Hi everyone! I’m looking into a career in elementary education and wanted to start off working as a teachers assistant to see if I like the field or not. I currently have an associates in something completely unrelated (environmental science), and no applicable work experience. Im worried that because of my lack of credentials I won’t even be considered.
Online it says the only qualification for my state (TN) is an associates, although I would imagine they would like the degree to be in something education related. Are there any certifications that would help me be more qualified?

I recently got lucky and have received an offer from

1. Application Engineering role in a construction and engineering firm - 96k/yr + relocation
2. Research Assistant position An AI lab in the college I studied in Singapore. (It's not NUS/NTU)

My goal is to pursue an MS CS in 2 years and I'm wondering how best to improve my resume to get into a good (T10) program.
My resume currently - 3.53 CGPA, SWE internships at SAP and Publicis Sapient, one 2nd author pub in an A* conference and another paper to be submitted next month. This work was done in the lab I'm getting an RA position in. (I know I would get a strong LOR from the Prof even if I went to work somewhere else). I believe an important step in this process will be doing some part-time research for a another lab that will help me get another academic LOR.
Bechtel Application engineering:

1. Full-stack Application development
2. Good pay. RA pays nowhere close.
3. I like the US

Research Assistant position

1. Not exactly sure what the work is, but my PI suggested it will most likely be related to designing annotation processes for annotation and human evaluation of large hateful memes datasets. It might be possible that the work is better aligned to my interests,
2. I approached the Professor for opportunities in this lab and while I haven't been given a formal offer yet, I think the assumption is that I will be joining the lab. My PI has suggested in the past that I continue applying and interviewing for other jobs until a formal offer arrives.
3. A few of my friends say an RA position will look better on a resume for MS CS than SWE at a firm that is not really a product-based company
4. I'm counting on this Prof to give me a strong LOR for my MS application. I don't want to piss him off by taking this new offer.
5. My PI has advised me not to stay in the RA position for longer than a year. Which will mean I need to look for jobs again in the coming cycle. This cycle was very rough on me and I don't know if I will get lucky like this again.

I need some help in deciding between the two. Which position will look better on a Master's application. Finally, (SWE + part-time research + GRE) or (RA + part-time research (more research LOL) + GRE prep + job hunting). I'm also open to hearing out opinions on whether so much research is needed.
THANKS

We had been doing good the past couple of days, i find myself savoring every laugh and telling myself to enjoy the moment, since it may not last. I’ve been purposefully holding off conversations to elongate the good times. Earlier while spending time with each other over FaceTime, something he did bothered me a bit (completely unrelated to R) and we talked about it, and he went on and on with the usual “I messed up again, like always. I’m such a fuck up. It’s always me messing up.” And what not. I told him i want sincerity, not aggression (even if it was toward himself). I emphasized that it does not make me happy seeing him upset, that i dont bring these things up because i want to give him reasons to hate himself.
This turned into a long rant about himself and how he’s tired of trying to understand himself (he has autism, so he struggles with processing things and identifying his emotions). He kept repeating how he feels stupid because of how he’s been acting, and how he basically needs to get a grip. I brought up that one of my conditions since DD (almost 6 months ago) was that he goes to therapy. He did for a while, then his therapist ghosted him so it wasn’t his fault. But i told him i need him to focus on it again.
This turned into me pouring my heart out again, since i dont actually get to talk about my experience much to him. It feels like i’ve been coddling him this whole time, when i’m the one that needs the help. Anyway, i told him how i can only do so much to help his struggle with self-worth, and there are people whose job centers around his needs.
I went a little off track from this, since he thinks he’s facing the hardest battle. “You think i’m not frustrated? That i’m not tired? That i don’t feel stupid?” I’m frustrated that i have to keep repeating myself, i’m stupid for helping and chasing a man who doesn’t want help and keeps running, that when i tell him he needs to face his shame instead of distracting himself, he listens. I feel stupid knowing that the current conversation won’t mean anything by next week, that the cycle will loop and i will let it. You’re frustrated because your efforts aren’t working on yourself? I’m frustrated because my efforts don’t mean anything either. What are we even fighting for? He says he’s tired of fighting. Fighting what? His own mind? We don’t fight. The only battle is in his head and no one can help him. It’s not like he’s fighting for us, i told him that if i stopped trying then our relationship will end, because there is no one else holding it up. He refuses to get out of this self-loathing. I feel stupid having to defend him to others, because he wants to convince them that he’s awful. His brother was talking about how proud of him he was, and he tried to tell him he wasn’t what his brother thinks he is. What good will that do? I feel stupid for not letting him convince other people. But if that’s what he thinks of himself, why is he with me? If he’s such a horrible person. Why are you HERE?? You obviously don’t think that enough to leave. What is the point of any of this? I’M TIRED TOO!
He hates himself more than he loves anything else, including me. If he doesn’t change, that will be the reason we fail.
I told him all of this, and he became extremely overwhelmed. He said he felt conflicted, he was stuttering (which i don’t think I’ve ever heard him do before). He couldn’t say a full sentence, and he said his head was hurting. He said he didn’t know how to feel or what to say. I asked if he was mad at me, he said he didn’t know. I asked if anything i said bothered him, he said he didn’t know. He said he needed to sleep on this.
There is nothing i can do for him, i know this. But i know i love him, because i still try anyway. We’ll see how much more of this i can take. We’ll see if he even wants this by tomorrow. I don’t know what i even want at this point. No progress has been made since March. I’m so tired.
Edit: added more to the rant

