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Painting is a deeply personal and expressive art form that can be significantly influenced by your surroundings. For painters seeking to enhance their creativity, inspiration, and career opportunities, astrocartography and relocation astrology offer insightful tools to find locations that resonate with their artistic soul. Let's explore how these astrological methods can help painters find their ideal creative spaces.
Relocated Chart Insights for Painters
A relocated chart can unveil new potentials and strengthen existing talents in your painting career:
Essential House Placements:

• 5th House (Creativity and Artistic Expression): A vibrant 5th house can be a goldmine for painters, enhancing creative output and artistic expression. Beneficial placements here, like the Sun, Venus, or Neptune, can deepen your artistic intuition and style.
• 10th House (Career and Public Standing): Positive influences in the 10th house can bolster your reputation and success in the art world, helping your work gain recognition and esteem.
• 12th House (Subconscious and Spirituality): A well-aspected 12th house can unlock deep, introspective inspiration, tapping into the subconscious mind to fuel creativity.

Influential Planetary Aspects:

• Venus for Aesthetic Sensitivity: Harmonious aspects to Venus can refine your artistic taste and bring beauty and harmony to your work.
• Neptune for Imagination: Positive Neptune aspects can heighten imagination and inspire transcendent, spiritually rich artworks.
• Mercury for Communication: Effective Mercury aspects are essential for communicating your artistic vision and networking within the art community.

Supportive Planetary Combinations:

• Sun-Venus: Promotes a harmonious blend of personal identity with artistic aesthetics.
• Moon-Neptune: Enhances emotional depth and imaginative expression in your paintings.
• Mars-Jupiter: Can inspire bold, expansive works and the drive to explore new artistic horizons.

Astrocartography for Painters
Astrocartography maps planetary influences in different locations, which can be pivotal for a painter’s career:

• Venus Lines for Artistic Inspiration: Venus lines can amplify your aesthetic sense, bringing grace and beauty to your art.
• Neptune Lines for Creative Imagination: Locations under Neptune lines can deepen your creative intuition and connect you with your inner muse.
• Sun Lines for Personal Growth and Recognition: Sun lines can boost confidence in your artistic identity and may help in gaining more visibility for your work.

Combining Relocation Chart and Astrocartography for Artistic Success
Integrating your relocated chart with astrocartography can help you identify places that not only inspire your creativity but also align with professional growth in the art world. For example, a strong Neptune influence in your relocated chart combined with a Venus line in astrocartography can create the perfect environment for artistic inspiration and recognition.
Natal Chart Considerations
Your natal chart is the cornerstone of your inherent artistic capabilities and potential challenges. Key aspects to consider include:

• Natal 5th and 10th Houses: These houses can shed light on your natural artistic talents and potential career path in painting.
• Natal Venus, Neptune, and Mercury: Their placements and aspects can reveal your intrinsic artistic abilities and how you communicate and connect with the art community.
• Aspects to the Midheaven: Influences here can shape your professional trajectory and public image as a painter.

For painters looking to deepen their artistic practice and advance their careers, astrocartography and relocation astrology can be invaluable resources. By understanding the astrological influences of different locations and how they interact with your natal chart, you can find environments that inspire your creativity and support your growth as an artist. Remember, while astrology provides a unique perspective, your passion, dedication, and hard work are essential in painting your own success story.

I have a design in Vivado with some AXI peripherals that works perfectly well under PYNQ, but not without it.
The code is a user space C program that opens /dev/mem, uses mmap to map whatever address assigned in Vivado's address editor, and then reads and writes to the memory-mapped IO.
The docs say to use fpgautil the device, but that does not work properly. However, if I first program the FPGA using PYNQ, even if I use a completely different bitstream, fpgautil works afterwards until the next reboot.
By not working properly, I mean that writing to 16-byte aligned addresses work, but the rest don't. For example, the following program writes to the first 16 registes of some AXI peripheral.

volatile uint32_t* p = ... // address of some AXI peripheral for(uint32_t i=0; i<16; i++) { p[i] = 0xFFF00000U + i; } for(uint32_t i=0; i<16; i++) { printf("%d: %08X\n", i, p[i]); } 

When I program the device using fpgautil, I get the following output (only reads and writes to addresses 0, 16, 32, and 48 work):

0: FFF00000 1: 00000000 2: 00000000 3: 00000000 4: FFF00004 5: 00000000 6: 00000000 7: 00000000 8: FFF00008 9: 00000000 10: 00000000 11: 00000000 12: FFF0000C 13: 00000000 14: 00000000 15: 00000000 

However, if I use PYNQ to program the device, even for a completley different bitstream, for example:

import pynq overlay = pynq.Overlay("some_other_bitstream.bit") 

and then use fpgautil to program the device, I get the expected output:

0: FFF00000 1: FFF00001 2: FFF00002 3: FFF00003 4: FFF00004 5: FFF00005 6: FFF00006 7: FFF00007 8: FFF00008 9: FFF00009 10: FFF0000A 11: FFF0000B 12: FFF0000C 13: FFF0000D 14: FFF0000E 15: FFF0000F 

Any ideas on how to fix this?
Board: Ultra96 V2 Linux Image: PYNQ 3.0.1
Thanks!

