So, if I used SolidWorks or AutoCAD more, it would be a different story. I do most of my work in Revit which is OK on using RAM. And I wish I could save desktops, that’d be cool.

What’s Depot?

I work as an engineer and I use it like a desktop for each project. Works very well when you need to work on more than one project at a time - all the programs, files, folders, browser tabs for one project are on one screen exactly where I left them, and exactly in the layout where I left off.

I also keep the first desktop as a HOME screen, where I have email, Teams, Zoom, and my timesheet program. If I need to talk to someone about a project while I work on it, I just pop that chat out into a new window and move it to the respective desktop.

The only limitation is that if you open something (like an Excel file) through Windows Explorer on desktop 1, but you have an instance of the program already running on desktop 3, it will jump around the desktops and open on the one where it’s already open. I have no idea why, not all programs do that, but it’s easy to move it to the correct place.

Also it’s even more hand if you learn the keyboard shortcuts.

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.

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.

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.