Posting that key part of a story that I'm vaguely seeing in my mind's eye.
There's much to establish and hash out to myself. I'm pretty sure there's four characters and not two, and we have to figure out what ending the Mechanist reaches.
But Starkros (working title) isn't my story; it's one of many possible intersections of our two. (My story -one of them - is Nightfall, of course. Not a working title. Imagine a world 🎶. I can see the parallels between it and my life; almost-direct, and yet missing a lot of facets, of people you might find interesting yet I find boring and pretty distant to my life story overall. Things I do care about usually end up forming its story arcs. You'll be delighted to know that I haven't figured out where you exist in it, yet. You're in other stories, like this one I'm seeing bits and pieces of; but still. If it makes you feel any better, I'd spend endless time writing about you, but I still haven't woven you into my story. I wasn't trying to, without your consent, Bee. I want us to talk things through together; but I recognize your need and desire for safety and that you were feeling uncomfortable and potentially unheard with me. FWIW, I am truly sorry. I know you don't trust my words but the Action of staying away and yet expressing Myself at the void of the internet... probably does very little to make me not seem Limerent, I'm sure. But I don't care; I like you, I'm rambley. Love languages; I'll learn to prioritize Actions and also express my needs if you ever do welcome my company again.)
And yes, this isn't the full story; merely a nucleus. I'd need to be my fully-Happy self to focus on and write it; while I'm occasionally reaching Realized I'm not quite at Happy yet. But I'm happy enough that I'm getting there, it's only a matter of Time, Projects, People, and (? Routines? idk, but I could totally make a new mantra lol) before I'm in a Happy rhythm again. I do miss you lots, and wish talking-to-you could be a part of it; but I won't reach out and try until you see I can be Happy in other areas. It might help you to trust me again; and literally anything I can do to improve my chances are a thing-I-will-do before I reach out, I know you Shouldn't mean that much to me but you Do. :P
With all that said, I would just need more Moments with you to encode/better understand Starkros. If I get to a Happy Writing-Point and you rejected me I'd still be able to write it; I'd just either need to extrapolate the rest of the story (doable, but with less resonance to me; so more could-go-anywhere lol) or more likely would just be writing other stories that still resonated. I just kinda do things and am figuring out how to do them effectively. (Yay project manageme- aw. 😂)
This isn't me working at full thought-encoding efficiency by the way. Still just tappin' away at a computer. It sucks having a sense of how computing should work (and will work in 500 years) yet being stuck with digital caveperson tools to try and realize it, lol. (See: Nightfall; they live in a digital world =D)
As a side note - I saved + archived* that Snowy Lab sub-story but this might be a part of it; that was the one where his chest spits out a bunch of rocks and he starts chipping away at them, i.e. working on himself. (I don't think that'll be the Mechanist character, though)

• I'm starting to give the Mechanist thought-crystals, though; so maybe I will edit the Snowy Lab thing to be that he uses crystals to dull the rocky points. Hmm.
  
• (I need to stop archiving+deleting stuff; I'm self-conscious about looking like a limerent-crazy-person lol. I do need to make the thing to sort Thoughts into Spaces; so then I can just shake my head sideways, dump out all my thoughts to paper or screen, and just *sort them out like the friggin' millennium puzzle and get my thoughts and sense-of-self Unified and under control lmao)
  

Anyways, without further ado, the stuff I consider a nexus/turning point to a story in my head, presented in media res and without much explanation. Sorry it isn't surrounded by the rest of the story, yet. There is a fuzzy understanding of these characters; but my writing tends to start off very heavy-handed (see the "working on himself" thing lol) while adding subtleties later. I actually need a lot more practice as a writer; but you thinking I'm good is still a happy-talisman for me =3 (If you no longer do tell me much later, I could use happy-talismans right now 😅 I hope to reread yours in native German someday... It's probably as beautiful as your art, which I ^{miss no longer seeing but I know it's my fault for not listening} )

