Weekly paying jobs

I’m lost and I have no idea where to go. After high school I briefly attended college but was miserable, I ended up joining the military to gain some world experience, I ended up in an incredibly toxic environment and left the military after one contract with the plan to go to school and work part time. I ended up going to school online for the field I thought would fit me well, while working full time and using my GI Bill to cover tuition. Admittedly I was moderately successful during that time in a career field I never intended to stay with, I make a little over 100k and own a home so I know I’m very fortunate compared to many others. I recently graduated and discovered that in the last 4 years the career field I was hoping to transition in to is incredibly saturated and has no hope for entry level positions (at this point they’re generally looking for 3-4 years of specific experience gained in the military). I wasted my GI Bill on a field I cannot obtain employment in, I’m stuck in a career field that I absolutely hate at a job that I cannot stand any longer. I’ve considered applying to law school but don’t know how I’d pay for it or if it’s even something I actually want. I’ve applied to around 300 jobs in the last few months and have gotten denials from all but 5 that rejected me after an interview. I don’t know what to do anymore, I don’t know what I want to do with my life, I have no friends to talk or to vent to and I’m feeling more and more stuck and hopeless every day.

hello, reddit! i am seeking one lighting designeelectrician for a fun summer job.
the employer is buck’s rock camp, a studio and performing arts program for teens in new milford, connecticut. i’ve been there for 30 years, first as a camper, then as staff, and now as the production manager for performing arts. this place is my home away from home.
http://www.bucksrockcamp.org
i’ll summarize below, but the detailed job post is here:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6001241735ba2f68ba253e30/t/6373eef907ad085ea0817610/1668542201341/Lighting+Counselor.pdf
dates are june 21 through august 21, residency required. we do one week of training, setup, and get-to-know-you stuff before the campers arrive. once they arrive we produce about 15 plays, musicals, dance shows, sketch comedy shows, and concerts and about another five or six open mic-type events.
we have a 35x60’ indoor black box theater and a semi-outdoor 350 seat proscenium stage. we rent about 80 source fours, about 30 colorsource pars and cycs, six colorsource spots and six max auras. we use an ion xe for most shows, and nomad or qlab for a few small shows.
starting pay offer is 2500 to 4000 plus room and board; negotiable. please feel free to contact me directly with details, or apply through the website above.
thanks!

Hello everyone,
english is not my first language so please have mercy with me.
So my partner (F) did not get any diagnosis yet since she just refuses to find a therapist. I on the other hand called a therapist today, sadly they were unavailable - I will try it again. I just need someone to talk about all the stuff that happened to me. I can relate to almost all the stuff that happend to victims on this sub and it makes me sick.
Situation today was again absurd, I never had anything like that in any previous relationship. Girlfriend comes home after work and sees some "bird shit" on my chair in our garden and also on my pullover so I removed it. She then talked to me about some stuff and then put the rest of the "bird shit" with her hand from the chair onto my trousers so I asked her "Why did you do that?" and she was like "Oh, I thought it wasn't bird shit, didn't you say that?". I responded something like "Yeah I think so but why do you put it on my trousers instead of the ground for example?". She then only said "ok" and immediately left into the house (started silent treatment). Inside there was some useless discussion as always and then she turned into rage mode and I told her (after reading several articles and forums the past few years of our relationship) in a normal voice that I do not want to talk to her when she is aggressive so I will leave the house. She then threw tantrums but I ignored it and left the house.
Later she called me in a normal voice and asked me if I could bring something home that she needs for her family trip the next few days. I agreed because her voice was ok and told her that it would take me an hour. When I came home she asked me outside in front of everyone why I was away like nothing happened before. I told her in short words that I was on a walk and lets go inside. Before going inside she then told me about my socks that I wear were looking weird - I did not like that and told her to please stop it now. Inside I asked her what we want to eat now because I did not know what was in our kitchen - that was enough to make her become silent again (silent treatment), she ignored me, said a few words and left the room.
I then asked her in the other room what is wrong again and she told me that when we met outside I did not say hello or gave her a kiss and I did not register what she did in our garden. I told her that she did know what happened and that the question outside was not neccessary in front of everyone. I was pissed because these kinds of situations happen almost every day so I just did not want to discuss this topic in public. She responded that she did not know why i was away for so long. I took my mobile phone and showed her when she called me and when I came home that it was almost exactly the one hour I told her before on the phone and I dont understand why there is always these kinds of questions while she 100% knows what I was doing and why.
When I went to the toilet she told me that she want to talk now and not later. I responded that I want to go to the toilet which she only accepted after a few sentences. When I came back she told me that "now" she needs some time for herself (because I was on the toilet obviously). Well I said okay, I give you your time and went away in our other room. Later she came to me and told me that she feels like my behaviour is not acceptable. I told her that I do not think so but I accept her opinion. That was enough for her to tell me that this way we could basically end our relationship (we are engaged).
I told her that I did give her time because she wanted it and then she again became angry and walked away. Later she came in to tell me that she made a mistake at the grill and needs some ointment because she had a combustion. I helped here and as a "thanks" she told me that I was "asshole 1" and she was "asshole 2" as if that was a "compliment". I did not like it but said nothing. 1 minute later I found out that she only cooked for herself, not for me which made me sad.
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Situations like that happen all the time. A few months ago we started talking about marriage because thats her dream and I thought "maybe shes how she is because she needs more safety, maybe marriage is going to solve that issue". She told me for example that she does not want a pet before at least being engaged - gettin a pet was my dream. She hates cats - I love cats. She told me "but she likes dogs" so I looked for a dog. Only a few days after ourengagement she told me that she will never get a "shitty dirty dog" into our home. I was shocked.
Since then I feel extremely manipulated and also found this sub. A lot of the stuff here helps me. I just don't know how to solve all these issues even with a therapist. Where even to start? I have to cope with getting insulted, discussions every day, her throwing temper tantrums, getting guilt trapped all the time, her silent treatment towards me and then everytime I want some free time / free space she makes this time for me in a way I just can't feel "free" (loud door slams, stamp with feet in floors, open doors with loud music or tv and so on). I always have the feeling that in a few minutes she will come in and tell me what I do wrong or "not the correct way".
I told her a lot that I think a couple therapy could help us but she just doesn't care. I actually think that my next step is to talk to a therapist and review all the stuff that happend before our wedding. I do not want such things in a marriage. That would be the worst. I also feel very sad right now because I feel so screwed. She told me exactly that she needed some safety with beeing engaged to get a pet and now she just ignores everything going that way. Today I read something on this sub. Someone wrote that he feels like a prisoner. That made me think about what happened the past few years...
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How did you solve your relationship issues?
Is there any way out of these guild trips and reoccuring problems? Since she refuses to search for a therapy without me telling her every week to do it (she hits at least 5 of the 9 criterias that are necessary)? Do you have any tips for me? I know I have to be rock solid but even then I feel like its a hardcore job to survive that way.

