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wolo  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Advice

This guy. You win again.

@redsox44344, this really is the only answer. You put in the time for your degree and now is the time to make it work for you. Even if this opportunity doesn't come close to the top of your most desired jobs list, you will be making real money and have real benefits. Like @kleinbl00 said, the best time to find another job is when you already have one. Stepping stones, etc.

That said, it sounds like you're dealing with burnout more than anything else. Good news there too: more than likely you just need a real change of pace, and more than likely, that is exactly what you will get upon entering the commercial sector.

Take the plunge. If it doesn't work, I'm fairly confident in your ability to submit resumes elsewhere..





user-inactivated  ·  3490 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey wolo, thanks for the response.

I guess you could say I was burning out at the time. I was more frustrated than anything, being unable to do much that I usually use to keep me sane. I'm usually fairly good at tiring myself out to the point that I just need to sleep but as the community has seen, I've hit a different and slightly embarrassing type of bump. i.e I can't really sleep no matter what.

I don't know if you've experienced something different or something similar, as interesting as kleinbl00 can be, I refuse to follow him and some other extremely notable members of the site for his own reason; he is essentially a power user of Hubski. If he wanted to, he could pretty much collapse what makes this site a third place by overloading it with information that he decided was true due to his large amount of followers. That's why I follow the chatter feed and the global feed. I also have a strong respect for him for not abusing this power and allowing Hubski to fix this problem within itself, and I'm entirely sure kleinbl00 is in contact with mk and thenewgreen as well as the rest of the admins with solutions to the problem.

Kind of side tracked there, but I figured it was worth it I guess. I respect kleinbl00 as well as how he contributes to Hubski, but a lot of people see him as some kind of deciding figure on the community despite being not a moderator. He has strong, supported opinions, but don't forget about all of the other great users on the site is I guess what I'm trying to say. He might be a warlord within internet arguments, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's always right, no matter what.

thenewgreen  ·  3490 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You made a post titled "advice" not a post titled "ask me more questions," and people have given you some sound advice here. I agree with others that kb's advice is spot on. This is not because he has "x" numbers of followers, it's because he has some perspective. I've been where you are at, I wasn't sure if I should take a job out of college managing a fine-dining restaurant because I didn't know if that's what I wanted to do with my life. Guess what? I took the job and the experience led to a job selling restaurant supplies and equipment, which led to a better job selling restaurant supplies, which led to me going back to school and getting a business degree so that I could transition in to selling in the finance world. -You never know where life will take you. My guess is that even if I didn't take the first job, I'd be in a similar place now based on my skill sets.

Take the gig, KB is also right that it's soooo much easier to find a job when you have one. This was my first concern with insomniasexx quitting her job recently. Then after talking with her I realized she had a good plan in place and I rest assured.

As for the "power user" thing, I may have a lot of followers but the minute I'm am asshole that won't matter. Much like on twitter, if someone sucks they can be filtered out of your experience. I really do think the "power user" phenomenon is diminished here. Think about it, eightbitsamurai has in a short time garnered great favor and praise in this community because of great comments and posts. Is he a power user? I guess I don't really understand the fear or disdain for a "power user" as it relates to the architecture here.

As for KB being in touch with the admins, aside from he and I being friendly off Hubski via texts and email (mostly about family, music, and writing) all of his advice about Hubski are public record and are given alongside the advice from other users. If a suggestion from him or anyone else is ever adopted, it's done so based on the merit of the proposal and not the "power" of the user. This plays zero role in anything g we do to the site. That said, I think KB is a fantastic contributor to the community and many of his suggestions have been adopted because they're good ideas. Also, I think he put some thought in to the advice you asked for and I'm not sure why you are upset about it? Maybe you're not and I'm just reading this wrong.

Anyways, good luck no matter what you decide.

On a sidenote, my grandparents paid for me to go to Catholic school growing up. It was expensive and my parents didn't have much money. I was certainly the kid that could never buy nice clothes, didn't drive a fancy car and didn't even have enough lunch money a lot of days. It's now the fuel that drives me. Use it.

_refugee_  ·  3490 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't know if you've experienced something different or something similar, as interesting as kleinbl00 can be, I refuse to follow him and some other extremely notable members of the site for his own reason; he is essentially a power user of Hubski. If he wanted to, he could pretty much collapse what makes this site a third place by overloading it with information that he decided was true due to his large amount of followers.

This is only true if we assume that following remains a constant, i.e., that if kb's followers would not then unfollow him because they no longer like what he has to put out. You shouldn't forget that in the Hubski system there are two sides to each equation. If kleinbl00 becomes annoying, he gets unfollowed, and is no longer a power user. "Power users," if we must insist that they exist, are not constants. Their existence as "power user" depends on every follower continuing to follow them, which one assumes is based on the quality of their content and shares.