Hi Blind, I have a close friend who lives differently compared to everyone else I know. Is this person prestigious? - Works at FAANG as SDE. 5 YOE. NYC. Previously from Quebec. - Doesn’t rent apartment. Instead, couch surfs with friends and dog sits. Lives rent free for 300+ days a year in Manhattan. Very very rarely she will sleep at the office. She has stopped doing this since RTO however. She will visit parents 2 hour away by train if cannot find anything. - Does not pay for food for 90% of meals. Brings a box to the office and walks around the hallways looking for free food after meetings and brings it home. On weekends she will dumpster dive using an app that tracks restaurants that throw out food. If she cooks, it’s always pasta. - No haircuts. Goes to local barber school and uses a “pay what you can program”. Says she is broke and doesn’t pay for it. - Does not pay for clothes. Wardrobe exclusively startup swag. Wears her uni sweat pants. - Does not pay for transit. Uses her work pass. - Exclusive uses GNU/Linux for personal computing Specifically, arch Linux. Spends hours debugging wifi drivers instead of buying a Mac like everyone else. She does have an android phone though. At work used a Mac - She told a story about how in uni she didn’t pay for internet. Instead, she bought a wifi extended and had it hanging out of 5th floor apartment balcony to get free wifi nearby. - refused to leave apartment in uni after eviction started. Eventually landlord changed the keys. After this happened she didn’t move out but couldn’t lock the door and always left it unlocked. Quebec is weird and it was very hard to evict her Is this prestigious or weird? I am trying to encourage change but maybe I am the weird one. Not sure her TC/NW but think it is very high. TC 350 #google #janestreetcapital #openai #amazon #microsoft
This is amazing lol
Bonus story: Instead of paying for shampoo, she would bring a small bottle to the gym and refill it there.
How does she get around paying for the gym?
The only thing that needs to be said is that this woman needs mental help from someone who is professionally qualified to diagnose her and prescribe the help she needs. For the record, I’m not diagnosing her with any mental health issue, nor do I want to speculate on what she could be experiencing. Not you nor me nor anyone on Blind is going to help her when she’s like this, and it’s sad that mental illness is still stigmatized in this country. There is nothing prestigious about this situation, nor is this something that people should want to be. Above all else, this lady deserves your compassion—after all, we’re one missed paycheck and a layoff from being in the same position. TC: Redacted out of respect for the lady as I was diagnosed with mental illnesses when I was younger
She sounds nuts and im surprised shes still employed
The person wants to retire early af. Prestige
She’s already living like a bum; she can retire to the streets tomorrow and have nothing change
It is different but she isn’t hurting anyone. She is just being super frugal and might change as she age. Please let her be.
She hurt the landlord, she doesn't pay for haircuts and says she is poor. There was some other stuff that was basically stealing
I mentally admired her until she shared the haircut story. It crossed a mental line for me where behavior was no longer appropriate.
Sounds like a great candidate for extreme cheapskates tv show
Id marry this girl in a heartbeat
My wife is pretty pretty frugal, way more frugal than me but being with this lady would be like being in hell. No thank you.
Feels like a lot of work. Why not rent a studio above Chipotle and focus on getting promoted?
How can you focus with all the grilling smell going on ?
There’s no prestige. This is misery.
Lmao