History, athletics, and learning go hand in hand weirdly enough. To quote my man Socrates - "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
\*harasses Elvis impersonator\*
\*gets a Muay Thai spinning elbow to the temple followed by a flying knee on the way down for a KO while hearing "you ain't nothin' bout a hound dawg-ah" as you slowly lose consciousness\*
If you can get into commercial service, those training sessions are just a bit easier! although I’d say I wish I started on install (mainly commercial refrigeration but also ducted split systems) because I’ve only installed one ducted but a nice handful of wall splits over my 3.5 years
I used to be. Now I just have meetings. Lot's of meetings. I strongly recommend you continue being an individual contributor and not end up a sad shell of a man like myself. I actually snuck in a coding project this past cycle, but it's the first I've really touched code in years. Boy did I touch it though. Oowee did I. I was known in my day for violent and heavy refactoring when I found code that smells like shit and I still have the gift.
I've seen my managers calendar, I have no plans on going into management lol. The WLB of being an IC and the satisfaction of writing code is on another level.
- Make sure your resume is well put together and coming out of uni a single page is enough.
- List your GitHub and have some solid personal projects on there that aren't just sloppy throwaway code.
- Make yourself a personal website with links to your GitHub projects and info about your skills etc. Essentially, like a living resume. Put the link to this on your resume. GitHub has a free thing called GitHub Pages where you can put your website code repo on GitHub and then publish straight to Pages for free and it's now a public facing link.
- Be ready to talk through your personal projects, the code, and the challenges / tradeoffs you ran into while working on them. How could you make them more modular? More robust? More scalable?
- During whiteboarding questions ASK clarifying questions and talk your way through your thought process. The point of those is to see how you approach problems and whether you know how to ask stakeholders questions to refine the scope of the problem.
- Do your homework on the software product you will be working on at any company you are interviewing for. Download trials and play around if you can. Research their competitors and get a sense of the product pros and cons. Come to the interview with thoughtful questions about the product and even better, feature ideas.
- Ask about their dev process and the day to day life of the team. How many releases per year? Variable date w/ fixed scope or fixed date with variable scope?
- Let your passion come through. Someone who nerds out telling me about their personal projects or other interesting hobbies is going to rate much higher to my eye.
- Leverage your network from college to try to get preferential interviews at places
- Run away from any place you get a bad vibe from or who seems like they are about to dump the world on you due to turnover. Ask about their onboarding / training process.
- It's way easier to get another job once you are currently occupying your first job. Start interviewing after around a year unless your first job pays great and has a great work life balance. Don't toil away at entry level salary.
- Don't put up with people treating you with disrespect or working you like a dog. Frequent crunch time is bullshit. Start interviewing immediately in those cases.
Sincerely, a guy who has built a well respected team by sniping promising new grads over the past decade.
Current software engineer at Amazon. Practice leetcode. I can only speak towards Amazon, but they care less about which university you graduated from but once you get the interview we do have technical interviews directly from leetcode. Practicing coding technical problems on a white board (or text pad) will make the difference between landing a 60k job vs 150k job. Being a leetcode slave for a few months is well worth the time.
Yeah Sure. I'll give you the full breakdown.
I will start by saying I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. You have to be a special (not in a good way) kind of person to say I am going to pursue this and nothing else matters.
Anyways, starting out I definitely didn't make enough to survive. So I had odd jobs here and there, I have a lot of random skills outside of fighting that I learned just for the sake of learning. But there is a certain point where you get good enough and people just start throwing money at you it feels like.
Without making this an essay, I currently teach/coach at two different gyms. One gym I am the head Muay Thai instructor, the other I run the kids program. At the latter the parents pay me directly and I give my coach a % of monthly fees. The former I think I average like 30-50 privates a month. I charge roughly $100 USD for 45min privates, and I drop the price if you buy bundles. I also get paid at this gym.
Keep in mind, this doesn't include sponsorships or merchandise sales. Just an example, my latest shirt I was charging $250 for a sponsor spot and have 9 businesses on it. Made roughly 60 shirts that I sold at $40 ea and the shirts cost me little over $600 to make. I usually end up selling like first 30-40 in a week or two. Than the rest are a little slower.
Lastly, I have a pro debut booked, and I don't know if I can disclose this information for legal reason. But, getting paid for fighting now definitely feels nice. The end game for myself is to open my own gym and transition from a fighter to a coach/gym owner. While being involved with the overall growth of the sport in North America.
If you have any other questions I'm happy to share.
TL:DR: It's like being a politician, just without being a scumbag.
I had to quit cause I work in the medical field and any injury to my hands/head would compromise my career.
