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Hey all! Vet did not have any specific ideas and encouraged me to ask this sub and others filled with cat lovers to see if anyone has any ideas as this seems far more behavioral and relationship based vs medical
King will be 17 this year and for the first 16 years of his life, he was the purrrfect (sorry) cat and companion. I spoiled him rotten and I dont regret it for a minute and he's the most good natured, friendly, playful and affectionate feline you could ever meet.
A year and a half ago he was diagnosed with a hyperthyroid that introduced a whole new level of cat care to me, including scrubbing what could only be described as "machine gun back door action" from the walls.
Trying to get him to take the pills was pure horror, as was the liquid but luckily there is an ear application variation and though he's getting better, the vet was pretty clear that we are getting closer to the end and so expecting a full-recovery isn't going to be likely but to at least reduce the stress from his condition in both that he feels hungry when he's just eaten and has uncomfortable BMs
King was always mildly talkative in a friendly way - usually the first hour I got home from work would be him chirping and for lack of a better term, conversationally meowing. He's gently meow when it was time for dinner and I was late by 20 seconds, or to tell me when he was ready for us to go to bed, or when he wanted me to open the door so he could sun on the patio.
That changed with the onset of his condition as litter box visits obviously became distressful for him and each time he'd start warble yowling, Id run to the litter box and try to coo him and talk gently to him until I got it diagnosed.
With the medication that warble-yowling continued, but less intense, however, I think he's trained me into realizing that regular update meowing is not as effective as TRAUMA HOWLING
And now he does this for EVERYTHING. When he wants a snack, when he wants attention, when he wants to be picked up, when he wants to go out to the patio, several times during the day if I'm not in the same room as him, and several times at night when hes not happy with the dried food options and wants a fresh can of wet food at 3:40am. Twice he jsut started doing it when he woke up until I came to pick him up, and then he started purring.
I have the fortune of working from home so I can be a full-time caretaker, but my job is extremely stressful and I'm on meetings a lot. I've had to apologize and explain several times that I don't actually have a dying child in my apartment, it's just my cat who has decided that all vocal communication must be at a 10 volume set and screech yowling yodeling - to such a degree and frequency that he's almost choked on himself - is the new way to communicate.
I'm a patient person, but I was working on a really complex and frustrating project and he became so insistent and demanding for food, I ended up slamming my hand against the wall and yeling his name and Im finding myself getting closer and closer to losing my patience.
This was not effective as it meant he updated the YOOOOWLING into pity "oh my god youre so mean" mewls and ran into a closet and I felt terrible and spent 10 minutes comforting him until he was purring - and the moment I got up he charged into the kitchen to begin the howling again as though he doesn't have 3 bowls of food, fresh water and had been fed 19 minutes earlier.
I know he's not doing it on purpose and I know he's suffering with thinking he's hungry and when he has BMs, the last thing I ever want to do is be scary to my feline bestie, but being exposed to this all day and all night is starting to really fray at my nerves - does anyone have any experience with someone who recently became a howl yowler and what possible fixes there are?
Thank you!!!

It's been over a month since I started the job application process and I'm so frustrated. I want to rip my hair out.
I've had a relatively vague employment history and my job knows this. I was a babysitter once off for a few kids, pre-covid and I no longer have their number, then worked in two seperate food establishments, one of which I left on bad terms with and one I haven't been able to contact despite emailing so many times and calling more times than I can count.
And now, despite stellar academic and character references, they are asking for the contact information for these people despite me explaining this over and over again. I am so freaking frustrated. I was told I would have started by now and it feels like I've been running around in circles. I already have this job, why do I need more references? It feels like they're purposely prolonging the process at this point. I don't even have an induction date set. I've done all the necessary checks. They just don't seem to get that I can't physically do anything else. And yet I'm so nervous they'll turn round and say 'actually we don't want you here'- not sure if they CAN do that but it's a worry of mine.
I knew this was a job that would take me a while to start, but it's been a ridiculously long time. I was under the impression that once my background check was done that I would be getting contacted for a start date. The other girl who applied same time as me has already started.
Ugh. I just can't deal with this.