Has anyone here in a STEM field found it was better for them to leave an amazing program for a much cheaper option? Or on the other hand, leave the affordable one to take out a huge loan? Why did you make either choice? Did it turn out good for you in the long run?
I'm in a similar situation right now. My (current) goals are to go into industry and likely work in scientific computing related jobs. I would like to teach on the side but I don't want to make that my main career so there's that.
I got into (and accepted an offer from) University of Washington in Seattle. It isn't funded because they accepted me into a professional program and I'm out of state, so my loan for one year would be around ~$55k - $60k. But it's a one year program only so that's very appealing, along with the fact that the coursework and research there are both very very interesting. I plan on doing some research as an RA maybe during my degree so that I can get an R&D position afterwards (but also so that it can somehow help fund my degree lol) which is why it seems really nice, but theres little guarantee that I'd actually get a position. I am emailing a grad student in a lab to get some info before I email the main professor to see if they'd be willing to hire me lol.
The second one is San Jose State. I got an acceptance last night after my application was nearly withdrawn because some of my documents didn't get there in time lol. But I ended up still getting in so there's that. For here, I'm local so I wouldn't have to pay any living costs, and tuition is obviously a lot lower. This is a two year program though and I'd likely have to do either a thesis, project or exam to graduate. I also personally did not want to go here, since the coursework isn't as diverse as at UW, but I applied because my family wanted me to so that I can stay with them.
So honestly, it would be amazing if i got to go to UW and actually complete my degree there. Financially though, the second one seems to be the best option and now I'm very conflicted. I don't know which one would be better for me career wise. Thinking of taking out a 60k loan is awful, but I don't know if I'd be happy going to the state school that's very very close to home, and that doesn't let me explore as much with coursework since there's not that many classes offered ;-;
But yeah, does anyone here have any advice/opinions?

