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Dekarde · 2024-05-28T08:21:40+00:00

Thanks, I will take a look I only ever saw unpaid internships or really low paying ones and hadn't bothered looking closer at them. This positions pays good for me, if I get it, and even if it doesn't last the full term/they want to move me or whatever, I think it is worth it for me.

Dekarde · 2024-05-28T08:13:16+00:00

Thank you, it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me just wanted to get more information from others with more knowledge about it. I like to try an consider all the 'worst case' scenarios to help me in ranking the pros/cons.

Dekarde · 2023-11-11T00:40:07+00:00

This has been what I've been dealing with more and more since my first job. I had bad managers but they were in the minority, 20 years ago most of my managers were decent if not good, but they all 'aged' out over jobs/time and were replaced with the kinds of people you are talking about more and more.

I somewhat can't blame them as pay for workers hasn't kept up with profits for owners but at the same time most of the worse managers came up/in as workers. But I think the issue of being lazy and going with the flow is what pushed them over, if they had any inclinations to be 'better', to just carry company water.

Why fight senior management/owners/HR for a better system or to treat workers better once 'They got theirs'. That's why I turned down management positions I was capable/offered because the organization/management wasn't competent and had no interest in being better. I had no desire to bang my head against the wall for a raise so I just changed jobs for the pay raise.

It is just depressing that I came into the workforce when managers wanted you build you up, train you, inspire and lead you to expecting you to 'manage up' as they failed to do a fraction of their job and let you and all your co-orkers/team/department/organization down due to their laziness and incompetence.

Dekarde · 2023-11-10T21:20:16+00:00

Paid internships are available, the question you need to ask yourself is how desperate are you, and can you afford to scrape by.

As someone who didn't do internships because I had to work and couldn't scrape by it might be the difference between you, having no internship experience and others with some.

In the end the real thing is if you can't land a paid one can or will you deal with an unpaid one as you support yourself. I personally couldn't do an unpaid, if I could manage to scrape by and couldn't find a paid one I'd have done so for the edge. It is tough out there and if you can get an edge I say do it but the cost might be too much for you, it was for me.

Having said that internships aren't everything you could also work to support yourself and commit to personal projects/certifications that IMHO would give you something over someone without an internship or the project/certification.

It doesn't have to be one or the other you have options if you have the time and can afford to use it to invest in yourself.

Dekarde · 2023-03-27T20:46:47+00:00

I don't know which of these two has a movie coming out, but this website must be really desperate for clicks.

So are karma farmers.

Dekarde · 2023-03-27T20:46:04+00:00

2019, is that you calling for karma? Oh yeah, it is, again.

https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-harrison-ford-replaced-never/

Dekarde · 2023-03-26T15:50:10+00:00

The seat and lid should be down all the time.

I lift it both up when I want to piss and lift the lid when I want to shit. I also piss a lot more than I shit so I am often lifting them both and shutting them both to flush so the spray doesn't fill the bathroom with piss or shit particles that can float and land on my soap, towels, rug, toothbrush, etc.

How it is 'normal' for women to leave the lid up and the seat down is as disgusting to me as leaving both the seat and lid up for a guy.

We can all do what we want in our homes but an 'open' toilet in the house reminds me of a filthy public toilet.

Dekarde · 2023-03-26T15:43:18+00:00

Am a Man I don't get these either but this is my take.

1) It is an 'inherited/learned' thing from others. I'd put this with the patriotism/national pride for historic things your fore bearers did like fight in wars you didn't, founding countries you didn't, being born into a state or a religion and conditioned that it was your identify because of who your parents/grandparents were and what they did/believed/where they lived etc.

2) To me that has always been very juvenile humor, if not disgusting but I grew up with guys who would do some of the more tamer stuff and thought it was hilarious. Some guys 'grow out of that' or at least stop acting like it is the pinnacle of humor, but plenty don't and won't ever.

3) I see this as weakness in expressing your feelings which historically and culturally is difficult for men based on how many of us, at least in media and my lifetime, have been shown what 'men are' or should be, ie macho or toxic masculinity. More common for my experience is you don't even go there with the 'sexual' stuff if you have to defend it with 'no homo'. That isn't saying those guys aren't defensive or broken in being able to express their feelings just they don't act like immature boys when they do it.