Just wanted to let folks here that it's possible.
Laid off (my first) 2 months ago. Had resume reviewed and cleaned up. Made daily (even weekends) habit of applying on all the job boards, called contacts, etc. 200 applications. 9 invitations to interview. 3 went to final round. 2 offers.
You can do it.

Who we are
Monterra is an early-stage B2B SaaS startup helping EV charging pros design and sell projects faster. We have electrical contractor and project developer customers across the US and UK. We raised a $2.5M pre-seed round, led by Base10 Partners, in Nov 2023.
Monterra is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join us “on the ground floor” and play a foundational role in our product journey. If 1) accelerating the EV transition with software and AI, 2) supporting the builders of a cleaner, electrified future, and 3) building software with a real world impact sound exciting to you, you should keep reading!
Swift deployment of charging infrastructure is critical to electrifying and decarbonizing transportation. Installers play a central role in this, and Monterra helps them work faster, deploy more chargers, and grow their business.
We are a small-but-mighty team of 4 (growing to ~7-8 this year).
Our Mission
Purpose: Enable the builders of a cleaner, electrified future Vision: Bring AI and automation into every aspect of electrical work
Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a full stack engineer building user-facing products
• Proficiency in Typescript and Next.js or similar framework
• Self-driven & comfortable with ambiguity - able to plan, sequence, and execute projects
• Strong at technical trade-off decisions
• Strong communication skills
• Experience at a startup
• Bay Area-based & excited about working in-person 2-3 days per week in SF

Nice-to-haves

• Electrical engineering domain knowledge
• Familiarity with electrical trades or construction industries
• Experience with Mapbox, GIS, or other geospatial tools
• Experience and/or interest in building AI applications

We encourage you to reach out even if you don’t meet every requirement
Salary Range $120,000 - $200,000 Per Year
Learn more about this job and apply here

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This may seem like a silly question, but I haven’t been able to find a good answer online, and I have very little caulking experience.
I work a job that requires us to get materials from a specific company. They have a sealant I need for a job, but only offer it in 20 oz sausages. They’re labeled as “cartridges”, but they are sausage packaging (this was confusing to me so I thought I would clarify).
To use these I would need a 20 oz sausage gun, right? My problem is that the only 20 oz guns they sell are half-barrels, which I don’t believe would work on a sausage? So the smallest sausage gun they have is a 24 oz.
Will I be able to use this 24 oz gun with a 20 oz sausage? If possible, any additional caulking knowledge would be helpful to me as well, whether it be clarifying some confusion I have above (difference between cartridge & sausage?), or just general tips for application. It would be much appreciated!

Was laid off in late 2022, and since then I have missed out on several ideal remote jobs, usually from small to medium sized companies, in the final stages due to the fact that I am in Louisiana. I've occasionally received feedback from recruiters that their HR dept. says it has to do with "taxes" but nothing much more than that. Recently I caught this at the end of an application:
"X has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC."
I assume this is related to the issue I’m experiencing. Does anyone know what specifically these states have in common, or what Louisiana does, that makes it less desireable to hire candidates from these states?