Having trudged on long enough, she fell, giving in to her exhaustion. The ground rose to meet her, the storm having battered her down. Slumping into a rest, she prepared her systems to enter standby.
A shadow momentarily passed the flickering candle in the window; she could sense those foreign subsystems... the figure was approaching.
She sighed; very well, do your worst. She'd make it easy for him. She opened her mental hatchway, disabled the safeguards, yet left the last one - total lockdown - intact for herself later. She'd sooner close herself off completely than end up his puppet. No matter what. She'd escape that fate.
The figure approached; but even as it did, she let exhaustion take her first. She closed her eyes...
...And opened them. Time had passed; her Systems had been partially restored; yet... very little had changed. She still sat against that wall. Surprising. She looked around.
The shadow that'd been approaching her - the Mechanist - sat a ways away from her again; typing away at a portable Terminal. Wires and cables connected to his systems. Surrounding the two of them was a large, rectangular Tent. Its thin flapping material was anchored to some frame-structure, extending the Mechanist's hexagonal reprieve temporarily; yet they were not inside. She'd expected to wake strapped to a cold experimentation table; or perhaps a warm façade of a room - another of his Illusions obviously meant to ease her inhibitions, though he seemed to dwell overmuch on them.
But no; instead, she still simply sat exactly where she'd been; a thin tent shielding them from the worst of the Elements but doing little else. The particulates still ate at her outer Shells; her System still reported feeling biting cold; and innately, gentle Orange and Red lights still pulsed and flickered in various places and status panels; the reason she'd been seeking new Components in the first place.
She'd felt largely recharged, cursorily repaired. Certainly less damage done than their first encounter. At least now he'd largely stopped trying to interfere with her systems.
She looked over at the Mechanist. Those foreign modules... Under his coat and at his belt clinked the Crystals, the modules he'd claimed to have wanted to give her, his nigh-alien technology that she feared clashing with her own. Yet they lay undisturbed in their casings, the Mechanist simpy having run systems updates against her own database, restoring her to the condition she'd been in before - including his own access level, her mental hatchway closed once again. Remote. Minimal. Untrusted foreign objects, unknown, adversarial. Shoot on sight. He hadn't intruded any further, informed the logs.
Her hesitation and wariness gave way to sheer confusion. "Perhaps I don't... Understand," She began; but the Mechanist stood up, closing his terminal. He'd finished the work of restoring her systems, so much as he could given his access level.
"I can't install modules in you," he said simply. "Not unless your system accepted them itself. That was my mistake - I'm learning how to bridge our networks now, but it's tough going. Ultimately, my modules were less important than I'd thought," he began; yet already those strange wisps were forming around him, a picture materializing which he briefly considered, yet quickly shoo'ed away - but she caught a glance, irises zooming, recording -
He went on. "- I didn't need to install anything. You already have them - those core components - and I needed merely to quietly quell mine, understand yours," he said. "I was... excited, you see. I'd... well, there were many smaller mixed signals besides, but that one..." he'd devolved to stammering, and stopped with a wistful sigh. His contrition brooked little, he mostly just seemed speaking to himself. As usual. She played back the wisps' image. Those cutesy reduced-detail figures played again. She recognized figures his diagrams consisted of; one chibi blob poking the others' chest, yielding a pulse, a warmth, a... giggle? No wonder he'd waved it away.
Her eyes narrowed; she played back the wisping image again. His wave was sharpest at the giggle; perhaps he... understood a bit better, now? Her Security measures would kick in; perhaps he now thought that poke wouldn't be met with a giggle. Good, she affirmed to herself. He's never quieted his machines long enough to traverse her systems. How could he begin to know where to go, what to do? He'd kept running into stacks, causing errors; he'd done more harm than good and might've eventually destroyed critical Components she'd had, had she not yanked his access herself. (Then he'd gone looking, searching; claiming he'd "feared he'd hurt her" - yet too little, too late! What good could he do if he could not be trusted to see her signs, her signals, notice when her systems were reaching criticality, at that point? She'd simply have to regulate herself forever, how might he ever know, or grow, or change? What good could they ever do for each other, if the circuits needed to make it there were so hazardous?)
How, in this storm, could I ever trust you?
She didn't need him, she knew. And perhaps... Perhaps now, he knew it too. Back outside her thoughts, the Mechanist sighed, and started "Look, for what it's wo-"
A stony look silenced him. She felt she knew what he was about to say, but it didn't matter; he still missed things, didn't understand. He'd never understand her, she'd never make the same mistake again, again, again. With him, with others. Though her internals glowed Orange, Red - What was the point, risking the whole thing? These damn frustrating loops she was trying so hard to break out of?
I don't care what you think you're doing, she thought, coldly. You won't get me to do things I don't want to; I know you'll never respect my boundaries... and yet - the Mechanist had already nodded at her repudiation, not pressed. "I understand," and like that, he'd strolled to the door.
What is he... As he opened the flap, many of his wisps emerged to surround him in his storm of Thoughts once again; yet their whirling colors hadn't solidified still. Shapes dancing and forming and vanishing; yet he briskly exited, the projections occluded as his silhouette vanished behind the flap.
She wondered. Those colors often danced in a window visible far and wide, yet a tiny remote corner of the vast snowscape. (In that window, presently, simply sat the candle on a desk.) As scattered, as unfamiliar, as predictable, transparent as he was. Of course her model was not off. Of course there wasn't some other reason that could explain him.
Yet the remainders to her calculations nagged at her. Were there? Could he? Much as she tried to place him, he evaded her categorizations; his behaviors not-quite-seeming exact, perhaps him being likely hopeful to entice further tests out of her. She wasn't to be fooled.
The Mechanist was gone. She heard the distant rumble and clang of the hexagonal structure's door opening and closing. He'd made less of any push this time, hadn't pressed the matter.
She was still out in the cold; she got up, brushed herself off, and departed the tent herself. Leaving in a different direction, the saw through the window, the well-tended oil lamp still nurturing a candle, flickering away merrily. Its caretaker felt the biting cold inside his haven too; yet the candle's warm flicker still danced, promising its progenitor things he'd spoken of; roaring flames, a warming hearth.
That was never to come, she thought - yet stopped.
She turned, striding - back to the shelter.
She thought of the Mechanist, clanging away at who-knew-what. Her contained suppressed subsystems - unmodified? - fed her a remnant impulse. Tears? I don't know what to do with this, she thought, and surpressed them. But the Mechanist, those thoughts... I don't understand him... What the hell does he want from me?
And yet, she didn't ask. She paused just before the door. Through the window, his frame was visible, clanging away. He slowed, sensing the presence of approaching Systems, pausing the clanging for a bit. They were both waiting; a system in deadlock.
Clang-clang-clang resumed the sounds from within the lab.
Her hand hesitated as she rose to knock on the door; and withdrew. She knew what awaited her; she still couldn't trust him. Still couldn't know their separate Systems to work in sync. She still felt afraid; feeling the warmth yet risking the cold. Wouldn't it be better to stay out here, maintain control of her own Systems? What could she even say, that might explain the juxtaposition, while retaining her control? How might she ever trust someone who lept, and rushed, and changed minds and directions and chipped away "refining" thought-crystals and...
Her hand fell back. She turned, and left.
Back into the storm.

There's four characters, by the way - and I know I'm making a lot of assumptions buuut that cold robit's not how I think of you-you. But the Mechanist is right; he needed to quiet his Systems and keep listening, maybe asking. Had he not kept using thought-crystals he might've heard, eventually. 😅
And now they're all I have, and I feel lonely again. But that's fine. I was here before; and I was able to be happy. 🙂 I will be again; I'm just - there's a lot that's not going well right now, so I'll beat a hasty retreat and live to be truly-happy some another day, I think. 😅
CLANG-CLANG-CLANG :grin:

