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Self-made patriarch: Vito (GF)>Logan(S)>George(AD). Vito dies in power, with a succession in place, playing with his grandson. Logan goes out while still in charge. George went to jail and had to hide in an attic.
The Heir apparent: Michael (GF)>Michael (AD)>Kendall. Michael Corleone and Kendall end almost identical… alone, but at least Michael got to run the empire.
The other brother: Roman > Gob > Sonny. Roman ended up a billionaire, Gob lost his position in the magic council and Sonny had to pay the toll.
The sister: Shiv > Connie > Lindsey. Shiv is married to the boss, Connie got to live on the estate and Lindsey had to live with a never-nude.
The quirky brother: Connor > Buster > Fredo. Connor almost won the presidency, Buster turned out all right. Fredo was doing fine until Anthony ditched him on their fishing trip.
The son-in-law: Tom > Tobias > Carlo. Tom ended up the winner, Tobias only looked dead and Carlos is out of the family business.
The matriarch: Lucille> Carmela > Caroline. C’mon, Lucille is clear #1. Carmela gets to show off her singing skills, Caroline was great, but in another country.
Where there is always money: Banana Stand > Gambling and Women > ATN.

One of the biggest challenges I personally have is always comparing myself to my friends/old classmates. Many of my buddies are married, have houses, kids, stable jobs, etc. However for me, I feel like I’m years behind them. I’ve been working at the local grocery store for over 6 years to help me pay for my college classes and I’m still there. While I don’t necessarily hate it, seeing a lot of my old coworkers moving on while I’m stuck there is getting to me and my mental integrity. I am so happy for my friends to have a successful life but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t envious. Constantly being told “Oh, you’ll find something, just keep on applying” has become a phrase I just dread hearing nowadays because of how long I’ve been trying to find a job out of college. I don’t have funds to move across the country and relocate, and I prefer to not relocate in general since all of my family is still around this area and they are my support system. I honestly wouldn’t be where I am without them.
I graduated in May 2021 with a BS in Computer Networking and Cybersecurity with fairly good grades but I haven’t been able to land any IT jobs for two years now due to experience. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get any internships in my area due to graduating during the Covid pandemic, so I wasn’t able to gain any in-office/in-person experience before graduation. I’ve been applying to anything I could find in my general area, and had a decent amount of interviews, but constantly being told I’m the “#2 choice” in many job decisions and not landing the job is getting soul crushing. I did, however, land a remote customer service job at a local company a few months ago but I ultimately decided to leave it because it wasn’t a fit for me. I was having trouble sleeping and was constantly worrying about my performance due to lack of supervision and training. I know I should’ve stuck it out for experience but I really just couldn’t do it… I know this probably hurts my chances even more to secure an actual IT job but I stand by my decision.
I’m beginning to think “my purpose” isn’t actually IT at this rate but I have no idea what other jobs I should even try applying for. I really love the hands on, security, and troubleshooting aspect of IT because it’s why I went to college in the first place. However, I dislike customer service and want to just work on something without much interactions. Remote jobs are competitive and hard to come by as it is. Should I just “keep on applying” to the ocean of applications or pivot to a different field that would give an IT degree a chance?

Hello,
I’m a 2-3 year uni student currently at western. I haven’t attended in the last 2 years or so first year due to going through surgery and medical and stuff and second year because of family issues and work. I was enrolled in classes throughout the last year but never attended. I expected my transcript to not have any actual grade since I never did any of the classes but now I just have a bunch of fs on around a years worth of classes (I know I should’ve done my due diligence and dropped the courses but I didn’t). I’m now planning to move to Toronto and transfer to either york or tmu my family in moving back to Canada after years away and Toronto might be the move.
Just wanted opinions on how to move forward with anything. Is their a chance I can get accepted. Should I write a letter explaining the situation and add to my transfer application.
Thank you!

