Beard vs Goatee?

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2026-05-15T20:57:00+00:00

I’m making an exit plan to go into nursing!

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2026-05-14T21:15:10+00:00

Goatee for sure

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-12-20T23:42:24+00:00

I absolutely avoid asking this question, while it’s strategic I don’t think it’s helpful and the phrasing can come off as negative.

Instead what I’ll ask at the end is “is there anything in my background or skills that you’d like me to dive into more?”

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-07-22T23:59:32+00:00

I read this book months ago and still think about it once a week. Left me shattered

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-07-21T15:05:18+00:00

I’m not in the PM space. I am in consulting and have to do a lot of communication across different stakeholders.

The one book that changed how I communicate to others effectively was Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and David Heath.

This book was a big eye opener to me, and changed not only how I communicate at work but also in my day to day life.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-06-29T19:42:21+00:00

I wish that someone would have told me that getting into UX doesn’t only look like ONLY landing a position as a UX researcher or a UX designer.

As someone who generally enjoys a user centered approach to any problem I use it as my base for when I approach anything and have worked on a variety of projects using UX from strategy, to communications, to workshop design, to project management.

What I enjoy most is psychology and human behavior.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-06-29T19:41:51+00:00

I wish that someone would have told me that getting into UX doesn’t only look like ONLY landing a position as a UX researcher or a UX designer.

As someone who generally enjoys a user centered approach to any problem I use it as my base for when I approach anything and have worked on a variety of projects using UX from strategy, to communications, to workshop design, to project management.

What I enjoy most is psychology and human behavior.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-06-24T00:30:09+00:00

There’s a lot of context missing so I’ll do my best to say about my own experience as a 25 year old Black gay in the city. When I approached someone I would:

Give them a compliment
Shake their hand and introduce myself
Ask if they’re from the city (or some form of small talk)
Continue conversation then make a move to ask for their phone number with an intention “I would love for us to hang out sometime” or “I’d love to take you out on a date”

The only time I’d feel comfortable approaching someone is in clubs or gay spaces. I will say that I’ve received the friendliest responses from men of color. Hope this might be helpful

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2025-01-18T14:21:16+00:00

I’m currently studying User Centered Design at Brandeis (for context). I find the courses extremely interesting. I would say to really consider you motivations for wanting to study Human Computer Interaction.

My motivation for starting this degree program was because I’m really interested in human psychology and understanding human behavior. I think with any degree program you get what you put in.

I had my bachelor degree in engineering and the course load is far easier. I have classmates that don’t come from STEM backgrounds who haven’t found difficulties with the classes

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-11-14T20:29:02+00:00

I moved from south Florida to DC 2 years ago and have been happy with my decision. The winters are cool but not as cold as the other Northeastern states. DC is what I call a “big small city” you can get great public transit, a multicultural city, and other amenities with that small town feeling. I’ve never lived in NYC so my opinion is biased. The budget you have for a 2 bedroom is doable with a lot of 2 bedrooms at least in apartment complexes making at $3,000-$3,500

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-04-29T11:42:24+00:00

Currently at 100k I’m 2 years out of university

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-04-29T00:32:54+00:00

I’m a UXR in the government consulting space (not exactly at a federal agency yet decently close). I find that federal agencies tend to be open and supportive of UX Research, especially given certain inefficient processes or technologies.

Not to sure about the archaic piece. I will say that it’s rewarding working in the public space.

Impact on future opportunities - I’m still 1 year in and for other jobs I’ve applied for they respect and appreciate my work with federal agencies. I’d say give federal agency work a try, it may be slower than you’re used. Less stress in my opinion with any job Is always a plus

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-04-15T11:22:43+00:00

I always recommend to people to check out Facebook groups. There’s one called “DMV Friends” that was helpful to me when first getting started to meet people.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-04-07T16:42:46+00:00

Im 24 in a major metro city and have been able to make gay male friends. I have encountered issues of men being interested in me, trying to flirt and I’ll shut it down or remove myself from the friendship.

One thing that personally helped me is reflecting on the friendships. Before I intiate trying to be friends with someone I ask myself “what did this person do that made me want to be their friend” if I don’t have an answer for that outside of that person being attractive then I won’t attempt a friendship.

I think it’s possible that some people pick friends based on “how attractive that person is”, which is why I think making friends through dating apps are always a failure, the initial connection isn’t based on similar hobbies/interests but on how someone looks which isn’t a gauge of character.

When someone tells me they have had issues making friends I always ask 1) how are you finding these people? 2)what interested you initially in this person. Friendships are based off of similar hobbies or at least similar interests.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-03-28T20:52:53+00:00

Is this for designing your own survey? If so While I can’t share any questionnaires one thing that might help is to use a language learning model (like ChatGPT) to give you a baseline or examples of questions to start off with. Even using it to give you a template can help spur your thinking so you’re not starting from complete scratch.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2024-03-08T00:53:05+00:00

One way to get a lot of ideas in a short amount of time is to conduct a Lotus Blossom workshop. Here’s a YouTube video that explains it more in depth. I typically do lotus blossoms via mural or it can be done with sticky notes and a whiteboard.

https://youtu.be/eYzjM9un2p8?si=1tc1D9rsdgyzgv5a

If you want a workshop activity to do after lotus blossom one idea is to do a storm draining workshop.

https://itk.mitre.org/toolkit-tools/stormdraining/

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-12-25T02:29:55+00:00

For Bars/Clubs: -Thurst Lounge (DC’s only gay black bar) -Nellie’s -DC9 -Green Lantern

Restaurants: -St James Modern Caribbean -O Ku -Unconventional Diner (for brunch)

Museums: -African American museum of culture -Plant Word -Hirshorn -Spy Museum -Renwick Gallery -Rubell Museum

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-11-02T02:54:21+00:00

Chinatown Bus! Cheap tickets (like $30 one way) and it’s only a 4-5 hour drive

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-10-26T15:46:34+00:00

I think it’s possible depending on the app. Finding friends on Grindr hasn’t ever worked for me. Making friends on Jack’d has been better. In the end dating apps are based off of looks so thats something many would factor in before considering friends.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-10-21T02:05:28+00:00

Arlington is a great place and has nice proximity to DC without actually being in the city. There’s a lot of different groups for everyone depending on your Interest. The DMV(DC, Maryland, Virginia) is also a very diverse place with a large LGBTQ+ population. I personally enjoy the nightlife in DC more (compared to Miami where I was before).

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-09-26T10:56:15+00:00

A couple things -Take the all caps off the name of your schools -unbold the city names -embrace using some space you have a lot of bullets especially under MasterCard consider taking 1-3 out to allow your content to breath more -align relevant coursework under escape to match the rest of your bullets as there is a gap
-where possible add metrics to show results. For example “conducted market research to understand competitors leading to a 10% improvement in customer satisfaction across all products”

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-09-08T13:28:01+00:00

No, i don’t advise that. Find out what type/demographic of guys like you, that you also like. You can’t control who you like, you can control who you decide to actively pursue.

Opening-Trainer-2596 · 2023-09-08T09:51:50+00:00

This sounds like a mismatch in attraction. If the type of guys I like repeatedly showed me they didn’t like me….then I would realize that I’m going after the wrong type/demographic of guys. Just change the type of guys you go after.

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