(Hi All,
Found this new question on another social media platform, so I stole some of the more popular answers, some are kinda long tho. But here it is for anyone interested anyway).
First answer: "Gangstalking and the "reality" they create for you, is nothing more than gaslighting. It's all about gaslighting and triggering you - They want your reactions, attention, triggers and much more mate. But at the end of the day most of their methods or tactics rely on nothing more than gaslighting.
Just google ways to combat gaslighting methods, narcissist articles are quite handy for this since as they tend to use gaslighting alot mate.
Here are some quick tips: -Educate yourself about their methods - Identify your triggers so they can't get a reaction from you - Remember you can't control what they say or how they feel about you. - Don't feel gulity about your feelings - Recognise the signs - Stay calm - Trust your feelings and etc.
Education and knowing your weaknesses is key."
Second answer: "Alright here is my take - The concept of gangstalking, which involves coordinated efforts to harass, surveil and psychologically manipulate an individual, is often associated with attempts to alter the victim's sense of reality. Here are several reasons why:
Psychological Distress: Altering a victim's sense of reality can lead to significant psychological distress, including paranoia, anxiety, and depression. This can make the victim feel isolated, confused, and unsure of their own perceptions. They often question themselves about what's happening to them and this can sometimes become a consuming thought to the unfortunate target.
And as a result gangstalking seems to become they're reality or at least the main factor in their lives. It's always to find a way to ground yourself in whatever form that takes e.g. Taking a walk and getting back with natural can help, watching or googling local news can help as well. I usually google local urban explorers or hang around my local community board on facebook for this. It helps me to remember that there’s more to life than gangstalking, no matter how challenging that sometimes can be.
Control and Power: By manipulating a victim's perception of reality, gangstalkers can exert a high degree of control and power over them. This manipulation can create a dependency on the gangstalkers for validation of what is real and what is not.
The aim is to make you question your own sense of reality or cause self-doubt/hopelessness with any actions & decisions you decide to pursue. They use whatever excuse or narrative they can to create this feeling/result E.g. The madeup narrative could include - Why they are gangstalking you for, how your actions don't matter and won't result in anything useful or with whatever lies they feed to you - Some narratives can be threatening in some manner as well.
They want you to only focus on them and them only. So gangstalking can become all consuming to their chosen target. (That’s why they train you to become hypersensitive for, so you will naturally think everyone and every stranger's action is because of them. That way you start to naturally do this harrassment to yourself instead. They want to turn yourself against yourself).
E.g. Your gangstalkers start using beeping car horns or someone coughing. So every time someone does it, you will start to think the innocent stranger is apart of them, when in reality they're actually not. This tactic is basically for you to harrass yourself with.
Discrediting the Victim: If a victim starts reporting unusual events that others do not witness or notice. Gangstalking is design for only the targeted individuals to notice while to everyone else everything looks normal. They might be labeled as delusional or mentally ill. This can discredit any legitimate claims they might have and isolate them from potential sources of support.
Breaking Down Resistance: Consistent manipulation of reality can wear down a victim's mental resilience, making them more susceptible to further manipulation and control. This breakdown of resistance can be a primary goal in coercive control tactics.
Eroding Trust: Changing a victim’s sense of reality can erode their trust in others, including friends, family, and authorities. This isolation can make the victim more vulnerable and easier to control.
This tactic is quite important to gangstalkers so the targeted individual doesn’t seek advice, useful information or share with others about their experiences or own personal advice. That way their situation or others cannot be improved/helped in anyway, shape or form.
Additionally they start to reject other's advice because the target fears that they could be a prep as well. E.g. Unfortunately you'll sometimes will see this behavior in some community forms that you visit.
I like to read the occasional post even if I don't quite agree with it as you can still learn some helpful things.
E.g. Like you can learn new things or terminology often associated with gangstalking.
Flying monkeys usually means the people who assist your primarily gangstalkers.
Zersetzung is a list of harrassment tactics used in world war 2.
V2k means voices you hear around you, that's not coming from a person directly near you. Usually created by artificial means.
M2K ultra is some government device, they can use to create dews or v2k.
You might not believe in some of these aspects but it's still good to know, what people are talking about or referring too. (Plus there are different types of gangstalking from community to government. So some posts or advice will seem quite different from case to case too).
Creating Fear and Uncertainty: When a victim cannot trust their own perceptions, they live in a state of constant fear and uncertainty. This heightened state of anxiety can make them more malleable and less likely to challenge the gangstalkers. Additionally you might actually start to believe everything they say too.
It's just important not to lose yourself or turn against yourself during gangstalking.
I like to use stonic beliefs myself to help combat this:
Stoicism, a philosophy founded in ancient Greece, offers a range of beliefs and practices that can be particularly helpful for individuals facing intense psychological stress, such as that purported to be caused by gangstalking. Here are some Stoic principles that might help:
Focus on What You Can Control:
Stoic Belief: According to the Stoics, we should focus on what is within our control and accept what is outside of it. This includes our thoughts, actions, and reactions.
Application: Concentrate on managing your reactions and maintaining your inner peace despite external circumstances. Understand that you cannot control the actions of others, but you can control how you respond to them. Distinguish Between false perception or narrative and Reality:
Stoic Belief: Stoics emphasize the importance of distinguishing between how things appear and their true nature.
Application: Question and critically evaluate your perceptions. Seek evidence and rational thought to ground your understanding of reality, helping to counteract the potential distortions caused by gangstalking.
Practice Mindfulness and Self-Awareness:
Stoic Belief: The Stoics practiced mindfulness to stay present and aware of their thoughts and feelings.
Application: Engage in mindfulness practices such as meditation, journaling, or reflective thinking. This can help you stay centered and reduce anxiety by focusing on the present moment rather than potential threats.
Develop Resilience through Adversity:
Stoic Belief: The Stoics believed that adversity is an opportunity to develop inner strength and resilience.
Application: View the challenges posed by gangstalking as opportunities to strengthen your character and resilience. Embrace the idea that suffering can lead to personal growth.
Cultivate an Attitude of Indifference to External Events:
Stoic Belief: Stoics practiced apatheia, a state of being undisturbed by external events.
Application: Work towards developing emotional indifference to the actions and opinions of others. This doesn’t mean you become apathetic, but rather that you maintain your tranquility regardless of external circumstances.
Seek Support from Like-Minded Individuals:
Stoic Belief: Community and fellowship were important to the Stoics.
Application: Find support from friends, family, or communities that share your values and can provide emotional support. Engaging with others who understand or share your perspective can be very grounding. Reflect on the Impermanence of Life:
Stoic Belief: The Stoics frequently reflected on the transient nature of life and its events.
Application: Remind yourself that all situations, including the distress caused by gangstalking, are temporary. This perspective can provide comfort and reduce.
I sometimes use these reminders so that I don't lose myself within the hazardous world of gangstalking and their evil tactics."
Third answer: "Because they're cockhead and they want to warp or twist everything around ya. They want to leave you feeling hopelessness or desperate so you lash out at them so you'll get into big trouble. Or even worst, lash out at friends or family so you weaken your relationship ties around ya. This will leave you isolated if you do.
I use to do this, myself: (located it from somewhere).
Gangstalking is designed to be non-believeable, so when you do speak out about it. Other people won't believe you. It's part of their tactics - E.g. If you say something to family or friends, you might end up in a mental health ward. Just because of the nature and the design of gangstalking and sometimes others could think: "Why would anyone go to so much effort to harrass you or waste that much time on you." Which is a fairly common response to non-targeted individuals.
Additionally it's not always easy to collect concrete evidence that you can actually show to the police. Unless they're directly harrass or attack you. Usually only other targeted individuals can understand what your talking about because they have experienced it themselves and know what to look out for as well.
It's fine to protest but it needs to done more carefully or properly. Gangstalkers have pretty much designed it this way, they have designed it to be non-believeable to outsiders so if you do seek help or tell others, you may seem silly for even saying it. But there are still ways around it.
For example as previously method - If tell your friends and family about gangstalking this could sometimes work against you but in some cases, they actually might be just accepting of your explanation or they could really believe you. It's just difficult to predict and it's very different from case to case.
The aim of telling others about gangstalking is usually to get help, advice or maybe just acceptance to explain why you do things as you do. But....you can use emotional manipulation to get the end results of alienation against your gangstalkers, without ever even mentioning the topic of gangstalking. (But this is tactic is mainly for community gang-stalking, I guess you could transfer the tactic if you find it applicable to your case tho.)
You can download the article here as it's a little big to share on here: https://docdro.id/43Ofp3p
It's not for everyone honestly but sometimes I say fuck them."

