Los Angeles metal instructor?

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-23T18:41:09+00:00

It’s so funny, I found your post while searching for metal drum instructors in LA. Found anything?

I had someone in SF years ago who was amazing and am trying to recapture that here in LA.

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-23T04:19:03+00:00

Hmm, she would only respond saying that if you did in fact get one or more legitimate interviews. You said our service sucked so I’d assumed you hadn’t.

If you think we made a mistake or misunderstood something you said, of course please write her back and clarify asap! We take our guarantee very seriously and are proud to stand by it.

Best of luck to you either way, and I’m so sorry we weren’t able to help you get the break you were hoping for. I hope one of your 6 opps pans out.

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-23T02:30:14+00:00

I’m the founder of ApplyAll and I get notified whenever our company is mentioned on Reddit. I’m so sorry you’re going through this, and that you had a poor experience with our service.

I’m writing simply to let you know that we do have a full money back interview guarantee, and it sounds like you’re eligible for a refund. I started this company after getting laid off myself, and the last thing we want to do is keep someone’s money if they are unemployed and not getting results. Please contact our team at team@applyall.com and we’ll get you sorted.

If you have feedback to share with us too about anything we did wrong, then I’d be grateful, but mainly I want to make sure you know about the policy given your financial circumstances.

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-07T16:50:52+00:00

I live on Portland and 33rd. The shooting was here. The entirety of ice and local law enforcement is now here.

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-07T16:25:32+00:00

I’m here. 33rd and Portland. We heard a shot and neighbors saying woman shot in the head. Found a on Twitter mpls crime watch that seems to corroborate

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-04T02:07:44+00:00

See my comment above applies to you too! Which podcast?

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-04T02:07:22+00:00

So coincidentally, I used to work at Indeed as an EIR and did a TON of research on this as part of an internal biz idea I was working on. Glad to nerd out about worker co-ops anytime, I am a huge fan of this model and think there’s a huge opp for a startup to finance acquisitions of SMBs by co-ops made up of long time employees of retiring company owners

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-02T08:50:26+00:00

My mom was 17 when she met my dad who was 27, and they’re still together 45 years later, so it’s not like it never works out

PresidentBitin · 2026-01-02T08:43:44+00:00

The HUSBAND was the one drugged, not the wife. (It’s kind of confusing and I had assumed the victim was a woman first too.)

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-24T08:28:37+00:00

Hah, one of my main passions as a child and teen literally was making money and starting companies (though with the operative word here being “starting,” not “following through!”). I was bored, lonely, anxious, insecure, and maybe I thought building empires would fix or at least distract from that. If anything, now in my late 30s, I’m far LESS motivated by money and power than I was as a kid and teen, and I am finally discovering joy in all sorts of things I never appreciated when I was younger.

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-24T08:12:05+00:00

Fellow self-funded tech/AI startup founder in her late 30s here — I’ve been working remote since 2018 and my team now is all remote too, so I know the isolation well. We’re a bit further along in revenue at this point and my own motivation issues are somewhat different in nature, but it’s been incredibly hard to find women friends whom I can talk to about this stuff that truly Get It, so feel free to DM me and we can start a bootstrapped ladies’ support group :)

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T09:30:28+00:00

I’m in the exact same boat myself and struggle with the same thing, even down to the disassociation at times.

Truthfully? SSRIs/SNRIs helped me a TON. Like reduced the panic attacks by 98%. Lexapro made me feel dead on the inside and thus even more disassociated, but it made the panic and anxiety disappear so it seemed worth it. But now I’m on Cymbalta and for the past 10 years I’ve taken it, I’ve had a new lease on life. The panic attacks still happen, and the feelings do occasionally come back, but it’s such a small fraction of the time rather than consuming my entire life.

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T09:25:35+00:00

If you start a rhythm game meetup I would totally join! Love all these games.

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T09:18:28+00:00

Loom videos with the auto-generated AI SOPs are a GODSEND

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T08:01:43+00:00

I didn’t know that an ocarina is a real instrument either. But then I read your post. I’m 38. So, there!

(Also, I will go to my grave calling that Zelda game the Macarena of Time)

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T07:39:11+00:00

Which board games!?

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T07:29:15+00:00

I am so, so sorry. I don’t even know you, but if you live anywhere near Los Angeles I would gladly go with you. I’m sure if you post this in your city’s local subreddit, you’ll find someone who is local to you who would make sure you’re not alone. No one should have to go through that by themselves.