Normally I loathe and despise calling customer support for pretty much anything. Hold times are terrible, the menus to get to an actual person never quite describe your issue, hell…even calling the pharmacy has me ready to hurl my phone at a wall by the time I get to an actual human being.
But…I’ve had to call Tandem and Dexcom over the years, and I just had my first call with Omnipod. Yeah, the menu is still a pain…but it’s not running in circles. I personally have never experienced a long wait time (though I may be unique there…I also call during oddball hours).
And the reps…holy crap, they are the NICEST people EVER. When I call, the first question I always get asked is “are you ok?” (because I’m always calling about a replacement part). I told a Tandem rep once “yeah, but I’m pissed I blew through a bunch of supplies to fix this.” The response? “Don’t worry about that, we’ll replace anything you lost. Are you physically ok?”
I literally cried on the phone with that rep. I had spent HOURS trying to subdue a low blood sugar…turns out my insulin was bad. Don’t ask how many sets I went through before I figured that out.
Well, same thing happened this weekend - bad insulin. Had a replacement pod on for all of 2 hours. Called Omnipod, the rep was super nice, asked a few questions, and my pod will be here later this week.
This disease SUCKS…but the folks working customer care (many are T1Ds or family of T1Ds themselves) get it, and they’re just lovely, lovely people.

Hi everyone, the summer holiday comes closer and the chance is 50% that I stay home this year and in that scenario Uwee (My parent) wants me to work full-time for the entire summer vacation (6 weeks) but I don't want this but luckly I'm not alone here. Desh (One of my siblings) also thinks the same. I'm now already struggling kinda with finding a internship for software developer (I follow the study software developer and it will be the last year the next school season) and I don't even have time for arranging a job in the summer holiday. Uwee also told me that if I can't arrange a job at the place where I currently work then I need to find a job at another company and the main reason he lobbies for this is because he doesn't find it a good idea to don't work if we got free time like if we got the time and the chance to work then we should work according to him. I can understand that you advice me to move out and go NC but I don't want to leave behind the rest of my family which I do truly love so I hope you understand me on this part. It's also due to cultural and maybe financial reasons. If I won't work then there's the chance that Uwee will ask me to go to outings with him which I also don't want and tbh I would rather work full time then go to places with him (I even make extra money too 🙂 ) but that would be mentally exhaustive for me and I don't want to get a burn out so I won't work full time. I could honestly tell him but he told us what if that happens it's a good possibility that I would get into a argument with him and that can lead to a fight so I want to prevent that. My idea is just to pretend going to work and then maybe go somewhere else to chill or maybe hike around but the chance exists Uwee can spot me since he goes around the entire city for his work. A second and last option is actually going to work (But when not having to work on that day) but chill in the canteen and then return home. What do you think? Do you have any other suggestions here?

Hi everyone hope you all are doing well. So to start off, I'm currently a 17 year old Pakistani A Level student, giving my AS level exams right now and I want to apply to colleges abroad once I'm done with AS.I want to apply for a degree in either or psychology or something related to microbiology/genetics.
My O-Level grades were as listed - Physics (5054) A* - Chemistry (5070) A* - Biology (5090) A* - Mathematics (4024) A* - English Language (1123) A* - Islamiyat (2058) A* - Pakistan Studies (2059) A* - Literature in English (2010) A* - Addition Mathematics (4037) A - Urdu First Language (3247) A
As of right now, I have appeared for 4 subjects in A levels which include Physics (9702), Chemistry (9701), Biology (9700), and Mathematics (9709) and if all goes well, I'm expecting to score an A in all of them.
Aisde from my academics, I also have a pretty good list of ECAs however I'm a bit worried that a lot of them might not be considered when applying abroad since they're mostly based in school and to get into good colleges, especially ivys you need really good ECAs like international level olympiads and such.
Now what I really need advice on is how I should go about with my applications and what more should I do to build my profile to be a good candidate for colleges and to get accepted with scholarships especially since my parents can not afford very expensive colleges (yes where I live, it's common for parents to pay for your college expenses). I'm aware that I need to give the SAT and I'm planning on doing that this August but I still don't know what else I should be doing. Moreover, I also want suggestions for which colleges I should especially look into for the degrees I mentioned above and which of these degrees would be more beneficial to me in the long run.
Ps. I'm honestly clueless about a lot of things and I'm one of the first people who want to go abroad from my family (including my extended family) so I would really appreciate any advice you might have for me.

