Prompt questions:
What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards
Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)
Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)
Best meal you’ve had
Best place you’ve visited
I got synaesthesia, and Track_Shovel is a red and yellow name.
That’s super cool! What colour is your name
Mothra is kinda brownish-mauve, but my irl name is orange
I don’t have synaesthesia, and Track_Shovel is a name.
Fair enough, equally valid
What colour is my name?
Pale orange
What about me?
Mostly yellow with a brown patch
My 2nd and 3rd toes are webbed up to the first “knuckle” on both feet
Im the person who’s been “chosen by the people” to do “IT stuff”. Family, friends, teachers, and neighbours reach out to me for the simplest tasks. Stuff they could probably figure out on their own, but insist I do for them.
I’m a nightmare for my school administrators, as I know my way around every blocking and monitoring thing they’ve set up on the school equipment.
I’ve also caused headaches for the entire city wide school system, as I got cloudflare to (unintentionally) block traffic from our ip address, and since all traffic is funnleded trough a VPN to a central gateway (all schools in said city use the vpn) ,meaning I blocked 66k kids from using the internet for 15m. ( I didn’t get in trouble :3)
Part-time cashier at a big orange hardware store while trying to get my degree in horticulture.
Best cake I’ve ever had: Chocolate Chocolate Chip by Nothing Bundt Cakes. Seriously, if there’s a location near you that you’ve always passed by, stop by and try it. Their Carrot cake and Lemon cake are also amazing.
Omg the carrot cake is delicious. Everything I’ve tried has been on point.
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I thought I only had some ADHD, MFW filling out the psychiatrist’s questionnaire and I’m marking everything on the inattentive section as “almost always”
? isn’t scoring highly on the inattentive section consistent with having ‘some ADHD’?
No idea I have my first session next week, I’ll know more then. This was all just some homework they gave me to do beforehand.
I’ve never had to do a job interview. 5 different jobs, all word of mouth.
amazing, but how?
I would also like to know where people network to find jobs. Haven’t had any luck. I just want a help desk role.
A lot of it has been family and college. The college I attended has a research group that allows students to do internships.
The college also runs job fairs every one in a while. Those kinds of things I huge.
Conventions of any kind as well, where you can speak to people in booths, or even any of the other attendees.
I’ve been to college job fairs and went to conferences. Didn’t really help.
My first ever job was running a wood chipper under my uncles tree business. Did that almost every weekend for a number of years. Even sometimes in the winter. I wasn’t even a teenager when I first started this job.
Second job was working in a warehouse at a company my mom worked at. They really needed weekend help.
My third job was doing landscaping over the summer at a smallish company where my brother in law worked at. The owner loved to hire students for cheap.
Fourth was a few software development internships ran by a research group at my college. I had a friend who was part of the group and vouched for me.
My current job is my first true career job as a software engineer. The project manager from one of the internships I had actually got a job as CTO at this company. Offered me a junior position there out of college. Been there almost 6 years.
I have applied to places where I certainly would have needed interviews, but I was never offered an opportunity.
To make this even more awesome is that I’ve interviewed candidates myself at my current job for junior positions.
Highly recommend IGNEA if you like melodic metal. A few faves:
Jinnslammer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_qqeXzM4g
Disenchantment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV9vpEit6E
Mermaids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU9WFEwsQQw
But gosh their stuff is just all awesome.
I have a bachelors of science dual majored in microbiology and chemistry with a masters in education and I work in IT.
I never quite understood emotions until I started hrt at 32.
I want to be a programmer by day and animator by night. I am nowhere near achieving that goal but everyday I am getting closer.
Music: Ritual Genocide by Ritual Genocide
Usless tid bit: I have 9th pair of teeth in my upper jaw.
Best meal: Naleśnik with pears by two lovely ukrainian ladies from a food truck
Best place: An overnight camping with hammocks in a medieval castle.
Metal
One of my all time favorite bands/albums/songs https://youtu.be/m0xgh6VfpbQ?si=nuAfWdbpD3E0eEQX
I once intentionally starved myself till the point of a huge headache as a personal experiment
Did a 30 day fast years ago, definitely need to look up medical information beforehand though. There’s some nutrients your body needs to function but it’s a short list which you can take with water (stuff that helps your neurons, etc). Was truly a different experience, would probably do it again if I had the time available.
I have total Aphantasia. There’s no internal voice, ever. I’ve never pictured anything in my mind. No taste, touch, or smell can evoke a memory or whatever it is other people have. My husband says he battles negative voices from his past? I live in absolute peace.
Incredible
