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Also not insurmountable. My mom used to drag us to the 5:30 (pm) mass growing up, I'm sure there are other churches that do something similar.

There's probably even a Zoom service for that so you can worship whenever you want. Maybe find a church in Hawaii that has a livestream?

that was like the first thing he did

Aren’t NDAs unenforceable against illegal conduct anyway?

Yes, absolutely. You can't sue someone for violating an NDA if they did so to report a crime.

But a lot of people are morons that don't understand how the law works.

The whole internet has devolved into a series of echo chambers now and everyone thinks their own chamber is superior.

We never should've killed flash games.....

Same thing happened to Reagan. He created the EPA as an executive agency to avoid Congress creating and empowering an independent entity that the executive wouldn't be able to control. He thought it would get him votes from the left. It did not, and he pretty much immediately stated that he regretted it because lefties didn't buy his bs.

Wait, what?

The EPA was created by Nixon in 1970, 10 years before Reagan was elected.

It's an independent government agency, to this day. The administrator is appointed by the executive branch and approved by the Senate, but it's not an official cabinet position nor part of the executive branch (but frequently involved in cabinet meetings).

Reagan tried to dismantle it by appointing Anne Gorsuch, who was very pro-business and anti-"big government". She ended up slashing their budget by 22% and was held in comtempt of Congress for refusing to provide subpoenaed documents explaining why.

And Reagan won reelection in one of the largest landslides in US history in 1984.

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Nuttin'

but if you don't eat the bandaids you can't have pudding, that's how this works right?

Which is kinda ironic since most TJs brand stuff is a knockoff of something else. But I get it, because TJs quality is awesome.

this is some useful info to break out at any party where I'd rather not be re-invited.

But that right there is the issue. Why should a company be allowed to prohibit employees from having a second job if it doesn't conflict with the first one? And if a company does have that right, does it apply to all jobs? What is the difference in that case between working two jobs in the same industry in different market sectors vs working two retail jobs?

Another POV: if I incorporated myself tomorrow and offered what I do for a living as a professional service, then I become the company and the companies that hire me for my services become the client. Do clients have the right to say I can't take on other clients? (FWIW I have seen some clients try that and get shut down immediately, and I've also never heard of any company agreeing to those terms with a client.)

“Doing what they are hired to do” is very often defined in employment agreements as working x number of hours.

Not necessarily true anymore in white collar professions, especially nowadays with gig work. It really depends on the language and terms of your employment contract. I've worked for places that define the employment as 40 hours per week, and also for places that define it as specific tasks for a length of time, and also for places that define it as availability during set hours of the day. It's very important to read the employment contract terms and the company's employee handbook.

You can’t really say you’re doing what you’re hired to do if you take a second job that you perform during the same hours when you’re not allowed to under your agreement.

If your job explicitly defines your employment as being available and dedicated during set hours, or if your contract explicitly says you can't take on additional employment, then you're right. That would be "double-dipping".

I also hated working for those types of places, because they're usually run by micromanagers who failed up and measure their worth by how many emails they forward along. Which are probably the same type of people who are mad about overemployment to begin with.

The way I see it, it only becomes a problem if you have multiple jobs that have a problem with it. And I can't imagine why anyone with the means to work two 6-figure jobs would choose to work for two of those companies.

I'd say Delaware.

They were the first state to sign the Constitution (barely, Pennsylvania was only a week later) and they've been kinda coasting on that ever since. The state only has about a million people total, whereas Philadelphia right next door has 1.5m just in the city proper. I-95, one of the busiest highways in America, cuts across the top and you can go across the state that way in 1/2 an hour. We usually have to remind ourselves that Wilmington exists when we think of the Northeast Corridor.

And yet, due to a ton of unique state laws to make DE business friendly, this tiny-ass mostly-forgotten state is the corporate home of over 1.4 million corporations, including 2/3 of Fortune 500 companies. And the state has no sales tax, so most people only go there to buy booze and TVs.

Thirteen years ago, I was 25 and working two dead end retail jobs. I got back into school and made a move across the country to finish my bachelor's. It was one of the scariest things I've done: to move somewhere where I had no social safety net.

Since then I've dealt with all-nighters, heartbreak, warrants, promotions, a couple weird relationships, my own inner demons, and more than a few car accidents.

But today, I'm in a stable relationship with someone I love, I have good friends that I can call to help bury a body, my family loves me at my own pace (boundaries are important), and I'm doing some good for my community.

I still have a long way to go to get what I want, but I'm grateful for how far I've come and what I've learned along the way. And I think that's the crux of your 30's, to be able to remember what the past was like, but still look forward to what's yet to come and what you plan for yourself.

Keep going, homie. You got this.

DM me if you want a mentor.

We have special houses in America, with fire resistant walls and overpowered AC and built-in gun safes.

American here too.... I'm totally OK with switching to metric as long as we keep Fahrenheit for weather. It just makes so much more sense.

well now you have to share this picture and keep it going