I have to admit, the structure of human societies still confused me. I learned from one of their books ‘Utopia’ that humans had long considered various ways in which their society could be made better, without suffering or poverty, starvation or disease, without want or people lording cruelly over others. Of course the word Utopia means ‘Nowhere’ so whether or not the author believed his vision was impossible, or whether he just meant his story was fictional, I couldn’t say.
Part of why this confused me is because most of the Universe was pretty quiet. There was no interstellar warfare at least. And because there was no need for ships of war, some civilizations expanded peacefully beyond their own worlds, colonizing moons, planets, even large asteroids. They even colonized space itself with roving fleets that grew over time, but which were completely unarmed save for sufficient protection against random stellar debris.
Thus more peaceful societies could create these more ‘utopian’ visions of existence with no need for a military force beyond keeping order at home.
This didn’t mean they were all ideal, some planets became dictatorial and oppressive nightmares, I’d visited a number of those, scouting before taking out a target.
Those societies all had one thing in common, bloated military budgets, they enriched the soldiers and despised the rest, and that was that.
I took pleasure in my work, removing those from life who decided one world was not enough, and more than once I wished we could target those who didn’t have galactic war ambitions. But that was against the rules, as long as it stayed to their own world, we would not interfere. They could trade, they could bargain, but if a blaster left their planet, their leadership would die. Thus most dictatorships secured themselves by limiting their ambitions.
What made human want distinct is their general disunity as a species, and the tendency toward a more stratified society. So the idea that a ‘few’ members of the community could be left starving while everybody else ate, was strange to me. So strange that it didn’t occur to me that the one doing my laundry right about now, might be left without enough to eat.
I still hadn’t forgiven him for what he did to Jin. But as I sat and watched the credits roll, I couldn’t help but think, ‘He’s making more sense, now.’
Asahi returned right around when I expected, though he was still wiping away a bloody nose, so I looked at him with a smirk and said simply, “Hentai.”
Asahi’s face turned red again but all he said was, “Uh, the laundry is done.”
“Good, just toss the bag in there and then…” I looked over the end of the couch at the clutter on the table in the kitchen, “Yeah, you’ll need to clear that off and then take out the trash.” I said, and then checked my phone.
“Right…” He mumbled, I could see he wasn’t happy about this, the way he hung his head, but he sullenly did as I said. Which was good, because not two minutes after he was returning from disposing of my trash, the pizzas arrived.
He stared dumb and wide eyed at the four square boxes and the three long boxes on top of that which held the side items I wanted. The two delivery boys gave polite little half bows as I accepted the stack and carried them to the table.
“Right, so, Asahi, you hungry or what?” I asked, and his stomach growled again.
“Wait, you’re… I can’t pay for this…” He looked with eyes like dinner plates at the feast, and he deeply inhaled to catch the scent of it all.
I shrugged. “You’re here, I have food. I may be what you call ‘gaijin’ but that doesn’t mean I’ve got no manners. You did what you needed to do and now it’s time to eat. I’m not going to shove pizza in your face hole,” I said and tapped the top box several times with the palm of my hand to beckon him over while putting my other hand on my hip, “but if you want to eat, get a paper plate, sit down, and eat.”
I opened the side dishes, mostly wings, bread sticks, cheesy things… then opened the pizza boxes.
Since I’d ordered from two places I had quite a variety, and far more than I needed. I said I felt guilty about maybe being hard on a hungry kid, even if I still think he sort of deserved it. But even so, kicking people while they’re down just isn’t my style.
I wouldn’t apologize, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t going to make it up to him, at least a little.
Asahi moved faster than I thought once his decision was made and he’d given in to his hunger, “As much as I want? Or…?” I nodded.
“I guess my eyes were bigger than my stomach on this one.” I smiled a little, “I ordered way too much. What we don’t finish, why don’t you take home?”
“Waght… far youf ferious?” He had a slize of pizza halfway into his face hole when he said that, so it came out very muffled and he tore a piece free, chewed, swallowed, and repeated himself.
“Are you serious?” He asked, his eyes had gone almost wild, like a hungry dog. “Like… you’re not making fun of me? You’re not going to like, make me beg or anything?”
I chewed my cheesy stick that I’d coated in marinara sauce and glowered over top of it at him until I could finish chewing and swallowing as well, then answered him. “What do I look like, a devil?”
