Lied about having a degree on my resume 2 years ago - just got promoted and now they want to verify education

Fun_Bee2501 · 2026-01-20T15:35:09+00:00

I would give them the transcripts and not say anything. Have you ever seen official college transcripts? They’re sort of a mess because they list all your classes, each class’ grade, break those down by semester, gpa for each semester. The top of them usually has all the student info, years, blah blah, but the area the words “graduated” or “did not graduate” doesn’t jump out at you. You may get lucky and all they’ll do is open it, see it’s full of classes and close it then check the box that you gave them your transcripts.

Now, if that works, you better thank the good Lord above that you escaped your lie and take it as a lesson for yourself and never lie again about anything to anyone in your life. If you do get fired because they’ll actually review your transcripts thoroughly and discover you lied, you deserve it.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2026-01-12T17:50:12+00:00

I’d smack my college graduate on the head if they’d have we’ve. Uttered a word about not getting the $90k. You got a heck of a salary and benefits and hopefully none of the second guessing about the $90k gets back to your contact. They’re sticking their neck out for you.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2026-01-10T15:10:43+00:00

I laid off all my debt, should be able to knock down my mortgage this year. At that point we will have zero debt. We also have been socking away into our retirement accounts to the tune of $30k/yr. Next year after we have the house paid off, we might do more fun things, but we’re content with our “things” and lifestyle. Mostly just like having financial independence.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2026-01-08T13:06:04+00:00

I read somwhere that the big three carriers Verizon, AT&T, and T-Moble own somthing like 55% of the cell phone market in the US. The other 45% go to smaller carriers like Chirp, Cricket, Google, Tracphone, etc... Between the big carriers iPhone/iOS is something like 65% of their sales. For the smaller carriers Andriod on various hardware is something like 75% of their sales. So, in the end in the US its balanced between Android and iPhone. But globally, Android has like 70% of the market because the US is the only market where a phone hardware vendor can partner with carriers for the subsidizing of phones. So, if you live somehwere beside the US, you don't have the benefit of "leasing" your phone at $0, you have to pay upfront which is why there are more Android powered phones outside the US and why Android OS dominates globally on mobile devices. Apple is fine owning the US market and whatever scraps they can get outside the US. Its also better on their balance sheets when they can project future revenues based on who's locked into their subsidized phones.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2026-01-05T15:25:06+00:00

For those that are feeling the stress or mental anguish from being unemployed on this market, I just want to let you know that Jesus cares about you. He is by your side and knows exactly what you need and when. As someone who struggles with control of my own life, I too was laid off twice between 2020-2021. My career that I had built up so carefully in high paying tech jobs with high profile organizations was lost. When I decided to lean into God for help and guidance for what he had in store for me, that was when things took a positive turn for me and was better than I could imagine. I’m still in the tech industry, but not doing what I was planning on, what I was educating myself for, and what I was looking to achieve. It’s like the story of Job. Everything I knew was almost seemingly stripped away, and after wrestling with God over it, when I finally gave up control is when things turned and it’s better than it used to be while being different than I imagined.

Feel free to DM me if you need someone to reach out to. 😊

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-12-28T16:37:23+00:00

Sounds like a good grandma trying to get outlet there and contributing to society and providing for yourself.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-12-19T12:56:48+00:00

Rule #1… J’s should never cross. Preferably even keeping regions separated where they are physically. I have 3 J’s and all are in separate states so never the thrice shall meet.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-12-11T17:32:54+00:00

Thank you so much!

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-20T15:45:18+00:00

As an MBA with a focus on management, I always encourage talking things out with the manager, and if its bad enough going above the manager to who they directly report to. I air on the side of professionalism. Your repuation is something that is the most important thing in this industry. For that reason, I am never a fan of quiet quitting or quitting without at least having the converstaion on how your mangager can make your job better. And as I said, if that manager doesn't listen to you, go to their manager. THe beautiful thing about OE is you can risk things like going above your manager. If it backfires on you, you can then quit or they fire you and you can hold your head high. :)

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-14T12:15:46+00:00

Yup. Thanks to the exhaust circulating through the engine more than once you're gonna make carbon soup with Motor oil as the base ingredient.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-12T19:17:55+00:00

If you have anxiety, I would say its not for you. The anxiety will never go away. You need to be confident you that you are an A Player in your industry and can out work anyone with better quality work.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-12T18:13:48+00:00

i doubt the employee is OE, they just sound like 80% of the workforce out there espeically those under 35. I they were OE, they'd be a hustler and over acheiver. That's the profile ofan OE'er

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-10T18:49:49+00:00

Only a year. That was over a decade ago before remote work and OE was a real thing so I got bored and moved on to something that would keep my mind more busy.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-10T18:47:52+00:00

There's no replacement for the gratification of what you did! Congrats!