What books have you read that you could see a large difference between how the author wrote at the beginning few chapters of the story and the final chapters of the story?
For instance, when you go back and look at their first chapter, they write in clunkier prose. Perhaps they had a small case of infodumpiness. The characters weren’t as developed or believable at first. However, looking at the last few chapters, their style matures. Their pacing improved, and they seem to just have a better idea of what they’re doing (for lack of a better example).
I like to compare this with the Attack on Titan manga. The difference in his drawing skills between chapter 1 and chapter 139 is stark. What I’m trying to point out is the writing version of this.
I feel like this should be prevalent among debut novels, as their authors are still relatively inexperienced. I am tackling my first ever major writing project now (Of course this will not be published. It’s a first book. It’s crap.), and even across my first 4-5 chapters and 12k words, I already feel like I have a better sense of what I’m doing at the fourth chapter when compared to me writing the first chapter (in hindsight, it was shit. I’ll rewrite it somewhere down the line.)
If you’re new to this like myself, would you mind sharing your experiences writing your first few chapters as well?

Anonymous August 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
The organization I work for has been doing emergency relief during the pandemic for folks forced out of work. Even in those emergencies, we are connecting them with long-term wrap-around services to help them improve their financial stability and build resilience so the next emergency doesn't hit them so hard.
No one (in their right mind, anyway) should throw cash at the [FFF] situation as it is. The only way "catch up" money would work is if there is a different business plan that ensures she has the means to pay her expense and improve her financial situation going forward. And floating out "working on my next book" is not that plan. How many years since she has been published? and it's public what a disaster the Birchthorn self-publish was. She has mentioned all kinds of book pitches since then and not one bite. She isn't even working consistently at getting other paid writing work.
Asking folks to just pitch in because they can with her current situation is pure arrogance - fund my lifestyle that is proven not to work every single month, but foolishly believe that this time will make a difference.
I remember being in a bad place financially'in my early 30's and having the thought that if someone would just give me $15K, I would be fine. But the truth is, I would not have been fine because the change that was needed was in me. Fast forward to truly difficult financial circumstances hitting again in my mid 40's and, because I took responsibility for myself and had learned to do the right thing financially, I was able to get myself back on my feet without wishing for money from someone else.
I know this is spitting in the wind where FFF is concerned - she is uninterested in making any actual changes either to get out of a real situation or to stop scamming for a made-up one.
Anon in GA