Alright so basically, in grade 12 I set my mind on computer science, It was what I wanted to major in but what held me back was the math. I don’t know what school is like where you are but in Ontario we have 3 levels for each class Workplace, College, University. self explanatory but the level you took is what pathway you’d most likely take. In grade 9 I took everything a Uni level and around second semester I feel into some deep deep depression, it was just stuff from my past and it caused my grades to slip, especially in math. moving on to grade 10 I took everything Uni level expect math, I took that at a college level and continued to do so until grade 12. With that being said I don’t know if any uni’s would have accepted me with college level math on my transcript. I told my mum about computer science and after going to the mosque and talking to some auntie, that auntie told her to send me to college first as it would be better on my resume and experience wise so at the end my mum forced me to go to college first like I was out with my friends and she literally applied to it for me without telling me it’s not something I was interested at all but she told me i’d be better. I am currently at my first year in college and it’s for Networking- Switching and Routers and imma transfer to a bachelors of comp sci after these 2 years (it’s only for a diploma) I was going through a rough mental state and feeling lost so I reached out. I was debating transferring after my first year which was this april because I don’t feel like this is where I wanna waste another year and I want to go to a university already to actually do what I want to do because I feel like i’m wasting my time here so I rather go to a uni for 4 years and not waste another day here. I know I can’t get into a top CS school program like Waterloo or UofT as they don’t accept transfers. but I can definitely try for York University or Ryerson, not a big name but it’s a CS major regardless and it’s competitive. i’m in some dead college, definitely struck my ego. It’s like idk what to do rn, on one hand my mum wants to me finish this and I’m a year in with a year left so I feel like a year woulda been wasted plus a drop out on my record, it’s shit. But on the other hand This isn’t what I want to do at all like there are some CS classes but a lot are useless too. It’s stressful cos this combined with so much family pressure going on im actually stressed out. I feel like I sold myself short, even if I wasn’t accepted I rather know that and have that closure then thinking about what could’ve been. I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining but with everyone talking about the competition in computer science nowadays, I feel like I won’t make it in the field or I’ll be left behind as all my other high school classmates keep elevating.

Specifically, initial thoughts on Karolina, Gerri, and Jess’ presence or lack of in the finale. I did a quick search and didn’t see a dedicated thread.
Karolina: I like how Tom immediately asking for her (ignoring Hugo), basically confirmed that her request to Shiv will happen under Tom. Karolina is Hugo’s supervisor and I wonder if she felt he should be gone, why she didn’t start that process. She should be able to run her own PR department. I imagine with Kendall gravitating to Hugo by default on camera, off camera he has indicated Hugo is untouchable (cause blackmail and Karolina’s cooperation with/being kept on by Go-Jo). Tom is (correctly) shifting the power back to Karolina by ignoring Hugo.
Gerri: We only see her “in person” from side angles or from afar. Pre-board meeting Roman seems to start cracking when he spots her. Which is an echo of his grief when they’re watching the dinner party. He’s mourning the loss of Gerri just as much as Logan when they’re watching the video. Once Roman sees her at WayStar, he grief spirals again with “it could be me.” Gerri is the most competent of C-Suite, has been CEO before. I think the reason Logan wanted her out was he knew Mattsson would keep her on, she’d work for WayStar-RoyCo-GoJo, and knows where the secrets are buried. Tom listing Gerri as a person he’d like to keep (or rehire I guess), shows he is good for the job and also works for the company not the Roys. Remove the people who genuinely want out or are incompetent (Karl, Frank, Hugo), keep the people who know their business and work (Karolina, Gerri).
Jess: I realized at the last scene that I was missing Jess this entire episode. I’m sure she got a new job before planning to leave, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ended up in the Tomsphere. Even if it’s Greg calling her at stupid times asking for help and her charging him hourly as a consultant. I can also see Greg being given a reasonable severance package and Tom courting Jess for the head admin role. She’s more than qualified, keeping with the above Greg is not competent and essentially works for the family. Though ideally Jess is just out and living her best life.

