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@arcigo25d

Looking for new job opportunities.

I hope posting here will help me in my job search. I'm a Sr. SDET/QA Automation Engineer, based in the EU, with 10+ years of experience working in the IT industry across different sectors, and I'm looking for my next challenge! I leave here more details about my professional profile, and my LinkedIn profile. Thanks in advance for your support. Have a nice day! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7461069741361893377/ IN profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arcigo/

@glassildias25d

Looking out for more opportunities!

I am currently based in UAE working as a Quality Controller for a Glass Processing firm close to 3yrs! God works in mysterious ways and with this hope i am posting here for seeking more opportunities!

@erica_lynnMay 15

Well, Here Goes Nothing

I believe in the power of networking. I believe in Legion (that’s why I’m here). So I want to utilize it to the best of my ability. Although I graduated college 3 years ago, I haven’t worked a full-time job yet. After graduation, I spent 2 years working in a remote contract Project Manager position for a Catholic media production and creative services agency. I technically have a remote contract position as a Creative Orchestrator for a creative services agency that has Catholic/nonprofit clients but it’s not the right fit and unfortunately I haven’t been making much money. 🙃 I’ve been looking for a full-time job since last fall. Here’s what I’m searching for. - Remote - Full-time (ideally with benefits) - Catholic/Christian organizations, General Nonprofits, Catholic/Christian Nonprofits, Conservative organizations - Job Roles: Project Coordination, Marketing/Social Media, Communication, Administrative Now, I’m not expecting anyone to just *give* me a job. But I would greatly appreciate any advice or even opportunities to look at/people to connect with. Shoot me a message on LinkedIn (it’s in my bio) or on here :)

@thelegionMay 15

@erica_lynn just completed "Applying for Your First Job"

@the_catechized_coachMay 14

If you don’t plan, you’re planning to fail

Yesterday I had a chat with a client and my business mentor (yes same guy). Earlier this week I explained how I was feeling burnt out and didn’t know how I was going to make it to my goal. For me this was about business, but in fitness (and faith) if we don’t have a goal we can see, we might burn out or lose hope completely. If you haven’t ever planned out more than a month of workouts before and you have no idea what your goal should be… ask these questions! - Where can I realistically be in 90 days - How much time can I actually dedicate to daily actions - What has to be non negotiable for me to reach my goal - Am are you willing to let someone help you if you can’t answer these questions? If you answered the last one no, check your ego. God calls us to be humble servants and different parts of his body. If you answered the last one yes, but can’t answer the other ones with confidence or clarity. Consider hiring a coach, or at least asking this forum if what you wrote is reasonable. God Bless and Happy Ascension Day ✨

@coachedcatholicMay 2

Cyclically exhausted? You don’t just need a break. You need a strategy.

Most people say that to rest, you must "slow down". But without a strategy, you'd just come back to the same mess you took a breather from. Instead, zoom out and build systems that actually CHANGE something. Nothing changes if you just "take a break".

@gabrielstcharlesApr 25

Do you even need a degree?

This is the first question, and it's the one most people end up skipping, because it's a lot easier to jump straight into "what should I study" than it is to actually sit with whether you should be studying at all. So slow down for a second. I'm not here to tell you college is a scam, and I'm not here to tell you everyone needs to go either. The honest answer is, it depends, and most people who give you a confident answer on this one are probably selling you something. It depends on what you want to do, what you can afford, what kind of person you are, and what the world actually rewards in the season of life you happen to find yourself in. But before we get into any of that, there's one path I want you to think through honestly, because a lot of young guys seem to lean into it as a way out. The online business thing. Maybe you've watched a few too many videos of guys in rented Lamborghinis telling you that college is for losers, and that the real money is in dropshipping, or crypto, or whatever the algorithm happens to be pushing this week. And maybe part of you wants to believe it, because it lets you skip the harder decision in front of you, and that's a really tempting thing to do when you're 18 and the next move feels enormous. I really don't want to be the guy who crushes that for you. But the chance of you becoming the next online millionaire is small. It isn't zero, but it is small enough that you probably shouldn't be planning your life around it. And if you're being honest with yourself, you probably already know that. That doesn't mean working for yourself is off the table though. There's a different version of self-employment that's actually really realistic, and honestly, it's a great option for a lot of people. I'm talking about starting a real business that does real work. Landscaping, plumbing, a trade, some kind of service that's in demand in your town, that someone in your community actually needs done. That's a real path, and a humble one, and it probably won't get you a Lamborghini, but it might get you a stable income, a decent life, and the strange kind of peace that comes with knowing you built something with your hands. If that's the kind of thing you're drawn to, then you might not need a degree at all, and trade school or an apprenticeship could honestly serve you better than four years and a pile of debt would. But if you're not built for that, or if something else is pulling at you, then the question changes. And that's really what the rest of this course is going to try to walk through with you. What you actually want out of life. What you can realistically afford. What might be worth going into debt for, and what definitely isn't. For now though, just sit with this one question for a second. Do you actually need a degree, or are you just doing it because you're supposed to? — Reflect: Why do you think you need a degree? Try to sit with that one honestly for a second, because it's not a question most people actually stop to ask themselves. Is it because you've genuinely thought it through, or is it because it's just what the people around you have always assumed you'd do?

