for that.

+1

Definitely doing better and more career focused than I was a few years out of school

[ScottyB]

Property is on miles of dirt roads and our driveway is an old, gutted out wagon road.  It pretty much would crush the hopes of ever having a fun car again

i....disagree.

I think raising children where your family is a hugely critical piece that is very helpful.  Not only to you but your child.

very much this. we've been dealing with the huge disadvantages of being 7 hours away from my parents and inlaws for the last 4 years with a young child (keep in mind i like my parents/inlaws and so does my son). it really, really sucks. if the opportunity arises we'd make a move to get closer without a second thought.

i was really close with my grandparents growing up because they were relatively close to us geographically and it had a big impact on me that i've always been grateful for.

I lived in a neighborhood growing up where I had to be driven anywhere to be around kids my age.  That SUCKED and was really hard in elementary school/middle/high school

also exactly this. i grew up in a "neighborhood" with 10 houses, surrounded at the time by farms and woods. the only other few kids were 6 years younger than me. when i moved to a subdivision in middle school i couldn't believe kids my age were just walking around gathering up neighbors to play. coolest thing ever to me and it drastically changed my social skills for the better.

i'm sure my parents loved living on a private drive with less than a dozen houses but to me it felt like i was stuck on an island sometimes.

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Sorry for bragging. I'm really proud of myself.

you should be, and you have a lot to look forward to. you put in a lot of hard work and its paid off. even more importantly, you remember where you came from and what others did to get you where you are. not everyone who succeeds like you have is able to keep the right perspective. good man.

[Deceus]

So apparently:

"Thanks for filling me in on the position. I'm interested in pursuing it along with the Alexa position but I need more time to prepare"

translates to:

"I'm interested in pursuing the positions. Please sign me up for an online assessment that needs to be done within 7 days."

The ball is finally rolling with Amazon for better or worse...

[Steve85]

Capital One (Richmond) people - what can one expect from the "Power Day"? My daughter has hers July 8 and wanted to give her any additional insight. I guess she'll get a plan for the day but looking for anything else that might be helpful.

And...what is the real goal at this stage? Is it more team compatibility or still a lot of technical qualification?

It's for a process manager / improvement position for fraud and disputes.

And a quick lesson in "keeping your options open". (I think Taylor had similar situation with internal advancement while looking elsewhere). Daughter was asked by her current boss to apply for a supervisor position and she was hesitant, didn't want to take the position then leave a couple weeks later if the Cap One job worked out. Good thing she applied (and got) the internal position because the "power day" was initially delayed and then the position was put on hold. She would have missed the supervisor opportunity.

The Cap One recruiter did tell her to keep looking for anything they have since she's been pretty well vetted through their system at this point.

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I'm hitting the tri-fecta of business changes 1)My original company (Apptis) was bought by URS 2)URS merged with AECOM and now 3)Our group (Management Services) is being spun-off into a separate publicly traded company. Being called...SpinCo...for now. So it'll be the fourth company I've worked for without ever leaving

[Apoc]

My policy is you only say no to the offer, unless you don't like the job or the company.