Welcome back once more, for our final discussion of Armadale. I apologize again for the discussion being late. Last week, my excuse was that I had to spend time with my sister's family, including a labradoodle. This week, I am dog-sitting my mother's beagle, who has separation anxiety and gas. I am horribly sleep-deprived because this dog insists on sleeping next to my bed every night, snoring loudly and farting. Speaking of people breathing in poison in their sleep, let's get to the recap:
Allan has just set off for the Adriatic, with his cash converted to gold, obviously the result of Manuel's suggestions. Lydia and Ozias have been transferred to Turin by Ozias's employer, and Lydia pretends to have gotten a letter from her mother, asking her to come home, so she has an excuse to go back to London. Once there, she checks the newspaper for any articles or obituaries indicating that Allan has died. She also finds Mother Oldershaw's new address, but decides not to visit her.
After a few days, she finally gets the news she's been hoping for. Allan's yacht sunk off the southern coast of Italy, and everyone on board perished. Her next step is to write to Bashwood:
My dearest Bashwood,
I desire you... I mean, I desire to *meet with you... to apologize for my previous behavior towards you. I have foolishly made the mistake of marrying an immature child. If only I had married a real man (realness not necessarily extending to his teeth and hair)!*
Please, do not show this letter to anyone. Let us meet clandestinely.
Sincerely,
Lydia Armadale (note the last name)
Lydia then considers the marriage certificate, and realizes a glaring flaw in her plan: Ozias's handwriting looks nothing like Allan's. In a panic, she decides that her only option is to get advice from Mother Oldershaw. Unfortunately, Mother Oldershaw appears to have found God, and no longer wants anything to do with Lydia's plans. (Of course, she refuses to give Lydia the signed paper that she was going to use to extort money from Lydia if her plans succeeded.)
While leaving Oldershaw's, Lydia runs into Dr. Downward... excuse me, Dr. Le Doux, totally legitimate sanitarium owner. She realizes that he may be able to advise her, and asks to meet him later at the sanitarium. The sanitarium is basically what you'd expect a 19th-century sanitarium to be: creepy old house with shelves containing jars of preserved "creatures," a "galvanic apparatus" for providing electric shocks, etc. No patients yet, though.
Lydia tells the doctor her story, leaving out the worst details (he doesn't know that she's the reason the yacht sunk, or that her husband goes by the fake name "Ozias Midwinter"). Downward agrees to assist her by claiming to be a witness to the marriage... for a fee of six hundred pounds. Lydia agrees, and he assists her in sending a letter to Thorpe Ambrose, claiming to be Allan's widow.
The next day, Lydia gets a visit from Bashwood, who delivers the news that Neelie is beside herself with grief, and Mr. Darch is handling the matter of the inheritance, which was going to go to Allan's cousin, before Lydia announced her claim.
Bashwood returns a few days later with a shocking letter from Yugoslavia: Allan is alive! This is where I'd normally try to write a funny version of the letter, but nothing I could possibly write would be funnier than the actual letter's opening line: "I have been the victim of a rascally attempt at robbery and murder." Yes, "rascally." Oh, Allan, never change. One of the would-be murderers took pity on Allan and didn't securely board up his cabin, so he was able to escape instead of sinking with the yacht.
Lydia turns to Downward for help.
Downward: What if we trap Allan in the sanitarium?
Lydia: And murder him?
Downward: WTF, no. We get him to agree to not press legal charges against us.
Lydia: And then we murder him?
Downward: I have so many regrets about teaming up with you
Lydia: How do we catch him?
Downward: You could get Bashwood to lurk around the train station and intercept him before anyone else sees him. Have him tell Allan that Miss Milroy was sent here because she was driven insane by her grief for him.
Lydia: Can we murder Allan and Miss Milroy?
Downward: I am running an unlicensed sanitarium under a false name, and even I think you're unhinged.
Lydia: Gwilty as charged
Downward: But wait, what if he doesn't agree immediately, and we have to keep him here for months? What if I have actual patients at the time, and they report us?
Lydia: What if...
Downward: ...please don't say "murder"
Lydia: ...what if he had an accident?
Downward: Oh. Well, if it was an "accident," that would be okay. I don't know how an accident could happen, though, if you aren't an inmate here.
Lydia: I'll think about it
Meanwhile, Bashwood keeps vigil at the train station, until one day he sees... Ozias, who is searching for Lydia because she's stopped writing to him. While they talk to each other, Bashwood can't contain his shock at hearing that Lydia is Ozias's wife, and accidentally calls her "Mrs. Armadale," which understandably makes Ozias suspicious, so he follows Bashwood to see where he goes, which of course leads him straight to Lydia. Lydia pretends she was never married to Ozias, and Ozias faints from the shock.
Lydia heads straight to the sanitarium, tells Downward she's going to be an inmate, and asks for a sleeping draught. Downward prepares the draught, but first places yellow liquid in a purple flask. He then informs Lydia of what he thinks they should say at the inquest after Allan dies: The two of them knew he hadn't drowned, but when he arrived in England, they decided to trap him in the sanitarium because, shortly after his marriage to Lydia, Allan had starting having a delusion that he was engaged to Neelie. Once in the sanitarium, Downward diagnosed Allan with an incurable and fatal brain ailment, and that's what killed him.
Downward has scheduled a "Visitors' Day" so that people will witness Lydia as an inmate in the asylum. The visitors are mostly women, because life as a woman in Victorian England was so boring, they had nothing better to do than go to sanitariums to gawk at the mentally ill people and see where they will eventually live when the hysteria finally drives them mad. (I am only barely paraphrasing. The actual quote is "In the miserable monotony of the lives led by a large section of the middle classes of England, anything is welcome to the women which offers them any sort of harmless refuge from the established tyranny of the principle that all human happiness begins and ends at home.")
Downward shows them around the sanitarium and explains how it will be run, including only allowing novels that make people feel comfortable. (I assumed this was an intentional satire of Wilkie's critics, and the notes in the Oxford World's Classics edition confirmed this.)
But then Downward gave a sales pitch that damn near sold me on his sanitarium. "I throw up impregnable moral intrenchments between Worry and You. ... Will ten minutes’ irritation from a barking dog or a screeching child undo every atom of good done to a nervous sufferer by a month’s medical treatment? There isn’t a competent doctor in England who will venture to deny it!" Considering I almost couldn't post last week's discussion because of a few hours' exposure to two loud children and a labradoodle, I'm about ready to self-diagnose with hysteria and deranged lunacy.
He also explains that while the bedrooms lack fireplaces, they're heated with hot water. This impressed me because I've read about Victorian insane asylums not having fireplaces in the bedrooms (since the inmates might burn themselves), but I always assumed this meant that the inmates were cold in the winter. But wait... the bedroom also has secret controls that let him open, close, and lock the window and door from the outside, and a vent that lets him pump gas into the room. Whaaat? I rescind my diagnosis of hysteria and deranged lunacy. I want nothing to do with this.
After the tour is finished, Downward demonstrates to Lydia how to prepare the poison, and then breaks the bottle so that his assistant (who doesn't know about the purple flask) will think there's no more of that chemical in the house.
Meanwhile, Ozias is stalking Bashwood at the train station. He thinks Lydia is cheating on him, and Bashwood is waiting for Lydia's lover. But then he sees Bashwood with Allan. After confronting the two of them, he learns Bashwood's story about having to take Allan to Neelie in the sanitarium. Realizing that Lydia is probably still behind Bashwood's actions, Ozias insists on going with the two of them. On arriving at the sanitarium, Allan is informed that Neelie cannot see him until the morning, but he and Ozias are welcome to spend the night: Allan in Room Four, and Ozias in Room Three.
Lydia sets Bashwood up to spy on Allan's door from a room with a grate in its door. She tells him to make sure Allan stays in his room all night. Later, watching from the grate, Bashwood observes Ozias leave his room and examine the fumigating apparatus connected to Allan's room. Then Ozias stuffs his handkerchief in the grate, blocking Bashwood's view, before going into Allan's room and convincing Allan to switch rooms with him.
Later that night, Lydia returns and asks Bashwood if anything happened. Too afraid to tell her about the handkerchief, he tells her nothing happened, and she dismisses him to bed. After almost convincing herself to not go through with it, she then starts the process of pouring the poison at five minute intervals. While waiting for one of the intervals to pass, she notices Ozias's handkerchief and realizes that Bashwood lied to her. She checks in Room Three, and finds Allan asleep where Ozias should be.
In a panic, Lydia rushes into Room Four and drags the unconscious Ozias out. She then continues to pour the poison, writes a last letter to Ozias, and locks herself in the room.
We end with an epilogue that rapidly ties up all the random loose ends. Lydia has been buried in a nearly unmarked grave. The doctor is apparently still running his sanitarium. Allan and Neelie will be married in the spring. Mrs. Milroy doesn't have much longer to live, but she's undergone a personality change for some reason and she and the Major are happy for once. Ozias is recovering and living with Allan. Mother Oldershaw is a religious speaker, apparently. Bashwood has gone insane. Manuel drowned.
But wait, one last thing: Wilkie has something to say to us. He wants us to know that he intended the dream to be left up to interpretation. Thanks for handing me a discussion question like that, Wilkie. He also shares a weird-ass story about how, after he'd finished the rough draft and while the story was in the middle of serialization, several people were poisoned in their sleep on a boat called The Armadale. Okay, Wilkie. Thank you for that incredibly weird anecdote.

