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Whats up? How's everyone's month going? Anything exciting happening?
Shalom my dudes! I'm getting ready to graduate finally. I've been out of school for a few months. Getting work done and such. Then I'm going to iowa with my dad to visit family! So what about you guys?
I and my wife are expecting a baby boy, due to October. We had our first 3D ultrasound this month, and tomorrow we are going to have another routine check up :)
Congrats! I think you should consider our lord and savior, Deimos, as a potential name. In all seriousness, good luck with this big step in your life!
Thank you!
Do you know what youre gonna name him?
Gael :)
is that gayle? or Gah El?
As I’m from Brazil, it’s Gah El :)
Ah! I thought it sounded more Israeli haha
To be honest, it's not an usual Brazilian name... but me and my wife like it :)
Congrats! Our daughter is due end of July. I just finished building her a crib.
Congrats and please save all the tips and tricks on taking care of a newborn for me :)
I've heard you need to feed them at least once a day.
I just paid off the last of my student loans. That's pretty exciting.
That's such a good feeling isnt it
Pretty amazing, yeah.
Amazing. Congratulations. :)
Thank you. It's certainly a load off.
I'm leaving Saturday for my first international trip, two weeks in Japan. Not looking forward to the travel itself, but I'm really excited for the experience.
That's awesome! What's on your itinerary?
A few days each in Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo, with one day in Hakone on the way to Tokyo. Some spas, temples. I'm staying in Akihabara for the Tokyo part and I'm excited to visit all the arcades and shops.
nomihodai might be a phrase you are looking for when looking for a place to eat/drink ;)
MoMoPara is a place you also want to go to. And Tsujiri.
I hope you enjoy it! Traveling is a great experience and it really expands the mind. One of my life goals is to climb Mount Fuji!
Oh! fun! Whatre you gonna do in Japan?
I was transferred to a different department at my day job after several years of asking. It's a lateral move - not a promotion or raise - and my responsibilities are mostly the same, but I went from having a terrible control freak manager to one who really gets it. My days became much more productive, schedule flexibility increased, and there has been a sudden and dramatic improvement in my overall level of satisfaction at work. A rare victory!
I finished up AP testing; this was finals week for roughly half my classes. I'm relieved to have that over with!
Which AP tests did you take?
I'm preparing to graduate from high school, only have a few last assignments I'm procrastinating on. This summer I'm going to take a prepatory summer class, my older brother will likely visit us from Germany, and this fall I'll be a freshmen at the University of Hawaii. I'm excited for the future! :)
Wow! Very eventful! What class will you be taking?
Just basic English hopefully. It's one of the required classes we have to take and it'll be one less thing I have to worry about during the rest of the year.
English is always the easiest exam for me
It’s been a little bit tough for me. The good news is that I finished finals and 3/4 of my classes were As. The rough news is that since I’ve switched majors recently, most of my classes aren’t super practical and I’m trying to find internships or jobs.
Within the last two weeks, I had two interviews: one seasonal internship, and one part time. Both related to IT.
The internship was for a “junior network admin intern.” I was eager for this one since it was near my school and I at least have a cert from high school for setting up networks. What sucks is I haven’t had the opportunity to do any network classes in college yet. Anyway, once I go to interview for the internship, I realize that they wanted someone who knew how to use Windows Server and wanted an intern to set up the network infrastructure for his entire (small) company and then work as helpdesk for the rest of the internship. They had no IT guys, which meant that not only would I be doing all the work, but there wouldn’t be anyone to help me or teach me either. At an internship—and for $12/hr. Needless to say, that fell though.
The second one was a part time job for a freelance helpdesk company for small businesses. This one was definitely more legitimate than the previous, but it just totally shot down my confidence. I was asked a lot of conceptual questions that I have yet to have learned in my classes (or I’m not sure if I’ll even be learning them anyway). I couldn’t answer most of them. But the issue is that I really want to do more hands-on tasks and jobs. The classes I’m taking aren’t teaching me anything practical, and I’m trying my best to pick challenging ones. I was hopeful for this one since they said they’d train the right people, but I knew it wasn’t for me.
And I’m really trying to show that I can be a keen, critical thinker with an opportunistic mentality. And it was just rather difficult to do that when none of the interviewers gave me any tradional interview questions. I was hopeful to at least show them how I think and approach problem solving, and I rehearsed those types of thoughts in prep of both interviews. I feel like I’m in a lull because I’m unable to even get them to care enough to ask about those questions, and I’m not sure how else I can foster my education to make me more valuable as a potential employee.
Either way, it’s been a little rough.
I relate to difficulties with job searches stemming from current levels of experience/education...
I recently graduated with a bio degree, but I was a bit optimistic when projecting how my health would improve (I've got a chronic illness to contend with). So the traditional bio options (grad school, lab work, teaching, tutoring) are beyond my physical capabilities, and other jobs out there require different degrees even though I think I could do some of them well. (Weirdly, it looks like I'd be better off with an English degree...)
