Personal Projects 2019

[nzwasp]

Have you guys got any personal projects that you are working on this year? Could be anything career/life/family/fitness?

Mine are:

Career

• Obtain my GPEN cert in two weeks (Penetration testing cert)
• Obtain my OSCP before June

Money

• Try not to spend more than $10 personally per day - I think last year I spent way to much on snacks and shit like that.

Home

• Wife just went on a Marie Kondo binge and then organized the entire house or most of it with her boxes, so house seems in progress but much cleaner
• Sorting out all my kids / family photos - one of my biggest fears is my harddrives crashing and losing years of photos
• Fixing the leaky gutter since my wife started complaining about it 6 years ago

Personal

• Lose some weight, probably 30lbs over.
• Do a spartan super at some point

[cet]

Mine are mostly house/personal related.

Home

• Finish installing and painting wainscotting
• Pain the walls
• Finish building the deck
• Finish landscaping the back yard

Personal

• Continue to cut some fat then add 5 - 10 lbs more muscle
• Start dating again

[Sentry]

Turbo more stuff. Maybe drink less. Maybe not.

[ExtraSlow]

Spent 2018 packing on weight. Maybe take it off in 2019. Guess I oughta since I'm in a cash weight loss challenge.

[finboy]

Career:
Wrapped pmp and prosci this year, so I might assess some more tableau or power bi work and see what postings come up job wise

Car:
Air oil separator, watch for a cheap 6 speed swap

Guitars:
Finish off a bunch of projects that I have had on the back burner while education was priority

Photography:
Start up again, see above

Exercise:
Currently doing brick training, going to probably get back into swimming

Money:
I need to make more to do better there, pay freezes suuuck

[swak]

Career:
- Keep pushing to make positive change in the OH&S field and hopefully better my team and potentially my position
- Try and stop working 20 hour days and focus on organizing team priorities and less "doing" on my part. Easier said than done when deadlines need to be met I find...

Home:
- Hopefully rent out my condo in 2019, make it a investment property and purchase a second condo
- Upgrade and replace appliances

Money:
- Pay off debts, and start saving for a second vehicle (obviously a second car payment is financially sound lol)

Car:
- RS Mods
- RS Mods
- Look into pickups (Tundra TRD Pro in the short-sights)

Personal:
- Start taking time for myself vs. 120% work as 2018 has been
- Start a focused gym routine and follow-up with meal planning

[Sugarphreak]

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[stevelou]

Mine currently are (unless the layoffs affect me....)

Career: finish the APICS CPIM course then look into opportunities

Money: get after some debt that we accrued after the third kid

Home: continue to slowly pick at my basement development and maybe install some led bulbs in the garage

Personal: consistently work out instead of 2 or 3 times this week, 1 time the next and then nothing for another 2 weeks

get my kids outside more instead of being lazy or busy with "school"

[Tik-Tok]

Career

* Change careers. Applications started going out last week. At the very least, change jobs in my career. Ive been at this one for almost 17 years. I need a change.

Money

* Severely reduce spending to prepare for 30% paycut after career change

Home

* Finish all the little things from previous reno's. Reshingle the roof.

Personal

* Can't fix whats not broken

[max_boost]

Career - Same same

Money - Same same

Home - Sell the condo

Personal - More vacations, got Vegas booked, gonna book Portugal and wing it. Find a real gf lol

[cycosis]

Career

Keep driving positive changes at my company
Coach professional development
Find more clients

Money

1 coffee a day budget. No additional frivolous spending
Actually figure out an investment strategy and get all my savings out of an idle account

Home

Landscape the backyard
Continue working on the school bus conversion that stalled out for a good year

Personal

Go downstairs and use my stupid gym at least twice a week
Be creative regularly

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Make maximum lump sum payment on mortgage.

Don’t buy any more cars.

Simple for me.

[HiTempguy1]

Career

- not much to change here, my current job is adequate and gives me time to focus on my business. Any change in jobs in a similar career path would be a sideways move at best, I'm in it for the long haul here at this point
- keep growing the business. Starting to gain traction throughout Canada, I can see us being at PRI (which I care about) and possibly SEMA (which I don't really care about) next year

Money

- Retirement savings are on track and there will be no changes there. I am quite lucky to have a DB pension in that regard, not so lucky in having your funds taken and not being able to use them for other purposes sucks. You win some you lose some.
- Would like to have all debts paid off by the end of this year besides commercial mortgage and condo mortgage. Dependent really on how well the business is doing

Home

- Finish reno's on the business office shower room/bathroom/utility room
- Start saving a downpayment for a house, on year 3 of 5 of owning the condo before I sell it. Would like to get something brand new in the $400k-$500k range in Edmonton. For that price though, I could build an acreage about 30 minutes south of Edmonton, so the debate goes on

Personal

- It's about time to get serious about finding another girlfriend Been a couple good years of the single life since I dumped the last one but should get back at it
- Lose weight. Been going strong on maintaining a better diet since New Years, want to lose 20-30 pounds total, whatever puts me around 160-165
- Try to work out plans to go to Dakar. Thinking about picking up a prepped Class 7S Ranger from California and competing in the Mexican 1000 and Sonora Rally (baby Dakar in Northern Mexico) in 2020, Dakar by 2025?
- Get the rally car which is in project hell back together
- Put the LQ4 and 4L80E in the Blahzer, twin turbo it with cheap chinese kit, run it in X275. Figure I can do mid 5's in the 1/8 and keep it streetable