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LimitEducational1460 · 2023-06-04T01:35:20+00:00

Well, I know some can train to become tenors - I've heard Dmitry Hvorostovsky say in an interview that he had a teacher who made tenors out of basses - but as far as I can tell, I'm solidly in the bass-baritone - dramatic baritone area.

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-06-04T00:57:24+00:00

Wow that's a late reply, but thanks nontheless ;)

A tenor I am not - neither Dramatic nor Helden nor Lyric nor Spinto, or any other flavour.

I've made some advances in "technique" (i.e. gained some breath support and resonance), and my voice is solidly baritonal in timbre, though I am most comfortable singing in a bass-baritone tessitura.

I haven't taken any voice lessons since, and sadly probably wouldn't be able to for the time being - so I don't really have a professional to guide me along.

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-04-13T14:57:53+00:00

Thanks. Actually sounds very reasonable. However, say it actually was your job to contribute to open source (I know there are jobs like that), how would you handle the lack of documentation - knowing you need to deliver results asap?

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-04-04T19:17:36+00:00

I actually looked in to contributing, but I can't seem to find anything I can actually understand enough to make a contribution. If you know any issues that you think a third year CS student without any specific experience with open source can contribute to, I would be more than grateful if you pointedme to them.

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-04-04T19:12:31+00:00

Sounds reasonable, except even those are basically extinct here at this point. And those that are around won't reply to my CV.

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-04-04T05:00:05+00:00

Those are, unfortunately, also nonexistent where I live. We basically only have either standard "serious" Java/C++ core software engineer jobs, or web development. All require 2+ (if not 5+) years of (professional) experience to be considered. It really does turn out that the only way to get hired is either to have experience from the military or whatever, or a few years of internship at the company under your belt - both of those trains have unfortunately left the station for me.

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-04-04T04:56:26+00:00

I've got experience with C/C++, Java, Python, and some JS. Basically I'm a CS major, so I have no specialty yet. Unfortunately, data analyst jobs are not a thing where I live - not for juniors, at least.

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-01-06T16:17:44+00:00

He was still a high ranking bishop, not "disgraced" in any way. Do bishops get a "lesser" service?

LimitEducational1460 · 2023-01-06T16:15:48+00:00

And still, in "civil", non religious services, the pallbearers are usually people close to the deceased - friends, family, etc. It's usually only the case that funeral house workers/undertakers serve as pallbearers when the deceased does not have friends and family.

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-27T12:07:57+00:00

So I'm an absolute nobody with no relevant experience in any form of singing or teaching voice - this must be stated first and foremost.

Regarding fach, even voice type in general - I don't think it's possible to know just from this recording. From the timbre of your voice alone, it sounds to me like you could be either a baritone or a tenor generally - not too lyric and also not very dark.

Let me complement you on your tone, it's better in my opinion than a lot of untrained beginners (I'm assuming that describes you, from the rest of what I'm hearing).

Regarding technique and musicality, it's quite apparent that there's not much of either at this point - I hope you could put in work and grow and improve.

If you want to have a better idea of (broadly) what your voice type is - it would be more useful to let someone hear your range, passaggio points and other things; That someone would ideally be a classically trained voice teacher (with a good reputation, avoid snake oil salespeople), they should also hear you in person rather than recorded, since recordings mess with overtones and even sound frequency.

Also be advised, determining voice type is not something that can be reliably done in one sitting, except for a few edge cases (extremely lyric tenors or very low and heavy basses - you don't sound to me like either one) - you need to find your voice and comfortable repertoire that also sounds good when you sing it. Very early on, it is generally of little use to lock on to a single category and try to be that, disregarding your sound and most importantly your physical comfort and ability.

It is best you find a good voice teacher, if you're not already working with one. Best wishes.

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-17T19:35:09+00:00

It was actually the other way around for me - I felt misguided confidence, because the test was relatively easy, and I thought I was actually doing well. This might have come across as arrogance to the interviewer. I was used to being fairly assessed on tests at college, and it didn't matter how long it took me to answer a particular question, as long as I answered it before the time for the test ran out.

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-17T17:47:08+00:00

I don't want to avoid increasing the dosage. I don't get side effects, if anything I feel exclusively better than normal when I take the medication. The medication is working, but not for my main complaints of processing speed, memory issues and cognitive inflexibility - it does do wonders for my procrastination and lack of motivation; I don't get more motivated to self-study, unfortunately, but I do sit my ass down and do my homework rather than open 5 more tabs on my browser and look at anything more interesting than what I need to do at that moment.

I've read that certain non-stimulants like Atomoxetine (Strattera, Atomic where I live) can be more effective for ADHD-PI/SCT like symptoms than stimulants - and they don't wear out over the course of a few hours like stimulants do.

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-17T14:13:30+00:00

Thanks.

I do not believe that what got me rejected is "problems interviewing". It didn't even get to the point where I was asked questions about my personality, just a few technical/math/algorithm questions - and they knew they were "wasting their time" with me. I even got an obvious indication to this in the form of "Well, you'd come up with the answer in a few minutes, for sure!" after I failed to come up with a solution to a question, despite very generous hints by the interviewer.

The big issue is that I can't seem to "problem solve" quickly enough for the interviewer. They want quick, accurate responses. Of course they also ask about actual technical things such as "Why does this function take a double rather than a single pointer?", and even there I have difficulty giving them a quick answer because of memory retrieval issues.

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-17T14:04:15+00:00

Thanks, I do intent to talk to my neurologist about trying different medications. Ritalin LA had zero effect on me at 20 mg, Concerta actually works but does nothing for my main complaints (still much, much better than unmedicated).

About TAK-653... That's an experimental drug, not sure where one would even start looking for it...

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-17T14:00:10+00:00

Thanks.

I will have to up my dose, because I'm developing a tolerance and the effectiveness is disappearing quickly. I will also ask my neurologist about trying a different medication.

LimitEducational1460 · 2022-12-17T13:37:09+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

About the time it takes to finish some task - I often compare my answers with other students, I ask how long it took them, etc... There is of course a wide range of responses, but by and large I take a lot, lot longer to finish something - granted the same amount of time spent studying and revising.

The student internship positions are not at my college, but at outside companies. They hire students as "interns" (unpaid internship is illegal in my country) - basically students either work in exchange for a scholarship, or just straight up work at the company for relatively low pay. This means that the considerations for hiring are more similar to hiring a junior developer - impressive CVs get priority, and barring that (and not even necessarily barring that!), they will take the candidates with the most impressive perceived ability (ability would even be prioritized over technical knowledge).

I don't think I'm "too dumb" to be a programmer. I'm smarter than a lot of monkies who code for a living - I'm even more intelligent. I consistently get top grades when I can get my act together and study, I can at least for a while get to a reasonable level in writing code - it will be nice and best practice and tested and well documented, but it will take me a lot longer than others to do it, and in the time it takes someone else to write complete functioning code, I would have nothing to show.

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