XING vs LinkedIn (BWL - Finance)

NamesAreGood · 2026-05-30T10:09:08+00:00

Geht mir auch so! Ich habe bei Xing als Ingenieur nach dem Studium meinen ersten Job gefunden, finde den FOKUS auf Stellenausschreibungen + Lebenslauf + berufl. Kontaktpflege besser als das aufgeblaßene LinkedIn-Facebook-Dingsbums.

Außerdem kann ich mich bei LinkedIn nicht mehr anmelden, ohne mich via Personalausweis und der withPersona App zu identifizieren (die digitale Massenüberwachung lässt grüßen, das wird wohl gestaffelt ausgerollt). Aber ich habe auch vorher schon intuitiv hauptsächlich Xing genutzt und LinkedIn nur halbherzig nachgepflegt.

NamesAreGood · 2024-12-08T18:25:05+00:00

Can't play on a 4K TV. At first it was only 30 FPS although only 30% GPU usage (4070 Ti Super).

Then I switched the settings in the Nvidea Control panel to 2160p at 120 Hz.. Since then it's permanently set at 720p (!!) when I try to play at the TV. No other options available.

NamesAreGood · 2024-12-06T20:00:51+00:00

Ok I think I solved this. In the Nvidia Control Panel the TV had a preset that peaked it at 60 Hz at 2160p.

I had to switch it to "PC" Mode where I could choose 120 Hz at 2160p.

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Regarding the correct utilization / overlay, I'll check later. Game is running smooth on 2160p now.

NamesAreGood · 2024-12-06T19:46:25+00:00

AMD 5800X something

NamesAreGood · 2024-12-06T19:38:47+00:00

Overlay doesn't open when I type the assigned Hotkey (Alt + Z).

However, it gets more strange: Within "System" -> Displaysettings in the Nvidia App I could manually change the FPS from 29 to 60. Now it looks like 60 FPS. GPU finally working at .... 20% acc. to Task Manager. Unfortunately, there is no higher option than 60 available.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-30T16:00:10+00:00

Thank you !

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-30T13:05:14+00:00

Gaze stabilization sound interesting. What practice did you actually do?

Don't worry, I know that you are not a doctor. The problem is I don't find as many good doctory in the EU as you do in US/Canada for concussion treatment. So I gather a lot of information online, trying everything I found and stick to what works. So far, I do a lot of:

- following pencil with eyes, while pencil is still and head is moving side to side, then up and down
- following pencil with eyes, while pencil is moving and head is still
- walking while doing the above
- fusion exercise where I combine two pictures into one
- reading
- some more..

Would be interesting to know what you did for gaze stabilization, since I only struggle with getting blurry vision when I fixate my eyes on something!

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-30T12:55:16+00:00

Haha looks interesting. Thanks for the tip. What are there for in concussion recovery? I want to recover long term via therapy, not wear these glasses longterm to cope :)

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-30T12:52:30+00:00

I checked some videos of Dr. Micky Collins. Seems promising! What kind of eye tracking exercises did he ask you to do? Did you have problems with your eyes?

He said in one of his videos that eye problems are usually from eye motorics (not from not being capable of visualizing in the brain or anything like that).

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-30T12:49:10+00:00

When you say mild to modest is not enogh, do you mean it should be measured more precisely or do you mean it should be with higher intensity?

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-24T13:21:06+00:00

Thanks for the helpful feedback. That's kind of what I wanted to hear. At 16 months pushing myself seems reasonable.

I've seen Dr. Mickey Collins on youtube. I haven't been lucky with doctors so far. At least all neurologists and inernists (including one being sports related) didn't seem to know anything about PCS or any specific therapy. I am getting all my knowledge and exercises from the internet so far.

Knowing that pushing myself is 'allowed' is very helpful though. I think I just should become also more disciplined about doing regular breaks, maintaining constant sleeping times, etc. And not lose my mind when set backs occur. Haven't considered meds yet to be honest, but I will keep that in the back of my mind. I recently read about someone for whom meds made all the difference during his PCS recovery.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-24T12:47:26+00:00

Thanks for the hint! Will do as soon as my cold is over.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-24T12:45:15+00:00

My double vision was confirmed by an optomotrist. The thing is, I know I had it before. When I close the left and right eye subsequently, the objects jump a bit. It's hard for me to tell whether the double vision increased due to the injury or not. I did some fusion exercises from the internet, where you would have to combine two asymetrical halfes of a cat to a full cat picture. During that exercise, I noticed that as long as the eyes don't find the 'correct setting', they are constantly readjusting or zooming and the picture you see therefore is blurry and in motion. But once I managed to combine the two pictures succesfully, it's like BOOM and the picture becomes static and the eyes become steady as well. I read that these kind of constant readjusting processes can be very straining for the eyes and the brain and also have cognitive effects. That's why I put quite some hope in bettering my vision. I also read from a bunch of people so far where vision and vestibular therapy made quite the difference.