“No… no I guess not but…” Asahi, “I just… you said you knew what I did to Jin, so I figured you’d want to get even.”
“I already did.” I answered. Of course I meant giving him a sound thrashing. But he probably thought I meant having him clean up my place and do my laundry.
But that was just a bonus on account of I hate chores.
“So, why’d you do it, anyway?” I asked. I had no hesitation about ‘painting’, but I won’t pretend I was never curious about people who did or wanted to do terrible things to guiltless people.
He tapped his hand on the pizza box. “Money for food. For laundry. For the public baths, for me, my cousins, and my parents, of course. A few punches and we’re covered for a few days.”
“Why not get a job?” I asked.
Asahi looked down at the plate. “I can’t.”
“What do you mean, you can’t?” I asked.
“What I said.” His hands were on the table and formed into angry fists, he glared down at the half eaten slice of pizza like it had insulted his mother.
“Your legs work. We know your hands work. Your brain works. So, what’s the problem?” I demanded, “Why’d you go and try to steal, or smack around a nice kid like Jin, or anyone else to get money, instead of getting real work?”
Maybe it was because he felt some actual guilt over the stuff he did, maybe it was because I implied he was even worse than he was, maybe he was just angry.
But whatever the reason, he snapped.
“We’re not allowed to have after school jobs unless it’s a family business! My dad’s got no business, my mom is sick all the time, and my cousins are… are different. They live with us because their parents are dead…accident… now they’re…simple. I have to mind them or they’ll get in trouble…there’s not enough to go around…” He glared at me, “Do you think I like that?! Alright, sure, it feels good to have some power and feel stronger than everybody else! But damnit who can feel proud of having nothing but problems?! I can’t get a job or I get expelled! Dad spends his time…away, and mom barely gets out of bed! I hate my life! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! What else is there for me to do?! Beg?! Isn’t it better to be a wolf than a leech?! At least I can have some pride in being kind of strong…now I’ve got nothing! I hate it all!” He screamed and smashed his fists on my table again and again and again.
“At least Jin gets to eat! He’s not going to starve because he actually has a store! He’s got a business! His mom is…”
“Dying.” I said, cutting him off.
He shut up.
I doubted he’d let any of that loose on purpose and I very much doubt he’d ever intended to. I’d normally credit my natural swapper charisma for that, but really I think it’s more that he just never got privacy to let any of it out and once he started? Well he’s a kid still, he didn’t know how to hold it back.
But hearing that his target’s mother was sick seemed to have brought him up short.
“She’s… really? You’re not kidding?” He asked, and I shook my head. “So… I smacked around a kid with one dead parent and one dying one…?” His lower lip began to quiver.
“Why am I such shit?!” He began to blubber at the table as the enormity of what he’d done began to settle in over him, “Why? I didn’t know… I didn’t mean to…I’m sorry. I’m sorry, OK?”
I got the distinct feeling he was underselling his own mother’s condition and probably what his own father was doing for ‘work’.
“I’m not the one you did anything to.” I pointed out. “Listen, maybe she won’t die, things can turn around in an instant, you know? And alright, so…” I picked up another slice and began to devour the rich, greasy deliciousness, I especially loved the little spicy red flakes. They added a stellar kick to the food, and when I’d finished the slice down to the curved crust I leveled the bread at him while I said…
“Listen, tell you what, you layoff picking on anyone or stealing, and do some stuff for me. It won’t technically be a job. You just ‘happen’ to do my laundry when you’re doing yours. You just ‘happen’ to take away my leftovers after clearing out my kitchen. And of course when you’re cleaning up, if you ‘happen’ to just find money in the couch cushions, finders keepers. Sound fair?”
“You’d… do that?” Asahi asked, sniffling a little as he little by little gained some control over himself again.
“Yeah,” I gave a flippant wave, “why not. I hate chores. With the burning fire of a thousand suns do I hate them. Plus I always end up ordering more food than I mean to, it’d be a shame to let it go to waste.”
“I… yeah, yeah I’ll do it. I’ll come by every day, I swear!” Asahi said with a rapidfire nod of his head.
“Good, so… go ahead and eat whatever else you want, then take the rest with you. Except for my chicken wings, I will murder you if you try to take my chicken wings.” I said and brought that one box close to my chest as if I were protecting a baby.
I cracked a smile, just a little, and he managed to let out a feeble laugh. “Use the bathroom to wash your face before you go. And I’ll see you tomorrow.”
After he was gone I made a mental note to take money out of the ATM in the store. I'd need to start making a habit of ‘losing’ money in the couch after all.

