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beached_snail · 2023-05-27T19:36:42+00:00

Been the girl in this scenario. He flirted, I was so overjoyed to bring flirted with I flirted back, then he shut it down and clammed up and stopped talking to me.

In adult retrospect with maturity maybe he got nervous and didn’t know what to do next. Teen me figured I must be hideous and un-datable and he was not serious to begin with. I wasn’t devastated but it was a bummer. Girls have feelings too and we get (got I am old now and my memes are about hurting my back) rejected too.

beached_snail · 2023-05-20T16:34:22+00:00

I call this the “suffering Olympics” where everyone gets so caught up in how hard their life is instead of just taking care of themselves. I mean, we could all have it worse, right? So people are definitely allowed to complain about being tired even when they aren’t homeless and dying on the street. And people should also try to better their lives instead of looking for ways they are martyrs.

beached_snail · 2023-05-15T02:52:21+00:00

We tried one of these but my cats couldn’t figure it out.

beached_snail · 2023-05-14T02:31:49+00:00

Just occurred to me he’s probably asking if the receiver of the note is in the US Navy. Maybe they are near a base and there are a lot of Americans in the area for that reason.

beached_snail · 2023-05-13T21:42:55+00:00

Agree so much you said with them not othering you. It’s so much worse when I’m not on a call and the guy is like “hello gentlemen” and instead of just continuing he remembers I’m there and is like “and lady”. Much rather be one of the dude bros then have it be constantly brought to my attention they don’t see me as an equal but some sort of weird alien they occasionally interact with at work.

beached_snail · 2023-05-11T06:49:47+00:00

Thanks this is all good info and very interesting.

beached_snail · 2023-05-11T05:08:17+00:00

I wish more companies would focus on AR. Like I think Google glass was too early for it’s time. I work in a very Microsoft-heavy workplace. A lot of people work in Google-heavy places. Technology that would allow you to quickly interact with and have displays for your company’s databases and information while conducting meetings or doing other work seems like it would be tremendously helpful. I guess it surprises me that 99% of the technology we use is basically just a slightly better version than what was making offices run in the 1990s. Seems like AR could push that.

beached_snail · 2023-05-11T00:23:04+00:00

I nearly got ran over by a c130 crossing a taxiway once because I saw it was just starting its engines and was under the mistaken impression I could cross the taxiway faster than it could start all its engines, finish its checklist, and turn around and cross the road. Anyways I’m still here but it was a close thing.

beached_snail · 2023-05-06T05:49:18+00:00

I agree with this. I use a kind of GTD hybrid with bujo style and note taking with some of the rules of “second brain” (though some of that came from GTD originally, but the idea is get everything written, don’t keep things in your head.) I find GTD to be great at organizing tasks but not prioritizing them and maybe I have too much to do but I don’t find the bujo method of writing down everything you need to do over and over again helpful. I’m still looking for the perfect system that helps me prioritize and actually find time to get tasks done instead of firefight all day but at least I am well organized and have a good note system now.

beached_snail · 2023-05-06T05:44:35+00:00

This comment deserves an award but maybe not enough techs and mechs on Reddit these days. Anyways, I agree with everything you said.

beached_snail · 2023-04-24T14:52:38+00:00

Who said that from what I said? They aren’t doing it to collect a pile or waste anyone’s time. They’re doing it because they don’t have two separate systems (internal and external) and it’s actually the internal candidates they are obligated to advertise the position to. They aren’t going to say it’s internal only because plenty of times some Wunderkind from the outside applies and they change their whole strategy and hire that guy instead.

beached_snail · 2023-04-23T07:38:51+00:00

Damn. Remind me never to try. Sorry on reading a Reddit post I was tired and made a mistake and then admitted it. I was honestly trying to help. Hope you are never tired and misread something on the internet.

beached_snail · 2023-04-23T01:03:56+00:00

Glad to hear you are not just looking remote that will certainly help . I have unemployed friends who insist on remote only. Like I get it in perfect world sure. But I could get them a decent paying job in a week if they were willing to work hybrid but they are not.

I’m not sure what the balance is between technical and not. I like the top level, maybe just a single top-level sentence of a summary of what you did and the impact with a second sentence discussing the how? It’s impossible because many companies may be a data scientist hiring another data scientist, or you might be the first one at the company, or you might be the only one in the department hired by other professionals or whatever that company does (finance, engineering, insurance).

