Positive highlights of 2020

[Baron Winnebago]

Got to spend a lot of time with family and friends this year. Tough to beat that, especially when you realize everyone is starting to get old. Summer in Minnesota. Singapore and Vietnam were awesome places to visit, back when we could still do stuff like that. War Museum in Seoul. Off Zoom and back in the classroom at the end of the year. On the cusp of starting up some research again. Can't really complain one bit.

What you researching playa?

 

[Huskersballz]

Pretty good year for me. All the people saying 2020 sucked probably didn’t work hard enough.

-Graduated from DONU
-Started working full time making real money
-Bought house over the summer and renovated it, ARV +$20k or so
-Got investment advisor license
-probably fucked your mom

Goals for 2021
-Buy second investment property
-Pass level 1 CFA (and maybe level 2, but that’s looking more like early 2022)
-Fuck your mom

 

[Blackshirts_Win_'ships]

My wife and I became pregnant with our first child this year after experiencing a miscarriage in 2019 so we have been over the moon all year.

Congrats, man. Really happy for you and the better half.

 

[Blackshirts_Win_'ships]

What you researching playa?

Impacts of girth on sideways anatomical features.

Spoiler

Actually not completely in jest...I have a theoretical physicist as a collaborator, so my role is primarily testing some of his theories experimentally. Related to vascular tissue engineering and dabble in a bit of cancer cell environment/migration and vascular dementia disease progression as well.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Impacts of girth on sideways anatomical features.

Spoiler

Actually not completely in jest...I have a theoretical physicist as a collaborator, so my role is primarily testing some of his theories experimentally. Related to vascular tissue engineering and dabble in a bit of cancer cell environment/migration and vascular dementia disease progression as well.

God that's fucking interesting.

The penis thing not the curing diseases

 

[pigsonthewing]

positive highlights? all i had were negative.. lost my dad to his 2nd bout with cancer, 5 weeks later had to bury a cousin. In fact thats about all i can remember right now about 2020... so 2020 can suck smegma for all eternity. So happy fuckin new year to all!

 

[Jim14510]

Finished my basement which is where I live now.
Had a few good fishing trips in 2020.

That's all I can think of.

 

[hothouse_corn]

Finished my basement which is where I live now.

Is living in the basement an alternative to living in the doghouse?

 

[Jim14510]

Is living in the basement an alternative to living in the doghouse?

It's basically the same thing but by choice cause it's a really nice doghouse.

 

[HCFord1]

Had our first kid and he’s awesome. Got promoted with a much larger raise than I was expecting. Moved back to the Good Life. Bought a new car for the family.

Some pretty real changes, all for the better.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Had our first kid and he’s awesome. Got promoted with a much larger raise than I was expecting. Moved back to the Good Life. Bought a new car for the family.

Some pretty real changes, all for the better.

Did you stay with the same company? I ask as a hopeful former east coaster who is trying to figure out how to get home.

 

[HCFord1]

Did you stay with the same company? I ask as a hopeful former east coaster who is trying to figure out how to get home.

I did. I’m in a somewhat unique situation though since my company is global with a lot of offices throughout the US. Technically I’m supposed to stay within 90 minutes of one and KC is a bit further than that, but I have enough leadership support at this point to get an exception.

The key for me was making sure that they don’t do any cost of living adjustments because of the move, so I’ll get to keep my NYC salary.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I did. I’m in a somewhat unique situation though since my company is global with a lot of offices throughout the US. Technically I’m supposed to stay within 90 minutes of one and KC is a bit further than that, but I have enough leadership support at this point to get an exception.

The key for me was making sure that they don’t do any cost of living adjustments because of the move, so I’ll get to keep my NYC salary.

That's great.

 

[LoudHogRider]

• Lived to see all the sunrises and sunsets in another calendar year
• Got to celebrate the holidays with my family (albeit in masks in consideration of my 92 year old Dad)
• Removed the final child from the payroll and helped relocate her to Scottsdale, AZ to begin her career as a Radiation Therapist
• Had a very good - but not great - year financially as I correctly read the 'tea leaves' on the market's reaction to the pandemic and got out early, shorted it, and came back and reinvested. Fucked up hard and got "weak hands" and dumped some high flyers waaaaay to early (literally left $millions on the table), but still ended up the year with a net increase of 24.8% in my personal net worth.
• Despite having several friends and my MIL contract the 'Rona, all survived and have either fully recovered or on the path to recovery. The MIL remains a medical challenge, but we're encouraged at the increasing probabilities that she will be able to return to independent living back at the family farm in MN.

To those who lost family and/or friends to the pandemic, my sincerest condolences. May 2021 be a year of recovery and joy for all of us.