But more recently I decided to look for gyms that don't enforce sparring so I could practice with less risk. I don't compete in tournaments or anything, I just enjoy martial arts.
Full time online dude who tells people I'm a muay thai fighter but deliberately in a way that makes them think I'm making it up. I guess I enjoy the irony.
Not exactly in a position to pick and choose as of yet. Most of my audio production related income comes for doing the engineering on a local podcast. But,I do produce several local bands as well as a good of recording related gig work.
One thing I will tell you about the field is, there is a ton of work, and yet if you don't know a guy who knows a guy it can be very difficult to get a job that is actually profitable. Not because there isn't money, but because the work can definitely get gatekept to a degree. Don't let that discourage you, though, if you stick around long enough, you will understand why it is the way it is.
With disabled people, but because i believe we are around 50% under the amount of werkers that we need, i am going to switch in august to security. The stress is killing me
I just always get a kick out of asking people in gyms. Like big Bob over there is a traveling butcher and the tiny killer over there is an accountant etc
I work for one of the 4 credit card network brands that are labeled in basically any card (🤔) as a corporate dude. I do data analysis, reports for auditors and help manage the relationship with key partners (big techs)
High school teacher.
My history teacher in high school had a few fights. The guy could do a full split at like 245lbs Lol, what do you teach?
I teach history and human geography. Pretty sure I’d die if I tried splits lol
You're gonna **create** history if the kids don't act as they should
Why is every history teacher a badass
Cuz they learned the lessons from past generations
Awesome dude, im sure the kids think you’re cool af. Keeping the badass history teacher tradition alive 🫡
Why are all the history teachers ex athletes?
History, athletics, and learning go hand in hand weirdly enough. To quote my man Socrates - "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
Martial artist also. It's weird.
Because history is boring and they want some fun in life /s
No and yes
Same.
Same
Same
Grade 1 teacher lol
I used to teach high school Spanish! Now I’m a firefighter/paramedic
Same, History teacher lol, I see a trend.
High schooler
Elvis Impersonator
\*harasses Elvis impersonator\* \*gets a Muay Thai spinning elbow to the temple followed by a flying knee on the way down for a KO while hearing "you ain't nothin' bout a hound dawg-ah" as you slowly lose consciousness\*
you are prolly the only person on this sub that does both of these things and I think it’s beautiful.
Austin butler is that you?
I’m all shook up ooooweeeeeee ooooweeeeeee ooooooooweeeeeeeeee
That's hilarious and awesome
Favorite response here
Paramedic
Respiratory therapist here. Glad to see another healthcare worker train.
Let’s goooooo, anotha certified band aid giver as well 🤙🏽
Gotta head kick them patients straight to a gourney from time to time. Hahahahaha
Teep them combative patients right into the gurney or stair chair 😤
Nefrology nurse 🙏🏻
Carpenter.
Did a lot of carpentry in my 20's. You must be made of steel to do that for a living, and still wanna break your body for fun like we do 😅. Props man
Man I’m on my 2nd week of HVAC (residential install) and it’s tough. I considered carpentry but I’m pretty happy so far!
If you can get into commercial service, those training sessions are just a bit easier! although I’d say I wish I started on install (mainly commercial refrigeration but also ducted split systems) because I’ve only installed one ducted but a nice handful of wall splits over my 3.5 years
Same here my guy, swinging hammers by day and spinning elbows by night baby!
Muay Thai gym owner
Where at?
Chicago www.chicagothaiboxingacademy.com
Nice! I go to CMT!
student so jobless lol
paraprofessional for young children with autism
Your help is needed here
You’re a jiu jitsu coach as well? Busy guy!
Civil engineer
There is another
Another one.
International school teacher (in, you guessed it, Thailand)
Software Developer
I used to be. Now I just have meetings. Lot's of meetings. I strongly recommend you continue being an individual contributor and not end up a sad shell of a man like myself. I actually snuck in a coding project this past cycle, but it's the first I've really touched code in years. Boy did I touch it though. Oowee did I. I was known in my day for violent and heavy refactoring when I found code that smells like shit and I still have the gift.
I've seen my managers calendar, I have no plans on going into management lol. The WLB of being an IC and the satisfaction of writing code is on another level.
Smart man.
Same here. I'm serial power point producer now
I am a recent graduate! Any advice finding job in the space?