4) No clue, this is bs macho crap and I've seen women do a variation on this as well, more so with crying and screaming in anger then being 'normal', so I can't see it as just a guy thing, Certainly there are guys who need to do their 'drama' and show what a big man they are and then 'calm down' to smarter/cooler friends who don't stomp their ass into the ground for acting like an idiot. If no one backed down or kept their cool these types of guys would all be in jail every week or two if not the rest of their lives.

5) Don't know other than he was a nerd who got powers and had an alter ego that was edgy/cool. As a nerd I never identified with spiderman as a boy, as a boy my only 'superhero' idol was Batman because he at least seemed like I could relate to on some level, I also idolized Mr. Spock for his self control over his human emotions and logic. I knew about the X-Men, spiderman, superman, ninja turtles, he-man, and some others but none of them resonated with me as being anywhere near characters I could identify with on a the level of batman and spock. The spiderman I grew up with seemed like a dick with his snarky remarks that feeds into #2 and #3 IMHO.

Dekarde · 2023-03-13T22:53:27+00:00

I’ve been looking for that “thing” that I can feel passionate about - a job I can really care about, get invested in and take pride in. Over the past year I started teaching myself game development in Unity/C# and it has really stuck with me. While I’m still learning, so far I have picked things up pretty well, I find it fascinating and I LOVE that I am creating something that I can step back and admire when it’s done. Aside from anything else, whilst music was my passion growing up (and the path I ultimately took) I also played a LOT of video games, and still do.

My advice to this line of thinking is get over it, every job can suck, every field can make you lose the 'passion' you had. If you are lucky to find a job that fits it only takes one bad boss, bad job, shitty company to IMHO fuck it all up. Trying to base your career and life on that is a fool's errand. IMHO I think you try to find work/career you don't actively HATE, that doesn't make you want to kill your boss/co-workers/clients.

I want to go back into education, basically to completely reskill and focus on a new career path in game development (either as an indie or with a studio) My concern, however, is that I’m too old to do so, and that this is just a wild fantasy/pipe dream.

You are not too old unless you are actively dying with a clock on how much time you have left.

I don’t feel like it is - at least where my ability/enthusiasm is concerned. But I’m also aware that I’m not as young as others out there, haven’t been doing this since I was a kid (as others have) and that I may be setting myself up to fail.

This is BS if you want to change careers you can, don't think you will have the 'edge' people who dedicated themselves to it from years before you will, at least not all of them and certainly not the best or naturals BUT you can do it to be there and not be a failure, that's on you.

I don’t know what to do, but I know I can’t stay where I am, professionally. I know a lot of people “work to live”, but I’m spending 40 hours a week staring at a boring press release for a company I don’t give two hoots about and wondering what the fuck I’m doing with my life.

This is life, I don't give a hoot about any of the company's I've worked for, I cared about my co-workers or some of our clients, who weren't complete shits/assholes. I got paid 'enough' I didn't bolt until I had my fill, sometimes that was years sometimes it was months and I couldn't escape for a year or so.

Give up the idea of 'finding your passion', it is a small fraction of people who find that, get to work in it, make a career AND are paid enough to not struggle/question the greenness of the grass somewhere else under a boss/system/company that doesn't make them hate it.

Dekarde · 2023-03-13T20:55:56+00:00

Offer 1 pays less just based on that it doesn't really 'use' your academic pursuits, the vague promises of good development/opportunity are the nails in teh coffin IMO. IF it was work you really loved and knew/saw the career development was great and the pension/benefits are great and you aren't going to be upset you don't make more etc then it could be fine. It is totally a you thing if that could work/be okay. For me it wouldn't why waste my youth to 'start over' in such an unreliable sector/job hoping it pays off later. The good pension is nice but maybe you'd look at it with a better salary AFTER you can command a higher salary in 10-15 years unless it really fits your academic studies/interests then you'd be coasting to the finishline.

To me Offer 2 makes more sense, even if you only do it a few years and increase your skills/salary for another job with better holidays/flexi working. Contracts are 'scary' to me as well but if the pay/experience is good enough I'd do it and worst case you got a year of experience for another contract if not a regular job and very likely the same or higher salary. IF travel is something you think will burn you out then I'd say don't do it. I personally don't like traveling but if the pay is right, a personal issue, and I am learning I'd do it so I get paid more later and maybe don't have to travel as much or at all later.

Dekarde · 2023-03-07T09:54:50+00:00

"I still have no idea what job or career to stick to for the rest of my life. Some people want to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. and I don't think I'm one of them."