I'm (22) a victim of straight up child neglect. my parents would laugh at me and threaten to kick me out if they knew I was saying this online right now. I wish I'd called the authorities and somehow gotten CPS to save me or SOMETHING as a child. now I'm at the full mercy of my parents.
they always just seemed to put restraints on me that they never did with my siblings. I was and still am quite mentally ill, but it wasn't past me to learn how to write a check, drive, get a job, etc. but whenever I pressured them to coach me into knowing how to be a self sustaining adult, they'd act clueless.
regarding getting a job, they kept refusing to drive me all the way to work. to be fair, we were far from everything, to also be fair, I have older siblings that they drove to work before. why would I be any different. eventually, my step brother took me in to help me with things, and that was a MESS, but as I was just about ready to move in with him, my parents denied ever refusing to drive me to work. they acted like they would have loved to. honestly, this type of gaslighting is why I struggle to know what's real with them/not real with them and myself. eventually things fell through with my step brother, but I did get a job and quit about 6 months in because I was putting in extra and ended up being accused of theft.. on a day I wasn't even there. btw, I was staying many hours after close prepping food at my job, I really enjoyed feeling productive, outside of home. at home it's different because it's a great source of the faults in my mental health and so all motivation is gone. and tbh, I've considered suicide a lot over the day just because I'm so close to falling off the edge.
my health got kinda shit over all the time I wasted not being able to have a job. I wanted one when I was 16. I have wanted to have my own life for quite some time. around 17 I started having uncontrollable spasms on the right side of my body when I did specific things (ex. standing up from a sitting position). it is very painful, and only recently have they calmed down. I never mentioned them to doctors because I thought it was just a temporary injury and before I knew it, it was kind of normal. albeit debilitating as well. in the last month they've died down. now I can work out and my body won't attack itself (cardio and even sometimes intense lifting would trigger it). I also definitely feel better, and think my sleep schedule is trying to heal. but I also have sleep apnea, and it feels like I get needless shit for it. I know I need to work on it, snapping at me about a condition I have is not fucking cool. I have so many problems that kind of meet in the middle making it hard to sleep when I need or even want to.
btw I moved back in with my parents after the mess with my brother
right now, I honestly just want to get a job, get a little healthier in the process, get on hormones, get a car, move out, and live with my fiancé. there are also personal reasons I can't get a job nor move out right now, that I don't want to share because I'm honestly scared that I've shared too much. I don't want them to find out about this post. I just want to know what I'm supposed to do here. they once again have me (metaphorically) chained down to this place (once again I can't say specifically why but trust me I have no control over it). I just want to fucking spread my wings. and my health is improving out of nowhere and I'm scared they'll spoil this opportunity for me. I know there's certain services to help adults like me, but I'm pretty sure I need proof of diagnosis for certain mental disabilities for that and I haven't kept up with those documents from my childhood. thoughts? I'm honestly fucking scared of the future. if it's not good, I don't want it. all I want is to medically transition and love my partner, and I want to be able to sustain that potential future but things are never looking up.

I'm currently looking at writing a DnD story and I want to portray how apathetic they are to the struggles and suffering of mortals. I know there are examples of this in stories throughout Greek mythology but I wanted to ask you all for specific favorites and what about them you liked so much.My main concern is ensuring that the woes of characters are not portrayed as helpless in the face of impossibilty but instead as capable individuals ultimately unable to be anything more ants under a boot. Any and all responses are appreciated.

