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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Depends on your situation and objective. If you’re currently employed and want to increase potential earnings in the same track, then probably around 30/35 from my personal judgement. You should really have enough professional experience and context at that point to make up for a degree, especially if you’re engaging in continuing education, staying up to date on professional articles, watching conference talks, etc.

    If you’re looking to get an MBA to move into a management track, it’s probably worth it later in life until like your 40s and 50s earnings wise.

    If your current industry is tanking and you need to pivot to a new one, then you don’t really have any other options than to reskill no matter how old you are.

    If you just want to learn philosophy or history independent of your work, then there’s not really a point where it’s too late, just how many classes you have time for which is wholly dependent on your life circumstances and doesn’t depend on age.




  • I’m going through something similar with my parents. The frustrating part hasn’t been the forgetting, it’s more not trying to work around it.

    I keep telling them to write things down if there are verbal plans being made, will remind them etc. then sometimes they just never do even if I chase a bit, or they’ll write down the wrong thing or the plans will have changed and I’m not told and it just causes a whole mess.












  • Charge up front for appliance disposal if they aren’t independently rated for a certain amount of lifetime so you force people to pay what the actual cost is.

    I recall they do this for something, forget what. I think it was like nuclear reactors to make sure you have money set aside to decommission it safely even if you go bankrupt.