Why I Own The World

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:00 pm

On Tuesday a campaign of mine from last summer won a Best In Show award at our yearly industry gala and then this afternoon I closed a REALLY big deal. Second biggest in total yearly revenue to come out of our office, ever.

I've gotten congrats emails from our whole management team, including our CEO. Feeling like the King of Fuck Mountain at the moment.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:12 pm

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:06 pm

Our very own Don Draper! Congrats Chi.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:18 pm

Good work, my man.

ASUCatFan · Post by **ASUCatFan** » Thu May 12, 2016 6:01 pm

I was recently offered a promotion at work. I have mixed feelings about it. I'll have to move to the Phoenix area (bad. Lived there in college and hated it), but I'll be making about 20k in base salary more than I am right now with the possibility of more in bonuses if I can meet certain targets. I'll be piloting and designing a new career and technical education program locally with the hope that we can expand it nation wide. This could mean more promotions (and a possible relocation to the Chicago area in the future) in a company that is gearing up for an IPO in the next couple of years. I have absolutely nothing tying me to Tucson except for the fact that I love living here, so I've accepted. It could be really lucrative in the future, and it should improve my standard of living in the short-term.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu May 12, 2016 6:06 pm

Well done man! Good luck.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Thu May 12, 2016 6:10 pm

ASUCatFan wrote:I was recently offered a promotion at work. I have mixed feelings about it. I'll have to move to the Phoenix area (bad. Lived there in college and hated it), but I'll be making about 20k in base salary more than I am right now with the possibility of more in bonuses if I can meet certain targets. I'll be piloting and designing a new career and technical education program locally with the hope that we can expand it nation wide. This could mean more promotions (and a possible relocation to the Chicago area in the future) in a company that is gearing up for an IPO in the next couple of years. I have absolutely nothing tying me to Tucson except for the fact that I love living here, so I've accepted. It could be really lucrative in the future, and it should improve my standard of living in the short-term.

Other than the heat during the summer you must know there are cool places to live in the Phoenix metro. I live in Central Phoenix, and love it, but have gotten to know the city much better. Central Phoenix is best between 7th Street and 7th Avenue, and McDowell to Northern. Although there are cool pockets everywhere, like around the Biltmore. Tempe by Tempe Marketplace is a cool place to live. They just reopened Tempe Town Lake. I also like the Arcadia district. It's a very kept up area. The places I would avoid are Gilbert and Glendale for their bigotry. But that's just me. Mesa is spotty and I don't like Scottsdale at all (too haughty). For me, as a general rule, east is better than west. And I'd avoid Phoenix, south of downtown, like the plague.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:08 pm

ASUCatFan wrote:I was recently offered a promotion at work. I have mixed feelings about it. I'll have to move to the Phoenix area (bad. Lived there in college and hated it), but I'll be making about 20k in base salary more than I am right now with the possibility of more in bonuses if I can meet certain targets. I'll be piloting and designing a new career and technical education program locally with the hope that we can expand it nation wide. This could mean more promotions (and a possible relocation to the Chicago area in the future) in a company that is gearing up for an IPO in the next couple of years. I have absolutely nothing tying me to Tucson except for the fact that I love living here, so I've accepted. It could be really lucrative in the future, and it should improve my standard of living in the short-term.

That sounds damn good. Congratulations.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:20 pm

Nice work! You can always come back to the Old Pueblo for UA sports...

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:49 pm

Congrats Man! That is awesome!

Chicago is my favorite "American City"

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu May 12, 2016 7:57 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:
Chicago is my favorite "American City"

Why the quotation marks?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu May 12, 2016 8:01 pm

Longhorned wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:
Chicago is my favorite "American City"
Why the quotation marks?

He's a huge fan of Nogales.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu May 12, 2016 8:07 pm

The quotes would almost make sense for Nogales.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Thu May 12, 2016 8:31 pm

Longhorned wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:
Chicago is my favorite "American City"
Why the quotation marks?

I honestly have no idea. I think I was trying to type before the wife caught me on BDW and pulled me into honey dos and I hit enter.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Tue May 24, 2016 5:42 pm

Sd86 getting married as we speak. Couldn't be happier for my bro.

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Wed May 25, 2016 3:45 pm

My motto.... Don't Settle

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed May 25, 2016 4:51 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:Sd86 getting married as we speak. Couldn't be happier for my bro.

Congratulations!

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Fri May 27, 2016 10:22 am

ASUHATER! wrote:Sd86 getting married as we speak. Couldn't be happier for my bro.

Congrats to him

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri May 27, 2016 11:04 am

Been an awesome week in Oregon and I'm sad there's only 48 hours left. But I'm so happy to be married to the most wonderful woman and person I've ever known. We definitely made the right choice by eloping and sharing this with just each other then having a reception in Tucson later this summer.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri May 27, 2016 11:07 am

Congratulations man.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Fri May 27, 2016 11:36 am

Congrats SD!

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Fri May 27, 2016 1:12 pm

Have fun now that your weekends and late nights have been completely outlawed SD.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri May 27, 2016 1:51 pm

Got a preview pic from our photographer already!

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Fri May 27, 2016 5:51 pm

Congrats!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri May 27, 2016 7:01 pm

Looks like the relationship is already on the rocks....

Thank you, thank you. Try the veal!

ASUCatFan · Post by **ASUCatFan** » Sat May 28, 2016 12:09 am

Congrats!

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Mon May 30, 2016 6:43 am

Congrats, SD. And to all the rest of you who've posted in here but sadly got no acknowldgement from me.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Mon May 30, 2016 8:37 am

Congrats SD!

How long till you're having dinner at 5 like the rest of us family men?

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:14 pm

Well wife just texted...baby wildcat #2 is on the way!