Hi All. Recently got PMP (yayy!!). Here's my cover letter and resume for your quick review. Current experience managing agile projects = 7 years. Targetting Senior Project Manager roles.
Cover letter
Dear [Hiring Manager’s Name],
I am writing to express my interest in the Project Manager position at [Company Name]. With more than 7 years of experience in project management, I am confident in my ability to drive successful outcomes for your team.
In my current role at [], I am leading a cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, consistently exceeding expectations. My skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation make me a strong candidate for this position.
I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to [Company Name] and contribute to its success. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my background aligns with the needs of your team.
Sincerely,
Resume
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Hi All. Recently got PMP (yayy!!). Here's my cover letter and resume for your quick review. Current experience managing agile projects = 7 years. Targetting Senior Project Manager roles.
Cover letter
Dear [Hiring Manager’s Name],
I am writing to express my interest in the Project Manager position at [Company Name]. With more than 7 years of experience in project management, I am confident in my ability to drive successful outcomes for your team.
In my current role at [], I am leading a cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, consistently exceeding expectations. My skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation make me a strong candidate for this position.
I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to [Company Name] and contribute to its success. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my background aligns with the needs of your team.
Sincerely,
Resume
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Hi All. Recently got PMP (yayy!!). Here's my cover letter and resume for your quick review. Current experience managing agile projects = 7 years. Targetting Senior Project Manager roles.
Cover letter
Dear [Hiring Manager’s Name],
I am writing to express my interest in the Project Manager position at [Company Name]. With more than 7 years of experience in project management, I am confident in my ability to drive successful outcomes for your team.
In my current role at [], I am leading a cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, consistently exceeding expectations. My skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation make me a strong candidate for this position.
I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to [Company Name] and contribute to its success. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my background aligns with the needs of your team.
Sincerely,
Resume
https://preview.redd.it/1zqmt0gp4h1d1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=3bbe59bfedc1f7c72c72f9948af71da6d04cacf7
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**WARNING** long post. Feel free to skip the background information if need be
BACKGROUND:
I am a software engineer at a major bank. Relative to my counterparts on my team, I am the "most junior", but I have three years of experience. This is important to know as it may offer some insight to our team culture. I landed this job in November 2023 and was placed with my team in January 2024. The team consisted of two women, including myself and five men. I work at our NYC office with three of the other men, one of which is our team lead, let's call him Anderson. The other woman coworker lives in FL and the other two men are in India. I am the only black person on the team, and the rest of my coworkers are of Indian descent. This, too, is important to note.
From day 1, I was intentionally assigned low level administrative tasks while my coworkers were purposefully trained and briefed on other, technical tasks. The first week with my team, I mentioned to my team lead that I felt it important to learn the technical tasks that my teammates were learning, even if these technical tasks were not going to be my responsibility, because there would not be anyone to take on the technical tasks if someone was on vacation. My team lead told me to focus on the work he assigned to me.
Still determined to learn the technical tasks, I scheduled trainings with my offshore counterpart so that he would train me instead. This meant that I had to sign in to work after hours to be trained. I was now trained on what my "work buddy" knew, but still not fully trained on what the rest of the team knew how to do. Suddenly (not suddenly), my other woman coworker, let's call her Sandra, went on maternity leave and I was assigned her work. My team lead expressed his frustration with me not knowing how to do her job, and told me to figure out how to learn the things she was doing.
What is interesting to point out here is that during the first few weeks on the team, my team lead would assign our other senior engineer to train Sandra and answer all questions that she had. I was not granted this opportunity. Instead, my Slack messages went unanswered (I have all of this documented) when I had questions and after another two weeks, my team lead quietly reassigned Sandra's work from me to another senior engineer instead. He never explained why he did this, or gave me feedback on the work I was doing.
As the weeks went by, my team lead called me into a meeting to gauge my knowledge on querying our databases. He asked me to find a few items, which I could not find because for one, I had NEVER interacted with the databases before, and for two, I had no understanding of the database architecture or the data flow for our app. Nevertheless, I decided to ask clarifying questions to help me better understand the data so that I could write appropriate queries. My team lead responded to this with yelling "you are an engineer and you don't even know SQL", to which I responded that my knowledge of SQL was sufficient (part of my technical interview was based on writing complex queries), but I needed to understand exactly what he wanted me to find. He ended the meeting and never followed up on the information he was looking for. I still do not know what task, if any, that he was trying to assign to me.
I decided to follow up with him and explain to him that I could sense his frustration, and I asked him to define clear expectations for me and the team, and provide official training that focused on our application architecture and other technical areas that we needed to focus on. He told me that no amount of training would fix the "fact" that I did not know SQL and that it is the team members' job to train themselves.
Nevertheless, after that meeting, he assigned me with handling all onboarding for new projects moving forward. I have taken the liberty of advocating for my team members to ensure that we are all properly trained and provided with ALL resources needed to do our job well. Since then, the team, and myself has expressed more confidence in our ability to do our work. We are even at a point where senior team members reach out to me when they cannot find resources and either ask me to provide documentation, or ask me to reach out to other engineers to schedule meetings to provide trainings. Here is where I am concerned that I might be experiencing hostility at work. Please provide objective feedback and even constructive criticism if need be:
MAIN POINTS:
-my team lead uses language in his interactions with me that creates a false narrative. For example, he accuses me of "not caring" about my job, not "being collaborative", and not paying attention. One example is where I was tasked with migrating a google guice project to springboot. We had four weeks to get the work done and each week during standup, I brought up to my team lead my plans to make changes to the service. Each time, he would redirect my attention to administrative tasks. The third week of the sprint, literally in the middle of a Slack conversation of me telling my team lead that I planned on making some code changes and him instead telling me to do something else, our senior manager called a meeting with the team and yelled at my team lead for not getting any work done related to the code refactoring. After the meeting, my team lead followed up with me and berated me for not having work done. This is all documented in Slack and I remember being very confused as he had literally told me to do other tasks. As a result, my team lead removed me from the code refactoring project and used this to further justify his belief that I do "not care" about the work. Keep in mind that these interactions are documented.
-my team lead constantly verbally berates me in my interactions with him. One example is when I was typing up a document on a zoom call and I was sharing my screen with him. He kept rushing me and was saying things like "come on man I have other things to do", "ughhh hurry up", "you need to move fast!". Two things here: he yelled at me for moving fast because he said he could not see what I was clicking on when I moved fast. Then he yelled at me when I slowed down. There was one time he yelled at me for clicking a back button instead of the home button on the screen...he told me that I was not listening to him or paying attention...I am confused by this because the point of his instruction was for me to return to the home screen. There was another time where I misspelled a word in the middle of him berating me, and then he berated me even more for misspelling the word...
-my team lead has unclear expectations and gets angry at me when I do not do things he wants me to do. One example is when he wanted me to watch a 40 minute training video, summarize the points in the video, and schedule a follow up training with the person who lead the training so that the team (me) could ask questions. He asked me to get this done within an hour. He also wanted me to upload some recordings to Sharepoint. But this task was just another task to complete and not time-sensitive. After the call, I watched the video and made a summary and got back to him with an update in 45 minutes instead of the hour. He responded to my message 20 minutes after I wrote him by hopping on a call with me and yelled at me for not having the videos uploaded. Again, he accused me of "not caring" about my job. When I explained to him that the videos were not uploaded because I was focusing on the other, time sensitive task, he said that that task was not as important as having the videos uploaded and "people" were asking him about the videos in the Sharepoint space....this was a lie because it has been a week and the only person who accessed the uploaded videos was...you guessed it...me :)
-my team lead just berates me in general. He berated me for collaborating with a team member to explore a new internal application. He said that there was no need to get on zoom with the coworker because we should have already known everything...the app was new and I was the only one who understood how to navigate it after exploring it with the team member...oh...need I mention that he then asked me to train the other team members on the new app's UI next week?
-my team lead expressed his frustration at not having access to certain resources when I was on bereavement.The documentation was incomplete and I had to take a sudden leave due to a death in the family. Upon my return, he asked for the documentation and said that he find an "excuse" to tell his manager as to why the documentation was incomplete and that I was "on vacation"
-my team lead "warns" me not to "disappoint" him when he assigns me with tasks. When I ask him to define what a "disappointment" is and for us to agree on what is acceptable, he ignores me.
-my team lead tells me that "people" ask questions about my work and one day he is going to make our department head "deal" with me. The department head is known for being a hot head who yells at people. But he has NEVER yelled at me in any interaction I had with him, no matter how frustrated he may have been.
I want to make an important note here that he does NOT speak to other people like this and he ONLY does this over zoom. I work 3x days in office and on the days where he speaks to me in person, he does not even make eye contact with me and he speaks so soft I can barely hear him sometimes. My team lead has never provided any feedback on my work. As a matter of fact, he uses my documentation and my explanation of technical tasks as if they were his own.
I am considering taking my concerns to our senior manager, who apparently is a well respected, "big boss" at work, but also MY direct manager and I happen to have a great relationship with him. I want to be as objective as possible in my complaint but in the meantime, I would like to explore areas where maybe I can improve to minimize my team lead's verbal assaults on me

