BillyOceans11

Costco for me. My local Sam’s has been overrun by the dindus. I would prefer to dodge the oblivious Asian women at Costco, plus the food court is better.

Definitely not a waste and you haven’t been in one spot long enough to be pigeonholed. Been in the game 20+ years and bounced between financial accounting/reporting and internal audit/controls roles. Thoughts:

1. Having done financial statement audit and having Big 4 gives you the opportunity to go into a financial reporting role.
2. Your current role in internal audit gives you the audit/controls option as well, and as others have commented controls skills will always be in demand.
3. You seriously need to get out of Louisiana to open up career opportunities and increase your earning potential. The problem is with your skill set you really need to be where there are lots of corporate headquarters because that’s where the financial reporting and audit teams are usually based, and there just aren’t that many companies based in Louisiana. Potentially you could eventually move into a plant/refinery finance manager role staying in Louisiana, but you would probably need to have some staff accountant/analyst experience first.

Driving while looking at your phone.

Scheduling work meetings during the lunch hour and not providing lunch.

Not quite to your age (mid-40s), but I can’t see myself ever remarrying. The family court system is too biased against men and the risks are too great. My hope is that by the time I am your age I will have made up what I lost in the divorce and be in a good position to retire.

The dealings I still have with the ex are as much drama as I want to deal with at this point.

10 min grace period, then their crap is going on the table

Grant by Ron Chernow was a fantastic read. I was never a fan of Grant (damn yankee) but his story is fascinating, to go from resigning from the Army in disgrace to leading the Union forces and ultimately being president.

For me I think it is how the scamdemic exposed that so many protective norms we assumed to be solidly entrenched suddenly disappeared. Prior to COVID would you have thought:

1) The government could restrict the free movement of law-abiding citizens.
2) You could lose your job or be prevented from traveling on an airplane for refusing to be injected with an untested vaccine.
3) If you weren’t fired outright that your employer could put protocols and restrictions in place based on your vaccination status that effectively disclosed to everyone a personal healthcare decision.
4) That your employer could charge you extra for your health coverage solely based on your vaccination status.
5) That you could be prevented from being with a loved one in their final moments due to quarantine restrictions.
6) That you could be forced by government mandate to wear a face diaper.
7) That the government could prevent you from going to church or from other lawful assemblies (but of course if you loot and burn cities in the name of protest that is okay).

COVID was a wake up call that our rights can be taken whenever TPTB find it expedient to do so. That will take decades for many to forget.

Absolutely hate the phone. I never answer unknown calls and do everything I can to avoid making calls as well. I have stopped doing business with companies because I couldn’t service my account online and had to call them.

I have a dedicated Google Voice number I give to most people and businesses that goes straight to voicemail. The number of people who have my real phone number is probably less than 50.

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Chips come in so many varieties. Doritos would not last, but some random “healthier” corn chip will linger in half bag stale limbo for a month

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True. Doritos we will get through about half the bag. The last few bags of Lays potato chips I threw out unopened.

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That's not Tulsi

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Does anyone really care?

Only thing I don’t like about H-E-B is it is always too damn crowded. Even with the wide aisles feel like there are oblivious people everywhere. If you are just running in for a couple of things it is a royal PITA.