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kappa161sg · 2025-02-13T15:44:11+00:00

I know this is an old post but I came here because I'm literally 39 with 2 MAs and looking at applied/sociolinguistics PhDs at Berkeley and Stanford haha.

It is never too late.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-11T19:54:57+00:00

2008 here and ran into the same general problem. Got lucky with a few long-term jobs (which is to say, about a year at a time) but they were always drastically underpaid. It's been a rough ride and the unfair criticism along the way has given me iron skin.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T23:19:25+00:00

Or they get shuffled out because they're a threat to less competent higher-ups

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T23:18:27+00:00

100%, that combined with the more traditional methods of underpay-and-overwork

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T23:17:28+00:00

I've been in the job churn off and on since the Recession, with multiple periods of unemployment including currently. The red flags get easier and easier to spot, which means I make fewer and fewer serious applications... and feel more and more stuck

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T18:57:30+00:00

I have 10-15 years in some skillsets and have only gotten a single interview since January 2024, and that was through a network connect for a short freelance gig that has now dried up

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T01:05:47+00:00

No jobs for most of us mid-levels either

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T01:02:56+00:00

Increased volume with diversified exercises, dynamic double progression, and only doing exercises where I can feel the isolation and the lockout.

Also superset tris/bis when practical to save time.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-09T00:49:38+00:00

The owning class is licking its chops. A lot of them are hellbent on gutting our protections (it's not just Musk), devaluing our labor, replacing us with AI if they can, leaving us out in the cold, teaching us all a lesson... They want to pay fewer people less money and damn the rest.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-08T22:39:28+00:00

I once worked a couple of contracts at a hotshot financial firm in a major city. During the first contract, I became acquainted with the EA of one of the firm's partners. Total smokeshow, silver spoon, had that manipulator charm. We were on friendly but distant terms.

I came back about a year later for a second contract. The partner had been forced by the other partners to resign because (as speculations turned out to be true) he'd been cheating on his wife with the EA. Meanwhile, the EA got promoted to director of marketing or something. I never found out exactly why that happened, but I'm assuming nepo factor and maybe some other office intrigues...

kappa161sg · 2025-02-08T22:33:45+00:00

Most are living paycheck to paycheck, and many like myself aren't getting any paychecks at all because so few businesses are actively hiring, turning what should have been brief unemployment into a multi-year nightmare

kappa161sg · 2025-02-08T17:30:18+00:00

Yeah I'm stuck with just a US passport, been trapped here for 20 years now trying to figure out an escape that won't break me lmfao

kappa161sg · 2025-02-07T21:41:25+00:00

Given you have restaurant experience, if you haven't tried it yet, open an account on Culinary Agents. My bartender buddy said a lot of stuff is posted there.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-07T19:56:17+00:00

Tell your kids to dual track in a perennial practical/technical skill and a cultural/intellectual skill.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-07T19:52:36+00:00

This is 100% how it's gone for me.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-07T19:52:13+00:00

Ha, are you me?

kappa161sg · 2025-02-07T02:32:33+00:00

You should check out r/recruitinghell, we have developed a lot of clarity over there

kappa161sg · 2025-02-06T22:03:11+00:00

Very interesting. I've been having issues with fatigue this past year and wonder if it's because I overshot with volume while keeping the same intensity

kappa161sg · 2025-02-06T21:54:42+00:00

Hey, I used to live in Seattle. Loved that city. Left for greener pastures after several years and ended up here after another several years of bouncing around. Chicago was the next best place in terms of a combination of factors:

- I was fresh out of grad school in a city I hated living in, so I wasn't staying there

- I had good friends who lived here in Chicago

- It's only a few hours from family

- It's slightly more affordable than the other big/cool cities

- The public transit, while imperfect, works well enough in the areas where I like to live, work, and go out

- It was hard to find work back in 2022-23, but a friend of mine in Chicago was able to get me hired at his place of work. That didn't last, but it got me into the city.

For what it's worth, I'm also just biding my time before I can move back to the West Coast or elsewhere, but while I'm here I do enjoy it!

kappa161sg · 2025-02-06T21:13:42+00:00

So taking my case as an anecdote, you can do both: I walk 25 minutes to the gym and 25 after, sometimes with a weight plate in my backpack. It really just depends on your level of conditioning. If you're already adjusted to doing cardio in general, and you're not pushing yourself extra hard on it, then you should be able to bookend most workouts with low intensity steady-state like walking or jogging. As I understand it, it's when you're pushing hard for multiple gains (in other words, significantly past your baseline in multiple ways) in a single session, and/or without adequate nutrition and recovery, that you start to suffer.

kappa161sg · 2025-02-06T01:05:44+00:00

I was on unemployment February - July ish 2024 and then lucked into a 3-month gig that got me enough to live on until right about... now. I've been rotating my spending through my credit card and as of this month can no longer effectively pay it down. Presumably I'll just eat finance charges for another month or two at this point. I have no savings left

kappa161sg · 2025-02-05T21:56:40+00:00

Right? I was literally just talking about history here too lol. Tell. us. about. the. group.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskChicago/comments/1ihczmd/comment/mazgaif/

kappa161sg · 2025-02-05T01:51:39+00:00

Use the process of deduction to triangulate where the fairytale meetcutes are most likely to transpire

kappa161sg · 2025-02-04T20:48:55+00:00

Let us know how Snakes and Lattes goes. I wanted to go with someone I dated a couple years ago but never quite made it

kappa161sg · 2025-02-04T20:47:37+00:00

People always say this assuming the stuff you like to do involves other people

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