Hi All. Recently got PMP (yayy!!). Here's my cover letter and resume for your quick review. Current experience managing agile projects = 7 years. Targetting Senior Project Manager roles.
Cover letter
Dear [Hiring Manager’s Name],
I am writing to express my interest in the Project Manager position at [Company Name]. With more than 7 years of experience in project management, I am confident in my ability to drive successful outcomes for your team.
In my current role at [], I am leading a cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, consistently exceeding expectations. My skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation make me a strong candidate for this position.
I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to [Company Name] and contribute to its success. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my background aligns with the needs of your team.
Sincerely,
Resume
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Hi All. Recently got PMP (yayy!!). Here's my cover letter and resume for your quick review. Current experience managing agile projects = 7 years. Targetting Senior Project Manager roles.
Cover letter
Dear [Hiring Manager’s Name],
I am writing to express my interest in the Project Manager position at [Company Name]. With more than 7 years of experience in project management, I am confident in my ability to drive successful outcomes for your team.
In my current role at [], I am leading a cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, consistently exceeding expectations. My skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation make me a strong candidate for this position.
I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to [Company Name] and contribute to its success. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my background aligns with the needs of your team.
Sincerely,
Resume
https://preview.redd.it/1zqmt0gp4h1d1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=3bbe59bfedc1f7c72c72f9948af71da6d04cacf7
https://preview.redd.it/v6or2hkr4h1d1.png?width=712&format=png&auto=webp&s=0774f50b99bff5afa5721dce9bf21e4af771e22c

Hi All. Recently got PMP (yayy!!). Here's my cover letter and resume for your quick review. Current experience managing agile projects = 7 years. Targetting Senior Project Manager roles.
Cover letter
Dear [Hiring Manager’s Name],
I am writing to express my interest in the Project Manager position at [Company Name]. With more than 7 years of experience in project management, I am confident in my ability to drive successful outcomes for your team.
In my current role at [], I am leading a cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, consistently exceeding expectations. My skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation make me a strong candidate for this position.
I am excited about the opportunity to bring my expertise to [Company Name] and contribute to its success. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my background aligns with the needs of your team.
Sincerely,
Resume
https://preview.redd.it/1zqmt0gp4h1d1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=3bbe59bfedc1f7c72c72f9948af71da6d04cacf7
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Don't sell your account. Don't trade or loan you account to someone who "will give you a 60% cut you don't have to lift a finger." Your account will be banned, guaranteed. Do not entertain posts on here, other subs (WFHJobs, beermoney, etc.), or DMs you get asking about this. It is 100% a scam.
There's a reason why these people are trying to buy your account; they obviously cannot have one themselves. This can be due to a ton of reasons. The main one being they're in a country that is not allowed. Others could be because they were removed for quality (i.e. terrible English).
This makes the community as a whole suck. You see these posts on here with people complaining about how there's no work, this is why. The customer, whoever hires out Outlier for this service, stops projects to review what's being submitted when there's tons of bad work coming through. By selling or trading your account, you're making this happen more often. Pay cuts are also because of this too. If the content continues to be bad, why would a large company spend money on something like that.
Every day, the onboarding channel is full of messages from people with a like 9 hour time zone difference with things like "Great morning, I have not been received tasks on the dashboard. Kindly look at this EQ and inform me of what is wrong," and "I cannot begin the mission as it does not appear. Please inform of what is wrong."
If this all stops, maybe pay will be better. Maybe there will be more work. Maybe people who are actually qualified for the work can finally get onboarded and start making money. We will never find out until this is stopped.
For those of you who are still going to do it regardless of what is said, you won't receive anything in return. Like I said, there is not a single doubt that it is a scam. You will not see a single cent. You have to actually do work to make money in life. There's no free money cheat, just accept that. This is literally the easiest thing in the world to do and if you can't do that then something else is wrong with you.
**EDIT**
Just thought about this as well. You are literally fucking with the IRS if you do this. This is a legitimate 1099 company. Outlier will report your earnings regardless, so if you don't report what "they" make on your account, you're getting audited. Good luck dealing with an IRS audit.

