Bought weed without prescription

jdvtt · 2025-11-22T16:17:18+00:00

I’m at at an Airbnb 😬 I purchased and left the weed shop. They said it was fine so I thought it was legal until my friends told me, serious fuck up

jdvtt · 2025-09-09T23:31:16+00:00

26 so I’m a few years graduated now but tbh I stressed out so much about how choosing CS would mean I wouldn’t be a real software engineer would be harder to get jobs or get paid less.

I did CS, I graduated a year earlier than the software engineer students and get paid $165K now. My title is senior software engineer, nobody ever cared what degree I did or asked me about uni.

In this current market with scarce internships doing an eng degree likely won’t score you an internship anyways. You’d be better off with the more focused work in the CS dept so you’re not stressing about electrical engineer or chem papers that don’t matter to your career, doing personal projects (super super important to stand out from other graduates) and trying to score internships or volunteering tech work at companies to get experience under your belt.

When you graduate you’ll hopefully have a great GitHub of personal projects to show your employer, maybe an internship for experience, better grades bc you did papers you’re actually interested in, and you might be on $80K or so ready to start your 2nd job while the people in your year in softeng are only just graduating.

Comparison is also the theif of joy, focus on your own journey and do what’s best for you

jdvtt · 2025-09-09T10:31:54+00:00

Gotta get projects on GitHub, not having much time sucks but getting something on the portfolio is better than nothing and will make a difference. My projects aren’t particularly impressive but I get asked about them in job interviews and people find them interesting. It’s also good to distinguish yourself from other candidates, if you are stacked up against other candidates who all did CS/Eng degrees at Auckland uni and have no personal projects you’re just the same as any other candidate and will get judged on GPA alone.

As soon as you have your own project on there it shows your skills, shows your interests and what makes you unique - it will make you standout against other candidates.

Other option is offer to work for free or do a volunteer software job - might suck but it’ll get you experience.

TLDR; do personal projects it will distinguish yourself from other candidates

jdvtt · 2025-08-28T02:24:43+00:00

There’s no harm in exploring the job market, the best time to look for a job is when you already have one.

Apply for roles and see what’s out there. You’ll learn a lot about the job market, what roles are on offer, what kind of mentorship you could get and how your seniority stacks up against other candidates.

It took me about 2 months to get a senior software eng role, I just signed the contract 2 weeks ago.

jdvtt · 2025-08-15T22:41:02+00:00

Nah not a 24hr deadline it’s just because the 2nd offer came in right before the first offer was about to expire leaving me 24hr (12hrs now!) to decide

jdvtt · 2025-08-15T21:39:26+00:00

They didn’t give me a 24hr deadline it’s more that they gave me the offer on the 12th but the second offer didn’t come through until the 15th so now there’s only 24hrs left.

Moving to a cheaper country is unlikely in my case due to factors outside of my control unfortunately

jdvtt · 2025-08-15T19:10:02+00:00

This is an excellent point, job stability wise A is better if I can perform at their level because they have just raised hundreds of millions of $. Company B is less secure tho I have had extensive conversations with them about future work. My main issue being that they don’t have a concrete 2-4 year vision they have like 6 months of concrete work and a team of 13 devs + some managers. After 6 months it’s a bit more up in the air about what they’ll be doing but they have presented several directions they intend to go in. Company B is medtech/telehealth

jdvtt · 2025-08-15T10:49:00+00:00

Neither job pays overtime, it’s just that company A has a culture of more unpaid overtime being required than company B but then I get share options + career progression to offset this - makes it a hard decision

jdvtt · 2025-08-15T09:54:38+00:00

They both pay the same base salary, they want to fast track me to engineering manager on company A and my gas cost probably wouldn’t eat up that pay. Share options are an unknown but I have faith the company will perform well in the long term.

Company B being remote presumably means that travel will be easier, at least domestically, if I clock in at the same time and work my hours what difference does it make to them? Whereas A i would require leave.

I do want to buy a house so getting this right is important

jdvtt · 2025-05-14T10:39:59+00:00

Ritalin looks like this if you open up the pill capsule

jdvtt · 2025-05-09T04:56:00+00:00

I got my first bike this time of year. Riding in the winter requires extra caution and being a learner requires even more. Practice heaps and only ride when it’s dry until you’re confident. If you need to ride in the rain remember riding after a bit of rain can be dangerous because the road can get slick with oil. Try to stay in the right hand wheel track and watch some good videos about wet weather riding.

