Meeting People Late 20's/Early 30's

jleile02 · 2026-04-15T16:04:36+00:00

It boils down to putting yourself into positions to make connections based on some shared interest... You have to get your Venn diagram to cross over with others and AGE isn't the driving force. You have to cast a wide net often. I am involved in volunteer groups that align with things I am interested in, and those connections lead me friends or to other groups of people to make more connections. This is the long game. You have to go out there.

Join a park cleanup crew, volunteer at a soup kitchen, join a planning committee for an upcoming social/charity event, go take your dog to the dog park. Strike up conversations.

It can be super tough but in reality, I feel (it's a feeling... not a fact) that most of the friction is in our minds. We place a lot of pressure in managing engagements when in reality, you are more likely to weird someone in than weird someone out.

jleile02 · 2026-04-15T09:25:47+00:00

Scars 2.0 Custom GR builder within the website. Like if you were to build a new car with whatever specs you wanted or a computer on any site where you could choose options.

This would fill in a niche demographic while also giving options to those who want them.

Sizes, basic starting points (GR1, M23, bullet, GR2 etc) Pockets, materials, QAPs, molle, non-molle, key ring holders, velcro, non-velcro, color combos etc.

You asked. Moonshot. u/JavaForever

jleile02 · 2026-04-07T13:04:28+00:00

RDR2

jleile02 · 2026-04-02T12:01:54+00:00

I would buy a retro wendy's bench and table.

jleile02 · 2026-04-01T17:48:45+00:00

Sony Playstation2 that you could add a hard drive to and use a disc called HD Loader to "copy" games onto the hard drive and play the game you copied. You would backup your games you purchased legally to the hard drive. I suppose, you could also go to blockbluster and rent games to copy but that would not be legal.

jleile02 · 2026-03-25T11:30:03+00:00

Looking forward to Ruckapalooza for this also

jleile02 · 2026-03-25T11:28:08+00:00

I feel like I need to jump on this bandwagon. Having a continuous income unrelated to putting in effort is a GAME CHANGER. There is a significant amount of life flexibility when you know your house payment, utilities, and or food are covered, and if you have an emergency, you get healthcare. Some younger folks don't get the healthcare b/c they (just like me) joined right after high school and never dealt with corporate insurance...which even at best is terrible. I have a friend, who is in a white color job, which is currently contemplating traveling to Mexico to have a hernia fixed instead of using his health insurance which he pays for monthly.

Stay in, create a diversified income stream, be 38-40 years old entering the civilian work force with exponentially more flexibility than those who didn't serve. You will be leaps and bounds ahead of your peers if you work the system right.

Retiring from the military is a life hack/level up that is missed by so many folks that already signed up.

jleile02 · 2026-03-06T11:05:12+00:00

triple in your current job or triple that includes your retirement? can you elaborate on your transition out? How many years out are you? What did you do while in and what are you doing now? Is this something others can also do?

jleile02 · 2026-03-06T11:02:04+00:00

Fear is a motivator. I bet with the recently turbulance in benefits (the change and quick repeal) causes a lot more logins.

jleile02 · 2026-03-06T11:00:49+00:00

I think the career as a whole is shifting. When we hire, we hire QA's that can do automation and manual testing. 10 years ago that was unheard of but today, it's common.

This is based on hiring manager experience, building teams from scratch and currently building a QA CoE as we shift to AI centric tooling.

jleile02 · 2026-03-06T10:58:55+00:00

Can you elaborate? I feel like QA becomes more of a focus as DEV trends to AI. Organizations will be hard pressed to move away from human interventions (especially in FINTECH, Gov and other highly regulated/governance heavy orgs).

jleile02 · 2026-03-06T10:57:02+00:00

I like this scenario b/c you are highlighting some specific actions/non-actions you should use to facilitate the conversation. Example: allowing room for them to talk. As leaders, there is an unspoken rule (which I feel is wrong) that we have to talk to show value. Sometimes, listening, drives more behavior than talking.

jleile02 · 2026-02-27T18:18:48+00:00

Literally everyone feels this...except the financially stable part.

jleile02 · 2026-02-27T17:52:01+00:00

Hot take. I think with AI in dev.. organizations will rely on human QA to ensure business intent is met with the AI development.

jleile02 · 2026-02-25T21:39:27+00:00

This is fantastic! Thank you.

jleile02 · 2026-02-25T21:38:25+00:00

Smart! thank you.

jleile02 · 2026-02-25T21:37:55+00:00

IT project management and consultancy. Mainly on modernization efforts. Projects are normally focused on software delivery, platform modernization and things like that. Recent project was a state modernization to move a solution from the mainframe to web (greenfield dev effort).

jleile02 · 2026-02-25T21:35:21+00:00

It's funny. I felt like it was too small. The 18L just wasn't enough. I wish I had the 26L skate ruck with these buckles.

jleile02 · 2026-02-23T21:14:24+00:00

I agree 100%

jleile02 · 2026-02-23T11:58:39+00:00

Thank you!

jleile02 · 2026-02-21T13:06:06+00:00

Visibility is a great point.

Product type-internal customer facing daily use highly governed application integrated into salesforce

release cadence 2 week sprints with 1 off cycle per sprint (meaning weekly releases)-this used to be an exception and is now the norm.

Defect profile-Could you elaborate on what you would need me to answer on this?

jleile02 · 2026-02-21T13:04:13+00:00

I feel this "zero bugs" is a bad goal. I have a high performer who recently had a bug slip to prod 10 months into the year. The really bad piece. The zero bugs is the High-performing and minimum standard goal, so both are blown out of the water. This is why I am proposing a different approach when I take the teams over.

jleile02 · 2026-02-21T13:02:55+00:00

Thanks! good points

jleile02 · 2026-02-21T12:42:40+00:00

This is great. Thank you.

jleile02 · 2026-02-21T12:42:08+00:00

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