@gabrielstcharlesApr 25

The passion trap

You've probably been told your whole life to follow your passion, and I'm here to tell you that might be some of the worst advice anyone's ever given you. Hear me out, because this one tends to get people defensive. Following your passion sounds beautiful in theory, but in practice it falls apart pretty quickly, because what you're passionate about and what the world actually needs are often two very different things. And the world, unfortunately, is the thing that pays you. Maybe you're really good at piano. That's amazing, genuinely. But you are most likely not going to be the next Lang Lang, and the world doesn't really have a lot of room for the second best piano player in your town. So if you're staking your whole future on being a concert pianist, you're staking your future on a really small probability, and that's a hard way to live. The reframe I'd offer is this. Instead of asking what you're passionate about, ask what skills your passion has actually taught you, and where else those skills might be useful. Because the same part of you that makes you a really good pianist might also, for some reason, make you a really good systems thinker, which might make you a really good IT person, which is a job that actually exists and actually pays. The discipline you built sitting at a piano for three hours a day is real, and it transfers, and it's worth more in the marketplace than the piano playing itself probably is. Same goes for almost anything. You're a creative person? Cool. There are a hundred ways to apply creativity to roles that pay well, and most of them aren't called "creative jobs." Now, this is where I have to say something that might sting a bit. Don't tell yourself you're a creative person and then go pursue a media or communications degree, because those roles are notoriously hard to make a stable living in, especially early on. There are exceptions, of course. Maybe you'll be one of them. But you have to be really honest with yourself about the odds, and about your fallback. Which actually brings up the bigger point I want to make in this chapter. Your job is not supposed to be the thing that gives your life meaning. I know that sounds harsh in a culture that keeps telling you to find your purpose at work, but think about it for a second. If your job is the thing that gives your life meaning, then a bad week at work becomes a crisis of identity, and that's not a way to live. Your job is supposed to be something that lets you provide for the people you love, that you don't hate getting up for, and that gives you space outside of work to actually live. That's it. That's the bar. A boring, stable job that you can come home from is genuinely one of the best things you can ask for. And ironically, if you're someone who's deeply passionate about something, doing that thing for work is often what kills it. The artist who has to draw what the client wants every day stops loving drawing. The musician who has to play the wedding circuit to pay rent stops loving music. There's a real chance that the thing you love most in this world is something you should protect from your career, not build it around. This isn't me trying to crush anyone's dreams. It's me trying to get you to set up the most boring, stable, secure worst case scenario possible, because that's the foundation that actually frees you up to chase your dreams in the margins. Pursue what pays. Protect what you love. — Reflect: What's a skill or strength your passion has actually given you, that might be useful somewhere completely different from where you'd normally apply it?