Hi everyone, I want to share my good news with everyone in this subreddit which was so useful throughout my application process.

• Service Applied for: Unmarried partner visa within the UK - Super Priority
• Date of Online Application: 21 May 2024
• Date of Biometrics: 22 May 2024 11:30 am (paid extra for this date)
• Successful visa confirmation email: 23 May 2024 8:50 am

Background of my application: Me (Peruvian - 32) and my partner (British - 32) have been together since Dec 2021. I came to the UK in 2021 on a student visa and then got a job and changed to a skilled worker visa in 2022. We met when I was still a postgraduate student, and I moved to his city for my new job. We didn't live together then because I needed to live close to my job, and to be honest before I moved there, we had only spent weekends together while I was studying, and we didn't feel ready yet to move in together. In Dec 2022, on our first year anniversary, we decided that we were ready to live together; we were already spending most of the week at each other's places. The only obstacle for us was that my flatmate didn't want to move out until the end of our lease, and I wanted to keep that flat, so we waited. My flatmate only moved out in Dec 2023 and that's when my partner moved in.
Some important details:

• Since we met there was no week that we didn't see each other, we mostly spent the full weekends together while I was still living at uni and then when I moved we would see each other most days and stay at each other's places.
• I am extremely close with his family, we see them weekly, and I consider them my family
• In 2023 he came with me to Peru to meet my parents and friends
• We made several trips abroad together
• My family has visited me here, and he has been an amazing host
• His salary is comfortably above the requirement
• I needed this visa because the company that sponsored me went into administration, and everyone was made redundant.

These are the documents we presented:

• Passport and pages with stamps – Applicant
• Biometric Residence Permit - Applicant
• Passport – Sponsor
• Driver’s license – Sponsor
• Lease agreement – from December 2023 (Both Names)
• Letter from employer and last 6 payslips – Sponsor
• P60 – Sponsor
• Letters from employer for the last two salary increases – Sponsor
• Bank Statements last 6 months - Sponsor
• Evidence of shared bills (They were all in my name, but we attached the summary of the transactions where he paid me rent+bills as well as a table showing that what he paid added up to half of the total of the bills)
  • Energy and Gas bills
  • Broadband bill
  • Water Bill
  • Council Tax
• TV License bill - Sponsor
• Council tax bills:
  • From before he moved in
  • From when he moved in but he wasn't in the account yet
  • From when he was added to the account (this was dated May 2024)
• Signed Declaration for spouses, civil partners, proposed civil partners, fiancé(e)s, and unmarried partners - Sponsor
• Bank letter with transactions record between applicant's account to sponsor's account. (I requested this to my bank)
• Transcript of degree taught in English - Applicant
• Detailed background of the relationship - I made a three-page document telling our story in detail
• Timeline of the Relationship with photos and chats as evidence - I went a little crazy and covered every week we have been together with either chat screenshots (showing the date) and pictures (screenshots of the camera roll that show place and time)
• Evidence of past and upcoming trips - made a separate doc for each trip with our itinerary, flights and bookings, plus pictures of the trips. I also made a document with our future plans, a trip we have already booked, and upcoming wedding invites.
• Supporting letters from family - my mom, his mom and my sister wrote in support and included their passports in the letters
• Cover letter from both of us - It had an introduction, the list of docs that we were presenting and some information we wanted to clarify.

Because we have only been living together for five months, our proof of cohabitation only covered that period. It was a challenge to find documents for every one of those months that were addressed to my partner since he was the one moving in, and he wasn't the best at changing his address right away on everything.
I think that the Home Office wants to see that it is a proper relationship akin to marriage. I will never know, but it may be a factor that I was switching from a skilled worker visa, and I had been paying taxes, but this is just a guess not based on anything.
Hopefully, this will help someone.