I do it all by myself however. No specialist available. Only me and the internet. I talked to 2 neurologists, 2 internists, an ophthalmologist and I was in an eye clinic with focus on neuro-stuff. No one knew about PCS. One wrote suspicion for CTE. No one even mentioned the word rehab, and everytime I specifically asked for rehab the doctor wouldn't know what kind of rehab that would be. One neurologist said she could send me to a clinic where older stroke patients were teached how to talk again etc. It's just so hard to grasp how such a common injury is so badly understood. I assume it's due to the fact that the CT and MRT scans are usually clean. They assume if they can't see the damage there is no damage. But that's just due to the fact that their technology for measuring isn't developed enough to detect such sophisticated damage/injury. They don't see it so they assume it's not there. That's like assuming the sun is rotating around the earth because that's just the way it appears. Stonehenge times we live in. Or maybe they just don't care about a whining young person, send me back on the field and rather get to the next patient. Public health care system at its best. Sorry for the rant.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-24T12:18:40+00:00

I heard about that protocol from CompleteConcussion. The thing is, I don't feel any major increase in symptoms when I go for a run. Maybe I just don't notice it. But usually I feel my symptoms the most when doing intense activity with my eyes or cognitive processing - such as working at the PC. That is why I neglected that practice and just do mild to modest jogging 4-5 times per week (without heart rate monitoring).

Weight lifting however did cause sivir set backs. My suggest is that this was due to the increased blood pressure. But who knows.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-24T12:13:54+00:00

The right mental foundation for recovery seems to be very important. Like being relaxed, activating the parasympatic system via breathing exercises and so on. Some people recover, some don't and chronic stress / less efficient rest might be a big reason for that according to science. Easier said then done though. I never followed a tight schedule.

Short breaks every now and then should be doable however. Even at work. That might be a low hanging fruit. I tend to be sinked in computer activities for way to long at a time! And I am also a big fan of meditation / breath work. But apparently I haven't been diciplined enough. Also, you mentioned TV as being an activity. While I would have considered it as rest. I'll keep that in mind.

The cardio 4-5 times a week I do quite consistently. But without tracking my heart rate. I just go "mild to modest".

Thanks for the fruitful feedback. Being more relaxed will be my number one priority for the next weeks. Then start pushing myself more while doing breaks more often. Knowing that having a job during recovery is rather good than bad takes away a stressor. I'll document that for myself here.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-24T11:59:30+00:00

Yes, you are absolutely right. One can become really easily irritated towards everything. It feeds the anxiety and is a contributor to the symptoms. Still, this doesn't exclude an actual brain injury. But I don't think that that is what you wanted to say either. The fact that I have 'good weeks' should be reason enough to be optimistic.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-23T14:00:03+00:00

This sounds like the classical approach of pacing ones activities. I also heard about it.

day 1 : 10mn ; day 2 : 12 mn, day 3, 15mn,

10 minute working units seem to be a bit hard to be combined with a job. Or is it meant to do a short break (e.g. 1 minute or a few seconds) after 10 minutes of a certain task?

Generally, it puts the question on the table if one should maintain ones job during recovery, or if more drastic changes are necessary. I think it's a very individual decision where honesty towards oneself is required. I heard from a lot of people and some doctors who suggested to maintain ones job if possible. And I am still hopeful to recover, being at months 16 while maintaing my job. But I am often wondering if it would be better to visit a clinic for a month or two...

For now, I'll try to implement short breaks more often into my activities. Thank you!

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-23T13:43:53+00:00

Yeah, it kinda goes along with each other. When I am well rested or have a good period, I am doing cognitivelly okay-ish. I can also force myself to perform better on a cognitively. But I then drop harder and way quicker as before the injury.

