We had a rule on the shop floor: you can play your music loud if everyone is ok with it, otherwise, headphones. Some shifts had a small enough crew that it could be feasible, but sometimes we had two dozen people working together, and you could just about count on a few of them objecting. And the machine operators were always listening attention to the machinery, so that mechanical issues could be detected by ear early. Nothing beats a human technician who knows what the equipment is supposed to sound like.
I’ve been bringing 1-3 dogs to work with me every day for the past 20 years. The dogs and I both enjoy it. My employees vary from tolerating to loving the situation.If someone had a problem with it, I’d give them a good reference.
Cheers! 
I’m not sure how to answer the financial mistakes question. There are some obvious ones, like the time I forgot to mail in my IRA contribution and paid a hefty tax penalty. But others are not so clear: was it a financial mistake when I loaned money to my ex-wife and she never repaid me? Was it a financial mistake to marry her in the first place? (That cost me a bundle.) Was it a financial mistake to choose to work for another company instead of Microsoft in the 1980s, because I would have made much more on company stock with Microsoft? Was it a financial mistake to not invest in gold when it was under $100 an ounce? It seems to me that there is a continuum between obvious blunders and choices that could only be considered mistakes with the advantage of hindsight.
I don’t think I’ve made financial mistakes that would have garnered me 10K, unless I’d, say, gone to less-expensive schools or taken work that paid well but which I didn’t enjoy. I vould have not provided pro bono services. I see those as decisions, not errors.
If anything, I wish I’d sometimes spent more.
Was it a financial mistake to not buy old comics starting in the 1950’s, sell most of them when they got valuable and buy Xerox and IBM, then sell those and buy Berkshire Hathaway at $20-something a share and some Apple and Microsoft while I was at it?
And how much of the results would I have kept, and how much given away?
And financially it was a mistake, since I didn’t know to do the sequence I started with, to not take some standard office job when I was 18 or 22 and work diligently at it until retirement age. Except that I might have gone off my head and in addition/as a result lost all the money.
And even the things that were clearly mistakes, not decisions, like not distributing my mother’s estate as quickly as possible, and this having to pay the accountant for another year, are not things I’ve carefully tallied up and kept track of.
Add me to the list of those unable to answer the financial mistakes question.
- Was it a financial mistake to not max out my 401k every year?
- Was it a financial mistake to buy that 1971 AMC Gremlin?
- Was it a financial mistake to invest my life savings into “The Marvels”?
mmm
I answered ‘No’ to the state line question, but I’ve walked from Maryland into the District of Columbia and maybe that should count.
My biggest health challenge these days is getting good sleep, due to anxiety and poor sleep habits.
If I didn’t marry the wrong person:
I wouldn’t have bought the wrong house.
I wouldn’t have had to sell that house during the housing collapse.
I would have been able to max out my contributions to my retirement account.
Easily $1 million.
Maybe.
It would depend on which house and whether I could get there. And it would be done with considerable trepidation; I’m not sure whether I’d back out.
Other.
I mostly take books out from the library, but I also buy them at yard sales and similar sales; and if/when I have enough money, I buy books from brick-and-mortars, preferably from indy local stores. I have sold comics online through somebody else – does that count?
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
I was explaining the Electoral College to my seniors yesterday. Ended up sounding like this guy:
I may have missed something in the book buying/selling thread.
There was an option where you’ve purchased from Amazon or another retailer. There’s another where you purchase ONLY from Brick and Mortar book stores, but not one where you do purchase (not exclusively) from them. 
In the last year, I have purchased Kindle books from Amazon, hardcopy books from Amazon, hardcopy books from a local B&M store, and used books both from Amazon and B&M. I do admit I was an early e-reader adopter, and I love the ease of having over a hundred books on my tablet or reader at a whim and being able to get the next book in a series immediately though.
Of course, browsing a good used bookstore and finding missing gems or remembering books gone by is just fun in a way trying to search an online retailer’s catalog ISN’T, especially when dodging sponsored, or “what about this” BS.
As for selling books… no. It was hard enough doing trades with used book stores, and I probably kept over 90% of the stuff I got used, but I don’t think I’ve ever sold any book other than old textbooks. And that is a rip-off of such epic proportions I’m surprised Trump isn’t involved!
Eh, same as it ever was.
I borrow books from the library. If they haven’t got one i want, i’ll
buy it from somewhere that has got it.
Sell books? Madness!
This is kinda the thing I was considering. I could have contributed a lot more to my 401k without substantial pain. But I still ended up o.k. in retirement.
I’ve sold a bunch of books on amazon – more than I thought I had (over 40). But I only sell ones that are rare or out-of-print or especially desirable. If I’m making less than $10 or $20 profit, eh, I’ll just donate ones I don’t want to keep.
I also keep a spare pair of glasses in the car’s glovebox.