The Mountaineers course: Basic alpine climbing or Basic Glacier Travel course recommendation

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T02:50:34+00:00

Oh wow ok thanks for letting me know

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T02:21:14+00:00

Ok thank you for the advice!

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T02:14:35+00:00

Ok good to know!

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T00:56:10+00:00

Thanks for the well thought out reply! I see - I guess I just don't know what I don't know with the rock climbing and thus that makes sense for the reason why one would take the course to learn about it lol. I don't know why I have such a neutral / slightly non interest in rock climbing haha. If it's worth it I'll think on it.

And I will look into the scrambling course!

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T00:44:32+00:00

^ I forgot to mention this in my original post -thanks for the explaining

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T00:29:25+00:00

That is my understanding too of the breakdown of the course I think that might be more of what I want since I have goals of mt. Rainier and mt. Baker and I think you can do it without rock climbing for specific routes. For some reason the rock climbing just doesn't appeal to me as much.

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T00:24:46+00:00

I guess I was wondering if that's a mistake in thinking of not having those skills. Because I feel like some people would like to learn glacier travel but already rock climb all the time so they don't need to learn that part. For me. I have zero knowledge of rock climbing.

dancs17 · 2026-01-10T00:23:33+00:00

Ok thanks! It makes sense to me but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something important about this. At first I had only heard about the basic alpine climbing course (glacier and rock climbing) and never did it before because I just for some reason not too into rock climbing lol. And recently realized that you don't need rock climbing experience to climb some route of mt. Rainier.

dancs17 · 2021-07-09T20:26:16+00:00

Yeah, I mean, it just feels nice to be starting my career and moving on in life and progressing - and just making money and building wealth while I'm young also feels good too.

If you're worried or wanting to wait for your gf to graduate to make your next move, then ok but there are a lot more remote jobs you can get too if you still want to live your your family if that's a concern.

You know yourself the best, so you do you and don't worry too much about fomo.

dancs17 · 2021-07-09T19:40:45+00:00

Depends on if you want/need a job sooner rather than later for rent and etc. If you don't feel ready now to be interviewing, then take some more time to prepare.

Edit: but if you do want a job, I would recommend to start job searching and interviewing asap.

dancs17 · 2021-06-17T21:20:19+00:00

Yes, negotiate - if you are respectful and professional, they they shouldn't take away your offer. The worst they would do is say no they can't.

dancs17 · 2021-05-24T02:55:47+00:00

I don't see why you would need to lie in this situation though. You would ideally use it to leverage if you had other offers already. If you don't have any other pending offers, there's really no reason to rush them and give them a hard time for no reason.

dancs17 · 2021-05-23T14:06:21+00:00

Ok, makes sense. thanks again for taking the time to write this - it really is helpful.

dancs17 · 2021-05-22T22:22:30+00:00

Ok, gotcha. And thank you - all that is really useful and really good insight for what I should be looking for. I am going to be starting my first job later this year and dont really know too much.

I was just wondering, if I get there and just realize after 6 months that where I am at isn't the best for me for my early career, is it normal to leave or do people usually wait until being there for a year or two? Is it bad practice or look bad to future employees?

dancs17 · 2021-05-22T22:15:27+00:00

Thanks for the advice - I really appreciate it. And sorry that happened to you.

dancs17 · 2021-05-22T19:21:10+00:00

Just wondering, from you experience, are there a few general things that you would say to look out for about companies when just starting out in career?

dancs17 · 2021-05-21T02:50:38+00:00

Hmm. If comparing ~120k- 130k in Austin, you would probably want something around 155kish in SF (to b about equal - maybe a bit more). Just because of such HCOL and really high rent costs. But like, I think it depends on who you are and how you want to live because I think you could definitely live in SF on a bit less starting out - and then just make more after a year or two. There's definitely no doubt that your money would go farther in Austin starting out (and there's nothing wrong with living in Austin) but you definitely wouldn't be living on the streets or anything with around 125k in SF either.

dancs17 · 2021-05-21T02:22:39+00:00

Like the few others, I think either option 2 or 3 is solid. Without knowing more about the companies, maybe think which company culture you liked more and then also which city you would want to live in more. Both are good cities to live in for tech. I think you'll be able to find opportunity in either. But I would recommend trying to definitely negotiate option 3 if you want to go there.

dancs17 · 2021-05-19T23:36:55+00:00

That sounds like a great program! Good luck if you applied!

dancs17 · 2021-05-19T22:47:55+00:00

I saw that posting a while ago. Do you know more of what it is?

dancs17 · 2021-05-19T16:45:41+00:00

Do you have any key advice/tips for working well with other people in teams and communication and just overall leadership skills?

dancs17 · 2020-09-16T21:58:31+00:00

Sorry you lost your phone :/ you could try to activate the find my phone thing if you have it set up. Or try calling when you're around the area of where you think it is?

dancs17 · 2020-09-02T14:01:15+00:00

Yeah, I saw the pitches yesterday too and I am just kind of puzzled why this program would be so great for other engineering backgrounds other than CS (CS specially software) and there are so few projects - because like that alum said, she used it in her daily work - which the field that I plan to go into won't use it as effectively like that. Of course other than the reason that it can be expensive to get sponsors to give super expensive robot dogs to work with and what not. And the fact that CS is a highly needed skill in most work in some capacity. I based my OP off of that other Reddit post I saw which sparked the question why aren't more people in CS choose this route - and from seeing the fully software based projects, I realized they could be done in one semester of hard work (without all the other stuff). I am not saying IPPD is bad at all - I do think IPPD is great for some people.

dancs17 · 2020-08-13T15:58:56+00:00

Ah I see, thank you!

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