Hey everyone, I read this sub a ton and learn so much from you all, so I wanted to share my recent journey for anyone who is also going through a layoff or looking for a new role. I was laid off in March with zero notice and previous messaging that all is well internally blah blah, Unicorn cybersecurity startup. Had a layoff less than a year before this one.
Background Job History: 3 Years, Helpdesk/Jr. sysadmin > 1.6 years Sysadmin / Systems Engineer (Managed small company IT infra (Linux, windows servers, internal application), worked with Devs to introduce code repos, CI/CD pipeline etc.) > 3 Years Solution Architect at Cybersec company
Education / Certs: Associates if that even matters, no certs at all (working to change that this year)
Being on this sub and others on reddit I was absolutely terrified, and I had 2 months of severance so I just hit the ground running and hit up everyone I knew personally and on Linkedin. Message everyone you fucking know even if you've spoken to them once, I've found almost everyone extremely friendly and willing to help, especially if I'd worked with them previously. Primarily used Linkedin for job posts and it seemed like there was a steady influx but once you go through all of them in a few days you start to see the same stuff. This may be obvious but UPDATE AND OPTIMIZE YOUR RESUME. Thought I had a good one, sent it out to 3 places and got auto rejected, then my previous manager spent some time with me to optimize it and never got another auto rejection going forward.
Stats wise, it looks like I applied to 110 places since March (add 20-30 to this), I see 47 emails in my "rejected / rekt" folder so over half passed on me and the other 40% are no replies. From my connections I managed to land a couple of intro calls, and I surprisingly had a few internal recruiters hit me up from my cold applications. Roughly 10 intro calls with different companies, 7 of them made it to a second call with hiring manager. 4 of those passed on me, and YOU ARE GETTING NO FEEDBACK from these fucking recruiters. Once they hear the word, they are a ghost and you no longer exist. One thing I've learned at the moment is recruiters are by far the most unprofessional people I've ever had to work with, wouldn't last a day as an SE/SA lol. I've also had recruiters reach out TO ME for a position, schedule a call and then ghost, and then reappearing a MONTH later to schedule a call as if nothing happened. Now that I took an offer, multiple recruiters from previous applications are reaching out for intro calls, ranging from 2-6 weeks after I've applied.
I was far along with a sort of no name company that I was going to begrudgingly take just to have an income and go from there, and a very very good company who I ended up taking an offer with. The interview process with very good company was difficult. Recruiter, Hiring manager 1hr, technical discussion (1hr, lots of cloud questions and troubleshooting type discussion to see thought process), ~1.5hr panel with 4 people on 2 part take home assignment, 1 technical section which was straight forward, and a daunting role play presentation on a system architecture shift. Got an offer 3 hours later, was very proud of myself on the presentation as it was a bitch and I crushed it.
Caveat to all of this is that the role is straying a bit from traditional SE/SA work and is more dealing with current customers and if they are using the product properly and there is potential for new feature use, expansion, etc. New team so haven't figured it out exactly, but the company is phenomenal, and I got a slight base bump and significant OTE bump (70/30 now vs 80/20 before) + RSU's and other nice perks. We'll see if I like the work, but it seems to be a really good team with a lot of members who are coming from SE/SA world as well.
Anyways sorry, that was my morning caffeine rant but figured it could be a useful reference point for someone, cheers.

(PAYPAL/VENMO) I'm new to this sub and this might be a long shot. I thank you for your time regardless. I have a previous loan arrangement that I am paying off on June 5th. I am in need of an assortment of basic necessities and also upcoming unexpected expenses. I am using my previous loan for my new job's background and finger printing and license application. I was initially told it was going to be 50$ and have been Informed it will be 165$ actually. It is no longer a renewal I have to resubmit my entire application due to it being a new company. So a portion of this loan will cover that little bit I do not have. The rest will be put towards fixing a coolant issue on my car. And a bit to go towards food and basic needs. I chose the following dates June 5th for first loan, June 19th for second loan first split payment and July 3rd second loan final split payment because these are the days I by my employer that I will be receiving my checks. Can provide id proof and employment proof. Again thank you for your time!

I seriously hate it here! That’s the post. 🙃

My regular income is only $17 an hour, cant afford shit. But I do have money from other legal sources. (investing). I have 4k in savings rn, and I could cash out 10-15k comfortably and add that as well. How do I leverage this to get an apartment? Do I send them a screenshot of the savings with the application and say just trust me? What’s the correct and most professional way to say hey, I know my job doesnt pay a lot, but I can afford this right now. And how WOULD you do it? Pay as much as possible upfront? Or pay as you would regularly..