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This post is long overdue as I just kept procrastinating to do this for the longest, but finally, it's here.
The start is kind of tricky to figure out but the end is very easy. The start is most likely going to be with Richard Nixon's inauguration on January 20, 1969 and the end will be the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. I know early-mid 1969 does kind of seem like a stretch to include the transition (although some are even willing to start the 1970s in 1968, so maybe not a stretch after all), unlike late 1969-1972/early 1973ish, as that period still screamed "60s" in many ways with Woodstock, the Moon Landing, and such, but I think even that period had enough "70s" things to exclude it out of the "core '60s" territory, especially by the time you hit the summer of '69.
I know most will disagree with the timespan but this is just my opinion. This is gonna be much longer so this will probably be done in two or three parts, one again.
Let's begin.
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The inauguration of Richard Nixon - January 20, 1969

After the chaotic year that was 1968, with the incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson not running for a second time, Richard M. Nixon had narrowly defeated Hubert Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, in the presidential election. Nixon became the first non-incumbent vice president to be inaugurated as president, something that would not happen again until Joe Biden in 2021. I'd say this is appropriate to begin the transition into the tumultuous decade that was the 1970s.
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Sly and the Family Stone's 'Stand' album releases - April 1969

In the spring of '69, soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone released their fourth album Stand. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! is considered an artistic high-point of the band's career. Released by Epic Records, just before the group's celebrated performance at the Woodstock festival, it became the band's most commercially successful album to date. This album was another sign of the 70s era that was beginning to emerge with its soul and funk rock sound.
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Lew Alcindor becomes the #1 pick for the NBA Draft - April 7, 1969

The 1969 NBA draft was the 23rd annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 7 and May 7, 1969, before the 1969–70 season. The first overall draft pick this year would be none other than Lew Alcindor (or later, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as we all know him as) from UCLA for the Milwaukee Bucks organization. This would be the changing of the guard for the National Basketball Association as the veteran Boston Celtics dynasty were about to come to an end while a new dynasty has officially been born.
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The Boston Celtics win the 1969 NBA Championship - May 5, 1969

After defeating the highly-favored Los Angeles Lakers team of Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jerry West, the aging Bill Russell-led Boston Celtics team win the 1969 NBA World Championship Series to end off the 1968-1969 NBA season, acquiring win their 11th championship as an organization. This was a significant Finals series as this marked the end of the Bill Russell Celtics dynasty that began in 1956. This would be their final championship as a team as Russell would retire shortly after this playoff series.
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Star Trek ends with the "Turnabout Intruder" episode - June 3, 1969

"Turnabout Intruder" is the twenty-fourth and final episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Arthur H. Singer (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry) and directed by Herb Wallerstein, it was first broadcast on June 3, 1969. In the episode, a woman switches bodies with Captain Kirk and then tries to take over command of the Enterprise. This was the last original episode of Star Trek to air on NBC.
"Turnabout Intruder" not only marked the final appearance of all main and supporting cast members of the show but also the last appearance of regular background actors David L. Ross (Lieutenant Galloway), William Blackburn (Lieutenant Hadley and DeForest Kelley's stand-in), and Roger Holloway (Lieutenant Lemli and James Doohan's stand-in). The episode drew Nielsen ratings of only 8.8, in contrast to rival shows Lancer on CBS and The Mod Squad on ABC, which gained ratings of 14.7 and 15.2 respectively, a drop of over fifty percent since the show premiered. Cultural theorist Cassandra Amesley states that this episode is "agreed to be one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever shown" by Star Trek fans.
The original Star Trek series ending would be another shedding off of 60s culture.
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Brian Jones dies - July 3, 1969

Rolling Stones star Brian Jones passes away at the age of 27 in the summer of 1969 after reportedly drowning in his swimming pool. Long story short, a lot of theories would surface surrounding his death years later saying that he was killed. And more importantly, this would be the beginning of the "27 Club" deaths that would occur with 60s musical acts between 1969 and 1971.
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The Apollo 11 spaceflight to the moon - July 20, 1969

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing.
Humans walking on the Moon and returning safely to Earth accomplished Kennedy's goal set eight years earlier. In Mission Control during the Apollo 11 landing, Kennedy's speech flashed on the screen, followed by the words "TASK ACCOMPLISHED, July 1969". The success of Apollo 11 demonstrated the United States' technological superiority; and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race.
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The Manson Family murders - August 8 to 10, 1969

The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her companions Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, along with Steven Parent. The following evening, the Family also murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, at their home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
On the night of August 8–9, four members of the Manson Family – Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian – drove from Spahn Ranch to 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, the home of Sharon Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski. The group murdered Tate (who was 8½ months pregnant), and guests Jay Sebring, a celebrity hairdresser; Abigail Folger, heiress to Folgers Coffee; her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski, an aspiring screenwriter; and Steven Parent, an 18-year-old visiting the guest house caretaker. Roman Polanski was not home as he was working on a film in Europe. Manson was a cult leader and aspiring musician who had tried to get a contract with record producer Terry Melcher, who had previously rented the house.
The following night, those four people, in addition to Manson, Leslie Van Houten and Steve "Clem" Grogan, committed two more murders. Manson had allegedly said he would "show them how to do it". Linda Kasabian drove the group to 3301 Waverly Drive. Manson left with Atkins, Grogan, and Kasabian in the car and told the others to hitchhike back to the ranch. Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten killed the couple in the early morning hours of August 10.
The Tate–LaBianca murders "profoundly shook America's perception of itself" and "effectively sounded the death knell of '60s counterculture". Additionally, the ritualistic nature of the murders laid a foundation for the rise of the Satanic panic.
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The Woodstock festival - August 15 to 18, 1969

Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted more than 460,000 attendees. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals in history and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s.
The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as a defining event for the Silent and Baby Boomer generations. The event's significance was reinforced by a 1970 documentary film, an accompanying soundtrack album, and a song written by Joni Mitchell that became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort.
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS - September 13, 1969

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of a long-running media franchise primarily consisting of animated series, several films, and related merchandise. This show played a huge impact on Generation X "70s kid" culture.
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The Brady Bunch premieres on ABC - September 26, 1969

The Brady Bunch was a new series that premiered on ABC for the 1969-70 fall season. It starts with the episode "The Honeymoon", which gives this description on Fandom:
"Michael Brady, an architect and widower with three sons (Greg, Peter and Bobby) marries Carol Ann Martin, a mother with three daughters (Marcia, Jan and Cindy). Mike and Carol have a chaotic backyard wedding, in which the boys' dog, Tiger, chases the girls' cat, Fluffy. Mike and Carol admonish their children, yelling at them to go catch their pets. The newlywed couple goes on a honeymoon later that day, while the children sit at home thinking that their parents hate them. While on their honeymoon, Mike and Carol realize that they were too hard on their children, and they decide to bring them along on the honeymoon. They also bring along Alice (the housekeeper), Tiger and Fluffy."
This show would give another huge sign to 70s culture as a whole.
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Sesame Street debuts - November 10, 1969