I’ll try to be brief here while providing detail, but my main question is around how you would handle offloading a home and downsizing.
About us - mid 30’s and married with one kid. Household income $225k in a MCOL city. ~$600k in retirement (Roth, 401k, and brokerage). Absolutely no debt besides the mortgage on the house we want to offload.
Last year a house in our city came available that we thought would be our dream home, and not necessarily being I love with our old house we jumped on it. We have been lucky in investing in our primary residence over the years, buying and selling at the right moment a couple times. This meant we have a lot of equity in this “dream house”. However for a multitude of reasons we no longer want to live here and want to go back to a more modest home.
About the house - purchased for $810k in august of 2022. Took a 30 year fixed loan @ 5% on $215k, paying ~$1800 a month all in. Equity in theory is around $600k. The market is still fairly strong. Could likely sell for around what we paid for it, maybe a little more, but with realtor fees likely we would take a loss, which we are ok with if it is reasonable. Win some lose some.
Ok time for the question. How would you go about downsizing to a more modest home. Keep in mind the more modest homes likely would require some renovations, which ideally we would not live through while living in the home, but open to the possibility.
Option 1 - put current house on the market. Once sold either try to buy something else right away or rent till the right home comes available and renovations are complete. This is the safest option obviously but I would like to avoid making the family more 2 more times.
Option 2 - get approved for a second mortgage. Once the right modest home is available, purchase with second mortgage and move in. Put current home on the market and hope it sells quickly. If it doesn’t, we would be carrying about $4k-$5k worth of mortgages till it does. This would allow us only to move once but if we needed to renovate we would be living through it.
Option 3 - same as option 2 except we don’t put the current home on the market right away, take a HELOC out and use that cash to finance the renovations on the modest home. Once the project is complete, sell the current home and pay off the outstanding debts. This would be the least obtrusive to the family but that’s a lot of loans and though our income is high, that would stress me out.
Option 4 - something I am not thinking of.
So, how would you suggest going about this?

Last night I went to a party and at one point we started talking about LGBTQ, especially trans, Target, and the anti LGBTQ/Trans bills.
With some talking points I actually had knowledge on how to combat this - thanks to this subreddit.
Buuuut due to personal issues that I am going through after finding out my sperm donor died earlier this year and no one in his family bothered to tell me. So, my brain is all over the place with emotions.
On top of this my brain kept on yelling at me - don't say anything. Because people will just start yelling at you to shut up.
So, thanks Trauma Brain, for shutting down at the wrong time.
I'm sorry. I am just venting and realizing I may need new friends. Because last night's conversations took a lot out of me and left me in even more of a bad state of mind.

I have no idea if this is the right place to post this. I guess I am just hoping someone comes across this and has advice on how to get myself back on my feet.
I had a very nice childhood. I was in a ton of sports, really good in school, etc. I worked out every day in high school. I had aspirations to one day be a Vetrinarian/LawyeProfessor etc. I graduated college with good grades, but with a degree (Biology/Chemistry) that I didn't really know what to do with. So, I've sort of bounced around jobs with no real direction or career path in mind.
I'm 33 M, with a decent job, two dogs, a single person home, and my family nearby. In theory, I should be grateful and happy for where I am in life. However, I am so incredibly sad. My job leaves me hollow as I find no meaning or satisfaction from my work. I feel I completely failed to reach my career goals which leaves me with shame and guilt.
I recently went through a very extended breakup with my first girlfriend since essentially Middle school. It was a 3+ year relationship in which I had visions of finally starting a family together. However, the past year or so it was over and I denied that it was over which has made it more painful to move on. To top it off, my stepsister just got married yesterday and I was a groomsman. Instead of really feeling happy for them I was just sad.
I use to have so much silly energy. I was a class clown. I never took things to serious and was always trying to brighten the mood. It's like the spark that was once inside me has died and I don't know how to get it back.
I know I need to workout. I know I need to eat healthier. I know I need to socialize. I know I need to stop drinking/smoking weed. I know I need to clean my house. However, I never can muster the energy to do any of it.

