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MS as a company remains perpetually in reset mode.

I've been applying to jobs at Mistral, just straight rejects.

Not even a phone call :(

It also might help if you are a praying man.

Finding hobbies and working out didnt work for me. People say it works. It doesnt for me and sounds cliched. But dont let it fool you in the manner that these things work for others but not for me, I must be doomed then.

Again detach yourself and wait for better times.

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"

I was laid off from a very well paying job and to support my family I had to take up a worse paying job with similar problems to the one you described.

Yes. Ive had dark thoughts sometimes. I dont know the answer. It helps to distance oneself and treat the dark thoughts passively, as in if I wasnt in this situation these ideas would not be coming to me, or something like - these are just thoughts and I acknowledge them and let them pass.

Few of my friends did not have good results with medication.

I am also detached from my job, its only purpose is to make enough money to no longer need doing the job. Today I work to live and see tomorrow and the same thing tomorrow again.

I suggest talking to someone elder and with a more positive outlook on life, not from work. Preferably retired.

In summation- You are not your job friend. Not should it give meaning to your life. Live to fight another day. It helps to detach oneself.

I bought a windows license, it didn't come preinstalled with my PC.

I still want a refund. I feel pretty stupid.

Its greek to me.

Down 13% in the last 5 days.

I was fired by microsoft last year, Satya said the layoff was not due to performance reasons and he refused to elaborate what it was. In the job market I had to explain at every interview why I was laid off. People still ask me why I left MS to work at my current less prestigious company when the learn I used to work there and I have to sheepishly repeat the lie I have memorised to make them go away.

Even when I was at MS I saw a culture of always being in firing and hiring mode. They fired people who were perfectly good at their jobs and hired people who needed to be trained and needed higher salaries.

Sorry Satya. I just can't trust MS with my career anymore and I dissuade more people from going there everyday. ¯\(ツ)/¯

I have been working for 10 years and unable to afford a home to start a family.

I have about 350k USD and live in New Delhi.

VTI avoids these issues. It's float adjusted market cap weighted. More float allows better price discovery. So a company like spacex has negligible weight.