This was my response to a person who wanted to manifest an ex back into their lives:
Everything begins with a thought. It’s all a thought. The problem with manifestation has different elements. 1) is your personality/popularity enough to garner souls in order to work for your thought? 2) is your ex’s thought more powerful than your thought? 3) does another entity have the same thought that you do about your ex, and desiring him/her? The art, because it is an art, of collecting souls in order to work for your thought, is important because it’s not only you, who will get your ex back to you. “Manifesting” things into or out of your life has become more widespread and difficult because more and more people are understanding how it works. Think about it, if few people understood manifesting people, money and possessions into their life, those things would be easier to obtain. The more people find out, realize, understand and utilize manifestation, the harder it is for us to manifest those items into our lives. Manifestation will be compared to a job interview. 100 applicants for 1 job. People are leaning about manifestation more and more and the teachings of it are more widespread because we want more and more people to understand, “hey, take care of what you have”, your job, your man/woman, your car, your home, your family. Because just like a high, sought after job spot, there are 100 people waiting to take your spot. That’s all.

I haven't had a job officially since 2022. In the meantime, I've self-taught myself Programming and other sciences, as well as gotten into self sufficiency, so that way I don't take too much from the tree of other people's labor. I've only grown MORE skilled since college, and even MORE so since being unemployed.
I'm also starting to notice that getting a job is not an attainable goal. We should only pursue what's in our immediate control. Getting a job is not. Exercising, learning programming, baking, and gardening, and taking care of fish ARE. Application searches, interviews, and otherwise have too many unknown variables. And it's for the birds, and I'm gonna flip MY bird at it.
Reality is, I'm having a good time, and I don't care about societal stigma.
I. Am. Free.

Just wondering if anyone has any tips on getting J2 as a Fullstack (or Frontend or Backend) Software Engineer.
I know I am not the first person on the internet to ask this question but I feel like it's a pretty fluid thing so maybe people have advice for this specific time in the market.
I have settled into J1 and am looking for J2.
I have a solid track record with about 9 years experience, currently working as a Senior Software Engineer. But no experience at top companies and I am not an expert Leet coder either.
Anyways I just spam the "Easy Apply" section everyday on LinkedIn but I haven't gotten any hits there. I would imagine it's watered down from other people doing the same thing lol.
Should I find other job boards and more carefully curate my applications, or do you think it's still just a numbers game and keep pumping the easy apply button?
Or maybe I find a few recruiters and send them my resume and ask them to help? if that is an approach how do I find the right recruiters?
Other thing I am wondering is my current title is Senior Software Engineer, should I hammer applications that do not have the Senior title? Maybe that would put me to the front of the line? Obviously since it would be J2, a lower salary/expectations would be more ideal anyways.

