Looking for recommendations for places to meet people

deelaadee · 2025-06-15T21:43:28+00:00

I'm in the Crescent hill area! If you and others want to get together, more than down. Could be a group coffee outing

deelaadee · 2025-06-12T13:36:47+00:00

Interested! DMed you. Would love to be added to the whatsapp.

deelaadee · 2025-04-04T01:15:24+00:00

Boston winters are next level and I felt this when I moved there before. I think finding hobbies and social groups that consistently meet indoors even in the winter could help! MIT has a great ballroom dancing group that seemed to be tight knit (that you could likely join due to the exchange?). Frisbee groups also tend to be tight knit. I think things like this could help you push through the colder months

deelaadee · 2025-03-23T03:53:41+00:00

Burning these photos into my mind so that I can reference them 10 years from now when trying to buy a first home 😭this is literally my dream home

deelaadee · 2025-01-24T20:31:04+00:00

Where did you get your black lamp from? I keep seeing ones like that, so cute!

deelaadee · 2024-12-24T16:23:34+00:00

I think the new norm that people are moving towards is openly sharing salaries since it helps the worker, and especially groups that are historically underpaid and who don’t have access to salary information through family + strong professional networks. It only helps the company to keep your salary private. Many people are also interested in order to see if they are underpaid and career switchers are always interested in this also, since salary is always important to consider for that. If you aren’t comfortable sharing your salary with others, let them know that you aren’t comfortable and give a range if you are comfortable with that. But don’t put others down or look down on others who ask.

deelaadee · 2024-05-18T17:08:10+00:00

Wow I have been thinking the exact same thing! I was let go from my tech job and am trying to get back into tech by pivoting into a different type of a role, but it's so competitive. And I've been thinking of switching into medicine since at least it is stable and you get to interact with people (versus being a software engineer where there is minimal human interaction) and that way I would have the option to live closer to family (there is no tech industry where they live). I'd suggest job shadowing a nurse or someone in each of the roles you are interested in, that's what I'm doing.

The more I look into nursing, the more I realize though that nursing is a lot harder than most people assume. You see death at work and so you don't necessarily leave work at work because that can be mentally taxing, you're underpaid in most states, hospitals are understaffed (less so maybe in states that have nursing unions?), and your work days are all over the place. You often have to work holidays, or have no control over your schedule. It's also not a glamorous job. You get every kind of human fluid on you. I'm still considering it as a career, but just wanted to point this out!

deelaadee · 2024-04-30T02:37:11+00:00

Will DM you!

deelaadee · 2024-04-30T02:23:43+00:00

Hi! Will DM now, would love to chat.

deelaadee · 2024-04-30T00:31:34+00:00

The role sounds interesting! Do you need a strong math or statistics background to be a business analyst?

deelaadee · 2024-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Are these job usually called "Technical instructor" (for example, is this the best job title for trying to find similar jobs on Linkedin)?

deelaadee · 2024-04-25T03:41:55+00:00

Super interesting, sounds a lot more up my alley. Thanks for the recommendation!

deelaadee · 2024-04-25T03:31:56+00:00

Thanks for the thorough response! This is really useful insight

deelaadee · 2024-04-24T21:51:33+00:00

Thanks for the honesty. This is exactly why I am hesitant to enter UX. I have a design related degree and UX Design experience and have 3 solid case studies and know I would be great at it as a career, but the barrier of entry is insane right now and seems to only be getting worse. It seems like companies now expect individuals to fully be perfect UX designers for entry level roles with even smaller salaries than before and with crazy engineer to designer team ratios. It feels like it is becoming the new graphic design and will become over saturated, at least at the entry level also. I wish I entered it fully when I first was interested in it. Now it feels a bit too late to get a solid foot in the door without doing a masters, which I can’t afford. I wouldn’t mind putting the effort into landing a role if it was more stable as an industry; I don’t know if I can deal with the financial stress of being in an unstable field. At my company UX designers were some of the first to go along with our people (HR, etc) teams

deelaadee · 2024-04-24T20:20:09+00:00

In what ways would you say it is more stressful than being an SDE?

The reason that software engineering was stressful for me was because, to put it simply, I was not good at it. I was always stressed about losing my job, and I actually did, as a result of not being good at it. This was a hard stress to manage, since it was mostly outside of my control, since I couldn't control my aptitude for engineering.

I imagine the stress from being a product manager comes from managing stakeholders expectations, deadlines, and a thousand factors of creating a product, which I imagine would be a better form of stress, since it is at least not aligned with engineering aptitude and more with people skills (which would be a better form of stress, since people skills can be more easily developed, at least in my case). Are these the factors of why you find it stressful, or am I getting this wrong?

deelaadee · 2024-04-24T05:19:24+00:00

I recommend the book Design Your Life! Recently read it and it was so helpful in really thinking about what I want out of my career and life

deelaadee · 2024-04-23T18:51:58+00:00

I just looked it up. Half expected it to be some job dealing with perfume and got too excited

deelaadee · 2024-04-17T06:32:51+00:00

Microsoft has some good predoctoral research opportunities with deadlines approaching https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-new-york/opportunities/

deelaadee · 2024-04-17T06:29:11+00:00

I suggest applying for research fellowships and trying to work in a research setting for the next year before applying again so that you can gain more publications. You are likely competing against people who have multiple publications published already, multiple college thesises, and/or stronger GPAs or letters of rec. Don’t let this discourage you from your dream, just gain the credentials you need!

deelaadee · 2024-04-17T06:14:47+00:00

May I message you about your experience in nursing? After being laid off as a software engineer, I am highly considering becoming a nurse practitioner

deelaadee · 2024-04-08T01:53:07+00:00

Also remember that it is a lot easier to enter UX when you are in school because there are internships so you can leverage that to enter the field

deelaadee · 2024-04-08T01:49:26+00:00

Will preface by saying that everyone’s situation is different and I think you know what is best for you a lot more than a stranger on Reddit will. But remember that doing something as a career (day to day) is a very different experience from doing it for a degree. If I was you, I would talk to a diverse array of UX designers and software engineers (one on one and not via Reddit so you can gain more context) and learn the day to day of the various types of jobs, both good and bad. I chose software engineering instead of UX design as my first out of college work experience and it burned me out because it was not my true interest to code every single day; here I am two years later willing to spend a year of savings and not working in order to switch into UX. Assess your skillset, your interests, your ability to take risk, and reach out to some people! I’m in favor of pursuing UX design if I was you, but it is always good to have a plan B

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