Hi all!
For full background, I'm a student graduating this year in May. I'll be starting full-time in July, earning the annual income listed below (until then, income can just be treated as shared household which also clears 110k). I'll also be moving to NYC, which will have the impacts listed below. I'm an authorized user on two cards that aren't listed (oldest age on those is seven years).

• Current credit cards you are the primary account holder of: (list cards, limits, opening date): Chase Sapphire Preferred, $5,500, 8/2022
• FICO Scores with source: Experian 756
• Oldest credit card account age with you as primary name on the account: 7 months
• Number of personal credit cards approved for in the past 6 months: 0
• Number of personal credit cards approved for in the past 12 months: 1
• Number of personal credit cards approved for in the past 24 months: 0
• Annual income $: 110k Salary, potentially around 160k with bonus

CATEGORIES

• * OK with category-specific cards?: YES
• * OK with rotating category cards?: YES
• * Estimate average monthly spend in the categories below. Only include what you can pay by credit card.
  • * Dining $: 500-600
  • * Groceries $: 200 - my work life balance will be out the door so expecting to spend more on dining than groceries for at least two years
  • * Gas $: 0 - moving to NYC
  • * Travel $: ~130 on metro, ~70 on flights, ~25 on hotels (hotel spend won't be high if traveling with family), ~100 on UbeLyft
  • * Do you plan on using this card abroad for a significant length of time (study abroad, digital nomad, expat, extended travel)?: No. I am taking three weeks abroad this year, but I'm not expecting that to repeat (used my CSP SUB to pay for my flight). I'd love to do more but not expecting to take a lot of vacation.
  • * Any other categories or stores with significant, regular credit card spend: $12.50 for insurance, probably around 100 on Amazon, I'll likely see at least one broadway show a month if not two - 200
  • * Any other significant, regular credit card spend you didn't include above?: $0
  • * Can you pay rent by credit card? If yes, list rent amount and if there's a fee for paying by credit card: I'm not sure about a fee, but am considering the Bilt so ~$2,250

MEMBERSHIPS & SUBSCRIPTIONS (delete lines that don't apply)

• * Current member of Amazon Prime?: Yes
• * Current Verizon postpaid customer?: No
• * Current member of Costco or Sam's Club? Yes
• * Currently paying $13.99/month or more for Disney Bundle (Disney+ / Hulu / EPSN+) or other Hulu services? No
• * Current member of Chase, US Bank or any other big bank?: Chase, BofA, Ally
• * Active US military?: No
• * Are you open to Business Cards?: No

PURPOSE

• * What's the purpose of your next card (choose ONE)?: Optimizing rewards
  
  • * If you answered "first credit card", are you an authorized user on any other cards?
  • * If you answered "balance transfer", please give details as to why:
  • * If you answered "travel rewards", do you have a preferred airline and/or hotel chain?
• * Do you have any cards you've been looking at? Yes, I'm considering the Bilt card given my rent expense (my stepdad would refer me). I'm also thinking about trying for the Chase Trifecta and adding one of the two freedom cards to start, given I already have the CSP. Finally, I am about to start working at Citi. I saw on a post on this subreddit a while ago about Citi potentially having benefits for its employees for credit cards, so I'm also thinking about switching from Chase to Citi.
  

Recovering FA/AP was dating another less recovered FA/DA. On and off situationship with three cycles of me admitting feelings and him saying friends only and me falling in despair, going NC, healing, and him orbiting my social media then reaching out to reengage after 3-5 month and then our situationship progresses further. We are long distance with an out of this world connection (met each other while in same city as a casual encounter). Talking to each other and moved sloooow over multiple years, through texts, then me visiting his city (him not the direct reason of my visit) and most recently a trip abroad together with mutual friend which was amazing. On this latest trip abroad the FA/DA said I love you on New Year’s Eve to me and I have never felt so loved. Went back to our respective cities and texted like a couple for a couple months. Fa/Da began to be critical of me and quite mean to me on text. This prompted a relatively polite miscommunication and confrontation where again I brought up the what are we convo after him saying “if you want to be my friend you need to accept my jokes”. I told him you’re more than a friend to me and he said he doesn’t want more than friendship with me and the I love you was just as a friend drunk. I told him he gives mixed signals and he said I don’t communicate what I’m assuming about the relationship. I feel gaslit bc I’m delusional and quite cautious. After 2.5 weeks of NC I can recall him advancing the relationship nonverbally through loving acts of service. Kinda baffled and licking my wounds since it seemed like we got to a solid place. Any guidance or insight as to wtf happened? Thanks

