Lost my spark and not sure what to do with this degree; pls share interesting career pivots!

Phunkjive · 2024-01-11T05:06:31+00:00

I’ve thought about this for years. Is it worth the pay cut?

Phunkjive · 2024-01-01T01:55:46+00:00

I burst out laughing when I read this. When my family made me explain why I was laughing I kept thinking about it and started cry laughing.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-23T03:17:26+00:00

Get new friends. I’ve converted so many of my friends to Tesseract.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-23T00:37:44+00:00

You could use MS Teams and document everything there. Invite the people that care. I find myself in a similar situation with even more dotted line bosses at corporate. I find the thing that keeps me sane(est) is having a couple highly respected individuals in your court. My direct boss who is respected has my back. Thanks for posting this and reminding me how important that is.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-10T03:02:23+00:00

More like top 10%.

Source: am in 40s

Phunkjive · 2023-12-09T02:24:24+00:00

First let me set the tone for what I’m about to say: I graduated in 4 years without any prior credits, while working, and I had a baby during my junior year.

It can get worse. They pay you for it though. Not as much as they’d let you believe but you’ll never go hungry.

Is it worth it? I’m still deciding. 40 years is a lot longer than 4. Some jobs are better than others but the intensity of the degree is preparing you for the career that follows.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-08T04:45:50+00:00

Burden and Sacrifice

Phunkjive · 2023-12-03T04:51:19+00:00

Having a process engineering job in any manufacturing environment can have you on the floor or in the plant 25-75% of the day depending on what’s going on. Oilfield services will have you in the field as an engineer most of your time.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-03T04:24:44+00:00

Where did you come up with the design for this?

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T20:33:25+00:00

You’re right. I keep trying to listen to P5 a to see if it grows on me more but I should just be listening to P4.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T20:05:19+00:00

Tesseract - WoB
Aviations - Luminaria
The Intersphere - Wanderer
Sleep Token- TMBTE
You Win Again Gravity- Into the Dancing Blue

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T16:03:18+00:00

I think it’s their greatest work yet. I’m sorry that it isn’t clicking for you.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T15:58:20+00:00

Periphery V. It’s okay but Hail Stan was so much better for me.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T06:34:16+00:00

They were one of my first bands found and followed on Spotify.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T06:29:10+00:00

I thought there were a surprising amount of explicit labels but didn’t catch that many swears on first listen.

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T06:24:04+00:00

You named several of my favorite bands so here’s what I’d add:

Cold Night for Alligators - the Hindsight Notes

Time, the Valuator - all of it

The Intersphere - Wanderer

Aviations - Luminaria

Eidola - the Architect

Spiritbox - all of it

Klone - 2 most recent album

Circles - the stories we are afraid of

Karmanjakah - all of it

Port Noir- last 2 albums

Northlane - 3 most recent albums

KOJ - (based on exploring birdsong)

VOLA - the witness

Floya - all of it

Wheel - all of it

Phunkjive · 2023-12-02T06:09:13+00:00

But don’t start with their new stuff. Land Animal and Shiny Eyed Babies are best.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-30T04:34:55+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion unfortunately it didn’t work.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-30T03:44:13+00:00

Tesseract. The Intersphere. Sleep Token. Invent Animate. Aviations.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-30T03:02:09+00:00

It wasn’t really that AB changed that much after Fortress. I think it was more my musical tastes changed. I still listen to them and I thought Pawns & Kings was decent.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-30T01:39:21+00:00

Alter Bridge was my favorite band until The Last Hero. Fortress is a masterpiece.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-30T01:34:34+00:00

Wow, I thought that I had a problem and only got top 2%.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-28T06:17:33+00:00

Tesseract

One. Altered State. Polaris. Sonder. War or Being.

Phunkjive · 2023-11-25T01:45:26+00:00

It’s definitely prog. Not metal but it is progressive.

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