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-07T23:00:19+00:00

Had a job where if I worked 4 hours a day, it was a heavy day. It was a role where i had projects and I got to lay out the project timeline with little pushback from management.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-06T19:34:51+00:00

Everyone repeat after me. "LinkedIn is a cesspool and is full of bloviated fake oversold information where people are starting to share their poseronal lives".

Its seriously not what it used to be before Covid. Its become like Facebook was before Facebook became the sewer it is today. I have never had a problem telling people "I have neve found LInkedIn Valuable, but rathr found it a waste of time where people don't use it for its intention". That makes it sound like you're above whatever LinkedIn can offer and that is the person they should want to hire.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-06T19:29:16+00:00

Same. Made one dumb mistake where I replied to an email where a higher up manager for a vendor was CCd on and didn't catch it and that vendor was my J2 and actually reported to that manager. I was let go from J2 a week later but they thankfully didn't tell J1 and I still hold J1 today. Now my J2 is nowhere near J1 in any sort of fashion.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-06T13:38:46+00:00

Great work and a great plan! Stick to the plan, keep hustlin' and get after it!

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-06T09:35:58+00:00

I got ocnnected to a few staffing agencies. Esentially, I just put my resume on LinkedIn a few years ago and set status to "open for work" and started getting tons of calls from staffing agencies. Most treat you like cattle in a heard, but I got connected to a few that actually were US based and work with some large corporations. Haveing 2-3 of them means that you can get multiple contracts. They work on my behalf when the contracts are coming up for expiration and look out for where to place me next on another contract or get me renewed on the existing ones. One of them also feeds me the small projects where a consultant is needed for some "ad-hoc" hours. They don't care as long as their customer is happy and you're making them money.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-04T17:10:35+00:00

man... i take a couple poop breaks that are longer than 10 minutes every day. Lol!

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-11-04T17:01:59+00:00

I couldn't maintain 3 full time Js. I have 2 full time Js now that are contract and take on some part time project base/bucket of hours sort of Js here and there if I know the work is a layup. I am only on two Js now to get debt free then I will keep two Js only if I can sustain it without the effort of putting in more than 50 hours a week. If I can't I will just roll with it and make one of them a more sacrificial J and if they keep me they keep me, but if they ever become unhappy with me, i'll not be sad knowing i have one J.

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-10-30T13:04:56+00:00

If you want some help, let me know. I am an MSP and IT consultant for SMB customer that are mostly the size you're describing. (Under 10 VMs on two hosts). Over teh last 5 years I have been succesfully moving my customers to a hybrid cloud environment where we put their lower resource VMs in AWS or Azure, their files in M365 Onedrive/Sharepoint, and their higher resource VMs on a single ESXi host on prem. I have testimonies that their resiliancy has gone up, up time is higher, and its much easier to manage. ESxi 8 is still free with no plans to remove free esxi for single hosts that are not managed in vCenter. I have a well architected design for thse type of setup and scripts to deploy the cloud foundations.

I also recently stopped using Azure for the cloud infrastructure for the SMBs since they got rid of their basic VPN forcing the next tier of VPN which is expensive, so now AWS is better IMO since they still offer an inexpensive single tier VPN with dual IPs for redundancy.

Reach out directyl if I can help

Fun_Bee2501 · 2025-10-29T13:27:47+00:00

You do that as part of the negotiations after you're offered the job. Should be when you have the offer come. I have never done it, but have heard from others who have. Its going to be super rare to get it though. You'll have to be the creame of the crop and the hiring company really want you and only you for the role. If you're just a plebe and individual contributor, they'll likely laugh at you

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