i have been a fan of lucas and jacob for at least 5 years now and i just recently discovered the podcast..it’s SO NICE being able to watch all of this new content but so sad to know that eventually (probably soon lol) i will have listened to all the podcasts with no new ones to come :( i literally love them so much, they’re so effortlessly hilarious and witty and i always find myself picking up their mannerisms. i always say “yeh” and “oh okay!” in that one lucas voice. it’s nice to be able to share a community with you all because i was never a part of the patreon or the podcast submissions when they were active. let’s get this subreddit active so we can share our appreciation and humor with one another! love y’all!

Hello. I have been in food manufacturing for the better part of 13 years, with a small 5 month break thrown in there when I was really focusing on school. I am finishing up with my associates in business admin which I feel like is completely useless in this field, and I’m not really sure where to go from here.
I am currently a quality lab technician with only a high school diploma until I finish my current degree.
Are there any certifications or anything that you guys can suggest that I can get to further myself until I can afford more college? Or any advice. Not really entirely sure what I want to do but I love what I’m currently doing. Would just eventually like to be more valuable and earn more.

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Hi :) I am currently a second-year student at a university in Canada majoring in history and sustainability but focusing on history.
I have been trying to decide what to do when I graduate as I have always wanted to be a teacher. The issue is the themes I enjoy learning about in history are not very focused on in high school curriculum. Becoming a professor at a university is extremely competitive and risky and not something I would like to risk. I love kids but i also really enjoy my specific field of study and just for other posts i have seen community collage prof as a good mixture of the two.
My questions are:
Would this path in becoming a community collage professor actually be a good mix of teaching and maintaining what I am interested in for history?
How difficult is the competition to become a community collage professor? and how long would this take.
Would it be worth it?
Any advise helps! Thank you so much! :)))

Hey everyone, I live in Texas, USA. I just graduated with my degree in music and I currently work in education. I love state parks, coloring books, wine, jazz music, and I am trying to get back into reading books on a more regular basis. (If you have book suggestions, feel free to let me know!) My favorite exercise is brisk walking. Lol. I notice that a lot of the interactions I have in my life are mundane, lots of small talk etc, so I’m interested in both light and deep conversation.
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So, I just found out yesterday the person I am in love with is getting engaged, I was kinda of shock but happy for him so I texted him to congratulate him and he said “thank you, she is pregnant.. so you know..” (her family is asian) and then I was double shocked. We speak a little bit and then I asked him if I can follow him on ig and he said yes, but he didn’t follow me back and I would like to have others people opinion in that.
To give a little bit of context.. we were dating (I think) in 2021 and 2022 were on and off the last time we saw each other was October 2022 and then I felt something were off and we never spoke again ( in his message he also said he wanted to talk about something but the last time we saw each other we never spoke again so he leave it like that), our issue was he had commitments issue (apparently with me or a that time).
So, I think I will be able to close that chapter when we speak in person, have that closure because we never did. He has a special space in my heart and I wish him all the best, I’m genuinely happy for him but still I can’t move ( and yes I know, if there were a possibility now is done and overdone) please don’t tell me that all is happening is the closure I need, emotions are weird and different and I won’t change his mind, I just have a lot of questions unanswered.
Should I text him so we can meet in person and just talk? What are your opinions? I’m afraid of rejection but he answered every time I texted him so I don’t know.