Hi all, I have a friend who has fallen on some hard times and needs to make some money within the next two weeks before they get paid from their new job.
We have been trying to search for temp agencies or jobs with daily pay hiring immediately, but wondered if anyone had any suggestions for the area? This person lives on Vashon (so work out there would be preferable, but probably not plentiful) but they can commute to the mainland.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hello all, new here so don't know if this is the correct sub, apologies if not. So I work for this agency and I am currently onboard a container vessel that operates around Europe. The post for the job was a day rate and then plus tax days and I'm just unsure what the tax days means. I know there is a certain amount of days you have to be outside of the UK then you won't pay tax on income but I'm currently payed through PAYE so I thought I would be taxed no matter what. Any help would be great thanks.

TL:DR - Seeing my doctor soon and want to get some bloodwork done to see if there's anything to help the raging weirdo I'm turning into. Research is telling me I should ask for FSH, LH, Progesterone, estradiol, SHBG, and Testosterone Free/Total. Am I leaving anything out? Any other advice?
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I'm finally seeing my GYN about my perimenopause symptoms in a few weeks. I want to go in prepared so don't forget anything. What blood tests should I be asking for?
Here are my main complaints, most of which just started in the past year or so:

• Z.e.r.o. libido: Like, it's gone. If someone told me I could never have sex again, I'd shrug and not care in the least. I don't even want to be with myself and I'm a guaranteed good time.
• Fatigue: I'm so dang tired all of the time. I like to be active and work out but I have zero energy by the time I get home from work.
• Brain fog: I have ADHD so I'm no stranger to loss of focus and concentration but some days are absolutely ridiculous. I couldn't string two thoughts together if my life depended on it.
• Sleep: I don't have proper insomnia but I do not feel rested when I wake up. I have stupid dreams with anxiety components, and I suspect this isn't helping.
• Anxiety: I've always been a little high strung but sometimes I feel this overwhelming sense of doom.
• Irritability: My tolerance for bullshit is waning. Not always a bad thing but sometimes I'm in a bad mood for no good reason.
• Dry skin: I try to stay hydrated by drinking water like it's my job but not a big fan of the itchies. My scalp has been particularly sensitive lately but I switched to a dry scalp shampoo and that seems to be helping.
• Irregular periods: It's annoying but with the exception of very occasional extremely heavy periods, not a big deal. it's the not knowing when it's going to show that is annoying. They're usually medium/light and if I do get cramps, they're not anything ibuprofen can't handle. Once in a while, I spot between cycles (just did it and am now having a heavier-than-normal period). Sometimes they're 23-25 days, sometimes they're longer. My longest was 91 days last fall. I am tracking them to have something to show my doctor if necessary.
• Hot Flashes/overheating: not debilitating; I'm usually cold anyway so it's just different. Sometimes they are annoying. I sometimes wake up and start to overheat but I don't really have an issue with night sweats. Yet.

Research is telling me I should ask for FSH, LH, progesterone, estradiol, SHBG, and Testosterone Free/Total. Am I leaving anything out? Any other advice?
Thanks in advance!

Good afternoon everyone. Got a few more pools I’ve put together sort of last minute for the remaining 2 1/2 weeks of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Would love to get as many who’d like to join to join. If you have any friends, whether online or IRL, who you know might be interested, please send them these pools to join. We aren’t playing for life changing or in most cases even day changing money, but I think most of us would agree that as beautiful as sports are, we all get a little bit more enjoyment out of them when we have a little something on the line. As always, if someone doesn’t have leaguesafe and you can’t pay for them, I can accept Venmo or cashapp as payment and pay into the pot on their behalf if that’s easier for them.
Pools that start Friday, June 9 (2 days away!):
Second Chance Survivor: https://www.leaguesafe.com/join/4113050
Same rules as first time.
Super Regionals Pick Em: https://www.leaguesafe.com/join/4113058
Weekend 2 Super Regionals Pick Em. 1 point for picking correct team to win the weekend series and 1 point for correctly picking whether it will take 2 or 3 games. Also predict the total number of runs by each team in the series. Example: South Carolina defeats Florida in 3 games. Total runs: South Carolina: 19 Florida: 17 Because it is so unlikely, 20 points for guessing the exact number of runs scored for any team, 15 points for being 1 off, 10 points for being within 2, and 5 points for being within 3. This is a Super Regional Weekend contest only. So if all your picks for any given series were correct including being spot on with run predictions for each team, you could earn up to 42 points per series. This is a fun 1 weekend pick ‘em game.
Pools that start Friday, June 16 (College World Series Day 1!):
Get a random CWS team. Winner takes 70%, runner up takes 20%: https://www.leaguesafe.com/join/4113094
Every CWS team assigned to one player. Winner take 70%, runner up take 20%. Randomized on random.org. I will either screen record or live stream (if I can figure out a good way to do it) me randomizing the teams. I don’t know any of you in real life and I won’t allow myself to play so that there’ll be no question about me being unbiased in who gets what team. The first person to pay will start off with slot 1, the second person with slot 2, and so on. I will then start with the teams in alphabetical order and then randomize the teams 8 times (also the number of teams/players) and on the 8th time whatever team you get will be your team. Again, I will take 10% of the pot for organizing and not being eligible to play for the pot since some of you might think I was a shady commissioner if I wound up with the best team, which is the last thing I’d want. You can buy multiple spots in this if you like. I will assign teams after everyone has paid AND this weekends results are final meaning we know the 8 teams who will be in the College World Series. The College World Series starts June 16.

I live in a kind of old fashion household. My mom is abusive. Not physically but emotionally, and she gaslights me. I suffer with generalize anxiety, and it’s gotten worse, because I don’t have anyone to talk to. I have no friends, and I can’t tell my mom because it will just make me feel worse. One time I tried to ask her a simple question about my bag. I asked her why she was bothering to take it home when she didn’t care about it for the whole year. She kept getting annoyed that I was even asking and she said “why can’t you just do what I tell you” I said “because I’m confused I just want an answer! And she kept saying “just do what I told you” and I kept asking because I was annoyed that I didn’t get an answer. She kept getting more agitated until she snapped and yelled at me. Then my grandma chimed in with “just do what she asked” in a nice way but it still hurt. I know that my problems aren’t as bad as everyone else’s but I’m sensitive, and I’m sensitive because I’ve been emotionally abused My whole life. When I didn’t clean my room she would go berserk and take her anger and stress out on me. She threw things at me. She hurt me by doing that once, she threw a plushy because she thought it was soft and wouldn’t hurt me but it had hard eyeballs. And it hit me in the face. She gaslights me by saying I can talk to her, but when I talk to her she gets easily agitated over anything! Two days ago I got frustrated because she didn’t get my joke again! She never gets my jokes. I told her I was frustrated because she didn’t get it and she just got mad and yelled IT DIDN’T SOUND LIKE A JOKE TO ME! Didn’t even say sorry. She never says sorry unless she physically hurts me. Two weeks ago I said I didn’t want to go recycle cans with them because last time they left me alone and I didn’t hear them say they were leaving to go get something. She said in a rude tone “it’s not my fault that you didn’t hear me” I want to move out but I’m scared to be alone, because your more vulnerable to bad people when your alone, and I don’t know how to do anything by myself! I mean I know how to cook, but I don’t know how to apply for an apartment or job, pay bills. Or all that other adult stuff, and I don’t want to be stuck in a house all day (bad for anxiety) so I have to get a job or volunteer or something before I move out or else I’m setting myself up for a panic attack, does anyone have any advice I don’t know what to do! It’s all so overwhelming.