In the fall of 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, makes its broadcast debut. “Sesame Street,” with its memorable theme song (“Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street”), went on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries.
The show was the brainchild of Joan Ganz Cooney, a former documentary producer for public television. Cooney’s goal was to create programming for preschoolers that was both entertaining and educational. She also wanted to use TV as a way to help underprivileged 3- to 5- year-olds prepare for kindergarten. “Sesame Street” was set in a fictional New York neighborhood and included ethnically diverse characters and positive social messages.
Taking a cue from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” a popular 1960s variety show, “Sesame Street” was built around short, often funny segments featuring puppets, animation and live actors. This format was hugely successful, although over the years some critics have blamed the show and its use of brief segments for shrinking children’s attention spans.
From the show’s inception, one of its most-loved aspects has been a family of puppets known as Muppets. Joan Ganz Cooney hired puppeteer Jim Henson (1936-1990) to create a cast of characters that became Sesame Street institutions, including Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Big Bird.
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The 'David Bowie' album releases - November 14, 1969

Originally released in the UK, David Bowie's self-titled album would be his second studio album released, which would be titled under the genres of folk rock and psychedelic rock. Space rock was another genre that this album experimented with due to its only released single "Space Oddity", which came out in July 1969 to capitalize on the Apollo 11 Moon landing, received critical praise, and was used by the BBC as background music during its coverage of the event. That song is considered to be one of the most musically complex songs he had written up to that point, it represented a change from the music hall-influenced sound of his debut to a sound akin to psychedelic folk and inspired by the Bee Gees.
David Bowie has received mixed reviews in later decades, with many finding a lack of cohesiveness. Bowie himself later stated that it lacked musical direction. Debate continues as to whether it should stand as Bowie's first "proper" album.
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The Altamont Free Concert takes place - December 6, 1969

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, with some anticipating that it would be a "Woodstock West". The Woodstock festival had taken place in Bethel, New York, in mid-August, almost four months earlier.
The event is remembered for its use of Hells Angels as security and its significant violence, including the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two from a hit-and-run car accident, and one from a drowning incident in an irrigation canal. Scores were injured, numerous cars were stolen (and subsequently abandoned), and there was extensive property damage.
The concert featured performances (in order of appearance) by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final act. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform after CSNY, but shortly before their scheduled appearance, they chose not to due to the increasing violence at the venue. "That's the way things went at Altamont—so badly that the Grateful Dead, the prime organizers and movers of the festival, didn't even get to play," wrote staff at Rolling Stone magazine in a detailed narrative on the event, terming it, in an additional follow-up piece, "rock and roll's all-time worst day, December 6th, a day when everything went perfectly wrong."
Many people would mark this event to be the end of the cultural 60s.
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The 'Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5' album releases - December 12, 1969

Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label on December 12, 1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preadolescent Michael Jackson and his four older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon, became pop successes within months of this album's release. Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5's only single, "I Want You Back", became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 within weeks of the album's release. The album reached number 5 on the US Pop Albums chart, and spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the US R&B/Black Albums charts. To date, the Jackson 5's debut album has sold estimated 5 million copies worldwide.
If none of the events that described previously had transitioned us into the 70s to any of you, then this certainly did.
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MAS*H releases in theaters - January 25, 1970

M*A*S*H (stylized on-screen as MASH) is a 1970 American dark war comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The picture is the only theatrically released feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the film's storyline setting, the subtext is the Vietnam War – a current event at the time the film was made. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who saw the film in college, said M*A*S*H was "perfect for the times, the cacophony of American culture was brilliantly reproduced onscreen".
M*A*S*H became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century-Fox and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and also won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, later named the Palme d'Or, at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
This film was a another huge sign of 70s culture as it inspired the television series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly, was the only actor playing a major character who appeared in both the movie and the TV series. Altman despised the TV series, calling it "the antithesis of what we were trying to do" with the movie.
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Paul McCartney announces his break from the Beatles - April 10, 1970

On April 10, 1970, when promoting the release of his forthcoming solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he is taking a break from the Beatles, the legendary rock band he had been a part of for a decade. It wasn't that much of a surprise. The Beatles spent the better part of three years breaking up in the late 1960s—and even longer than that hashing out who did what and why. By the spring of 1970, there was little more than a tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together. Each of the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. No one had yet gone on the record with a definitive break-up statement. Paul, for his part, hedged his bets.
By year’s end, Paul would file suit to dissolve the Beatles’ business partnership, a formal process that would eventually make official the unofficial breakup he announced on this day in 1970.
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The Kent State Massacre - May 4, 1970

In the spring of 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics.
In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
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Jimi Hendrix passes away - September 18, 1970

On September 18, 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27. One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."
Hendrix's death was reportedly due to him aspirating on his own vomit, later dying of asphyxia, while intoxicated with barbiturates. At the inquest, the coroner, finding no evidence of suicide, and lacking sufficient evidence of the circumstances, recorded an open verdict. Dannemann stated that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.
Jimi Hendrix's death was another huge blow to 60s culture and he would be another number added to the new "27 Club" list of celebrities that would continue with none other than.....
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Janis Joplin passes away - October 4, 1970

On Sunday evening, October 4, 1970, Joplin was found dead on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel by her road manager and close friend John Byrne Cooke. Alcohol was present in the room. Newspapers reported that no other drugs or paraphernalia were present.
According to a 1983 book authored by Joseph DiMona and Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, evidence of narcotics was removed from the scene by a friend of Joplin and later put back after the person realized that an autopsy was going to reveal that narcotics were in her system. The book adds that prior to Joplin's death, Noguchi had investigated other fatal drug overdoses in Los Angeles where friends believed they were doing favors for decedents by removing evidence of narcotics, then they "thought things over" and returned to put back the evidence.
Noguchi performed an autopsy on Joplin and determined the cause of death to be a heroin overdose, possibly compounded by alcohol.
Joplin's death, just like Hendrix's, was a huge blow to the more optimistic culture of the 1960s, and the 27 Club list of celebrity deaths are continuing.
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Other events that also had an impact that happened around this time period (give/take) that I could not fit on this list:

• Richard Nixon wins the presidential election, defeating incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace (November 5, 1968)
• Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower passes away (March 28, 1969)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit single "Fortunate Son" releases (October 1969), which was arguably the quintessential Vietnam War song.
• Pink Floyd's fourth album Ummagumma releases (November 7, 1969)

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And this will conclude the first part of this transition. Stay tuned for the second part to this.
I hope you enjoyed it and I would appreciate it if you would comment on these.