Still want to wait about 8 weeks to tell the friends and family IRL, but thought I'd share with all you guys here. (If we are Facebook friends please hold off on the public congrats for know, I hope you understand why)

Crazy, Not a surprise since we were starting to try again, but only 1 month of trying. We must be super fertile Catholics...

And we closed on a house. pool party at cst's before going to cheer on the cats at the new sac arena for the west rounds of 64 and 32 this upcoming Spring?!?

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:14 pm

Mind seriously blown.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:15 pm

congrats!! and i'm in for a pool party...

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:18 pm

Congrats CST!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:18 pm

Very cool CST, what city?

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:30 pm

Merkin wrote:

Very cool CST, what city?

Carmichael about 5-10 minute drive to a public park with river access. Imma gonna buy myself a kayak.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:35 pm

That's awesome CST!

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:39 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:Carmichael about 5-10 minute drive to a public park with river access. Imma gonna buy myself a kayak.

I want to get one of these.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:00 pm

Costco has been having 2 person kayaks for $399.99, seem really nice for the price. Non fishing though, sorry Greg.

CalStateTempe wrote: Carmichael about 5-10 minute drive to a public park with river access. Imma gonna buy myself a kayak.

Seems really nice, but a bunch of dang Obama lovers.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Carmichae ... ornia.html" target="_blank

also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael,_California" target="_blank

Carmichael is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is an affluent suburb in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 61,762 at the 2010 census.

For an affluent area it sure has cheap home prices.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Ca ... ect/11_zm/" target="_blank

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:32 pm

Merkin wrote:Costco has been having 2 person kayaks for $399.99, seem really nice for the price. Non fishing though, sorry Greg.

CalStateTempe wrote: Carmichael about 5-10 minute drive to a public park with river access. Imma gonna buy myself a kayak.
Seems really nice, but a bunch of dang Obama lovers.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Carmichae ... ornia.html" target="_blank

also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael,_California" target="_blank

Carmichael is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is an affluent suburb in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 61,762 at the 2010 census.

For an affluent area it sure has cheap home prices.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Ca ... ect/11_zm/" target="_blank

shit, the average house looks like it is in the 350k-400k range. that is a $2000-2500k mortgage monthly. if that's cheap i'm screwed!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:50 pm

scumdevils86 wrote:
Merkin wrote:Costco has been having 2 person kayaks for $399.99, seem really nice for the price. Non fishing though, sorry Greg.

CalStateTempe wrote: Carmichael about 5-10 minute drive to a public park with river access. Imma gonna buy myself a kayak.
Seems really nice, but a bunch of dang Obama lovers.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Carmichae ... ornia.html" target="_blank

also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael,_California" target="_blank

Carmichael is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is an affluent suburb in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 61,762 at the 2010 census.

For an affluent area it sure has cheap home prices.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Ca ... ect/11_zm/" target="_blank
shit, the average house looks like it is in the 350k-400k range. that is a $2000-2500k mortgage monthly. if that's cheap i'm screwed!

That's cheap for Cali! Zillow says my home is worth $344,669. That's a 1800 sq ft tract home built in 1959 in a blue collar non-affluent town 41 miles from where I work.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:58 pm

My mom grew up (well after 1964) in a house in Corte, Madera in Marin County, California. It is just north of the Golden Gate by a couple of miles. The house she lived in as a kid was just your average 3 bedroom. 1700 sq foot mid century tract home. It was an average, middle class, working neighborhood then. I don't think the house cost more than $20,000 in 1964. When my grandfather died in 1993 the house sold for $288,000. As of 2016 this 52 year old *meh* house is worth $1,200,000!

Just crazy.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:04 pm

Is this you CST?

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4434- ... 2698_zpid/" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:08 pm

Nothing there is in my price range.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 4:14 pm

Yeah it is crazy...even in a few years when I have lower debt and my wife and I should be making into the 6 figure range I doubt my price range will be much more than 200k. 250k at the extreme high end.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:50 am

I'm writing a F you goodbye letter to all my colleagues as a departing gesture.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:51 am

(My search for the "Work Status Update" thread produces no results)

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:57 am

Longhorned wrote:I'm writing a F you goodbye letter to all my colleagues as a departing gesture.

Please share. Hope to write one of those myself some day...

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 11:01 am

Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:I'm writing a F you goodbye letter to all my colleagues as a departing gesture.
Please share. Hope to write one of those myself some day...

You will. Mine's filled with context-specific, velvet-glove punches that will sound nice to anyone who hasn't been inside the thing. Maybe that's how to do it.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:51 pm

Good luck LH, curious to hear what your next steps are.

EOCT · Post by **EOCT** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:04 pm

Longhorned wrote:
Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:I'm writing a F you goodbye letter to all my colleagues as a departing gesture.
Please share. Hope to write one of those myself some day...
You will. Mine's filled with context-specific, velvet-glove punches that will sound nice to anyone who hasn't been inside the thing. Maybe that's how to do it.

There's always KIS. Just three words. FU. Goodbye. Make 'em guess.

Nah. Your Maybe sounds great. Cardinal rule---short and don't burn no bridges. A big insincere thank you helps, too.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:11 pm

EOCT wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:I'm writing a F you goodbye letter to all my colleagues as a departing gesture.
Please share. Hope to write one of those myself some day...
You will. Mine's filled with context-specific, velvet-glove punches that will sound nice to anyone who hasn't been inside the thing. Maybe that's how to do it.
There's always KIS. Just three words. FU. Goodbye. Make 'em guess.

Nah. Your Maybe sounds great. Cardinal rule---short and don't burn no bridges. A big insincere thank you helps, too.

Agree with this year, never burn your bridges, esp. in today's world.

LH, find some U where you can wear shorts and polo shirts like we do at CPSLO.

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