Can I have ten thousand dollars?

You presumably have no experience in either automation or significant scale projects.

8? No more than 3. Otherwise, the job has conveyed how disorganized and disjointed the company is.

We just did our taxes, so I thought it'd be a good time to finally see how we are spending our money - always thought these charts looked nice and decided to make one. Welcome any suggestions (or criticisms).

A little about us:

• Family of 3 (2 adults in our mid-30s and 3 year old) and just welcomed another baby last December

• Live in SoCal and both parents work in Tech

• Bought a house in November '21, so did some renovations / improvements (e.g., solar)

• Have 1 older car and will need to get second soon

Learnings and questions:

• Spending half of our take-home on housing was a surprise and definitely realize we can't do the same amount of improvements each year

• Not looking forward to doubling our daycare costs soon...

• Internet, cable & phones (typo in the pic) at $4k is a lot in aggregate... Will look at reducing

• Any suggestions on how we can improve?

Notes:

• Methodology: Tax return for income numbers; categorized each transaction in our checking and credit card accounts for 2022; numbers rounded to nearest $500

• "Internet & cable" includes cell service

• "Restaurants" includes buying lunch at work for one of us, and we tend to take-out somewhat often given busy work schedules

• "Household" buckets a lot of stuff like children's toys and books (a surprisingly high cost, retrospectively), clothes, general household products

• Source: 2022 tax return and spend data

• Tool: sankeymatic.com

You thought what was beeches?

Edit: just an attempt to badly superimpose the Union Jack over the map of the UK. Perhaps using it in portrait form (not sure what the correct vexillogical terminology is) would have worked better

I thought it was beaches*

The ones I thought were the most out of place were Wales on the Norfolk coast, southern and Bristol in Scotland and Birmingham in NI. I didn’t spot the two you mentioned.

Unfortunately, this is one of the career paths that will be wiped away by automation sooner rather than later. Start retraining.

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What the hell is going on they needed to interview you 8 times for one of them?

You're too close, you're off the case..----..i said off!

Anything more than 3-4 interviews is ridiculous. Even 4 is pushing it

Absolutely wild that after 4 interviews only 2/9 resulted in an offer and one ghosted.

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"Cocaine" 😂

Beautiful chart!

Pale yellow text on a white background is not the reader's friend

How I did it and why i did it

There is though, something wrong on your end

There is a legend

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"People don't wanna work anymore"

I tell ya what, when I was on the job hunt, that % of auto-rejections would have been sorely welcomed coming out of the "no response" pile. 😩 (US here)

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Shelby company limited is the GOAT

Divide sqft by 10 to get a rough estimate of sqm, so you have 40-50m2, Germany has 92....probably not surprising Hong Kong has smaller spaces on average?