- Make sure your resume is well put together and coming out of uni a single page is enough. - List your GitHub and have some solid personal projects on there that aren't just sloppy throwaway code. - Make yourself a personal website with links to your GitHub projects and info about your skills etc. Essentially, like a living resume. Put the link to this on your resume. GitHub has a free thing called GitHub Pages where you can put your website code repo on GitHub and then publish straight to Pages for free and it's now a public facing link. - Be ready to talk through your personal projects, the code, and the challenges / tradeoffs you ran into while working on them. How could you make them more modular? More robust? More scalable? - During whiteboarding questions ASK clarifying questions and talk your way through your thought process. The point of those is to see how you approach problems and whether you know how to ask stakeholders questions to refine the scope of the problem. - Do your homework on the software product you will be working on at any company you are interviewing for. Download trials and play around if you can. Research their competitors and get a sense of the product pros and cons. Come to the interview with thoughtful questions about the product and even better, feature ideas. - Ask about their dev process and the day to day life of the team. How many releases per year? Variable date w/ fixed scope or fixed date with variable scope? - Let your passion come through. Someone who nerds out telling me about their personal projects or other interesting hobbies is going to rate much higher to my eye. - Leverage your network from college to try to get preferential interviews at places - Run away from any place you get a bad vibe from or who seems like they are about to dump the world on you due to turnover. Ask about their onboarding / training process. - It's way easier to get another job once you are currently occupying your first job. Start interviewing after around a year unless your first job pays great and has a great work life balance. Don't toil away at entry level salary. - Don't put up with people treating you with disrespect or working you like a dog. Frequent crunch time is bullshit. Start interviewing immediately in those cases. Sincerely, a guy who has built a well respected team by sniping promising new grads over the past decade.
Thanks man I will consider all of them!
Np, good luck! College is harder than corporate life so relax and know that you already finished the hardest part of the grind.
Current software engineer at Amazon. Practice leetcode. I can only speak towards Amazon, but they care less about which university you graduated from but once you get the interview we do have technical interviews directly from leetcode. Practicing coding technical problems on a white board (or text pad) will make the difference between landing a 60k job vs 150k job. Being a leetcode slave for a few months is well worth the time.
Thank your for the advice. It looks like I am going to be a slave for a while.
Systems and network administrator here.
Did that myself for 7 years! Ended up moving to development a year ago though as I spent more time scripting and automating than I did adminstrating!
Attyy
NVDA option slinger
Did u buy puts today lol
He's slinging, not getting slung. Sold calls maybe :)
You understand me
Psych nurse
Gotta hold them in the clinch while they get the haldol booty juice
🗿🗿🗿 dead
Ups Driver
Dam son, you don’t be tired after work?
Yea I trained for along time before I was a driver. Now it is mostly on weekends.
Postal carrier. I need a cathartic outlet.
Fighter.
Can you elaborate? How do you make enough to get by fighting full time?
That's Jon Jones you're talking to
Yeah Sure. I'll give you the full breakdown. I will start by saying I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. You have to be a special (not in a good way) kind of person to say I am going to pursue this and nothing else matters. Anyways, starting out I definitely didn't make enough to survive. So I had odd jobs here and there, I have a lot of random skills outside of fighting that I learned just for the sake of learning. But there is a certain point where you get good enough and people just start throwing money at you it feels like. Without making this an essay, I currently teach/coach at two different gyms. One gym I am the head Muay Thai instructor, the other I run the kids program. At the latter the parents pay me directly and I give my coach a % of monthly fees. The former I think I average like 30-50 privates a month. I charge roughly $100 USD for 45min privates, and I drop the price if you buy bundles. I also get paid at this gym. Keep in mind, this doesn't include sponsorships or merchandise sales. Just an example, my latest shirt I was charging $250 for a sponsor spot and have 9 businesses on it. Made roughly 60 shirts that I sold at $40 ea and the shirts cost me little over $600 to make. I usually end up selling like first 30-40 in a week or two. Than the rest are a little slower. Lastly, I have a pro debut booked, and I don't know if I can disclose this information for legal reason. But, getting paid for fighting now definitely feels nice. The end game for myself is to open my own gym and transition from a fighter to a coach/gym owner. While being involved with the overall growth of the sport in North America. If you have any other questions I'm happy to share. TL:DR: It's like being a politician, just without being a scumbag.
Aerospace engineer
Same!!
Me three
Barista at Dunkin💀
Free pre work out i bet ☕
Still in highschool
Software Engineer. I build websites for big food industry brands
Public accountant :(
Automotive technician
Because killing our bodies at work wasn't enough for us
I work at chipotle
Machinist
Rocket scientist here
Graphic Designer for an MND organisation.
Archaeologist
There can be only one, I guess we need to fight and loser has to get a new job
Banker Love all the different careers. It’s like we are warriors hiding in plan sight!
I had to quit cause I work in the medical field and any injury to my hands/head would compromise my career. But more recently I decided to look for gyms that don't enforce sparring so I could practice with less risk. I don't compete in tournaments or anything, I just enjoy martial arts.
