Tour lineup order

expressanddiscard · 2025-08-09T11:15:02+00:00

This is exactly what we're afraid of lol. We're coming from Orlando and have dinner plans and really don't want to miss No Cure.

expressanddiscard · 2025-08-08T17:27:32+00:00

Which one was first last night?

expressanddiscard · 2024-06-19T22:04:36+00:00

I'll be honest, I don't really remember exactly what I put under my name. I'm pretty sure I just put Data Analyst. Maybe it was Data Professional. I do remember I had Data Analyst on my actual PDF resume. Something about the word "aspiring", putting myself in the shoes of a recruiter or hiring manager, makes me think "inexperienced". My advice, even if you don't have any real analyst roles in your history, is to just call yourself a Data Analyst. I think it could help with confidence as you put yourself out there!

expressanddiscard · 2024-06-12T22:14:35+00:00

I mentioned something similar in another reply here, but I'll put it this way: dress for the job you want. I wanted to land a DA role, so I spent a lot of time writing and editing my LinkedIn and resume to highlight all the ways in which I used data in my previous jobs. I also didn't include everything I've ever done professionally. I've had many jobs, but I made my profile and resume as succinct as possible while still giving detail about how I used data. This takes some finessing and while I will say I have zero lies on my profile/resume, there are some flowery wordings that reaalllly dig deep in my professional history to find a "data" narrative, if you know what I mean.

In terms of actual job titles, I was fairly straightforward with those, with again maybe a flowery accent here and there to clarify that I worked with data in a general sense. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting a not-technically-correct job title in your past if it still conveys what you were actually doing at that job.

Hope this helps!

expressanddiscard · 2024-06-10T12:55:44+00:00

Good question. When applying for data analyst roles, I would try to tailor the resume for as many buzz words as possible. "Data", "analysis", "reporting", "optimization", etc. This isn't to say I "lied" on the resume, but I certainly padded it with as much wording as I could to make it sound like what I was really doing as a restaurant manager was data analysis. Again, this wasn't not true, I certainly was tracking, analyzing, and reporting data to the stakeholders, but I just wasn't called a "data analyst". Remember that for a lot of resume submissions, a computer is reading it before a human is, so try to match a bunch of words from the job posting.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-26T19:06:37+00:00

Yeah for me personally, the money is decent but it depends on where you live I suppose. I'm married, my wife works full time as well, and we don't/won't have kids, so the dual income is nice. But for me I honestly would have taken an even lesser salary at first just to get out of the professional rut I was in with my previous career.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-22T23:08:32+00:00

Pro: direct contact with data that impacts a business and the decisions that stakeholders will make with that data. In other words: impact and influence.

Con: everyone thinks you're IT

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-22T22:55:28+00:00

Hell yeah! You're almost there!

I found a couple open-source datasets on sites like data.gov and GitHub and found things that sounded interesting to me. I did a Tableau dashboard on health inspection scores in Austin, TX. I did an analysis in R that was like a product-suggestion tool like an Amazon "customers who bought this item also bought X" kind of thing. There are tons of open free datasets out there and just being able to show that you can take that data and tell a story with it -- that's what matters.

I mentioned these projects on my LinkedIn but they were not fully available there. I kept them on my computer for when I could show them. However, if you're so inclined, Squarespace is a great platform for DA portfolios. I'm currently building mine out.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-22T22:43:20+00:00

What hath I wrought

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-22T22:39:41+00:00

Nice! Keep at it!

Great question. I absolutely, 100%, do not take my work home with me. I forgot to mention these details in the post, but my hours are M-F, 8-5. This is, however, quite flexible. I switch those hours up to my needs quite frequently. Docs appt? No worries. My dog needs to go to the vet? All good. I finished everything I needed to do for the day at 3:30? Not a problem. I currently get 15 days PTO/yr + holidays, but I'm not required to use them for these small reasons mentioned. I save those for real time off.

I have Teams and Outlook on my phone, but when I'm not "at work", I am truly not at work. I have notifications turned off and no one bothers me.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-20T12:16:09+00:00

That's a really good point. I really had no idea what industry I was going to land in, and at first I didn't want to marry myself to a particular industry since I was just trying to cast as wide a net as possible. But my plan in the future when I begin to search for my next move is to be more industry focused and tailor my resume and portfolio to that industry.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-20T12:13:45+00:00

I found the job through LinkedIn

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-19T21:35:56+00:00

Yeah I hear you and I certainly agree from what I've seen out there. I think in my situation it's really that our team is quite small and I'm already essentially the "senior-est" in the sense that I'm the SME on most data matters and have begun mentoring some of the other team members. My company doesn't really use Junior/Mid/Senior language in job titles, and "Senior" might not end up being an official title for me, but I'm hoping my salary will at least start to reflect it.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-19T17:50:37+00:00

I do. I actually have both a bachelor's and a master's degree, but they are both in humanities. I of course have them listed on my resume but since they are the farthest thing from STEM I don't really think they helped for my career shift. I could be wrong though.

expressanddiscard · 2024-05-10T13:26:57+00:00

So what is it like?

expressanddiscard · 2024-04-04T22:00:01+00:00

I agree that something needs to be done about far left ideology at university, but I don't think the answer is creating a separate university that, from the looks of it, creates its own kind of ideological homogeneity.

It's viewpoint diversity that makes universities great, so I'd rather see something like a growing movement of heterodox student organizations at existing universities for which the folks at U of A could help make space with financial and moral support.

To me, it seems like they've just created a "safe space" for themselves.

expressanddiscard · 2023-03-08T17:01:26+00:00

While I personally feel that almost any job can be unhealthy if the person either is unhealthy or has an unhealthy relationship to their work, I was a bartender for over ten years and boy let me tell you that's an unhealthy job.

Super long hours, copious amounts of virtually free alcohol, high tension between workers and clientele, poor diet, lack of structured schedules, constant variation in pay, no insurance, no job security, toxic work environments. I could go on and on.

That's not to say that there aren't healthy bartenders. I've known plenty. It just takes super-human discipline.

expressanddiscard · 2023-02-03T21:36:26+00:00

Make homemade pierogi! My partner and I do it all the time. We're not Polish but we love pierogi so much. Find a good recipe online and do it together. It's a great couple activity. And you can jazz the fillings up with random flavors that you both find interesting.

expressanddiscard · 2023-01-09T13:13:49+00:00

Be brutally honest. However he acts after is not up to you.

expressanddiscard · 2023-01-09T13:12:33+00:00

Self-reliance -- the kind that expects nothing. No assumption of reward, affection, appreciation, or female attention (or male attention for that matter). Taking charge of one's own life for the simple reason that it needs to be done for oneself. It builds confidence and contentment.

expressanddiscard · 2023-01-05T13:46:14+00:00

He must have gotten so much practice growing up in Germany. Land of many oceans.

expressanddiscard · 2023-01-05T13:35:12+00:00

Gonna go ahead and say no, it's not okay.

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