I have no advice, but... y'know. Solidarity? It's tough.
My condolences about the chronic illness. But at least congrats on the graduating!
Thanks for sharing, though. Hopefully we can both find ways to make life work out for us.
I've heard this happening often, It's kinda shitty of many companies that do this. I understand its very hard in the tech field to find jobs. I hope it gets easier bud
I decided to drop out of school a few days ago. I wasn't in a good place mentally and my grades took a massive hit as a result. Taking a year off to save up some money and figure out my life. Everything's up in the air for me, but I'm trying to stay optimistic about the future.
Hey, if you happen to be in tech in the US, I wouldn't worry too much about grades if you go back as long as you're passing. I've had a lot of mental health issues (mostly panic disorder) and my grades suffered a lot. Graduated with a 2.6, still got a pretty great job, almost no-one asked about a GPA.
I know that experience is probably not the same for everyone. But I wouldn't say it's uncommon either.
If I can help in anyway, feel free to PM me.
Oh, hey fellow panic disorder sufferer. It sure is fun feeling like you're literally about to die a few times a day/week isn't it? :/
What kind of school if you don't mind me asking? Also, good luck on figuring things out.
Big public research university. It was my first year and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I moved countries and across a continent to study there, which was probably the wrong decision. Ended up not knowing anyone and without a support network to fall back on.
Ah, I have something similar planned. Well, not different country but different part of it.
I think I agree it was the wrong move if you have no idea what you want to do with your life. As I said, good luck with figuring that out. And while this is based on myself, some advice: Set going back to school as a definite goal. Without that it's easy to say "Just one more year" and keep skipping it.
I definitely agree with your advice. I'm setting that as a goal for myself. The current plan is to take some classes at my local community college next semester to get some credit and a good enough transcript that I can use to transfer to a better university.
At the time I just wanted to move away from home, and I had good enough standardized test scores that I could get into most universities, so I chose the farthest major city I could get to without crossing an ocean. I thought getting away would be an adventure and I would figure out what to do once I got there, but the loneliness and stress got to me in no time. That turned into low class attendance and bad grades, which turned into more stress, which turned into worse grades.
The same thing happened in high school, but I was ignoring most of the warning signs just because I was eager to get away. And I'm a good enough tester that my bad high school grades didn't really matter anyway.
The last few months were okay for me mentally since I was in a relationship that was working really well. But by that point the damage was done.
A community college is a great place to get back on track-- I did my first two years at one after dropping out of high school due to an illness. Best of luck with your plan :)
I'm glad you take your mental health as a priority, and have a plan for your future
Thanks for the reply : )
I might get my first girlfriend soon after numerous rejections :_-)
!!! tell me the deets my dude
Written exams done, only the hard part left. Besides that, I got to see DP2 and IW in cinema which is great.
Were they good? I havent seen them yet
I definetly recommend both movies.
DP2 was hilarious, the entire cinema laughing for the entire duration. If you liked 1, this will be even better.
IW is epic. Simply epic. It definetly requires seeing most Marvel movies, as it doesn't spend too much time on who is who. And honestly, it feels like a Thanos movie, not an Avangers movie. He's definetly the protagonist (but not the hero).
Hmmm, I dont know if I have the time or care enough to watch a lot of marvel films.
You definetly should. If you kept up with them in any way or even absorbed enough of the story from pop culture, you'll enjoy it.
This sums up most of the important things, but it's really spoilery for the MCU, so if you plan on watching movies from there then you should not read this.
https://www.eonline.com/news/930043/everything-you-need-to-know-before-seeing-avengers-infinity-war
Hmm, I'll see if i can scrounge up cash to see it first before reading up
It focuses on the infinity stones; watching most of the Marvel movies to date before IW will lend context to everything and not let IW spoil them first.
I see I see.
Imho there are only a couple of movies that is better you've seen before these:
Of course it's all imho :)
Alrighty! small list makes it easier
Yep, also, from those movies you can decide if some character really gets you and go check back their previous movies without hurry :)
OooOoOOOOOoooo sounds exciting!
I don't know how experienced you are, just take this advice from someone who's been in the same situation in the past:
Be sure to not take on yourself the reasonabilities of your manager. You won't be paid for it. On the contrary, it would easily put you in the position of being used as scapegoat or simply abused of your enthusiasm/good will (what happened to me).
Of course I'm not saying "it will happens" but just be wary of the possibility.
My girlfriend asked me to Marry her at summercamp music festival this past weekend! We were surrounded by friends and have recieved overwhelming support from our friends and family. Funny thing is I had confided in a friend just minutes before that I was planning on asking her the next day! Maybe not as cute as the couple that both had rings at the zoo, but still, happiest night of my life!
Fiance*!