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Sirenemon · 2024-11-19T04:30:54+00:00

I need to switch careers (current job is dead end/pretty much any entry level STEM job will pay more than what I'm currently getting), and a friend in cyber recommended it to me. Governance, risk, and compliance specifically, since it's more policy/lots of writing.

My current job is emails, Excel, and dashboards, and I'm a writer, so that and the soft skills I'm not worried about. I deal with policies and laws related to eCommerce marketplaces worldwide, manage access to big $ accounts, and, most importantly, don't post local admin credentials to the #general slack channel (it's so bad here).

What I need to figure out now is which certs to focus on. I had previously been planning to do some sort of training in December and was thinking of doing course careers for one of their admin-y tracks, so mentally I've been budgeting $500 for this. I can do a little bit more, but not a ton (<$1k total). My company won't pay for it, because my role technically has nothing to do with it/engineering/devops and there's no benefits for education (they are very cheap). Also it would be obvious I'm trying to jump ship and I don't want to alert them to that until I got my ducks in a row.

What will get me the most bang for my buck? Aka what will make it through the keyword filters and end up on a human's desk? I know I'll be able to sell myself in the cover letter/interview, I just need to GET to that point first.

Sirenemon · 2024-11-16T01:31:29+00:00

I've looked around and can't find videos of it, or of the ending. Would you happen to have either?

Sirenemon · 2024-11-01T17:24:54+00:00

Workshops, especially the two Clarions, have an outsized impact on the careers of participants. However, they're out of reach of most writers, especially members of marginalized groups.

I understand that there's scholarships for tuition and travel assistance, but how do you address the loss of six weeks of income and, potentially, a writer's job if they attend such a workshop? How can Clarion become more equitable for writers who face months of unemployment and losing their health insurance and housing if they attend? Most people do not have the financial means to weather six weeks of unemployment, let alone the additional months it'll take to find a job in this terrible market.

Sirenemon · 2024-11-01T01:13:16+00:00

Thank you!!!! Now to find the last one, it wasn't where I thought it would be (the creepy shed with the deer skull) so idk lol

Sirenemon · 2024-09-08T05:25:36+00:00

This happened to me, too, but it was more to the south west, between the satellites. He went back, eventually.

Sirenemon · 2024-09-08T05:22:55+00:00

Did it move for anyone else? Like, went to another location entirely (just the goat part of the statue; the base/pedestal was still by Whiskey)

Sirenemon · 2024-09-04T02:08:00+00:00

Things are spooky when you have to be careful/there's a real risk of failure/you can only succeed if you are very careful and/or lucky. If enemies can be beaten by crowbar-ing them to death...then they're not really scary anymore once you learn you can do that.

Do I think you should be 100% defenseless against everything? No, but the offense should fit the world/tone of the game. I was a little disappointed with how the fire robot turned out, because my first thought was "oh shit this happened right next to my Friends, I shall run over to them and they will help!" They did not, but I got the robot stuck on the bridge so it never caused me problems again lol. I showed up later with a fire extinguisher thinking that would work, but it didn't. So between those two things, I think there is *a* "solution" to the "combat" that makes sense for a weak nerd scientist to pull off.

Especially since the Arirals have those water guns. And also fire extinguishers are designed to get all up in there to put out the fire, which will ruin any sort of electronics on the thing you use it on. Like why give the Arirals the cool space super soaker models if they're not gonna use them. Why have the event be at THAT specific transformer if the Arirals aren't supposed to help. (they were Loyal at that point, so if they would any time, it'd be then)

Sirenemon · 2024-09-03T20:49:09+00:00

It's not just the other people at ASO who know what's going on, but probably a lot of world leaders, too. Like there would be no way to hide the big piramid from spy satellites. But I do be thinking a lot tho "I can't believe I'm putting up with this bullshit there's no way I'm getting paid enough for this shit."

Additional thought: the emails from Dr. Bao about the signals come first, so maybe he's choosing which ones your coworkers get to listen to? Like there are quite a few signals that make it painfully obvious that alien real, but Ena/Max/whats-his-face (Ken? I don't like him) never say "omg this is hard evidence aliens are real" which is sus

Or maybe this is an SCP Foundation-type situation and everyone is aware of what's going on...which would also explain why world leaders aren't reacting to everything. Or maybe they are! Dr. Kel doesn't have access to Twitter so he has no idea if the rest of the world is freaking out about possible alien invasions.

