Recent content by Masquernom

A bit off topic but; My megacorp let it be known that they were actively seeking to promote women. I don't recall if it was officially announced, but very common knowledge. We had a new hired, woman engineer in our department. During casual conversation, I mentioned she came to work at a...

Work up to them slowly. Be careful of your wrists, hand tendons.

Just one additional piece of advice..... Do not advise your daughter to "do what you love and the money will follow". That's been interview advice from several billionaires. If I was a billionaire, I'm pretty sure I'd love what I was doing too. I know it was popular opinion among high school...

Want your daughter to have the golden ticket? Study accounting and focus on audit. Minor in computers and become an IT internal auditor. Have your first company pay for your night courses to get your MBA. Get your CPA as soon as you get enough credit hours. The MBA will let you move from...

If I read the article correctly, the flood water was 5 feet deep. Hard to keep that out of anywhere. They make a sort of threshold for doors that will pop up by themselves if they get too much liquid. In the chemical industry they're used to prevent spills from spreading through an opening...

I did it. Looking at their data, I'm not sure how good it is in detecting cancer in the early stages. Looks pretty good at detecting in the later stages. It's also expensive, about $1,000. It gives you only a pass/fail result. They just send you a note that says you have cancer or not. I...

I'm still using Office 2016. We'll probably buy new desktop computers in a couple of years. Wonder if it will load then. I don't intend to pay a subscription fee if I can avoid it. The inventor of the spreadsheet has an interesting story. He got poor legal advice and didn't make any money...

I use a local place that just does blood draws and ships the samples. The test was about $240 and the blood draw and handling the shipping was $40

I saw what was supposedly a mathematical analysis of the causes of cancer. The result was that their estimation was 2/3 rds of the chances of having cancer were just the result of a bad cell division, purely bad luck. The other third was genetics, environment, carcinogens, diet, etc.

Here's another blood test. Much cheaper. I do one every year. https://onetestforcancer.com/

Kentucky is launching a new pumped hydro project. https://www.whas11.com/article/money/business/billion-dollar-hydropower-facility-bell-county-andy-beshear-southeastern-kentucky/417-9e3dbce9-6686-45d2-a936-ad73a296fc18

I heard a local real estate agent's ad on the radio recently. They now offer 1% selling agent commission and recommend 2.5% buying agent commission. No idea what that gets you other than the MLS listing. But other than some photos of the house, I never had a listing agent do much else anyway.

I'm a boomer, born in 1958. I looked up the demographics, and I can see why they made the breaks where they did based on the total births. But the first boomers that turned 18 years old in 1964 had a very different life than the last boomers born in 1964 that turned 18 in 1982. So, I think...

I would be very happy to have WAY too much in an IRA! I'd want to have the biggest tax bill for a RMD in history!

How can you have too much saved in an IRA? That comment doesn't make sense to me.