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Long story short, i really want a chastity cage, but i can't buy one.
I've liked the idea of being locked up and ot someone's mercy
Now i hate to ask strangers for them to buy me something, but if anyone is interested, please PM me and we can sort stuff out
Love you, Silk~

Hey, it’s me. I know you’d think you were never gonna hear from me again and honestly I don’t even think you want to. Maybe both of us are hoping inside we can find eachother again but I’m at a cross road, I hate you but I love you. I hate you so much for messing me up the way you did, but I love you so much for fixing me in ways I never thought I could be fixed. Al thought you fixed it just to break it again so what point was there really? Did you have a plan for that to happen. To take absolutely everything from me and shatter me in pieces and act like you did nothing? I used to think we’d be out of town one day, in a nice house with soooo many dogs and all our friends. Just how it was before when you brought me to your hometown, the second girl ever you brought there and I fell in love with your family. I miss them. I miss you. It just felt right it felt like home, you understood every part of me and I didn’t even have to say anything. I hope maybe we will run into each other someday in the future, maybe married living different lives and we can stop char and have a coffee. Hopefully you still drink doubles by then and I can shock you with that because I’d still remember lol. You’re the kind of guy I’ll probably tell my kids about, “mom, who was your first love?” God I’d go on for days about you. Your hair, your blue eyes, your laugh and humour, how protective you were over me and how much you truly did love me. I’d tell them about our adventures and how we shared stories and similiar experiences. I love you. Always.
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Hello everyone! U.S. citizen here, just married a Japanese citizen, and so I want to return to uni to get a non-programming related degree that would help me work remotely from anywhere in the world, to allow myself and my wife to either live here in the U.S. back home in Japan with her side of the family, or anywhere else, and I would love to hear y'all's experience and suggestions.
In terms of already established skills, most of my career so far has been involved with working in Emergency Medical Services, specifically with telecommunications. From this work, I also have some management skills under my belt, and my team as well as bosses above me consistently note my patience and kindness when interacting with both the team I have helped manage as well as our clients. I also am a native English speaker, fluent in Spanish, and I'm currently learning Japanese.
I have no interest nor ability in programming nor coding, but I'm still open to tech, and I am very much interested in sports medicine, specifically healing through rehab (wish PT could be easily done anywhere without recertification). This all being said though, I'm open to any and all suggestions, and I'm excited to hear back from all of you. Take care, and have a great day!

i dont know what hit so hard because i thoughtni let every tear out til i couldnt cry anymore and i felt okay for a bit but its slowly starting to hit again and i just feel really sad because this is my secomd day lf crying and i still miss u. it hasnt been like thks with anyone ever so i just know i loved you with my heart truthfully i hope yoy are doing okay right now. how are you? did you get that tesla you ever wanted? do you still have that tattoo on you? hows your mother doing? hows your living situation? are you still livimg with your roommates? did i ever cross your mind or is it true you stopped loving me already? i feel like i should be moved on like everyone else is with their ex but i will admit you were a really special person that helped me grow after it all ended. i did it. i got my license and im saving up for my r.e license now. currently saving up for a car and moving out of my parents soon. my younger sister recently got kicked out and my dad gamblef the money away. my mother, she might have cancer as well, and my brother is crying because my sister had to leave the house. i just really need a hug right now and i guess you werethe one person i trusted with my heart. things will get better, i know. i already feel better typing this letter to you. a letter you will never reach. i respect that you blockef me but sometimes i wonder did you reslly just stop lovong me just like thst because i can feel everything and more but it was probably worse for you. i hope you are in a better place than you were before. sleep early and try not to overthink too much ok? and dont overwork yourself too hard. i just want you to be happy and if thats without me, thats okay :) ❤️ i love you but its not healthy that you are not in my 3d reality and only 2d. i got a lpt of hesling to do

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someone told me that my ex who just broke up with me 4 days ago that she liked a guy and she told me that there was no other reasons than her needing space and me making mistakes she said like a 50/50 between both but i freaked out and texted her and pretty much harassed her a bunch and now i don’t know what to do i love her so much i want her back and i know a lot of you guys are gonna say just move on but i need to know how badly i’ve fucked up

