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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Fifteen years ago when I was looking, I took vacation or sick days off in order to focus on the search. For in-person interviews, I would take “doctor’s appointment” for the morning or afternoon as that office was pretty lenient on that excuse.

    Yes, it is tiring and time-consuming; some things have to get sacrificed - I just chose to sacrifice the tasks at my current job.

    As for transferring within the same company, if you are a good employee then “the company” is usually happy to have you stay internal even if it disappoints your current team. There is a much lower cost of an internal hire than external, and since you are still an employee your old team can still reach out for support if needed. In other words: talk to HR and see what their policies are. Your new boss will most surely talk to your current boss so it’s not going to be a secret.




















  • That’s not how supply and demand work. Low supply doesn’t drive demand higher; demand is usually independent of the supply. However low supply for any given demand will cause prices to increase.

    And what makes you think the supply “artificially” low? There’s not a big conglomerate somewhere holding on to a large enough tranche of housing to cause a dip in supply, most likely.

    It’s low supply because homeowners with record-low interest rates are less interested in selling and moving, since the monthly payment they pay right now be for less house. It’s a side-effect (or maybe the main effect? I’m not an economist) of the fed increases.