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Echevarious t1_j6p1gll wrote

Agreed. I had this happen to me. A family member passed away unexpectedly out of state and while my family was reeling from the loss, we had an absolute ton of work to sort out within a few days time.

That person didn't have a will, never mentioned their final wishes, whether to cremate/bury in a casket, donate organs, etc. It was a nightmare trying to guess what they would have wanted.

My grandfather passed recently and he had taken care of all of his final plans. Plots purchased, etc. We just had to email the funeral home some pictures and show up for the funeral. It was such a different experience.

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Bongos-Not-Bombs t1_j6p1dir wrote

Yep, and if you somehow manage to survive and end up in a bad state, your next of kin have some planning on what to do - when my dad had a stroke in 2019, the first thing I did was look at his advance directive to find out what I could tell his care team about his wishes.

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d4rkh0rs t1_j6p1b82 wrote

hard meaning alcaline and full of calcium. so everything gets bad water spots and things like sinks without attention get heavy white coatings that collect stains and are annoying to remove. It also makes soaps work less well. hard being the opposite of soft or acidic. (I don't know why they call it hard or soft, will agree it's confusing)

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ITE_1415 t1_j6p18sx wrote

Oh, okay, that gives me an idea where to start.

Tommorow, I'll study everything there is under the sink and any cleaning supply I can get my hands on, and I'll ask my dad for help if there's anything I don't understand or stuff (he's one of the only folks that can help me and not brush me off for those kind of stuff as he was kind of in the situation when he was my age (mom did everything for him etc.), but I'm generally too embarassed or can see he's too tired to bother him with it.)

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BarnacleMcBarndoor t1_j6p0evc wrote

I wouldn’t change jobs based on my experience with Walmart. It wasn’t terrible, but it just isn’t something I’d recommend.

When I worked Walmart (this was about 16-17 years ago, they promised 40 hours but there was always something that kept me from getting it. This is when I was making like $7/hour, so hours mattered a lot.

If I hit 30-35 hours, all the sudden they didn’t need me the rest of the week. Some weeks I’d work 35 some weeks I’d work mid 20’s. This was also back when Black Friday was a thing so I’d be schedules some days until 10pm and then need to be back in at 11:30pm for the next shift.

We were always short staffed. I’d be running paint, toys and sporting goods. We sold shotguns, rifles and ammo as well as hunting licenses, so I had to constant running (literally) between departments because I’d have to call a number associated with ATF for background check, fill out forms, explain to people why the shouldn’t point a loaded gun at me (this is Florida, people are dumb), clean up after kids in toys, as parents let kids use Walmart as a daycare, ride the kids bike around the store with said kids, mix paint, run to the front to handle the cash register when it’d get busy up front, handle the register in sporting goods.

The positive was that everyone I worked with were amazingly nice, including management. Each time someone pulled a gun on me, they always asked me to go home and relax (no one ever pulled a gun on me to threaten), but now that I think of it maybe management was sending them in to get me to short my hours? Again, it’s Florida, people are down here aren’t always the sharpest crayons in the shed.

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Alexis_J_M t1_j6p01sz wrote

Write three or four resumes tailored for three or four different aspects of jobs your degree has prepared you for. Make sure to use keywords scraped from job postings to get past the automated filters. Start spamming them out to any reasonable match. I've got decades of experience and get very few responses to my resumes.

You say you've just gotten your master's degree -- what jobs have you had along the way? Can you get more of that type of job, just tilted a little bit towards using your education, and work towards stuff directly in your field?

It's really hard to step right out of school into a job in a non-STEM field, it's a tough job market. Spread your resume around to job boards, but make sure to use a different email address for each place you post it so you can start figuring out where your junk mail comes from.

For example, if my email address were Alexis.Morganza@gmail.com I might post resumes with email addresses like

alexis.morganza+indeed-2023@gmail.com

So that I could immediately see when and where someone got my resume.

(I put my resume up on monster.com for two weeks in 2012 and took it down because of low quality responses. I still get email to that address )

There are specialized job boards for all kinds of fields -- make sure you are looking everywhere relevant to your field. Go to a university library and read a bunch of professional periodicals -- they often have job ads. Even if they are advertising for a senior position you don't qualify for, you now have the name of a company hiring in your field. Check their website for open positions.

If your university has an alumni newsletter, mine that for the names of companies people are bragging about getting jobs at.

Go to a web browser and search for "my field jobs" and there are likely to be a ton of job boards and talent agencies that show up. Career counseling sites, too. (For example, I searched for "fine arts jobs" and in addition to a bunch of job boards I also found an interesting looking site in the UK titled "What jobs can I get with a fine arts degree". I don't know what your field is but I assume there are similar results for it.)

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ITE_1415 t1_j6p013d wrote

I'll do that, thank you for the answer.

As for the window thing, my mom does it with a chiffon and a spray bottle, and she does it perfectly. I've tried a lot of time, but I cannot get it as clean as my mom's method, and she gets angry at me when I do it and says she doesn't want to deal with my stupidity, so I've just stopped, you know what I mean ? They even get angry at me for splashing water when picking up a drink so.

I'll try seeing if there's something like those agencies in France, since that's where I live.

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