I’m currently a foreman for a cell tower crew in Phoenix, AZ. I’ve been climbing/building/installing on cell towers for over 4 years now and I’m noticing that the industry doesn’t have much more for me. I’m looking to have a job where I can be home in my own bed every night and not have to work 12 hour shifts every day to make a living.
Back in 2017 I had joined a lineman training program and I was in the top 10 students out of 306. It was 13 months long and I dropped out after 3 months because I was young and didn’t know if I wanted to do that for the rest of my life. Stupid, I know, but I’m considering coming back to it now. Is it worth it? Or will I find myself working another job where I’m stuck living on the road and working 60+ hours a week just to make ends meet. Also, is it even possible to get a lineman job in Phoenix right now, or will I be stuck on a waiting list?

Hey guys, I feel bad for asking, but I don't know what to do. I'm a college grad that wants nothing to do w/ what he majored in. So now I'm looking for allll the different kinds of jobs out there & something that I could pursue. I really don't want to go to school again, but I'm not super opposed to it. If I have to take classes for a certain job, I would prefer them to be a minimum or online. I don't mind having to do different certifications or really anything. I just don't know /what/ I want to do. So here are some of my personal interests.
I'm interested in environmentalism. I care about the well being of our planet & would like to work towards making a difference. I would like to help w/ grassroots efforts to better local environments & build from the bottom up. I know that starting w/ one's local flora & helping to ensure that that is healthy leads to cascading effects for the rest of the local environment. I don't have much knowledge on environmentalism but would certainly love to learn more. Any jobs that work in this field would be great.
I'm interested in health, but fuckkk working for the typical medical industry. I'm really interested in nutrition & have some base knowledge. I'm interested in teaching others about health & really building each other up.
I'm interested in community (but I suck at being with community :\ ). So like with environmentalism & really just about everything hear, I would /love/ to be able to spread & share knowledge from myself & others. I want to help build networks of information & tools & infrastructure that community can use & build up from.
I'm interested in herbalism, but unsure of what jobs I could seek with that. Gardening / sustainable agriculture.
I'm really interested in learning more about & implementing (at least in my own space) TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge).
I'm enjoy being / working outdoors. Working out in the field. Some sort of tour guide. Working to clean up National Parks.
I've considered getting some types of certifications that could allow me to do technology work that would allow me to work from home (allowing me to possibly be mobile). I don't know /squat/ about computers, but would learn. This isn't a passion of mine, but sometimes a job is just a job.
I'm interested in political education & (and again, sharing that information).
I used to want to be a teacher growing up. Or a social worker. Therapist. & really these are all options that I would still highly consider. I just really don't want to / have the means to be going back to school. At least full time.
I worked at a coffee shop during undergrad & really really enjoyed it actually. But the nearest coffee shop to me is 50 mins away & starbucks FT positions were only 20-30 hrs a week.
Working at a library seems /lovely/ but again, I don't have the means to be going back to school for it quite yet at least.
I'm just curious what jobs are out there. I can figure out how to get to that particular job, but I would just love to hear from anybody working in any related fields what jobs they know of. I haven't gotten very far w/ my own research & would like to hear from a diverse community on what they know/see.
Thank you to anyone who reads & responds.
Postscript: I may need to remake this post..

Please help. Every time I go to hit ‘buy now’ I get cold feet. I can’t stop flip-flopping between the S8+ and S8 Pro Ultra.
I can afford the Pro Ultra, but at the same time I don’t want to pay over the odds for something that I want worth the huge price difference and make that much difference to my life. So is it really worth it?
My concerns, other than the cost, with the ultra dock are -

1. It’s huge, but I can compromise.
2. There is more to go wrong.
3. I read that some people change the water after 2 - 3 mopping runs. So am I really going to save myself that much work.

