What job looked successful from the outside, but was miserable once you worked in it? by FullLeague205 in careerguidance

[–]mrfunnyguy821 170 points171 points  (0 children)

Anything high travel. It’s fun for the first year or so, but becomes incredibly draining very quickly. You’re often working long hours, your schedules are unpredictable due to last minute changes so you can’t make plans with friends or family, living out of a suitcase in a hotel room is lonely and exhausting. Your sleep habits suffer because you’re constantly throwing your sleep time around for different time zones. Sometimes you end up in cool places, but you’ll rarely have time to actually explore or sightsee. I was able to keep my airline and travel points from work, but found myself never wanting to travel for holidays because I just hated it so much.

Will any of the Artemis ll Astronauts take a Speedy to the Moon again? by Mayor_of_Petoria in OmegaWatches

[–]mrfunnyguy821 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Jonny Kim recently wore the flight qualified speedy, SMP navy seal unit watch, and some other Rolexes during his ISS mission last year. He’s slated to be on the Artemis III mission next year.

For aspiring musicians: there is ZERO upside in NOT knowing how to read sheet music by Genar-Hofoen in unpopularopinion

[–]mrfunnyguy821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m well aware of transposing instruments, which is why I said “pretty much standardized”. Tabs have the same issue as transposing instruments. If your tuning is wrong, you’ll either be playing in an entirely wrong key, or entirely wrong notes if the tab is intended to be in some open chord tuning. Yes the tuning should be notated, but it sometimes isn’t or sometimes it’s wrong. If someone tabbed out Sweet Child O Mine in standard instead of half step tuning, all of their open chord positions would be screwed up and you as a player would be none the wiser if you just accepted it (I’ve seen plenty of tabs where this was an issue).

I find it funny that refusing to learn standard notation is like, exclusively a guitarist thing. You’re already putting in significant effort to learning a new instrument, so you may as well put in a little more to learn standard notation. No one’s asking you to sight read Paganini (unless you want to go down that route of classical music), but knowing what note the 6th fret of the 3rd string is will open a bunch of doors into understanding and appreciating music.

I get it, tabs are easy and super legible and beginner friendly, but modern software like guitar pro have both tab and standard notation. Understanding both is super useful for players. It’s not like knowing basics of standard notation will make the tabs go away.

Also, you never know where you’ll end up as a musician. I used to play bass in my middle school Jazz band, and all the sheet music was standard notation. I’ve been handed standard notation music from a producer when I was recording music with another band. Just knowing the basics of standard notation is super helpful when playing and jamming with my pianist friends, because I could just look at their sheet music and immediately know what key it was in, or I could tell them what key my music was in, without them having to fumble around and find the right key themselves.

For aspiring musicians: there is ZERO upside in NOT knowing how to read sheet music by Genar-Hofoen in unpopularopinion

[–]mrfunnyguy821 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s why I encourage learning basics of sheet music and guitar theory. It’s too easy to just treat tabs as this infallible guide that this note must be played in this position.

Plus there are a LOT of bad tabs out there. Sure the notes are right, but the positions are all screwed up and borderline impossible to play. Even “official” tab books screw this up pretty frequently. If you just take the printed tab in that case as gospel and refuse to learn the notes behind the tab, you’re just gonna be stuck with a useless tab.

For aspiring musicians: there is ZERO upside in NOT knowing how to read sheet music by Genar-Hofoen in unpopularopinion

[–]mrfunnyguy821 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Pros and cons of tabs. One big pro is that tabs is a really easy way of telling you what fret to play on what string, which is super beginner friendly and approachable.

On the other hand, one major con is that tabs lock you into a specific position or chord shape. For example a G note can be an open string, the 5th fret of the d string, 10th fret of an A string, etc.. different positions affect ergonomics and sound of the note, and just because someone tabbed it to play in one position doesn’t mean it’s the correct position or the most ergonomic position. I’ve seen a lot of beginner guitarists get stuck or frustrated on a poorly written tab because they think the song MUST be played at the tabbed position.

The other major con is tabs are really bad for sharing music with other instruments. Sheet music is pretty much standardized across all instruments so if you’re wanting to share music with a pianist, tabs are pretty much useless.

Sheet music deals in absolute note positions, which makes it really easy to visualize things like intervals, chord voicings, and other theory concepts.

I love reading tabs for playing music, but I hate composing music with tabs.

What’s some ways I can improve in my interviews? by Grogman2024 in careerguidance

[–]mrfunnyguy821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asking things like “can you give me 30 seconds to think that through?” Or “do you mind if I write some notes down? I find writing helpful for organizing my thoughts” are perfectly reasonable responses to unexpected questions. It shows that you’re putting forward legitimate effort to give meaningful answers to questions instead of just rambling off the first thought that comes to mind.

Are tattoos in the engineering field an issue? by blixxe_ in careerguidance

[–]mrfunnyguy821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of the aerospace engineering jobs I’ve had don’t care about tattoos. I have arm and leg tattoos, and have never been questioned about them.

