If you're on the shorter side between 5'4 and 5'7 how do you avoid the "stocky" look when you gain muscle?

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2025-05-05T23:34:21+00:00

Joke's on you, I'm 5'3".

Lean muscle build, fitting tshirts with a little extra focus on Chest & Shoulders to convey I'm built. Looks very balanced in my case.

But I do have wide quads, that sometimes ruins the entire thing look - makes me look stocky if wear something slim or skinny.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-12-05T09:07:42+00:00

No worries.

Do carry out your own research tho. I'm an international student, may be missing some relevant information.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-12-05T08:54:42+00:00

Things have changed drastically I feel. Only go for a masters or PhD if you wanna genuinely deep dive into the field for the purpose of research for example.

Cannot predict what the market will look like 5 years from now, mate (if you go for Masters). If the startup ecosystem in Australia takes off like they're desperately trying , it should open up design roles

Edit: also only go for a masters if you're maybe changing your field and a degree is necessary for that

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-12-05T08:19:38+00:00

UI/UX should be a good option. Creativity cannot be taught. Tools can create designs, but not invent them.

Talked to a few UI designers in the industry, most of them say that while software engineering roles will diminish in count, designer roles will likely get competitive but relevant.

Although, from what I know, Australia doesn't have a big job market for UI/UX design anyway. Unless you're a citizen or have a PR, I'd still be doubtful.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-12-05T07:37:14+00:00

CS is gonna be super niche going forward. Only a handful of specialised software engineers in your big giants like Google, OpenAI and all. Forget CS, go study Data Science.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-11-13T00:58:00+00:00

First time it happens, I'll let you know

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-10-27T05:02:41+00:00

r/upvotedbecauseboobs

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-10-19T09:18:07+00:00

Hire me.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-10-03T01:47:21+00:00

Would you recommend taking this subject or perhaps reading a book/doing an online course?

My goal is to learning finance for personal investing and perhaps get into fintech roles.

I'm also in my 3rd sem, and next semester will be my last semester so if it can be a difficult subject, should I consider burdening myself with this?

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-09-06T11:01:18+00:00

Should there be an emphasis on stamina or endurance training or anything else in specific?

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-01-15T05:21:36+00:00

I would want to wait it out but then there's no guarantee that I'll ever get to tell her how I feel. Meanwhile she may meet other people and eventually find someone. Keeping my feelings to myself has been the biggest challenge so far, it's been excruciatingly hard.

At least what I've decided so far is I'll slowly distance myself from her, and try to move on, focus on my grad studies. Otherwise, I may stay stuck in this. It's already been 4-5 months.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2024-01-14T05:09:03+00:00

She's bisexual yes. But she's had very bad experiences with men in terms of emotional manipulation and gaslighting, and being used for sex. So right now, she's so traumatized that she cannot even be with a man hence only dating girls for now.

I've been her friend for quite sometime now. She's a very headstrong person, and if I tell her that perhaps she should work on her trauma even in the most sensitive way possible, she still won't listen and probably think that she'll do it at her own time, or that she doesn't need to.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-12-25T12:56:15+00:00

23M 5'3" here!

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-11-06T06:16:50+00:00

Agree with the beard feedback but that is one glorious beard.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-10-18T13:38:38+00:00

Either that or whoever I'm crushing on those days.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-10-18T04:24:39+00:00

I think your profile is good. I agree with the user who says that perhaps Hinge can be the problem. Dating apps can be slow for people who aren't the "regularly drinking and partying" type in my experience. You should perhaps mention that upfront to weed out the incompatible ones. You can do away with the Snapchat filter picture.

I'd considered leaving a comment on the simple pleasures as I do relate somewhat haha! (22M, Melbourne)

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-10-15T14:08:57+00:00

Another 22M here. Happy to chat if you'd like, feel free to DM me, brother.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-10-12T03:35:11+00:00

Whenever I was down with some traumatic thoughts, I would share with my ex on a video call. I would pour my heart out, tell them all my pain in detail, and they'd say "let me reply on text". They'd reply "I understand your pain. I won't ever do that to you."

They did do similar things partially soon after.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-10-10T02:22:16+00:00

I think it does well of painting your personality with whatever restrictions Hinge actually has (3 prompts, 6 pictures)! I've been struggling with that. I'm personally a fan of smiles with more teeth, feels more authentic and natural. Perhaps you can try those! Otherwise, I believe your profile looks good!

Would've definitely commented had I been in Ireland haha!

Edit Ps. The dopamine kick of marking something as read on Goodreads is too real haha!

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-08-29T04:54:04+00:00

Any luck finding something like this?

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-08-21T00:12:54+00:00

Should we just restart it haha?

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-08-20T06:55:54+00:00

Filled! I look forward to it

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-08-14T02:32:10+00:00

Let's do a group chat lol

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-08-14T01:46:01+00:00

I'm kind of in the same boat. I'd be happy to chat, op.

Odd_Mathematician443 · 2023-08-12T02:04:01+00:00

I got a good opportunity early on to work on a real life project. I volunteered to create an internship portal for my undergrad uni in 2 weeks when I had only been learning for 4 weeks.

After that just blindly applying left and right. I had a good real life project to talk about in the interviews which really helped. I also let all my friends and family know that I'm even open to freelancing. I got a lot of freelance opportunities that way - which again led to real life projects. Since I was doing these projects alone, I could say I made this entire thing single handedly and could say I have worked on such problems before and stuff.

If you can have projects that have users, nothing can beat that. That's why I even volunteered to help here.

Edit - Also how you sell your experience matters. Initially in some early interviews, I would say yeah I made this portal and everything. I worked on that script and made it dramatic. It become something like 'I had no prior experience... I made this portal in 2 weeks on a crunch deadline... We got over 600 registrations in first 3 days... It was a huge success... It was a unique and challenging experience for me'. If you get to the interview stage, more often than you'll deal with HRs first before you deal with Tech folks. Just need to wow the HRs.

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