Hi everyone, the summer holiday comes closer and the chance is 50% that I stay home this year and in that scenario Raymond (My parent) wants me to work full-time for the entire summer vacation (6 weeks) but I don't want this but luckly I'm not alone here. Jake (One of my siblings) also thinks the same. I'm now already struggling kinda with finding a internship for software developer (I follow the study software developer and it will be the last year the next school season) and I don't even have time for arranging a job in the summer holiday. Raymond also told me that if I can't arrange a job at the place where I currently work then I need to find a job at another company and the main reason he lobbies for this is because he doesn't find it a good idea to don't work if we got free time like if we got the time and the chance to work then we should work according to him. I can understand that you advice me to move out and go NC but I don't want to leave behind the rest of my family which I do truly love so I hope you understand me on this part. It's also due to cultural and maybe financial reasons. If I won't work then there's the chance that Raymond will ask me to go to outings with him which I also don't want and tbh I would rather work full time then go to places with him (I even make extra money too 🙂 ) but that would be mentally exhaustive for me and I don't want to get a burn out so I won't work full time. I could honestly tell him but he told us what if that happens it's a good possibility that I would get into a argument with him and that can lead to a fight so I want to prevent that. My idea is just to pretend going to work and then maybe go somewhere else to chill or maybe hike around but the chance exists Raymond can spot me since he goes around the entire city for his work. A second and last option is actually going to work (But when not having to work on that day) but chill in the canteen and then return home. What do you think? Do you have other suggestions here?

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I had a relatively good childhood. we had nice things, clothes, TV, trips, toys, etc. I never had to worry about finances, never had to fear that I'd starve.
My mother behaved in odd ways, though. She was unstable, perhaps the product of being emotionally neglected. I was subjected to beatings (multiple times a week), verbal beatdowns, etc. She didn't care for my feelings, majority of the time. example: she would occasionally force me to wear ill-fitting shoes/clothes when I was younger. I've been told that it was abuse, but I have a hard time seeing it as such. After all, my basic needs for survival were met? (I am likely autistic, if that matters here)
A lot of the time my father was at work, leaving the two of us at home, alone. (+my siblings) I only really ever had her. I had no friends, I had no one else. So I cling onto her. Only her, and she knew. She could do whatever she wanted to me, she could say whatever, because I would always run back, like a damn dog. She died a few years ago, at the age of forty-something, when I was eight. I was alone again. But I had it better than my father, at least. He was much closer to her.
My father was devastated (it was to be expected), and my grandmother became the primary caregiver for the next few months. During this period of time, I learnt to do housework on my own. Despite that, my grandma still helped. She cooked, cleaned, etc. But it was uncomfortable. It felt like there was some price to pay, in exchange for her help.
I knew it wasn't true, that she did so only because she cared. Same thing when it comes to my father. I understand that I have it better than many others, that I have family to care about me. But I don't see them as such. I can't help it. I am unable view my father as some sort of parental figure. He rarely ever beat us, but whenever arguements arose between my siblings and I, he would bring her up. "Your mother would be disappointed.", etc. Because it would get us to stop. He never showed interest in whatever it was we were arguing about.
He has changed over the years, and is now more caring. But I dislike being dependent on him (finances aside), because then he'd have something to use against me. He already takes his anger out on us by yelling. (not quite sure if it's accurate, English is not my first language)
He occasionally threatens to kick my siblings and I out of the house, due to our differing opinions on certain topics, such as political views. (doesn't help that I'm transftm, despite the fact that I'm not out yet)
My best bet (am I using this term correctly?) is to move out when I am financially stable. It is not just him, I dislike being dependent on others in general. Everything I can do, I will do on my own. Unless it is outside my capabilities, then I will begrudgingly accept help.
I am grateful to him for raising us, and ensuring we grow up healthy. Much better than some of my friends' parents. But I feel no connection to him. That all we share is blood, and a last name. I do trust him more than a stranger, but not completely. Neither do I trust my siblings. One is a sexist and a creep, and the other is gullible, easy to be manipulated. I am unable to feel completely safe, in this house.
Honestly, I need to get over myself.
I feel that I am being ungrateful. Am I?
TL;DR dislike being dependent on father, afraid of being taken advantage of. how to stop?