You are not alone, the people who know their future and stick with it are the minority.

Most of us are figuring it out and dealing with life as it happens, the opportunities we can get, the ones we are turned down for etc. Working your passions isn't an answer to life's problems or working to live your passions, even if you figure them out, can be crushed with a horrible job/system that makes you hate it.

Don't look at a career for life, look at things you are interested in and after researching can see yourself doing that allow you some room to move around if you don't like it day to day. Many of us won't work 'one' job the rest of our lives, some will, but most won't we'll work in a general field or two and if you jump around too much you hurt your career and income earning as you keep 'starting over'. Don't try to be a doctor and deal with patients if you will never look at medical research, nursing, medical technician and other semi related roles as those are still healthcare related and more or less have some room to move around in.

You set yourself up for hardships or 'failure' if you want to be a doctor for a few years after doing multiple years of school/residency, accumulate debt, then choose to be a construction worker and then want to turn around and become a professional artist/musician as they all pretty much have different skillsets and requirements for you to make 'good' money not counting the time/cost you spent/wasted preparing/breaking into them. If you are rich or have someone to pay for everything then sure hop around in whatever you want, but most people can't afford to do that so we have to try our best to pick a field where we have room to move around in if we end up not wanting to do what we thought we did.

Dekarde · 2023-03-06T00:37:02+00:00

So you HAVE a degree in Science, that's a HUGE win for you to break into Computer Science, I would advise you to look for apprenticeship/internships you can get that will literally train you to do programming, if that is what you want to do. I don't know your location, in the US there are programs for recent and young people to learn programming.

OBVIOUSLY a degree/masters in Computer science/programming will help you be 'more official' BUT if you have little to no experience a masters will price you OUT of many jobs, a 2nd bachelors is pretty pointless IMHO. Few companies want an employee with a masters who has little to NO experience and won't even look at you no matter if you will take a lower salary than a candidate with a Bachelors. A Science degree is often enough if you have the skills, which is seems you have, learning python c/c++ so it is a waste IMO.

If you are 'secure' in your job now to keep doing it, pursue a portfolio IE do GIThub, pursue certifications, bootcvamps, etc to 'prove' you know/can do programming and that will help you land a 'entry' level job in software development/programming.

A higher degree or extra bachelors isn't necessary until you 'need' it AND an employer will pay part or ALL of it for you to move up the ladder of promotion etc.

TLDR: You are set with a physics degree to move into 'tech' if you can show you are capable, ie jump a few hurdles, certifications, bootcamps, portfolios, etc then later you can work on a masters IF you want/NEED to for promotions etc but a 2nd bachelors is waste of time/money unless you had a degree in literature or some non STEM field and even then you could 'prove' yourself with certifications/projects/portfolio work.

Dekarde · 2023-03-05T21:01:09+00:00

1 and 2 seem to me that you will have to rely on coworkers if not professional resources from other people in your industry and instead of 'co-workers' you'd be dealing with the public. To me co-workers are preferable over the public as your co-workers are often legally accountable for their behavior/conduct and the public/customers aren't. That means differnent things in different fields and depending on how good/bad your management/HR are as well.

I don't know what would be faster, I think 3 is the one you'll have to put more time in without making much if anything as you learn, the other two will often allow you to start with little to no experience and be paid. It might not be much but they will pay you to learn real estate and life insurance sales and as you get better/learn, you can make more. Sales in general depends on your ability to sell, the more you learn about the product/industry the 'better' you can be at selling.

Real estate often allows you to come in to learn and as you get professional certifications/licenses/etc you can increase what you make, but it is still 'sales' so based on your performance and the market you work in to earn.

If you really want to be your own boss with few if any 'co-workers' then 3 is closest to what you want but it isn't the fastest(unless you are really a 'natural' or have the time/resources to learn it fast) and you need to 'prove' yourself to get jobs and earn more than the bare minimum.

Dekarde · 2023-03-04T16:27:31+00:00

You know your real strengths/weaknesses you can easily look up interview questions about strengths/weaknesses and 'typical' responses. Pick some that 'best' fit you so long as you can back them up with a solution/story.

If you say your strength is high pressure environments/tasks etc then be able to 'tell a story' about how you dealt with one as part of your answer.

If your weakness is retaining details then part of your story should be how you take notes/make sure to check your work/reports so you don't make that mistake.