I'm in my 30s, nonbinary, not religious at all. I live in the US, specifically Illinois. My family is very Catholic and I had a lot of religious trauma growing up. Every time someone in my family has passed, they have had a Catholic wake & funeral at the Church where I went to elementary school.
I don't have any real assets. I rent a 1 bedroom apartment, live in a big city so I don't have a car or anything. Almost all of my stuff is bought secondhand or given to me, and I don't make enough money to leave any kind of inheritance outside of my life insurance through my workplace. I don't have kids or a partner, and I don't plan on ever having kids if I do have a partner.
Outside of chronic pain, I'm in pretty good health and don't see myself getting naturally deleted from life any time soon. However, in the event of like, an accident or something, I want to write up something that says how I want my body to be taken care of, that I don't want a Catholic service, and since I've legally changed my name, I don't want to be deadnamed during the service (this isn't something I can really control, but I think putting it in my will would make my family/friends be more mindful of how they talk about me in the past).
Does anyone know where to start? It looks like a lot of these services are meant for people who have houses and a lot of money or kids and such. Can I just...write up something and have it notarized or something? Do I need a lawyer? How much should I expect to spend on this costwise?

Forgive me if this question should be asked elsewhere but I could really use some advice.
I’ve been a journalist full time at the same company in Huntsville, Alabama for the last 3 years. I started out at my university newspaper in 2013 before graduating and moving to New Orleans where I wasn’t able to book work consistently enough to truly say, “I’ve been a journalist for the past decade.” There was a 1-2 year period where I thought I didn’t have what it took.
My current situation has been very satisfying from the beginning. My boss owns a magazine and a business journal focused on Huntsville and the surrounding area. Most of the assignments have been limited in the amount of exposure you could ever expect as with most other community based journalism but Huntsville is also home to NASA and Redstone Arsenal. It requires more effort a long with putting yourself out there much more consistently, but any determined journalist can find stories locally that will generate readers far beyond the city and state lines.
In August of 2023, I had an instance where my luck and determination peaked at the same time when I was able to track down the son of a former Chinese immigrant turned Huntsville scientist, Dr. Ning Li. She wasn’t famous, not even among most Huntsville residents, but in the early 2000’s she had a run of published papers that made her extremely well known in the science community and even resulted in publications like Wired running multi page spreads about her work on anti gravity technology. I’m going to be REALLY short here but she seemingly disappeared after leaving UAH to start her own company for her research in 2002. Records show initial funding from DoD but the paper trail ends there and she never had a public appearance again.
Eventually this “disappearance” was noticed and some reporters were asking about her publicly at the time, but no sure fire answers ever came. This, along with some public rumors of her defecting back to China with US secrets, eventually resulted in a large community of people who were still asking for answers 20 years later in the form of YouTube videos (Barely Sociable had a big one with 2+ million views) or various science / conspiracy based websites. It only grew as more people started making claims that a lot of the UAP reports being publicized described technology that seemed to resemble her initial theory that gained promise.
I was able to track down her adult son’s phone number. After a series of phone calls over the next month, I gained his trust and was invited to his home where he was able to give me all of the answers except ones about the success of her research on her top secret work funded by the DoD. He didn’t know if she was ever proven right or wrong because she worked at the Arsenal every day until the day she was struck by a car driven by a student on UAH campus. She suffered a TBI that immediately rendered her as if she had late stage Alzheimer’s. Never spoke again and he cared for her around the clock until she died 6 years later.
He was unable to learn anything further about her work, but he gave me a lot of information that wasn’t known at the time and I was able to fully disprove any rumor of her turning traitor to the US for a return to China.
I published the story and it did really well in mid-late 2023 amongst the crowd who already knew of her obviously and the regular Huntsville readers of ours found her life story very interesting. It was immediately the most successful story of my career as other reporters were making stories about the fact that I was able to solve her mystery. It died down like I figured until 4-6 weeks ago.
The UAP disclosure hype has resulted in more people talking about her than ever before. I’m hearing my name and seeing my picture on videos with over 1 million views for the first time ever.
I was very happy but didn’t think it changed much for me because it’s not like it could grow more realistically. Until Joe fucking Rogan reads pretty much the whole story and talks about it for 5-10 minutes on the podcast with largest following in the world.
My excitement turned to disbelief that day and it’s still crazy to think about sometimes. I never realistically thought I would write something that would generate traffic numbers around 5-6 million readers on a single story. That number is over course of 8 months which is very far removed getting those same numbers in the span of a week but the increase in exposure has been noticeable in my inbox ever since the Rogan podcast.
Noticeable enough that it feels like I’m very possibly having a moment before it’s just a moment before THE moment if that makes sense.
I haven’t had any career advancing job offers but there’s been some who have reached out in support to suggest various story topics that run parallel to that story as follow up ideas. Maybe I’m overestimating here but I feel like if I capitalize on my recent success correctly, I could see my career advance a step farther than I thought was possible for the year of 2024 when it started.
But…. I’m not at all sure how of the specific road map that could achieve such a thing. Yeah, I proved I can put together a story that results in traffic from both readers and “cultural trendsetters” but only once.
If anyone has ever been in a similar position, I would love some advice on the best way to turn this exposure into interest from publishers 1 step up the totem pole from where I am now. That also applies to people who haven’t been in this position, the more feedback I can get, the more prepared I feel I can be.
Sorry this post has been so long, it’s just been heavy on my mind for the last 1-2 weeks and I needed to hear from people who are both A: familiar with the industry and B: Not my boss.