Hey everyone,
I'm currently someone (30M) who has always had folks by my side all my life as part of "my team," as my parents call it. A major reason for this outside support network is because I'm autistic, have ADHD-I, dysgraphia, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, PTSD (more on that later), and processing speed in the 3rd percentile. I did not learn I was autistic until I was 14 and always took medication for it and my ADHD-I. I also did not know I had ADHD-I until I was 24-25 because I was on my own for submitting the records of my disabilities to the graduate schools I've attended up until this point. As for my processing speed, I did not learn it was that low until this past August when I sought a DSM-V re-evaluation with my own money.
My mental health symptoms were so severe that, despite doing well academically in a suburban school district that was well funded through property taxes (I'm in the US so the education system here is messed up), I transitioned to a tiny high school that specifically accommodated disabled students. This school had no AP, honors courses, or foreign language courses offered at all. I enrolled in a rural undergraduate school because they gave me the best scholarship offer and my parents insisted on getting as many scholarships as I could (more on this towards the end of the post). Despite my university's reputation as the "stoner college" of northern Ohio, I got my butt handed to me academically and had a 3.1 GPA from that undergraduate and a 3.26 from all of my courses overall. Part of the reason was because I went for a BS, rather than a BA, in Psychology and didn't do well in the math courses with the exception of when I retook Calculus 2.
After my first year, I wanted to take a break from college, but I was forced to stay at the behest of my parents. They even hired a life coach who worked with me from a distance for all four years. As grateful as I am for that support, I realize it was the beginning of issues with becoming totally independent. Fast forward to graduation and I have one summer's worth of lab experience and a 3.5 PSY GPA to my name. I'm forced to take a gap year because I applied only to Ph.D programs (big mistake) and had low GRE scores.
So, how did I get into graduate school with my awful credentials? My parents hired a different coach who specialized in job applications and had a lot of connections. I was able to sell what little I had and get offers to 6/8 Master's programs I applied to in Experimental Psychology and had solid references that explicitly address that they thought I could do well despite my shortcomings. This coach taught me how to contact potential advisors and professors ahead of time and taught me the ins and outs of selling myself to get in.
My final Master's record upon graduation was a 3.48 GPA and I graduated a semester later. My final year of the Master's program, I reconsulted my old coach who helped me write my personal statement and get in contact with potential advisors again. I got two interviews and had one offer of admission to the current Ph.D program I'm in right now. This was despite my lackluster GPA (both undergrad and Master's) and not taking another 10 hours for an assistantship during my Master's program (no additional TAship or RAship in other words, even though everyone else in my program did something extra by their second year).
After I matriculated into the program, I got my Master's in December 2020 due to COVID delays and defending later than I had hoped in my case. I eventually had an ugly falling out with my first advisor due to a misunderstanding (I'll leave it at that since this background detail is already long), but thankfully passed my qualifier project still. I think the world of my current advisor, especially since he was the only one who took me when no one else would at all. I developed PTSD from the experience with my first advisor based on a neuropsychological evaluation I got back in August 2023. When I spoke to the original evaluator for my autism, she said that it was only likely that way because my stress management is characteristically poor and I have extremely low stress tolerance.
Fast forward to now and I recently turned 30 earlier this month. I am back with the old coach who helped me with my Master's and Ph.D applications once again and they're even helping me with "life stuff," getting through all of it and were immensely crucial for helping me get through the situation with my first Ph.D advisor.
I am thankful for the help I've received, but as the top of comment of a previous post alluded to in this instance, I have not learned to walk on my own.
In case this information is relevant, I have $53k in student loan debt principal. The undergraduate loans are eligible under Biden's SAVE plan and have their interest waived when payments are due since they're $0 at the moment. I have about $26k saved right now that I'm not going to put back toward my $24k of graduate loans until I know if I have income after this August.
I have student loan debt even though my father makes over $200k a year ever since I was around 10 years old and my mother makes anywhere between $60k-$80k a year. My parents do not have student loans since neither went to college. I also just learned that the coach billed my parents for around $680 each month over past two (highest ever). Even though its $100 per one hour session (thus leading me to think it was $200 a month since we meet twice a month). Turns out they charged for email and text communications with me even though those were encouraged. Should I feel guilty for not keeping track of the spending despite the agreement with my parents to help me on that? Given everything else mentioned earlier, should I feel guilty for "blowing through" these support systems? Folks love to tell me that someone who had half the resources I did taking my spot in graduate school instead could've gone further.
There is also something else I've been wondering ever since I learned their income levels. Other than the spending on me and my brothers, why would they be that insistent on me and my brothers taking out student loans? They said that they, my grandparents, and me would all pay for "a third" and part of that third on me and my brother's end was taking out student loans. I should also note that I went to a private high school for those with disabilities tuition free despite my parent's income as well because I got an autism scholarship from the state of Ohio that waived tuition.
Only other things I know that are finance related are the $350k in loans (not sure if this was principal or principal + interest) my father took out for his small business, which I know were paid off around my junior year of undergrad. Other than that, I don't know the mortgage of the house or anything else related to its value. I do know there's a mortgage in general though because one of my brothers asked if he paid for the house upfront and he said he did not at all and took out a loan. What else could be underlying their spending? I'm open to hearing others speculate.
Also, thank you for reading this super long post.