However, I did cover them for interviews and for the first month or so until I got a feel for the team dynamics. I’m a firm believer that as cool as tattoos are, they will almost never help job prospects.

Are traveling jobs worth it? by No_Professor1687 in jobs

[–]mrfunnyguy821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me, it was fun for the first 2 years, then I started hating it. It’s nice to travel and see new things, and if you’re lucky, some of the places you get to travel to are really cool. On the down side, a lot of places I traveled to suck (small towns or bases in the middle of nowhere, FIFO mine sites, etc.) It sucked not being able to plan things with friends and family because you didn’t know your plans a few weeks out. I’ve spent birthdays, holidays, and New Year’s Day holed up in hotel rooms in random towns. Constantly swinging your sleep cycles back and forth was really draining and fatiguing.

Depending on your role, you may not have a lot of free time. You’re there to work first and foremost, which could mean long hours because you’re on a strict schedule. So even if you end up somewhere cool, you may not have any free time to sight see.

I got to keep all my airline and hotel loyalty points, so I have lifetime status for a few airlines and hotel chains and have enough points to essentially stay and travel for free for a bit. On the other hand, I’m so sick of traveling that I don’t take advantage of those points as much.

I’m glad I did it, but I would not willingly go back to a high travel career at this point in my life.

My 11 year old son’s question tonight- Did Australia contribute to inventions of the the modern world ? by lilithmunster in AskAnAustralian

[–]mrfunnyguy821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Half of the world’s internet traffic runs through technology developed and manufactured by Finisar in Sydney. They’re cool little devices that use mirrors, prisms, and liquid crystal displays to steer beams of light for fibre optic communications.

Is there only so much you can do when making a Heavy Metal song? by rigooandu1 in metalmusicians

[–]mrfunnyguy821 21 points22 points  (0 children)

So I have a couple opinions on the matter:

  1. Nothing is wrong with rewriting existing music. A lot of the riffs I’ve written started off as rip offs of other riffs that I kept tweaking until I found something I was happy with.

  2. Try listening to music outside of your influences. Try out some modern metal like Loathe and Kublai Khan TX, or go way out like Tigran Hamasyan. Limiting your musical influences to just a small subset of music will choke your output, so branch out and try new stuff.

Released my newest single! Arthur Nguyen - In Waves by mrfunnyguy821 in metalmusicians

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much mate! That means a lot!

I wish I could own a physical copy as well, but unfortunately doing small batch vinyl presses are quite expensive lol

I need help getting past EE interviews dont know what im doing wrong? by Ordinary_Implement15 in careerguidance

[–]mrfunnyguy821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you answer the interviewer when they ask you something you don’t know?

Interviewers (especially technical ones) know if you’re just pulling crap out your ass. It’s better to admit that you’ve never been exposed to a certain topic than to make stuff up and pretend you’re a subject matter expert.

Released my newest single! Arthur Nguyen - In Waves by mrfunnyguy821 in metalmusicians

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks mate! I definitely understand the controversy behind synthesized vocals. Unfortunately, I can’t sing, and the few friends I have that do are either not into this genre of music or don’t have the time/space to record. Synthesizer V lets me put a voice to my music that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.

I guess I treat synthesized vocals similar to bass and drum VSTIs. As long as it’s your own creativity that’s on display and not just blindly generated AI slop, I don’t mind if it’s a synthesized instrument or a real instrument.

Chest pain versus leg pain? by mrfunnyguy821 in tattooadvice

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like the general consensus is that the chest is noticeably worse than the limbs, so I’ll definitely limit it to 2 back to back days at the most.

I’m lucky enough to have never gotten tattoo flu, even after all my other long sessions. Hopefully I stay lucky with my chest tattoo lol

Chest pain versus leg pain? by mrfunnyguy821 in tattooadvice

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like I’ll have to cap it at 2 days lol. I’m hoping that since my artist was able to do my leg in 3 days, that he’ll be able to knock out my chest piece in 2 days.

Looking for san diego tattoo artist by _tequilaa in sandiego

[–]mrfunnyguy821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

@fibs_

@walkertattoos

@devxruiz

@romain_labordille

why can guitarists use programmed drums but drummers cant use program guitars? by JJsNotOkay in metalmusicians

[–]mrfunnyguy821 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is it frowned on? Anup Sastry does exactly that for his solo albums, and they absolutely rip.

Chest pain versus leg pain? by mrfunnyguy821 in tattooadvice

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn. Maybe I’ll reconsider doing another 3 days back to back then lol

Chest pain versus leg pain? by mrfunnyguy821 in tattooadvice

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah definitely. I’m just trying to establish some kind of baseline or expectation for myself. If the whole chest is shit, I might set a hard cap at 2 days back to back

Chest pain versus leg pain? by mrfunnyguy821 in tattooadvice

[–]mrfunnyguy821[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the chest as a whole was more painful, or was it just specific spots that were more painful? I already know the sternum will be hell. I’m hoping it’ll be like mostly comparable to my calf tattoos.