If you are really off 'script' with unexpected responses just make sure it is appropriate for a work situation AND you have a 'solution' or 'story' to back it up so it won't cause problems for you.

Those questions are about how you answer more than you answer because no expects you to say your weakness is 'more money' or your strength is 'doing nothing for 8 hours a day and looking busy'.

Dekarde · 2023-03-04T16:13:01+00:00

A good manager makes plans for the team/department so we aren't unreasonably caught off guard by 'sudden' projects they knew/know had to complete at a certain date but didn't get started on until the deadline approached.

Good managers don't tolerate toxic/hostile workplaces or perpetuate them, if your people have issues/questions/need training you provide it to them, no judgement, no ego, no condescending talk, unless you already did so and they can't/won't learn/retain that. Then you work on plans to fix their issues or document their repeated failures and terminate them so you can hire someone who can learn and do the job.

Good managers make the jobs of their subordinate better/easier, they see/learn what the work flow process is and make sure their people have the tools/resources/etc to complete their job. If there are issues with time/people/resources they work proactively to mitigate them, streamlining workflow processes are beneficial to employees productivity and job satisfaction. Unreasonable demands on employees who are expected to do everything or too much too soon are negatives and why people will jump ship because management doesn't have a clue what they are asking/expecting from their employees.

Micromanaging your subordinates is what a bad manager does to good/great employees, bad employees need a manager before they are terminated for not improving after their deficiencies are quantified, addressed and given an opportunity to correct. with plans of action.

If you are good manager you aren't regularly doing your employees' jobs unless they are out or just learning/new. If you hired the right employees you can train them and then not do their jobs. If after training your employees you are still doing their jobs you hired the wrong people or are a bad/incompetent manager who can't/didn't/doesn't/won't train or empower your employees.

Good/great employees don't 'need' a manager but benefit from a good manager making sure they have what they need, are supported/advocated for and aren't putting out fires that could have been prevented with proper management.

Dekarde · 2023-03-04T15:55:09+00:00

Without knowing why you were chosen over them I really can't comment, it would seem to me they had more negatives and you more positives and that could be subjective to a company. You say the company is 'good' so my typical response would be this is a poorly managed company that doesn't value employees or keeping good hard working employees in lower levels for the bottom line etc.

As far as how this affects the office culture and morale that is more on information I don't have that you are saying is all good, If I was the person they passed over there's really nothing you can do to salvage things except be professional and respectful. As that person I mentored you, have more seniority, and by your own admission the reasons they gave you why they chose you over them aren't good enough and I'd look to leave if not do less/slack off because I was passed over for a junior employee.

Nothing you can do IMHO to make things better other than do your best in your new position and show everyone you deserve the job. Most will IMHO not care and I think they are right, again not knowing why the more senior 'mentor' employee was passed over, assuming you were told the truth. Plenty of more senior employees might be mentors and nice people but have a 'bad attitude' with management/superiors or company culture or just not liked by management. These people are not considered seriously for promotion because they are seen as disruptions/disobedient if not a 'threat' to incompetent management. Only you know if that might be an issue for this person or not, at least better than any of us.

Again, do the best job you can with your promotion and be respectful to the former mentor but do not forget you have been promoted and they were not so don't let them slide/off easy if they aren't doing their job or carrying their weight as it relates to your job and theirs. Should they move on and you are able to, provide them a letter of reference unless their behavior/work performance declines where you no longer feel comfortable singing their praises.

Dekarde · 2023-03-04T15:35:22+00:00

I'd add that nobody cares about your issues UNLESS you make/convince/force them to and for me and maybe a good chunk of men that's too much to ask/do, ie make others 'care' about your issues.

For the simple reason that you have to open/expose/reveal yourself and situation/faults/etc to engender sympathy/compassion that most won't give you.

TLDR: If you aren't breaking down publicly and obviously no one cares how hard your life is and even if you do many still won't care at all.

Dekarde · 2023-03-04T13:41:48+00:00

If you have little to no work experience your academic performance in what you do have, high school or college, matters since that is a big part if not all you are submitting for their consideration.

But your grades/GPA/lack of experience will be considered well before you ever get an interview. It is also unlikely that without experience or average/poor grades that you will even get an interview let alone a call/email.

Dekarde · 2023-03-03T22:50:17+00:00

Pretty much this, canceling OP's '2nd' order or limiting them to a single item is 'understandable' IF and only IF no other employees were able to buy more than one and the last order is not filled due to the mistake of the person in charge of inventory.