There's a job that aligns with my skills and experience very very well. It's remote so it had tons of applicants. I 'easy applied' before I heard that's less than ideal. For the other jobs I did this with, I just took the L and moved on
but this is a great fit with very specific reqs vs just meeting basics, and it's been 5 days, and I assume they just haven't weeded through the 600 easy apply apps as I've seen noted by recruiters those 'easy apps' tend to be at the bottom compared to direct site apps.
So do I apply on the career site? Posting's still up there and other places, like LI. Or would that actual look bad to 'double apply'?maybe I should message a recruiter on LinkedIn?
Msg recruiters seems to never really work for me or any others I know looking now, so I'd hate to rely on that, if you've had luck msg recruiters on LI, what do you say that gets them to look?.
Or another option to bring attn to my app that I'm not thinking of without being offputting?

I can't even explain how frustrated I am with my degree. I've been trying to leave my job basically since I started 2 years ago because the environment is toxic, but now I'm getting laid off so I don't have a choice.
I've been applying to so many jobs (and have been for years) for so long, and I'm fucking exhausted. I get bare minimum interviews and never proceed past the initial most of the time. I've been told I interview great, and that I meet qualifications but that there's just too many applicants that I won't be interviewed. I love this field but finding a job should not be this hard. Another thing is that finding a job where an mph is desired is RARE. Most jobs will say they only need a bachelor's and then don't want to pay what an mph is worth.
I know I'm not alone in my struggle. I was a contract epi for 6 months, and I've been doing health education in a research setting for the past two years. I own a house and can't relocate. I'm currently in SE Wisconsin.
I'd love any advice you have 😭 I can't afford to be jobless.

I need to rant/vent, apologies for subjecting any readers to it.
I'm a data analyst with 6+ years experience. Have a background in data science and have worked in several different companies over the last few years via mostly remote contract work. The most recent job was an 18 month contract with a giant tech company everyone has heard of, so I'm thinking it will be a steady paycheck and I'll have plenty of time to prepare for the next bout of job hunting and having this company on my resume will make things easier.
Turns out they terminated my contract more than 5 months early (I live in an at-will state, my contract was written in a way where there is no recourse for me) because upper management decided they wanted to outsource the work to an offshore company rather than pay contractors. They also gave me about a week's notice that this was happening. No such thing as loyalty, I get that but it sucks.
The real problem is that I have been looking for work now for almost 3 months, and haven't had a single interview. I've never seen the job market this slow since I entered this career. Direct applications to companies get crickets, and recruiters are so poorly organized or unresponsive I'm starting to worry about entrusting my information to these people. One recruiter tells me after scheduling an interview the client realized they posted the wrong type of job (after approving the job description). Another says the company was worried about the short tenures I've had with companies, when I have clearly listed that it was contract work. Another says I've been shortlisted for interviews, then radio silence for the last 3 weeks. Another tells me the company declined me because I didn't have experience in two required software packages, even though those are clearly listed on my resume. It's maddening.
I like what I do, and am motivated to work. I have certainly sent out more than 100 applications at this point, maybe closer to 200. I'm reaching out to friends, family, past coworkers, everyone I can think of to find leads on jobs or how I can improve my chances. I'm working 2 side gigs to make ends meet, and I'm lucky to have my wife supporting us with her income, but we all know that single income households don't exist anymore and the constant scramble with no progress is wearing on my mental state.
All this and I still hear people making statements about lazy people relying on unemployment and benefits so good they don't want to go back to work. That jobs are open because people don't want them. How can people seriously think that, when the process of even finding employment is so grueling at this point? If I hear one more person saying this nonsense, I feel like it's going to take everything in my power to not punch them.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.