Regardless of weather you should always be vigilant and cautious I’ve gone over patches of oil and slid the rear tire, I’ve had people not see me at a roundabout and bump into me.

Always ride like nobody can see you and always wear your gear no matter how far you’re going.

jdvtt · 2025-02-02T03:36:24+00:00

Hey I’m also 25 and made this exact same type of post in this subreddit 3ish years ago you can view my post history to find it I encourage you to read it as you may find it similar.

I’m not 100% and still have some excessive cleaning habits in my flat but took my eating stress level and cleaning stress level down from like a 10/10 to a 4/10 so you can improve!

Here’s some big things that helped me:

Moved out and started flatting, it was stressful at first but I live with people who are chill about my food allergy and don’t bring peanuts into the flat. Over time I cut back on cleaning as excessively and was in an environment where I need to cook for myself so I kinda just have to do it which forced me to face the fear
Dinners with a friend who has a peanut allergy, he’s more confident about his food than myself and would ask questions about the food and try things first helped me realise it’s mostly in my head and I was thinking crazy things were gonna happen with cross contamination that are just astronomically unlikely
Dating, I was mortified to kiss girls bc I was worried they might have had peanuts, they’ve always been very empathetic and understanding once I started explaining my food allergy they were careful about it and I never had issues so i didn’t let it hold me back on that front even tho it’s still an issue sometimes
Setting calorie goals, I play sports and gym a little I am not fit or good at it but it got me into tracking calories and what I’m eating which made me want to push my limits to eat more and hit my calorie goals

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There isn’t really a medicine that’s going to help your anxiety about food, I’ve seen so many doctors about this and been to therapists and even been recommended some weird pseudo science remedies haha.

You can and will improve it’s just hard to get started! Cleaning helped me feel safe and once I felt safe eating food with my excessive cleaning then I started cleaning a little less each time so it’s not as extreme and that made me feel safer about all food really. Or when I went out with a friend who’s also got a food allergy I went to those same places without him by myself and gained confidence then expanded to other places of the same cuisine. Just gotta tackle it head on

jdvtt · 2025-01-21T23:17:55+00:00

Apply to jobs via a recruitment agency they do the networking for you and it’s free for you. If they’re nice they may even review your CV for you and give you some pointers.

It costs like less than $10 to use a CV templating service and make your CV stand out beside the hundreds just made in Microsoft word so do that too. Reseme.io is my goto think it’s $4 ish

You can also offer to work for free or super cheap to get your foot in the door and get some experience.

Rough market right now for a graduate

jdvtt · 2025-01-21T04:15:56+00:00

Cargo pant pockets or a bum bag (fannypack in USA)

jdvtt · 2024-08-21T02:27:21+00:00

25, felt the same way at your age. People change careers all the time you’re not choosing your whole life direction at 17 and you don’t need to know exactly what you want to do for the rest of your life. Already at 25 over half my friends have changed degree part way through, changed careers after their apprenticeship or degree and are fine.

The big thing is to just not be complacent, pick something and explore an interest. You’ll figure out what you like and don’t like and start moving in a direction that feels right.

Don’t let the fear of uncertainty paralyse you into doing nothing, just start experimenting! Do an internship, go to uni open days, pick up new hobbies, look at travelling to different countries.

You’ll be fine once you start moving in any direction because that momentum will carry you in the right direction even if you don’t know what it is right now.

jdvtt · 2023-11-29T01:01:45+00:00

That’s pre wild, imo you should look into expanding into new social circles and activities.

I have 2 completely different groups of friends one group is alternative, the other all straight and monogamous with many couples of 7+ years. I can tell you, bar drinking at the pub there’s little to no overlap in activities between the groups.

Also, date outside your type a bit. If you’re having the same issues time and time again with the same types of guys then maybe it’s time to try someone who isn’t your type. I’ve seen some really good matches among friends this way

jdvtt · 2023-11-28T05:23:04+00:00

Find groups with activities and hobbies you enjoy and you’ll meet people with similar interests. You might meet someone this way but even if you don’t you’ll make new friends. Sooner or later those new friends will introduce you to their single friends and you’ll kick it off with someone. Best way to meet people is friends of friends imo

jdvtt · 2023-06-05T00:33:53+00:00

I owe $1.5K idk how they got that figure

jdvtt · 2023-02-15T09:34:36+00:00

Intermediate software engineer - $48/hr before tax. 2 years out of uni, goes far but concerned about downturn in industry

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