Hey Dad. This April marks 5 years since you died suddenly. Obviously, there’s a lot of things I’d like to say to you, but right now what I really want you to know is that over a year ago I started learning how to play the guitar you got me back in middle school.
You drove me to the local Sam Ash, and let me pick out any one I wanted. I picked it purely off of looks if I’m honest, but god damn, I still absolutely love my guitar. It’s perfect for me. I promised you I would learn to play it, but I tried a few times and got discouraged too quickly. I’m sorry to say it collected dust in my closet for the last decade.
In 2021 I started taking lessons, and as it turns out— I’m still not too great at guitar. But, I’m learning so much and practicing whenever I can. It makes me really happy to play, and I think you’d be really proud of the progress I’ve made. I’ve even learned a few of our favorite songs— ones you played for me when I was little. I hope one day I can play them as good as you did.
Every time I switch on your old amp and strap on my guitar, I have this lump in my throat and I wish I could say thank you. I don’t know if I ever even did say thank you, but I hope somewhere in the universe, you know how much joy the guitar I asked for on a whim all those years ago has brought me so much joy in my adult life.
I wish I would’ve swallowed my pride and angst just enough to say it when I was able to, but I love you dad. Thanks for the guitar.

It took me so long to learn
that you always burn.
Like touching a hot stove
knowing the outcome,
I kept hoping that one day
I could touch you,
and not feel pain,
not feel burn and hurt.
Hope gave way
to acceptance
that you’d never be
a safe person to touch.
I got burned
just trying to love you.
Your empty promises,
lies, cheating, and anger,
all twisted up,
manipulated
into an accusations like
I abused you,
among other projections
and complete lies,
I finally opened my eyes.
But the biggest lie
that crossed your lips
was saying ”I love you.”
I never had a chance
to give you love
you could understand,
because I couldn’t ever
reach you
without getting burned
and recoiling to heal.
In the end,
you were more
than just a hot stove.
You are a arsonist,
intentionally burning
anyone and anything
that didn’t comply
or bend to your will.
You seem to seek it out
and enjoy it,
finds pleasure
in watching your fires
burning everything down.
I see through you.
like crystal clean glass;
you’re just a coward
driven by fear,
lacking any sense
of empathy
or remorse.
Your transparency is
glaring.
You only burn others
because your ego
fears your own shadow.
They say don’t bleed
on people who
didn’t cut you.
For you, don’t set fire
to people who
didn’t burn you.
You still have a chance
to find love
and not die alone,
but only if
you put down the fuel
and matches.
Put out your own fire.
Then let someone in:
let them cook,
open the drawers,
help with the chores.
Do not belittle or burn
at any turn.
Let go of everything
that isn’t worth
losing love over.
Eccentricities are ok,
screaming at someone
then making it both
their fault and about you,
will ultimately
burn you every time.
Get better,
for yourself.
Before it’s too late.
Turn the stove off.

Hello! My grandfather was stationed in Germany as a US solider along the Berlin Wall for several years. He’s older now and continues to go on and on about German food. I would love to take him back to Germany but due to his age and condition, he is not able. I want to cook a classic schnitzel for him (or any classic German dish) I have looked up recipes from Google but I am looking for the real stuff. As a Cajun from New Orleans, I understand that GOOD recipes don’t come from the internet but from generations of good cooks. If anyone would be so kind to help me and share a recipe you know of, I would be so grateful. It doesn’t have to be schnitzel, it can be anything that’s a classic German dish, he just talks about schnitzel the most.
For extra content, my grandpa fell in love with and married a German woman (my beautiful grandma) but unfortunately she was soon diagnosed with schizophrenia and PTSD after crossing the wall and moving to the US, she was never in her right mind to pass on any family recipes. I would love to learn anything that anyone is willing to teach me. Thank you for your time. DANKE!