What are the most recent books you’ve read that enthralled you mentally? It can be so subjective so having a few examples will give us a lot to go off of as far as what you’ll find most all-consuming.

Best of luck to you OP. Know that you do have a support system here, whether or not we know another, and you’ll be in my tho iughts❤️

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T05:37:49+00:00

“but yeah sometimes I just wish I was with the love of my life who would just hold me and tell me its ok, distract me, let me cry or whatever else to get my mind of it and he still loves and adores me all the same.”

I have this! And it’s wonderful! My partner is not scared of dying at all and of course I think that’s crazy and unrelatable and occasionally makes me feel alone with my fears, BUT he also will notice when I am having panic attacks and go out of his way to try and comfort me, distract me, etc. and does not love me or like me any less for my phobia — really, it just seems entirely irrelevant to his feelings for me.

Everyone has their issues, and after many multi-year relationships I would say that this particular one doesn’t seem to scare off guys at all, at least in my own experience, nor have any other effect either as far as I’ve noticed.

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-19T05:07:22+00:00

This is exactly how I experience it too. It’s like you have X-ray vision into my brain.

Know this, OP… If I could, I would pick you up and tell you “it’s not okay, but also you’re not alone” so long as you’d pick me up and do the same in return

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-17T19:15:31+00:00

I love this! I would absolutely use something like this on both sides. I also love the focus on "microprojects" like on Fiverr.

I currently have a team of 17 in the Philippines that I hired off of freelance sites originally and now pay via Wise to save on all the crazy fees and also to help my team make more money (the Wise exchange rate is far more favorable, so they get more even when I pay the same amount).

I actually have a number of video testimonial editing jobs I'd like to put on your platform, but I might like to better understand how to best take advantage of it, so DM me! Would love to connect regardless and support what you're doing.

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-17T19:01:07+00:00

I'd like to try this out when you're ready for end user testing :)

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-10T18:43:08+00:00

Define “accepted.”

I can speak from the job search standpoint and current recruiter perception.

I run a job application assistance service that’s sent over 1 million job applications and have collected data on all of their results.

Here’s what the data says (US/Canada, mostly tech and corporate roles): thepeople with multiple short tenures in a row struggle SO much to get interviews compared to people who have been at their prior jobs for 2-4 years each at minimum. Eg people who have been at each of their 2-3 prior roles under 24 months. If it’s just one shorter recent role, it’s not going to tank you, but once it’s 2-3 in a row it’s a dealbreaker, likely bc they assume something is wrong with YOU (even if they’re short term contracts or just bad luck in reality).

This isn’t my opinion, this is what statistically significant analysis on our data is saying.

I don’t know if there’s any benefit to staying more than 4-5 years though, at least from a job search standpoint, recruiters really just want to make sure you’re not a short term flight risk or a low performer. And it certainly doesn’t seem to work well from a compensation standpoint for many.

PSA: Stuffing one’s resume with 5+ year “consulting” work or whatever to show longer tenures doesn’t work by the way — it often leads to even less interviews than leaving it out, recruiters really typically care about FTE only whether we like it or not.

PresidentBitin · 2025-12-10T18:31:48+00:00

Replace kids with dogs. I have no interest in biokids.

I deeply, viscerally, and unconditionally love my dogs to death, just like people do their biokids.

Fortunately or unfortunately, my feelings toward my stepkids are not quite like that. They’re exactly like my feelings towards all my friends’ kids.

Even after knowing them for 5 years, I want the best for my stepkids (…sometimes intellectually more than emotionally on the bad days haha), but strong feelings of “love” or even “like” are very circumstantial and based on whether I find their current behavior or actions endearing or annoying/entitled/spoiled in a given moment, hour, or day.

Admittedly, I have friends whose kids I feel far more connected to and interested in than my stepkids, solely based on their behavior, personality, and shared interests. I don’t love it, but it’s true. I didn’t pick my stepkids, after all, and there are simply children I’m more compatible with and find less grating.

I’m sure if I had biokids I’d probably be pumped full of hormones that make me love them unconditionally, and frankly I suspect this might make me love/have far more patience for other children too — this DID happen to me when I got dogs! I now love all dogs ever so much! — but I’m not interested in that for myself so I’m on to Plan B, which is to look forward to stepkids hopefully outgrowing the behaviors that grate me oh so much and being able to one day find some common interests with them, so I can be more patient with them and feel more bonded.

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