I am new to Power BI DAX and learning more about it. I have an Employee table and a Schedule table where employees that log on or logout are added to Schedule table, one record for their IN, and one record for their OUT. I created a date table for date range filtering. My issue is that I want to display the employees that does not have any INs or OUT record on the schedule table based on the date range, I can get it to work only for today. but no data is displayed when I changed the FILTER code to date range. It works if I use "=" EndDate or DateToday, but the code below does not work on filtering. The code below is my DAX Table for getting users that have no OUT record during the specified date. Any information will be very helpful for me!

NoLogouts = VAR DateToday = TODAY() VAR _startDate = MIN(DateSelection[Date]) VAR _endDate = MAX(DateSelection[Date]) VAR UsersWithLogouts = SELECTCOLUMNS( FILTER(Schedule, Schedule[in/out] = "OUT" && Schedule[date] >= _startDate && Schedule[date] <= _endDate), "employeeid", Schedule[EmployeeId] ) RETURN DISTINCT( EXCEPT( SELECTCOLUMNS('Employee', "ID", Employee[Id]), UsersWithLogouts ) ) 

I recently got lucky and have received an offer from

1. Application Engineering role in a construction and engineering firm - 96k/yr + relocation
2. Research Assistant position An AI lab in the college I studied in Singapore. (It's not NUS/NTU)

My goal is to pursue an MS CS in 2 years and I'm wondering how best to improve my resume to get into a good (T10) program.
My resume currently - SWE internships at SAP and Publicis Sapient, one 2nd author pub in an A* conference and another paper to be submitted next month. This work was done in the lab I'm getting an RA position in. (I know I would get a strong LOR from the Prof even if I went to work somewhere else). I believe an important step in this process will be doing some part-time research for a another lab that will help me get another academic LOR.
Bechtel Application engineering:

1. Full-stack Application development
2. Good pay. RA pays nowhere close.
3. I like the US

Research Assistant position

1. Not exactly sure what the work is, but my PI suggested it will most likely be related to designing annotation processes for annotation and human evaluation of large hateful memes datasets. It might be possible that the work is better aligned to my interests,
2. I approached the Professor for opportunities in this lab and while I haven't been given a formal offer yet, I think the assumption is that I will be joining the lab. My PI has suggested in the past that I continue applying and interviewing for other jobs until a formal offer arrives.
3. A few of my friends say an RA position will look better on a resume for MS CS than SWE at a firm that is not really a product-based company
4. I'm counting on this Prof to give me a strong LOR for my MS application. I don't want to piss him off by taking this new offer.
5. My PI has advised me not to stay in the RA position for longer than a year. Which will mean I need to look for jobs again in the coming cycle. This cycle was very rough on me and I don't know if I will get lucky like this again.

I need some help in deciding between the two. Which position will look better on a Master's application. Will I piss off the prof? Finally, (SWE + part-time research + GRE) or (RA + part-time research (more research LOL) + GRE prep + job hunting). I'm also open to hearing out opinions on whether so much research is needed.
THANKS

I hate even having to bring this up in public forum, but it’s the only place i feel like i can put this without feeling I’m just adding on to someone else’s stress. Really just venting. And I’m aware I’m more or less doxing myself if anyone at my base reads this but i need the outlet.
I joined exactly 1 year ago on June 10th. Ended up taking a maintenance job, knowing it would keep me busy and working, I’m a bit older at 29 so i really joined for stable work, and having a job in security system before joining i pretty much knew the jist of my job. Basic was fine, tech school was nothing special. My first base, which I am currently at is Kunsan AB. Without my knowledge, i was sent here without a security clearance. First base, 6 months into what was supposed to be a 1 year short tour and i haven’t even been able to work or learn my job.
A bit of background, i joined the army in 2015 and fractured my pelvis in basic training. Was sent home on a DD214, told i could rejoin 2 years later, well after 7 years, the secret clearance i got when i joined the army lapsed. Causing the Air Force to open an investigation because it was weird i was joining the AF with “prior service”. I got med boarded in basic, they knew that, but opened an investigation anyway. And i am a VERY boring man, don’t even have a speeding ticket to my name. I’m convinced i can’t do my job because someone is failing to do theirs.
I have gone 6 months being labeled “useless”. I can’t travel flight line alone, i can’t read manuals, i can’t work. We have been working on an interim clearance, but even that is taking a while, and I’m being told I won’t be able to apply for a follow on for another year because you can’t apply for a follow-on without a clearance. I’ll be stuck here for, at minimum, another year. The only reason n I’m even here being so i could choose a follow-on.
My anxiety is at an all time high and i feel like I’m literally losing my mind. I’m overthinking everything, i can’t stand having free time because i just get trapped in loops in my mind. I can’t play video games without having an anxiety attack and just end up staring at my steam library, i can’t drink alcohol because i get anxious just looking at the bottle, I’m scared and alone. And i don’t want to be alone but I’m too anxious to talk to or hang out with people, and when i do hang with people I’m quiet and feel like i just bring down the room and mood. I have an appointment with mental health on the 3rd, but my anxiety is just turning into a deep depression after being called useless multiple times today. I’m scared i’ll be kicked out for even mentioning depression or such crippling anxiety, but i feel like my life isn’t mine anymore. Like I’m just being lead by barbed wire.
I need some advice, some help, and I’m too scared/anxious to ask for it. Even calling to set up the mental health appointment literally exhausted me afterward. I’ve never felt like this and I’m overwhelmed.
TLDR: Anxiety is so severe I’m struggling to just be.