Jordan, 31, Houston TX
Personal Life/Career:
What does he do? timestamp
3 Jobs
Full time Software Engineer (Govt Agency)
- $119'000
Computer Science Instructor at a Community College
$44 an hour
around 2'500 a month?
Year round classes
Computer Science Instructor at some company?
10 weeks long, once a week, 4 and a half hours weekly
$95 an hour
Seasonal
Career path timestamp
coding boot camp from 2021
Worked at Coinbase for 9 months but left in 2022 when they didn't convert contract to hire
- 1 year unemployed - was also working at community colleges part time teaching prisoners to code?
Govt job started in January
Suffers from 'anxiety' timestmap
Was an agoraphobe for a year 'could not leave [his] house'
- Pre-coinbase
Caleb mentions that he also has this meme disease
Financials:
Self Scored 1/10 timestamp
Lifestyle Inflation timestamp
He has not heard of this term before
He flew in from Houston ($350 plane ticket)
Justification for flying timestamp
280'000 Honda CRV probabaly wouldn't have made it there
Thinks Food is his main spending timestamp
- He is right and it's not even close
Credit Card 1 (Bank of America) ($12'911) timestamp
$13'052 - $423 payments + $0 new purchases + $282 interest ==> $12'911 new balance
785 credit available
408 minimum due next month
Maxed out all his cards after losing coinbase job, decided to go traveling on credit
Credit Card 2 (Chase Freedom) (2'082) timestamp
Almost entirely eating out
$2'486 - $2'486 payments + $2'060 new transactions + $22 interest ==> $2'082
Some credit cards he pays off every month - he doesn't pay off the Discover and BoA
Credit Card 3 (Discover) ($1'576) timestamp
301 interest accrued
no new transactions
Does he budget? timestamp
No
He used to but said "frick it"
Credit Card 4 (Discover) (10'647) timestamp
$13'346 - $3'000 payments + $3000 interest ==> $10'647
$322 minimum payment
A few apple bills
Credit Card 5 (American Express Blue) ($932) timestamp
$40 minimum payment
mostly grocery stores
Paying for hinge premium and not actually using the app
Caleb seething over his own dating failures
Credit Card 6 (Krogers)
- This one's paid off and irrelevant
Loan from Parents ($6'000) timestamp
Parents do not know just how much he is spending
While he was unemployed, hasn't paid anything back to them
Loan from Friend ($4'000) timestamp
- This was money he used for Europe trip/world cup stuff?
$260 on Google Ads timestamp
Monthly
His ex-gf left him for another man
LONG story about his ex's friend's mom owning a pharmacy, going to jail for fraud, the ex paid millions for a pharmacy he thinks is worth a hudnred thousand?
She's in debt for 3 million???????
he decides to make her a website and pay for her google ads
"my friend's like don't be a simp blah blah blah"
"She refuses to talk to me" :marseywtf;
They were on and off for ten years
$1400 a month strip club habit tiemstamp
March or April of this year
went to a strip club in the middle of the day and fricked a stripper at the club?
- Later explains that this was $700 timestamp
Buys stuff for the jail students when he hits the grocery store timestamp
Caleb gets into the online dating blackpill timestamp
Manlets btfo
This worm is 6 foot 4
Federal Student Loans ($52'939) timestamp
No money currently owed
Govt Agency he works for might pay all of this if he sticks around for 3 years?
State of Texas loan ($13'000) timestamp
Lots of late payments
He had initially thought that the federal deferrment applied to state loans
$208 minimum payment
Private Loans ($31'146) timestmap
Bachelor's in Biochem and "Biophysical sciences"
"I was a bad student and I was lost I didn't know what the frick I wanted to do so I ended up staying in school for like 6 years"
Had to get private loans because he was on academic probation
interned at some labs and didn't like the biomed researcher thing
$376 minimum payment
5.54% interest rate
refinanced form an initial 10% sally may loan
About to a have a $10'000 operation timestamp
Cosmetic surgery
Hair transplant
In-depth discussion of balding prevention
Worm does not want to
How is he going to pay for this? timestamp
- "So I just got approved for an American Express card"
"I know it doesn't make sense but I'm gonna do it anyways"
things in the pipepline to help him timestamp
- Another teaching job at some higher end uni (110 an hour)
Cosmetic surgery is next week
Spending numbers tiemstamp
Weird $1700 zelle/1400 atm withdrawal
- doesn't know what these were
Show ends early because there's no point in a budget
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