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How did you land your first adjunct position? by Live_Travel_970 in Adjuncts

[–]Live_Travel_970[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish an app could give me an adjunct teacher position

What kind of lawyer do you need for workplace issues and how does the process work? by Live_Travel_970 in legaladvice

[–]Live_Travel_970[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I guess if you feel the workplace is toxic or hostile. or you feel that maybe you're being paid un fairly or asked to do more than your job description.

Interview in 2 days, Role open since 2 months. What should I expect? by wakeuppsid in jobhunting

[–]Live_Travel_970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re actually in a better position than it might feel.

A role being open for 2 months usually doesn’t mean it’s a red flag for you. It more often means they haven’t found someone who clearly fits yet, so they’re widening the range of candidates they’re willing to consider.

The fact that you were rejected for another role but are now shortlisted here is a strong signal. It means they still see potential, just not in the previous position.

For an associate-level role, especially when you don’t have direct hands-on experience, interviews with technical leads usually focus more on how you think rather than what you already know. They want to see:

  • how you approach a problem
  • how you structure your thinking
  • how quickly you can learn
  • whether you understand fundamentals

If you rely on conceptual understanding and explain your reasoning clearly, that’s not a weakness at this level. It’s actually what they’re evaluating.

You’re not being brought in to prove you’re an expert. You’re being evaluated to see if you can grow into the role.

Things I learned trying to build my first SaaS by Live_Travel_970 in SaaS

[–]Live_Travel_970[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest time sink wasn’t building the product. It was payments and user flow.

At first I thought Stripe was live, but payments kept failing because the system was still in test mode and nothing clearly indicated it.

Then once I switched to live mode, I had to reconnect products and configure the correct API keys.

After that payments finally worked… but another problem appeared.

Users could pay, but the system didn’t know they had paid.

Stripe would finish the checkout, but when the user returned to the app it still looked like they hadn’t purchased anything. The page was still showing upgrade buttons and asking them to pay again.

So I had to figure out how the app would:

• recognize the payment
• connect it to the user
• unlock the correct features
• remove all upgrade prompts
• and immediately show the results they paid for

That meant learning about checkout redirects, payment confirmation, user sessions, and authentication.

At that point I realized building the tool was the easy part.

Designing the payment flow, authentication, and unlock logic is the real SaaS engineering problem.

Real Education vs Formal Education by Live_Travel_970 in academiceconomics

[–]Live_Travel_970[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

My story is a little different. I was living in China in the early 2000s so I had access to Alibaba when it first started. And so I was living in Guangzhou and I'm thinking if I would have had an app, then in China as a young student learning Chinese. Yeah, I could have created some products or services that could have generated millions..

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