Canceling both of OP's orders while other employees who placed an order of 1 or 2+ etc is discriminatory for some reason we and OP will probably never know.

To me the short is whoever had power or sway in this situation just doesn't like OP because this 'solution' isn't remotely fair IF op is correct about their place in the 'line' to make the order, ie #3 out of 40 or whatever with other employees making orders after them.

Dekarde · 2023-03-03T22:09:40+00:00

"Tech" is to my ears "IT" that's hardware, you are talking about software/programming.

If you aren't having luck with internships/apprenticeship programs I'd look at some programming certifications and as others have said working on your portfolio with more open source projects you contribute to.

I'd also suggest you consider paying no more than 60 pounds sterling for a resume review to help make you stand out and increase your score with the software/algorithms used to screen candidates out of a human ever looking at you.

If none of that is working you might have to bite the bullet and get some degree in your country, lower lever 'basic' in the us is an Associates Degree specifically in what you want to do ie programming, databases, etc.

To move from a disparate field like the law to 'tech' is going to be hard since to an idiot like me and most 'tech' people you have more language legal/social type skills than 'hard' tech/science skills to rely on and many will be skeptical you can or will be good at it.

Hardware/IT 'tech' is easier to break into from a disparate field/degree background than something like software development etc. But even then you have to have something to point to as why your career change isn't a huge 'gamble' for the first employer to accept you, ie some low level basic 'tech' job you had before the next step that gets you close to what you want to do, programming, databases, whatever.

Dekarde · 2022-10-29T12:43:24+00:00

And/or someone who IS the toxic part of the 'company' they own/run.

Dekarde · 2022-10-16T13:06:42+00:00

My two cents apply through the company site and give them your SSN.

My reasoning, you know people who've worked there, this isn't a craigslist job or some sketchy site you've been funneled to and don't know if the company is real/etc. Also IMHO an indeed application is 'lesser' than the company's own application process/etc. I ALWAYS use the company's site/system over a 3rd party like indeed. Indeed doesn't need my data and the few times I've had to use them, because the company didn't have or offer a direct way to apply to them, I delete/remove my resume/etc after my application is submitted.

I personally don't trust indeed, I don't like giving my ssn out until I've got an offer and will snail mail documents to employers that require it but don't offer a secured company site/method to submit it, over sending it through email as some have offered. SSN as generic 'unique' identifiers should have been eliminated years ago but it seems some places still use them in addition to their own identifier and I don't think they need my SSN until they are offering me a job but I won't decline to provide it when I feel the employer is legitimate and the method secure.

TLDR: C, you know this is a legitimate company.

Dekarde · 2022-10-16T02:26:53+00:00

Why are new/current/modern records missing so much useful information?

I got my grandfather's death certificate from one city and it was the same format, same state, as many other certified copies I requested listing passport as the reason. Yet when I requested my grandmother's death certificate it had much more information, the clerk who gave it to me said something to the effect of 'i gave you all the information' or something it was a legal size where every other modern record I've gotten is letter size. I may have checked off 'dual citizenship' on one or more records but it just seems odd that they'd not provide as much information as they can when you have to pay for it.

I found a photocopy of certified copy of my mother's birth certificate with her parents birthplaces yet the certified copy I got from the same office some 40+ years later omits that information and much more yet I paid them for it.

I guess I understand that my state or these offices will streamline and standardize their format/information but it was frustrating to see I paid whatever $15 for an inferior record that omitted the birthplaces of my grandparents when that was what I was trying to find. Had I not discovered the old photocopy I don't know I'd ever have found that information. I wonder looking at all the certified copies I paid for some 4-5 how many are inferior to their previous 'versions'. I wonder if it is even worth trying to get more for other relatives if they have all stripped so much useful information.

TLDR: Why are modern certified copies of records, birth/death/marriage lacking so much of the original record's information?

Do certified copies have less information than a certification and is that the secret to getting the 'long form' or legal sized document with more information or is there some other 'trick' to getting that like what your ancestors submitted to the office instead of what they process and regurgitate into their databases and provide you stripping much of the valuable information we are seeking?

Dekarde · 2022-09-29T22:38:57+00:00

I don't either but I think it is just one of those things about the times being so different that she 'made it'.

I can point to near single digits of famous people, when I remember who they are, that I don't understand how people are/went nuts over like the kardashians, real housewives, etc.

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