@gabrielstcharlesApr 25

If you're a woman

Heads up that this chapter is specifically about discerning a degree as a woman, and the next one is the same conversation for men. If this one isn't yours, feel free to skim or skip ahead, though I'd still recommend reading because the underlying logic is going to apply either way. Okay, so. The question of what to study is a slightly different question for women, and I think it's worth being honest about that, even though the culture would prefer we pretend it isn't. Here's the thing. There are a few different lives you might be discerning toward, and the right degree, if any, really depends on which one you're actually called to. If you're a woman who genuinely just wants to be provided for by a husband, and to live a simple life raising your children, that's a beautiful vocation, and it's a valid one. But if that's actually the life you want, then the question you should be sitting with isn't really about your degree at all. The question is about how picky you can afford to be about who you marry. And here's where I have to be a bit blunt, because nobody else is going to be. How picky you can afford to be is going to depend partly on what you bring to the table, and that's a sentence the culture really doesn't want anyone to say out loud anymore. But it's true. Some women are going to have a relatively easy time finding a man with the means to comfortably provide. Some women aren't. And if you're more in the second camp, that doesn't mean the vocation isn't yours, it just means you might have to widen your idea of what being provided for actually looks like. Maybe it's not a man who can fund a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle on his own. Maybe it's a good, hardworking, faithful man with a stable trade, and a small house, and a quiet simple life with a couple of kids. And honestly, that's a beautiful life, and probably a much holier one than the one most women are out there chasing. So the discernment, really, is twofold. How picky can you afford to be, and how picky do you actually need to be to be content. Because if you can be genuinely happy with a simple life, then the pool of men you could marry well is a lot bigger than if you've decided you need a six figure husband to be okay. And tied to all of this, please be honest with yourself about whether a degree even makes sense for you in this scenario. Because it isn't really fair to want to not work, and then take on a hundred thousand dollars of student debt that your future husband is going to inherit responsibility for. That's a decision he should be part of, ideally before the debt is taken on, and not after. Now, maybe you want a slightly different version of that. Maybe you want to be home with your children when they're young, but you want to be able to step into something meaningful once they're older. That's also a beautiful and valid vocation, and a degree might genuinely make sense in that case. But you have to be careful about what you pick, because the world is changing fast, and you need to choose something whose value will hold up fifteen or twenty years from now. A solid, timeless choice that has worked for generations of women is nursing. It's a real skill, it's in high demand, it's stable, and a lot of the things you learn actually carry over into motherhood in really useful ways. Education is another one, especially if you're thinking about homeschooling. There are others too, but those are two that tend to age really well. The principle here is, don't take on stupid debt. Ask yourself if it's actually going to be worth what you're going to owe, because if your end goal is to step out of the workforce eventually, then debt becomes a much bigger problem than it would be for someone planning to work for forty years. And then there's the third version, where you do want a full career, the whole "have it all" path. If that's you, the rest of this course basically applies to you the same way it applies to the guys, so you can take the men's chapter and apply most of it to yourself. The only thing I'd add, gently, is to be honest with yourself about which of those three you actually want, and not which one you've been told you should want. Because they're three really different paths, and they ask really different things from your degree, and pretending you want one when you actually want another is how you end up resentful at 35.

@gabrielstcharlesApr 25

If you're a man

Same heads up as the last chapter, this one is specifically the conversation for men, so if it's not yours, skim or skip. Though again, the underlying logic carries, so reading it probably won't hurt. Alright. If you're a man, then a good chunk of what you should be thinking about is how you're going to provide. Not in a "men are wallets" kind of way, but in a real, traditional, this is part of the job kind of way. Whoever you marry, whatever children you end up having, the bulk of the financial weight of that family is probably going to fall on you. That's not a bad thing. That's actually a beautiful and meaningful thing. But it does mean that your degree, or your trade, or whatever you decide to do, has to actually be able to carry it. So you have to think honestly about how much you actually need to be able to provide. And before we go any further, I want to push back on something, because if you're a young man on the internet you've probably been marinating in it for a while. The redpill movement will try to tell you that women only marry for money, or for looks, or for status, and that if you don't have those things you're cooked. I'm here to tell you that's not really true. There are absolutely some women out there for whom that's the whole game, and you should run from those women anyway, because they wouldn't be a good wife for you regardless of how much you make. But there are also a lot of really good women, way more than the internet will admit to, who are not looking for a rich man or a tall man or a particularly good looking man. They're looking for a man of character. They're looking for someone who carries himself well, who has his life relatively in order, who treats people with dignity, and who they can build something real with. You don't have to be Brad Pitt with a million dollar salary to find a wife. You have to be a man worth marrying, and that's almost entirely within your control. But, all that said, you do still have to be able to provide. So the question becomes, what kind of life are you actually trying to build, and how much does that cost? Because the answer to that question shapes the kind of degree, or trade, or path you should be picking. If you're someone who genuinely doesn't need much to be content, a small house, a stable wife, a few kids, dinner on the table, then your bar is actually pretty manageable. You don't need a Wall Street salary to provide for that life. You need a stable trade, or a steady mid level career, or a small business that does real work for real people. That's it. And that's actually a much freer place to live from than the guy who's decided he needs to make three hundred grand a year to feel like a man. But if you've got bigger ambitions, that's also fine. Just be honest about it, because a bigger ambition means a more demanding path, more years of training, more debt potentially, more risk. And it also tends to mean you'll be looking for a different kind of woman, because the woman who's happy in the small house with the kids and the simple life isn't usually the same woman who wants the Manhattan apartment and the dinner parties. Both are valid. They just cost different things. And the cost is on you to carry. So the question I'd really want you to sit with, before you pick anything, is what kind of provider you're actually trying to become. Because the answer shapes everything else, and a lot of guys never stop to ask it. They just pick the most prestigious degree they can get into and assume the life will sort itself out from there. It usually doesn't.