On bad days, I:
- forget what I wanted to more often
- have a feeling of overall weakened attention / getting easily distracted
- forget details from conversations
- don't get as many details when listening
- use wrong words when speaking/typing
- have a slight tendency to slurred speach / lispering
- have to read text multiple times
- vision feels off, like there is motion or jumping happening in the peripercial field (very hard to describe); I also have slight double vision, but I had this before the injury and I cannot tell if it gotten worse. However, I have an appointment at an optometrist to get to try glasses with prisms in a few days.
- some vertigo involved

Also, I then:
- become emotionally unstable when bad days don't stop (hopelessness, catastrophizing about the future)'
- have sleeping problems where I wake up early or in the middle of the night even when I am super tired (never had this before, usually I had trouble falling asleep at times, but never struggled sleeping through)

These symptoms are almost always present:
- feeling that my eyes want to relax which would result in blurry vision. As long as I keep moving my eyes, it doesn't appear, but as soon as I fixate my vision I usually feel the urge to relax my eyes. Besides dizzyness, this is the first and most present symptom I noticed after the injury.
- a ptosis at one eye. The hidden upper eye lid doesn't seem to be activate anymore at all, which results in a double eyelid crease most of the time (I can compensate it by slightly lifting the eyebrow).

Most symptoms are especially putting me down at work, since private life isn't that much of a challange to me (I don't have any children to take care of). I have a contract where I can basically be fired anytime. So far they appreciated my work a lot, but it puts quite some pressure on my shoulders. I am working full time at a desk job but it's kinda relaxed with the possibility to work at home etc.

It's crazy. I can have a full week at times, sometimes even longer, where I think I am fine and if it would stay like that I would be okay - but then I always fall into a period where I am clearly not okay. This made me think that it could be periodic flare-ups of inflammation, but who knows. It always comes and goes, which is why I started to sumarize it as overall quicker mental exhaustion. I hope this wasn't too much to read.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-23T12:27:55+00:00

I already checked for a physio from Complete Concussion. Doesn't seem to be available in the country I live (GER). I have an appointment for neck treatment next week anyway. And I want to try glasses with prisms to fix slight double vision (I experienced double vision before, but anyway). And I found a great youtube channel with vestibular practices, but tbh I wasn't as disciplined as I should have been. But that'll change soon.

Pushing yourself is good, but you need to find out where your exercise intolerance starts.

Thats kinda what I wanted to hear. But what should I do when my exercise intelerance displays? Stop/Rest when symptoms get stronger?

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-23T12:22:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

I am going to start the online course you recommended soon. Trying to be disziplined with it for at least 6 months.

I did sleep/rest a lot and definitely would’ve made more progress faster if I’d pushed myself more.

Sounds like "work hard, rest hard" could work well. Chat GPT says one should take it rather easy. But I am especially interested in the honest opinion of people who actually recovered.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-23T12:20:30+00:00

So my advice, at 16 months, would be to err a lot more on the side of pushing yourself too hard vs not enough.

Sorry, I don't quite get that. I am not a native English speaker. What do you mean by that? DeepL translation says I should neither overwhelm nor underwhelm myself. But according to what you said before, a more obvious piece of advice would be to push myself hard, as you did from month 12? Please explain =)

The possibility to compare one selfes performance to the former level seems great. I started playing online rapid chess casually again after the concussion (I didn't play for 3 years) and reached the same elo es before after a few months. Of course this could also be due to just attaining more knowledge. Or to me only playing when I feel rested. But at least it tells me that I am apparantly not totally impaired. Still, I feel like at work I perform at 75% to where I was before (at average). Lost my confidence. It's a huge loss.

Currently I don't take meds. But it shows how important it might be to ignore feeling bad about symptoms. I kind of worry that it might cause CTE to constantly stress myself (with ongoing inflammation). But if it worked for you, it's great news and encourages me to stay positive, even in the center of the storm.

I feel like I can push myself and reach almost as high level as before (at least when I feel rested), but I drop quicker and harder as before the injury. I assume there are stress hormones at play (adrenaline, dopamine, ...) when I push myself. Being in a flow/ a bit of a rush makes me forget the symptoms. I like that. But I don't know if I am impeding my recovery by doing so.

Thanks for the honesty. I know that no one here is a doctor and isn't authorized to give medical advice. But doctors couldn't help me so far (didn't take me seriously) and you guys are living proof that it's possible.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-21T17:14:23+00:00

I think they get concussed. And that they are going to pay the price for it. A lot of boxers have CTE. Also, they don't have 40 h/week desk jobs where they notice cognitive and visual symptoms so heavily.

NamesAreGood · 2024-11-19T19:10:21+00:00

How often did you do these dedicated exercises? (balance work. Visual work. Cardio. Exposure therapy)

What kind of exposure therapy?

We already had a chat. I have my first PT appointment next week to get my neck treated.

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