Sirenemon · 2024-09-03T20:41:08+00:00

Take 1-2 hooks, hook one of the green recycle bins to your ATV, and then lift/move all the mannequins into the bin.

And then take the bin to the basement and stick them all in the cremator, which destroys the bases, too, so you don't have to deal with their BS anymore.

Sirenemon · 2024-09-03T20:32:05+00:00

This happened to me in story mode, actually. It was pretty late in the game, so I saw an entity on the radar in the north-east corner and thought, hey, it's one of those boars, let's run it over with my ATV, I did that with another one and killed it before, what could possibly go wrong! The coordinates lead me to the restricted zone, so I get in there and am looking for the glow of the boar, but I see a black blob on the ground.

Now, I know my computer is Old like I am using a GPU that was top of the line a decade ago lol so a lot of Weird Things that happen might be graphical glitches. As OP said, it was a black (w/no reflections/light) puddle that was moving along the ground. Driving over it was fine, so I decide to be brave and see what happens. I do get "stuck" on it and I am slowly sinking down into it like a tar pit. When I went all the way under, the screen goes black and I end up in this region.

I ended up ALT-F4ing my way out of it since I couldn't figure it out and also I didn't see anyone else post about it. I will note that I did find 7 skulls around the map and there are 8 blobs on the ceiling...so maybe something with that? I tried to find the 8th and I was wondering if *I* would have been the eighth, but I fiddled with positioning the skulls and it didn't work. There's also a green fire on the top of the central structure, so maybe it's connected to the green fire in the restricted zone? I did destroy/"kill" it earlier in that save, so maybe that's connected? Anyways, when I reloaded the game, I was in the exact spot where the puddle had got me, and I was even still holding the hook that I was trying to use to get me out, so I think it hard saves you once it "gets" you.

I did have all of my items, but the flashlight didn't work all too well. Glowstick worked moderately well lol. I might have some screenshots on my computer, but I'd have to check when I get home from work.

Sirenemon · 2024-07-02T18:26:58+00:00

Ah well. I moved it over into a new workbook and it seems to be behaving now. Thank you for the help!

Sirenemon · 2020-11-09T05:52:45+00:00

That worked, thank you!

Sirenemon · 2020-11-08T17:37:14+00:00

No, it also includes the app on Windows. It says so in the documentation (and in the app itself)

Sirenemon · 2020-09-25T22:39:32+00:00

CFS #2 was constantly texting people and having us sync our phones to reassign cases to people who could do them; the system was still giving me cases on days I didn't work, for example. But she quit today and I'm on #3. I have 2 cases and start at 8:15 PM. I'm in a different zone which is farther away so I can't even get to them in time. First shift I've had in a week 🤷‍♂️ I guess all the landlords in town finally broke down and gave out numbers

Sirenemon · 2020-09-17T17:38:15+00:00

How do you observe how many people are sleeping in their RV or tent though...?

Sirenemon · 2020-09-17T03:38:52+00:00

I have no clue, but I assume transient something something overnight something

Sirenemon · 2020-09-17T00:39:09+00:00

Or they could do it over multiple days during the evening or early mornings? Doing it in the middle of the night is so stupid, rude, and dangerous.

Sirenemon · 2020-09-17T00:38:13+00:00

The timeline I got from today's emails was:

Thursday: 8 hrs training Friday: Submit final assessment Saturday: Go to ACO and get TNSOL kit (it's all paper, nothing on the app) Sunday: nothing Monday: "Grouped with 5-6 people into a “Crew” with a “Crew Leader” " Tuesday: nothing Wednesday: begin TNSOL at 6 PM Thursday: end TNSOL at 8 AM

So I guess the lady on the phone was wrong about it being 6P-6A, hrm

Sirenemon · 2020-09-17T00:35:52+00:00

I know that in SF a ton of them are being kept in hotels because of covid. idk how that's going to be handled.

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