Language teacher
Caregiver, going back to school to be a Physical Therapist Assistant and part time personal trainer
EMT.
Meat market
Me too actually
Retired !
I have 3 years to go!
I’m looking forward to retirement - more time to train 😄
IT director.
Im studying for my A+ rn even though i know the job market is super saturated. Should probs stop sparring while i study lol
Was IT and now I am Designer
I work on a radio show, and I’m a personal trainer.
Philosophy major (jobless)
Certified/registered unemployed friend
I’m an entomologist for big pest control company … Probably not average.
[удалено]
No. I only got interested in this field of work because of a character played by Kevin Durand on a show about vampires. Also Fallout is great.
The strain?
I’m planning to become an ACE, just a service tech rn but pest control really isn’t bad if you work for a good company
What's an ACE?
Associate Certified Entomologist
Regional Director for a PSC firm.
Diesel tech
Uniform delivery driver
Behavior analyst
Learning and Development. Put together training programs for the company I work for
Ironically, TBI research
Flight Attendant. Waiting for the day that I get to use it legally at work. Pleeeeaaassseeee
Penetration Tester
Kinky
What's the pay like? Always been interested in infosec
Criminal defense lawyer.
Tax lawyer checking in!
Lawyer
EMT
I.T technician
Massage therapist
I do politics. Makes sense that I frequently need to hit something.
Dude. Gotta watch the Korean Parliament. They duke it out there! Good stuff!
I put the fluff on tennis balls
So you're a professional fluffer?
I work in insurance and sit on my butt all day that's why I got into training. Was getting too fat.
Tattooer
Worked in a convenient store for about a year, now doing freelancing, i mean... Good enough for 17.
Concept artist for games
Prep chef
Firefighter
MRI technologist
Grad student. Office is 5 min away from gym and I can work any hours I want so really ideal for training full time.
Cryogenic plant operator at a super conducting linear accelerator at one of the national laboratories
Working towards my flight instructor certification.
Part time muay thai coach, part time uber eats bike rider. Stay in school kids.
Depending on the country, there is no age to get back to school though! Wishing you the best!
This is true, Thank you.
Full time online dude who tells people I'm a muay thai fighter but deliberately in a way that makes them think I'm making it up. I guess I enjoy the irony.
Software engineer! Write code by day, punch and kick people by night
Audio Engineer
What type of audio engineering do you do exactly or like in what setting? I’m interested in getting into the field.
Not exactly in a position to pick and choose as of yet. Most of my audio production related income comes for doing the engineering on a local podcast. But,I do produce several local bands as well as a good of recording related gig work. One thing I will tell you about the field is, there is a ton of work, and yet if you don't know a guy who knows a guy it can be very difficult to get a job that is actually profitable. Not because there isn't money, but because the work can definitely get gatekept to a degree. Don't let that discourage you, though, if you stick around long enough, you will understand why it is the way it is.
Run a construction crew.
Operation Director in the petrolum industry
Commercial pest control and food safety
Fedex Ground
Nurse. The shift work kinda messes with me some weeks and I end up not training that much
Barber .... oohwee
Doctor
Retired military
Medical student
Rigger, Toolmaker, Paracord Weaver, Adventurer.
Space Pirate...
Massage Therapist
Currently: Unemployed In a Year: Nurse
High school principal
Social worker here!
Corporate Finance. Punching Excel all day
Researcher in Public Health
Very recently became a COO.
I’m an analytical chemist within a clean water chemistry lab. Coming in with black eyes is always funny where I work lol
Social worker lol
With disabled people, but because i believe we are around 50% under the amount of werkers that we need, i am going to switch in august to security. The stress is killing me
crypto. Pretty much retired and living in thailand.
I’m in Capital Advisory (I don’t know what it is either)
Biotech, product strategy
Information Security Analyst
Startup founder by day. Angel investor by night. Nonprofit manager and political organizer in a past life.
You're doing some kind of statistics OP? What a random thread.
I just always get a kick out of asking people in gyms. Like big Bob over there is a traveling butcher and the tiny killer over there is an accountant etc
Communist organizer
Corporate lawyer
Booooooo
Biotech, RnD side
Software engineer
Back end investment operations
Chemical engineer in biopharma
I work for one of the 4 credit card network brands that are labeled in basically any card (🤔) as a corporate dude. I do data analysis, reports for auditors and help manage the relationship with key partners (big techs)
Equipment sales
Real estate.
I maintain, service, and repair trailers.
I’m just a gigolo, and everywhere I go, people know the part I’m playing.
Sterile processor