I know I want an auto empty vacuum, that’s a given. I had a Roomba and would not go without a dust auto empty bin. But I don’t think I will mop my oak floors every day, maybe once or twice a week at most. So will the Ultra dock really save me that much work? How much hassle is an S8+ for mopping when you don’t have auto mop cleaning? How long can you go before having to attend to it?
Please, at the rate the S9 will be out before I make a decision!

Training for the NY marathon this fall. Haven't ran a full marathon in 7 years (im 34M 155 lbs.) I put in CURRENTLY 12-17 miles a week since April in my NB More v4s. (I prefer soft cushy ride). Obviously I plan on upping my mileage as the training comes farther along. Saw that adidas had a deal. Anyways, the NB More v4's are my only pair of running shoes, so I was thinking to add the Prime x strung.
I was never going to pay $300+ for a pair of running shoes so this deal definitely made it amenable.
Are the Prime X strung a good all around shoe to marathon train in? granted the price is not 300$.

Good afternoon everyone. Got a few more pools I’ve put together sort of last minute for the remaining 2 1/2 weeks of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Would love to get as many who’d like to join to join. If you have any friends, whether online or IRL, who you know might be interested, please send them these pools to join. We aren’t playing for life changing or in most cases even day changing money, but I think most of us would agree that as beautiful as sports are, we all get a little bit more enjoyment out of them when we have a little something on the line. As always, if someone doesn’t have leaguesafe and you can’t pay for them, I can accept Venmo or cashapp as payment and pay into the pot on their behalf if that’s easier for them.
Pools that start Friday, June 9 (2 days away!):
Second Chance Survivor: https://www.leaguesafe.com/join/4113050
Same rules as first time.
Super Regionals Pick Em: https://www.leaguesafe.com/join/4113058
Weekend 2 Super Regionals Pick Em. 1 point for picking correct team to win the weekend series and 1 point for correctly picking whether it will take 2 or 3 games. Also predict the total number of runs by each team in the series. Example: South Carolina defeats Florida in 3 games. Total runs: South Carolina: 19 Florida: 17 Because it is so unlikely, 20 points for guessing the exact number of runs scored for any team, 15 points for being 1 off, 10 points for being within 2, and 5 points for being within 3. This is a Super Regional Weekend contest only. So if all your picks for any given series were correct including being spot on with run predictions for each team, you could earn up to 42 points per series. This is a fun 1 weekend pick ‘em game.
Pools that start Friday, June 16 (College World Series Day 1!):
Get a random CWS team. Winner takes 70%, runner up takes 20%: https://www.leaguesafe.com/join/4113094
Every CWS team assigned to one player. Winner take 70%, runner up take 20%. Randomized on random.org. I will either screen record or live stream (if I can figure out a good way to do it) me randomizing the teams. I don’t know any of you in real life and I won’t allow myself to play so that there’ll be no question about me being unbiased in who gets what team. The first person to pay will start off with slot 1, the second person with slot 2, and so on. I will then start with the teams in alphabetical order and then randomize the teams 8 times (also the number of teams/players) and on the 8th time whatever team you get will be your team. Again, I will take 10% of the pot for organizing and not being eligible to play for the pot since some of you might think I was a shady commissioner if I wound up with the best team, which is the last thing I’d want. You can buy multiple spots in this if you like. I will assign teams after everyone has paid AND this weekends results are final meaning we know the 8 teams who will be in the College World Series. The College World Series starts June 16.

This is a follow up to a post from a few weeks ago.
So through an increase in pay to $120K and some revised budgeting I have calculated that I will have the ability to contribute the following to retirement:
16% To Traditional Pre-Tax 401K - $19,200 (Employer Match 100/3%, 50/2%)
5% To a Roth IRA - $6500 - Maxed Out
My company utilizes Voya and also does offer a Roth 401K (After Tax).
Current 401K Allocation is : 46% Voya Target Solution 2050, 9% Stable Value Fund, 22% Fidelity Total Bond, 18% BlackRock Russell 3000, 5% American Funds Euro Pacific. Not sure if these are good or not.
My first questions is, how do the limits work with that? Does the combination of a traditional 401k contribution and the Roth 401k get added together and weighted versus the $22500 limit? I'm unsure if its even possible to do a combination of Roth 401K, Traditional 401k and a separate Roth IRA, or if that's even worth it. If I can do them all, besides maxing out the Roth IRA at $6500 and Employer Match, where should the rest of my savings go? My understanding is places like Vanguard provide a better selection of investments for a Roth IRA but I don't have any experience.
I know its a loaded questions but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm currently an ECT Year 1 and am leaving my school this year. I had a KS3 class for a double this morning and for the first part of the double they were doing their KS3 assessment which was fine they all did it silently. My school is notorious for its marking (one of the reasons I'm leaving) so I had a lot of KS3 marking so I just let them get on with it, the test ran over and we had around 30 mins left before they were dismissed for their next lesson so I decided to put on a documentary (I'm a geography teacher so any excuse for this really lol) and I said to the students that they could talk quietly to the people around them as I had to mark.
I do tend to gel with TA's in general as a younger member of teaching staff as we tend to be at the same life stages so I told her that I was leaving so I'm a little relaxed with my approach now until the rest of term last week which she seemed very agreeable with. However as I was inundated with marking I let some of my Y7's chatter turn into white noise to which she got extremely frustrated and told the class to 'shut up'. - The class then laughed at her and I had to intervene as it was getting a bit much. For context this is a good class and I let them chat whilst the doc was on as I had a lot to get on with. I then pulled the TA aside afterward and said that she should just focus on her focus students and not manage behaviour as that is my job, and she then preceded to say condescendingly that she wouldn't have to 'If only I could control my class', and that If I was leaving I shouldn't 'burden any other teachers with making the class have bad habits'. - I was actually in shock as I've never received comments like that from any member of teaching staff and I am usually commended for my behaviour management and how I use it in line with the school system. I then preceded to defend myself and how I told her what she said was uncalled for and not fair and I simply just have a lot to do, and it's not her job at all. Very very annoyed about this and I am considering escalating it to her line manager