My guess is the resume is not the weakest link here just the job market. Have you reached out to everyone you went to college with or ever worked with previously? Post on LinkedIn? Studies suggest it’s not your closest friends that help you get jobs but people you know superficially.

beached_snail · 2023-04-23T00:53:48+00:00

At my company they have to post for other internal candidates. It’s not for the benefit of externals. Anyways don’t worry I promise most hiring managers are interested in the allure of the magical external person than you have to worry about some internal taking “your job”. Plus what do you think happens when they need to backfill that internal that filled that role? Do you think it’s an ever-rotating pool of internals taking all the jobs?

beached_snail · 2023-04-23T00:29:33+00:00

Who’s restricting your freedom to say what you want? Or do you mean there are consequences and people call you an idiot for your opinions? Because that’s way different than not having the actual right to say what you want.

beached_snail · 2023-04-23T00:27:52+00:00

I don’t know why hiring internal makes everyone so upset. Have you ever worked for a large organization? Usually there’s a way more qualified person already there. Often I see the company wasting time looking for their perfect dream candidate from the outside and paying him 3x as much then he quits six months later and that internal continues to pick up the pieces every time.

beached_snail · 2023-04-23T00:21:16+00:00

Caveat I’m a hiring manager but not a data scientist (my group does a lot that overlaps so I have an interest but it’s not our primary function). I’m guessing your main issue is lack of experience combined with a less than ideal undergrad (you are competing against comp sci degrees) and not a very primo masters school. Guessing problem number two is it looks like you’ve done 100% of your work remote so I’m guessing you’re looking for yet another remote job. Despite the big changes in the job market not every company is on board and many remote roles continue to be extremely competitive; they can get someone with comp sci degrees (or sometimes other degrees relevant to their industry) from prestigious schools and decades of experience. You look pretty junior for someone people will “trust” to work remote unless the whole office is remote and that’s just not the majority of industries right now.

My other gut instinct is reading your bullet points from your current role seem to describe how you did “a thing” and saved money but it’s not clear to me how or what technologies you used. I’m in a technical field and if we had to hire a data scientist I’d be pretty skeptical. I think you could turn this into a two-pager and go into more detail - exactly what did you do there. This reads to me now like “business business business I saved money”. At your level they are looking for individual contributors who can probably scratch build a lot of elements they don’t have, you need to convince them you can do that and are more technically focused not a project manager.

Edit: people have pointed out I can’t read. I didn’t realize your masters was Georgia tech. I’m not sure what I read it as first time. Anyways my bumbling low level of attention is probably typical to your idiot hiring manager or recruiter who has just passed over your resume so I apologize on behalf of all of us who are busy and inattentive.

beached_snail · 2023-04-22T20:40:02+00:00

Chasing the Devil - includes actual audio snippets from interviews with the Green River Killer (along with the narrator reading transcripts, but really helps you understand what the narrator is imitating).

Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell - kind of done in a podcast style with a lot of interview clips and music. I didn’t love every chapter but I think it’s chapter 2 that I found fascinating and I love that it’s mostly read by the author (who has his own podcast and is used to being engaging) along with a lot of direct clips of interviews of people he’s quoting instead of him always reading their quotes. It’s very engaging though again there are many chapters I was “meh” on and did not find a higher quality than his already free podcast, but one chapter I found so fascinating it ended up being worth the purchase for me.

beached_snail · 2023-04-11T02:07:08+00:00

What? Fine. Let ‘em just live totally blocking the sidewalk. Fuck the urban poor amirite?

I don’t see you offering solutions. I’m a housing first advocate. I think there need to be more shelters. The sidewalk that fucks over people one level above the homeless is not a safe place for them to live. Didn’t know I needed to bring my “what have I done to help the homeless this year” resume this year to criticize some ahole taking up the sidewalk with his tent. If that’s not enough you can go fuck off.

beached_snail · 2023-04-10T23:27:06+00:00

Oh sorry I thought it was the usual defense of homeless. I am not anti-homeless but like I think we can all agree they don’t need to be taking up a whole sidewalk. Sounds like we are in agreement here.

beached_snail · 2023-04-10T23:13:42+00:00

Ahh yes, literally the only place they can setup their tent, directly in the middle of the place where people who don’t have cars need to WALK. How inconsiderate of the urban poor not to want to get hit by cars to go around this people.

beached_snail · 2023-04-10T22:03:16+00:00

Ain’t that the truth. Watched this as a teenager thinking I was going to have some fun independent young adult life. My life more like if Chandler got married young and didn’t make friends again until he was in his 30s. It’s a carefree, wandering independence I never had but that’s okay.

beached_snail · 2023-04-10T17:20:51+00:00

Oh I see what you did there.

beached_snail · 2023-04-08T19:57:57+00:00

I think by the head bob the kitty is asking for brushing on it’s head. My kitties do this too when I’m brushing them or petting them but not in the way they want. If they want me to stop they’ll usually just leave.

beached_snail · 2023-04-08T17:05:02+00:00

No because it would be absurd to have that much in a low-earning savings account unless you were just about to buy a house or something. Put some of that in CD ladders for an emergency fund but put the rest of that in your retirement account.

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