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^ OMG we have a Vietnamese food truck locally.
They make a sort of Thai coffee....holy Hell that is addicting. And they make something called a bao. People don't realize that the French have a lot of influence on Vietnamese cooking. Their bakeries....as Sebastian Maniscalco says: "AH-maze--ENG!". |
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I bet one would do well in Phoenix.
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I've suggested this to my SO. She has a gov't job with a nice pension, so she's not planning on going anywhere. I'm not sure if a pasty white guy selling Vietnamese food out of the back of a truck would go over or not. The part of town where my house is is woefully lacking in Vietnamese food. Have thought about opening a pho shop there and pasting her pics all over the wall with the label "owner." 😁
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I was in Lisbon a few years ago. There is a giant square leading down to the waterfront. It is essentially vacant. I told my wife that a burrito truck or a small fleet of trucks would kill it there. And they would.
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Lee, pasty white guy, Vietnamese guy... no one wants to buy food from from a truck from any guy.
You make the food, you drive the van, GenZ girls (Vietnamese or otherwise) sell the food. Opposite of Hooters girls, go with friendly but demure.
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It's because the demographics of the area support the food choice. You can't go anywhere in TX without tripping over a burrito, Mediterranean food, the places go out of business before the food inventory spoils.
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I got married at 27 & divorced at 39. During that span I worked as the Marketing Manager for a PR firm and the HSSE manager for a Haliburton contractor in Iraq then for a landscape/hardscape company in the states.
When the divorce was final, I decided to leave Atlanta and pursue a relationship here in NC . . . with a veterinarian. We started a mobile veterinary service which went well and now, six years later, we're in year two of having a mobile clinic and a brick & mortar location. I'm using my process management skills from previous jobs but am also working as a Veterinary Technician- which I never thought I'd pursue- and would definitely describe it as my favorite job. LSS- it's possible & highly recommended. I wouldn't dream of doing anything else (except build Porsches, which I'm still doing in my spare time). |
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Traded the corporate world for a ranch 25 years ago. Retired now. Loved every second of playing with livestock and every thing that comes with ranching. Maybe the best decision I made.
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im seriously considering two different career moves, one is clown college (100% serious), the second is math teacher.
both would be far more fun than what i do now, which is research and development of manufacturing technology, which was fun 10 years ago, but im now at the point in my career where i can sit down to a new project meeting and within 10 minutes determine if its a good idea and worth the research time/money or not. so i spend 99% of my time, not doing any engineering, and instead advocating up the chain for the projects i do think will work, and against the ones i dont. there isnt much of a mystery here anymore. im not sure i could make the 100+ grand pay cut work, but im also within 2 years of paying off the house, and probably a few more years of being done with racing. without those expenses, i could live comfortably on a teachers pay. i think id be much happier, and feel like i was actually doing something. Last edited by cockerpunk; 06-09-2025 at 05:50 AM.. |
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Clown school, cool! That would certainly be an interesting change of direction. Once they meet you, they may decide to make you an instructor. ![]() ![]() j/k
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clown college would be a lesson in being good with my body. something i have not spent a lot of time or energy to do. not like working out, but like learning to move my body in ways to communicate things on purpose that i cannot currently. clown is an amazing art form, one of those, slightly exaggerated expressions that reads as more real somehow. i might just do it as a sabbatical from work one summer. we'll see. teaching ... well teaching is the most misunderstood jobs in the world. and teaching math is the most misunderstood of the misunderstood jobs in the world. everyone hates math. but math is amazing. its beautiful. and it should be taught like its amazing, rather than how its currently taught. my opinions on this subject will offend every single person on these boards, but i also know more math than most of them, so like, i dont care what they think. the golden handcuffs of engineering might hold onto me for longer. life is easy when you make a ****load of money at job you are good at without thinking anymore. hard to leave that security behind. Last edited by cockerpunk; 06-09-2025 at 12:27 PM.. |
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Yeah, I absolutely understood that you really mean "clown college", as in learning to be a clown, and I think that's very interesting and would love to hear about it if you do it. I suspect it would be a hell of a thing, and not necessarily easy or trivial.
I also love math, and have "taught"/tutored many, many people up through calculus 1 and 2. I think young kids should be taught to use the abacus (Chinese/Japanese style) early on as it's a different way to think about and visualize some of the basic math/numbers that may help some of those folks that really struggle with the usual visualization. I haven't had to deal with any of the "new" math, but what I've seen of it online looks like they are trying, but going about it wrong. Responding to your last line, yes, absolutely.
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instead we spend years teaching children about whats happening in the one's place of a long multiplication problem ... a problem no one solves, and no one cares about the answer to. literally never has whats happening 3 to 6 orders of magnitude smaller than the lead digit ... matter. no one cares. its unimportant. we spend *years* teaching kids this garbage. no wonder they ****ing hate math. and everyone i ever tell that to, says "yeah but what was wrong with the way we learned math?" and i say "yeah but what do you think of math?" "i hate it, avoid do it whenever possible" welp, thats why we should teach it a different way ya dingus. it didnt work on you, it didnt work on me. in fact, ive never met a person that math education actually worked on them. everyone i ever encountered who actually uses math, figured out there own way to love it, and to understand it. the notion of mass educating a society is less than 200 years old. so the "old" way, isnt even old. its just bad. its not how people learn. its not how people learn to solve problems. its just the way mathematicians think of math. and we cannot entrust math to the mathematicians alone. in conclusion, 1. math education is ****. 2. the "old" way isnt even old, and its ****. 3. we tried to do some new stuff, but everyone complained it wasnt the old way. 4. so we keep doing it the old way, which is ****. and we get **** outcomes, everyone hates it, and only those who go through a decade of math classes, and then practice doing it for years, get to some place where math actually makes flowing sense. imagine if we taught music this way. decades of scales, memorization, modes, chords ... before you could play a single song. everyone would hate music if that were the case. |
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Since 2021, I've quit that middle age career reboot and did it again. Took it serious, went full time telescope stuff, now I have the rest of the year lined up with jobs. Stupidly busy, and a lot of 5 figure observatory construction projects in several SW states. A bunch of Boomers with too much retirement money, and I'm going to find a way to take ALL of it! ![]()
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