Good evening dear fellas. I've been playing this game since the release, and sadly, the game is still great, but the community feels full of angry kids. It is really unplayable, and im not tryharding so from c2/c3 im around plat/dia now not rly caring to rank up too much. And good Lord, there are some decent players, but nowadays u can't talk at all to get the feeling of others because u will be called a "smartass" "kid" "whateverinsultavailable" etc. It's ridiculous now, normally when we play i try to feel the player, and if he doesn't follow for example i'll say in spare time that i will try to passback for setup shot for him, so try to position in middle. And i kid u not, over 90% of the time ill hear "bro thinks he smart xD" or "u suck 12kid" . When i ask why do they think so or why the insults im reported for writing "bibles" or "paragraphs" for using 1 longer sentence. Are people so belittled today that they take anything as insult? What's up with the community? It changed sooo much and i just noticed that it's really impossible to communicate. I assume the better players have chat off cause they are silent usually. But my god, its stupid, it is the way i learned a word "double commitment" years ago and the meaning, but now people automatically assume they are insulted and respond with negativity. Do You have any advice, i just want to enjoy the game, passes, plays, etc, but im introvert and most my friends are either done with this game, or playing 5 min daily. I can't seem to communicate with people like i used to here, even to say how i play, which was always normal in every game i played, even here. Not now apparently. Am i just having hard time cause of any matchmaking reasons? I try to be more delicate than with my own gf, but the more i try to explain i don't want to insult someone, the more they seem to just ignore whatever i write and take for granten they are being insulted somehow. When i ask how they throw insults not related anyhow. I play daily in "tough" communities of varying games, round of League,cod,fifa, name the worst, but only here i can't seem to get any "understanding" with people.

With all of Reddit's recent news and releases, I wanted to write a post detailing Reddit's monetization efforts.
Reddit Awards
Reddit recently re-released awards, this time allowing people to react to posts with awards that are actually redeemable for money. Dubbed the contributor economy.
The model is supposed to follow something like Twitch where viewers can donate subs or bits to creators with quality content.
In theory, I think it's a great idea. I don't think we'll see the same interactions as we do on Twitch, where viewers primarily support their favorite streamers. But I do see a world where the contributor economy grows for things like: community fundraisers, donations to artists, etc.
The issue is that Reddit has done so little marketing for how the awards systems works, that hardly anyone knows how it works. If you look at the popular posts of the day, posts that have 50k upvotes might have 1 or 2 awards at most. Some of them do have awards, but most of them tend to be from the legacy gold system, where the awards aren't actually convertible to money.
Another issue is that the awards actually suck. I bought $50 in awards to test out the feature, and the images/emojis are actually terrible.
I see a world where these awards actually become an extremely profitable revenue stream, obviously not even close to Ads, but the feature in it's current state was extremely underwhelming.
Ads
I think Reddit's doing a great job with their advertising platform. Contrary to popular belief, I think Reddit actually has an excellent product for advertisers. Communities are quite neatly labeled, and advertisers can target the audience quite easily compared to other platforms.
They are doing a great job with marketing and building out a service center. I think it will continue to be a >90% revenue stream for Reddit as it grows.
The hard part is getting market share from companies that have historically advertised on Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Optimistically Reddit could grow this into a $10b ARR business within the next 5 years.
Partnerships and Data Licensing
Obviously with the growth in AI investment, Reddit is uniquely positioned to benefit a ton from this. There's no other platform on the planet with this much uniquely labeled current human interactions. Companies building AI, and perhaps other industries like Finance would invest in Reddit's data.
I think this could optimistically become a $2b ARR business in the next 5 years.
How does this affect market cap?
It all depends on how quickly these monetization efforts grow. In Q1, we saw a 50% yoy increase in revenue. If somehow, someway we that yoy increase hits 100%, we could see a market cap of 20-50X revenue. So if Reddit makes $2b next in 2025, and $4b in 2026, we could see a market cap increase of up to $200b.
I think that Reddit's monetization efforts are still in it's nascency. It could take 1 to 2 years for them to really start to explode. In which case, it's highly possible that Reddit hovers around the $10-$15b range.
But I truly think that Reddit is a generational platform, and you'll rarely get the opportunity to invest in a company with this much product success that is still in the early stages of monetization.