I work in a small team of 3.5 but within a wider team.
A team member, we will call them Ashley, got made full time about nine months ago.
Since then, their work ethic hasn’t been great at all. They will often come in late for example and leave early, or sit talking or on their phone most of the day while others in the team work. Someone who has now left the job noticed all of this, too. She said more than once ‘what do they do all day?’.
They also are not very considerate of the team. We can work from home two days a week and they choose to work from home next to every public holiday leaving it to the rest of us to have to go in (because it is a job that requires a couple of us in the office at a time).
I have dropped hints to my manager before but I don’t think he realises how this person works (or doesn’t work) because we are mostly left to sort out the workload among ourselves. I know another coworker notices too and has made one or two comments to the manager.
Now this person has gone to management and said they have an undiagnosed health condition that will require them to work from home one solid week once a month.
The manager is being very sympathetic and supportive but the health condition doesn’t explain their overall work ethic for months on end.
I feel I need to put a complaint writing because I too, have a health condition, a different one but it is actually diagnosed. But I work hard and don’t leave work for others to do. The same actually goes for another one of our team members.
I feel like the person takes advantage of our manager, who isn’t assertive at all.

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For context, I've known all of them for over 7 years. I grew up with f21. We met when we were 4. We learned English together, we went through similar struggles growing up as children of immigrant families. But I started feeling like throughout our junior and senior years of hs, I started becoming more and more isolated. We sat together at lunch but more times than not, I was spoken over, to me it felt like they thought I wasn't even there, plans being made in front of me, doing stuff together, not once did they ask me to do things. I know, they aren't obligated to hang out with me.
I had a girl who bullied me through my senior year. She started saying disgusting rumors about me, told f21 to stop being friends with me and spewed lies about me. It mostly stemmed from me not wanting to stay with the guy who I dated for less than a week because he asked a classmate of ours to have sex with him over text on vacation, and she was mad about it. It got to the point where her friend group all hated me. Not once did she defend me. She almost considered it and just starting acting really weird about it, until I asked her why and she told me.
We graduate and we all go to the same university. Same. Damn. Thing. We have a group chat, they talk about plans. I asked on my birthday last year to go out for a dinner that will last a maximum of three hours. Not a peep. I even offer to pay, not a person budged. F21 attributed it to "Your birthday is in the summer, we were all busy".
I recently started to tell them about the assault I had gone through with the guy I was with back in high school very briefly and the guy I was with beginning university. !!TW!! Back in hs, I went over to the guy's house and we were just playing video games together. He forced a kiss onto me, and I felt I had to do it back. He also started rubbing me between my legs and persisted while I resisted it and moving his hand. He got mad. He also pushed my hand towards his crotch when I made it known I did not want that. Starting university, the guy always made it a point to want me to play with his crotch. He just reached down into mine, no matter where we were to do stuff. It happened so. many. times at my school I can't bear to go back into those places anymore. But all f21 and m22 had to say was "why didn't you say no LOL" Is it supposed to be easy to say no? What the hell was I supposed to do to stop it when they persist? Is it pathetic I let this happened?

i'm in dire and extremely desperate need for a 2-3k personal loan.. my hours just got slashed at work. I was working almost 45-50 hours a week to 14-20. I have missed 2 car payments and i have my tags due this week as well. With car payment and tag's combined.. its around $2k. I am scared my car is going to get repossessed. I have $2k saved up in my 401k but i cant take out a loan with it yet. Anyone know where i can get a loan that will accept me? My credit is poor and i'm scared no one will accept me. My friend recommended me at his job so hopefully i can be working 2 jobs to help me out financially. I am stressed out mostly cause of my car but I only get paid every 2 weeks so $600 a check is not even close to help with all my bills. Any advice would be appreciated.