02-05-2020, 06:05 PM
BOTH: I’ve not updated this for a while because I, like several others here had noticed that when we talk about real world results that seem to be starting to manifest, they have a strong tendency of going sideways. In this case, we were trying to get the house refinanced again. And once again we hit a stumbling block at the last second and have to put the whole thing off again. Specially, my wife lost her job at about the last minute after we had done every other part of the process.
That killed it off, and it’s the third or fourth time that something like this has happened. The good news is that as soon as she finds a new job we have everything done, so it can happen quickly.
I think I’ve mentioned this before. As far as external results go, The USLM series and UMS has been amazing at helping us keep our heads above water and stave off disaster. Unfortunately, we still seem to be somehow blocked when it comes to getting onto solid ground. It’s weird. When were about to hit financial disaster, some amazing stroke of good luck saves us, but when we are about to get to a point where we are financially secure, some piece of bad luck comes out of the blue and stops us. Thus far, we still haven’t been able to level up.
The one good effect is that I don’t feel nearly the level of stress that I did when this kind of thing happened before. FRM seems to have had a real lasting effect.
Also, at the perfect time, a bunch of people where I work quit, so I have the opportunity to work 70 hours a week and make up for the lost income.
Also, I am currently off of UMS. I think that I suffer from the subconscious boredom effect that they’ve been talking about of Shannon’s journal discussion thread. The shows up as the effects of whatever sub I’m on, at least the ones that I can feel petering out at some time between four and six months, and then I get a strong urge to listen to something else.
At the moment I’m listening to Find Your Perfect Job in 5G. My professional certification expires later this year, so I wasn’t going to wait any longer to get back on that. It would be much harder to get a job in my field if that happened.
I must say though, that I’m having a strong urge to stop that and use something that isn’t financial or job related at all for a little while. Maybe I’ve just been focusing on super serious issues too hard for too long and need a little mental vacation. Advice?
That killed it off, and it’s the third or fourth time that something like this has happened. The good news is that as soon as she finds a new job we have everything done, so it can happen quickly.
I think I’ve mentioned this before. As far as external results go, The USLM series and UMS has been amazing at helping us keep our heads above water and stave off disaster. Unfortunately, we still seem to be somehow blocked when it comes to getting onto solid ground. It’s weird. When were about to hit financial disaster, some amazing stroke of good luck saves us, but when we are about to get to a point where we are financially secure, some piece of bad luck comes out of the blue and stops us. Thus far, we still haven’t been able to level up.
The one good effect is that I don’t feel nearly the level of stress that I did when this kind of thing happened before. FRM seems to have had a real lasting effect.
Also, at the perfect time, a bunch of people where I work quit, so I have the opportunity to work 70 hours a week and make up for the lost income.
Also, I am currently off of UMS. I think that I suffer from the subconscious boredom effect that they’ve been talking about of Shannon’s journal discussion thread. The shows up as the effects of whatever sub I’m on, at least the ones that I can feel petering out at some time between four and six months, and then I get a strong urge to listen to something else.
At the moment I’m listening to Find Your Perfect Job in 5G. My professional certification expires later this year, so I wasn’t going to wait any longer to get back on that. It would be much harder to get a job in my field if that happened.
I must say though, that I’m having a strong urge to stop that and use something that isn’t financial or job related at all for a little while. Maybe I’ve just been focusing on super serious issues too hard for too long and need a little mental vacation. Advice?