I (28F) have spent everyday for the past year wishing my (27M) husband would cheat on me so I had a valid out.
I hate being married. My husband would rather spend time with his brothers and parents than with me. We’ve been at his parents house for the past three weekends. Once we leave there, he gets on video games with them until all hours of the night. I haven’t been to bed with my husband in weeks. Sex is non existent in my marriage right now.
It’s not just about the sex. He complains about me all the time. To my face and behind my back. I’ve overheard him telling people that I’m annoying or that I nag a lot. I don’t feel like I ask more than any other wife. I don’t get home until past 7 most nights because I have to pick up the kids, and I don’t ever ask him to pick them up or to make dinner. I ask for him to help clean up the house, and to help me put one of the kids to bed. He only willingly put one of the kids to bed. My house hasn’t been clean in months. He just will not do chores. He ran out of clean underwear a few weeks ago and told me it was my job to do laundry, essentially blaming me.
The man also REFUSES to take care of himself. He complains when I cook because I’m trying to cook healthy meals, and he doesn’t like vegetables. He won’t go to the gym with me, but instead insists on playing video games. Obesity runs in his family, and I’m trying my best to encourage a healthy lifestyle change. I know he’s depressed, but he won’t talk to someone or get on medication. It doesn’t matter how I try to encourage him. He would just rather suffer.
All this to say, I don’t feel like it’s a good enough reason to get a divorce. I’m unhappy in my marriage, but it can be fixed. Both parties be willing, of course. He’s just not willing. I just wish he’d cheat on me so I felt like I had a valid reason to get divorced. At this point, it wouldn’t even hurt me that much.

Thinking shiv could have just convinced her brothers to set Tom as interim CEO, why give it to Matsson and let the family lose control?
She could have voted for, not for Ken to become CEO but simply for the siblings to keep the firm, board seats, shares, etc
Show goes on on, however they manoeuvre to become the top dog
Now their cashed out with no purpose - as Ken said, this is the only machine he fits into as a gear, what else does he know? What other purpose does he have?
Shiv acted out of spite with motives she doesn't fully understand herself...

Last year, I went on a beautiful trip with my boyfriend’s family in Mexico. Each adult paid 1/5 portion for the trip with only 3 kids total coming along as well. It was a nice trip but it sucked that although me and my boyfriend both paid, we had to share a room with his siblings. Meanwhile, his mothers husbands kids got to get their own room. This year, we planned the same trip but his mother wanted to invite some of her family from Mexico. At first I was okay with it but then she kept adding more family members as time went by. The only problem was that she planned for none of her family to pay a portion. She claimed they weren’t paying because it was easier for us Americans to make money and that they would bring food instead. It ended up being over 10+ extra people sleeping at this house. We each paid over $200 for this trip with it only being split 5 ways again like last time. I ended up having to share a twin bed with my boyfriend in a shared room with his siblings once again. In addition, all the food there ended up being from American grocery stores, meaning her family didn’t get that food. Her boyfriend also invited his entire family from mexico too and since our house was closest to the beach, they utilized all of our common areas and bathrooms in the house. I got no privacy whatsoever and I couldn’t even communicate with anyone because I don’t speak their language. It is such a champagne problem but am I the asshole for literally never wanting to go on a trip like this again? It seemed like her family had the best time but I did not because I couldn’t help but feel like I just helped pay for their vacation. I would rather have went to work and saved my money. His mother is already talking about taking this vacation again next year. Family is huge to her but am I the asshole if I were to tell her I don’t want to go if it’s under the same conditions?