Will it backfire though? As much as I want a good pay and don’t want to low ball myself. I need a job so I don’t want to give them a high number if it could affect the possibility for getting the job.

Would it backfire if I asked for 65k or would they just tell me they can’t do that. As much as I want good pay, the job itself is my priority so I don’t want to test them by picking a high number but I also don’t want to low ball myself.

Was the person taking up multiple seats the slasher or the slashee. Whoever wrote this article should be fired what an absolutely pathetic lapse in judgement. Also you should be banned for posting this dog shit. Literally the only important part of the story.

There's a LEGO store in Braintree

As others have said, it will be near the bottom of the range. Also, as someone who worked for them for a while, consider this a stepping stone to better things. They don’t pay well, don’t promote often, and will burn you out unless you’re hot shit.

Hell even adding Boston to the skylines series would suffice

You will be offered at best $50k

Carrying poop

We aren't taking it.

you guys think you’re laughing now, wait until the kids start spray-tagging it with some squiggly veins

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If you want to live close to campus and are earning under ~$65K, you will 100% need to have roommates. Studio apartments are pretty much prohibitively expensive for people in your salary range, in that area.

If you want subway access & afford a studio apartment, maybe look around Field's Corner or Quincy. It's off the Red Line, so you won't need to make any transfers. A commute will be about 45 minutes.

If you don't mind biking/buses - you can probably afford 1BR in the nearby suburb of Belmont. A commute will take about 25 minutes.

> the thing is ~20 feet tall,

which is my biggest complaint. it ruins the aesthetic of the common. No matter where you are that thing just looks massively out of place due to its size. Its as big as the pavilion.

six meth heads would cart that thing off for scrap in an afternoon.

lol you feel the need to copy and paste your response? Are you the artist? https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/10kd1xi/i_find_it_beautiful/j5q9kt1/

Regardless of what you think about the shape of the thing it's far too big for the Common. It dwarfs everything around it and just looks completely out of place.

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Expect the lower end of the range.

My experience interviewing with Harvard for a couple roles over the years and dealing with their HR has been that they pay new hires at the bottom end of the given range. It even says that on their website: “Typically a new hire can expect a starting salary somewhere in the lower part of the range.”

Especially if you’re a recent grad…if the 053 salary range is 50k to 78k you’re likely looking at an offer of sub 60kish unless you’re coming in with some highly relevant experience or a couple years under your belt. Again just my limited experience dealing with them. That said push for the highest you can get.

The CT towns /u/spedmunki specified all have school districts that could easily hang with those in the metro Boston area. It's not like CT is renowned for shitty schools or anything. I grew up in the Hartford area and went through a highly ranked school district (actually a rival of Glastonbury). The house prices there are literally 50% of what the same house would cost for me here in Wakefield. Property taxes are slightly higher, but not by much.

From what I've heard recently, Harvard is almost always taking new hires in at the bottom of the range. About 6 months ago I applied for a position and clearly stated that I desired a little more than the middle of the range. During the second round interview, I was asked about how much I expected and when I told them, they said "Oh, unfortunately, we're only paying (the exact minimum of the posted range)." I was pissed they wasted my time. Why ask salary expectations in the online application if nobody is going to look at it?

A big flagship store at the new headquarters would be pretty neat, would've loved to have had something like that when I was super into Legos when I was a kid.

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I think my favorite failed public work of art is in Rotterdam and is nicknamed the [Buttplug Gnome] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(sculpture)

> Arlington

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