u/Critical_Builder_902

for the past few months my entire life started revolving around applications, interviews, rejection emails, ghosting, linkedin scrolling, using job automation tools all of it. after a point you genuinely start questioning yourself even when you know the market is bad.

today i finally got a call saying i was selected and i just sat there staring at the screen for like 10 seconds because my brain forgot how to process good news.

I just want to say, if anyone here is struggling right now, seriously don’t let the process convince you that you’re worthless. this market messes with your confidence a lot more than people admit.

Quick reference because this question comes up in every mexico expat forum and the answers are usually outdated. $550 monthly from my US checking to my mother in law's bbva bancomer in queretaro. Three apps that deliver to bbva bancomer cleanly right now:

taptapsend us to mexico, bbva bancomer deposit, no separate fee on the send (cost is just in the rate which has been a few pesos per dollar better than wire alternatives), lands in 20 to 40 minutes usually. Wise bbva deposit, percentage fee around 0.6 to 1 percent, mid market rate, similar speed. Remitly bbva deposit, $1.99 flat fee, rate markup, speed comparable.

On my $550 monthly send, final MXN delivered gap between best and worst of these three is usually 150 to 250 pesos. Not life changing on a single send. Adds up to roughly $15 to $25 per year if I just use the best option every time versus always using the worst. Compare before every send because it's literally 2 minutes on my phone.

BBVA bancomer specifically has been the most reliable mexican bank for my recipients. Banco azteca occasionally has delays on larger deposits. Bancoppel is fast but has lower per transfer limits from international remitters. If your family has bbva, you have the widest set of reliable options.

My 9 month old is crawling everywhere and we spend time on the back patio every evening. The mosquitoes are terrible right now. She already has bites on her ankles and legs from yesterday.

I'm hesitant to spray anything on her skin. Her pediatrician said DEET is technically safe after 2 months but she literally chews on her own toes so whatever goes on her skin goes in her mouth.

Right now I'm putting her in long pants and socks (she pulls the socks off in about 30 seconds) and trying to keep a fan going near her play area.

What are other parents using for mosquito protection with babies this age? Every option seems to have a "but" attached to it.

The whole online nursing programs vs in person debate depends way more on your situation than on which format is "better."

Online nursing programs work best if you're already working as a nurse and need to fit school around your shifts, the main advantages are schedule flexibility, no commute, and more program options because you're not limited by geography. The downsides are you need self-discipline and you miss out on face to face interaction with classmates and professors.

In person works better if you're doing your initial nursing degree or you learn better with structured interaction. Advantages are hands on skills practice, direct access to professors, built in study groups, and clinical placements that are usually better coordinated through local hospital partnerships. Downsides are rigid scheduling and fewer options if you're rural.

For graduate level stuff specifically (MSN, DNP, certificates) online is becoming the norm and the quality difference at accredited programs is basically nonexistent, it comes down to which format you can sustain alongside work and life.

For clinicals there's no difference either way, both formats require you to do clinicals in person at a clinical site. The only real variable is whether the program helps you find placements or leaves you on your own, and that varies by program not by format.

If you're leaning toward online and want help narrowing it down, nursingcareeradvancement .com has advisors who help working RNs figure out which online nursing programs make sense for their schedule and career direction. You can also talk to nurses in your unit who've done both and ask what their experience was like, or try one of the AI career tools out there if you want a starting point.

Solo LMT, rented space, 20 to 25 sessions weekly. Every client gets fresh sheets, face cradle cover, bolster cover, hand towels. That's about 35 to 45 lbs of linens per week. For 3 years i was doing laundry at home after evenings and it was killing me. Ended up trying poplin 2 months ago, $1/lb in my market with $30 minimum, running about $45 to $55 per order, 2 orders a week. Total about $400/month.

Is that what other solo massage therapists are paying? Or am i overspending and should be doing this differently?

Hey all, I have no idea how many people relate to this and if this even is a thing to be discussed in the sub (I feel like it is given how it’s about something related to glp1s and how it affects me) but the heartburn that I got before I started on zepbound was really intense. I mean I had to sleep propped up on three pillows before but now I can just consume food with tomato sauce again. I felt so insanely good eating spaghetti last night and I was just grinning and giggling so much my husband thought I had lost my mind. Just a little story from my life that I thought I’d share here.

Has anyone actually noticed a difference with the new Artisan features or is it an “updated UI, same behavior” situation? The earlier versions were a bit templated, even when it was pulling in real data, and what I’m hearing is the newer version sounds more human now. What I’m worried about is investing in something that’s not much different to an iPhone updates lol. Can anyone who has run it properly tell me if they’re seeing any change?

the school i actually most wanted to get into. had done real research. knew the specific programs, specific professors, had read papers by faculty i wanted to work with, had a clear genuine reason.interview with an alum. going well. then she asked 'so what draws you specifically to this school, not just the name but what specifically.'and i said 'i really love the culture and the academic environment.'culture and academic environment. at a school i had spent four months researching. i had the professor's name in my head three seconds before i opened my mouth. it just didn't come out.tried to recover. mentioned the ranking. said something about the location. all generic. none of the actual specific things i had researched and cared about.she was gracious but the interview ended shortly after. i don't know what went wrong in those ten seconds but it undid months of preparation.

annual review. manager asked 'what do you feel most proud of from this year?' and i said 'i think i've really grown in terms of cross team collaboration' which is genuinely the most meaningless sentence a person can say.i've had a good year. shipped two major features. fixed a critical bug that would have been expensive. mentored two junior team members. contributed to the hiring process. all of it is documented somewhere.but when she asked, none of it came. i just defaulted to a vague soft skill answer because it was the first thing that surfaced.she wrote something down that was probably 'said collaboration' and moved on.i know this is going to affect my review cycle. i had the material. i just couldn't get to it under the pressure of being evaluated. do people actually manage to advocate for themselves in performance reviews or is everyone just winging it like me

Working on evaluating some AI-generated outbound (SDR-style emails along with follow-ups), and I’m running into a weird problem. Everyone talks about better personalisation or higher reply rates, but when you actually try to benchmark quality it gets messy fast.

A few things we’ve looked at:

a)reply rate (obvious, but noisy with a delayed signal)

b)positive vs negative replies (hard to label cleanly at scale)

c)factual accuracy about the prospect/company

d)how much editing a human has to do before sending

e)whether the message sounds human enough to not trigger spam radar

The issue for me at least, none of these fully capture “this is a good outbound message”. You can optimise for reply rate and end up with clickbaity nonsense. You can optimise for accuracy and get something technically correct but completely dead. Right now the most practical metric internally is probably the time to approve/send after human review process, but that feels like a proxy, not the thing itself. If you had to build a proper benchmark here, what would you optimise for? This seems like one of those problems where everyone says the metric isn''t important, but it seems like the core element.

• single metric or composite?
• offline eval vs live campaign data?

i just hit the sign up bonus on my sapphire preferred and im looking at flights to europe for next spring. everyone on here always says transfer to partners but when i actually look at the airline sites the point requirements seem pretty much the same as just booking through the chase portal or the dates i want are totally blocked out

am i missing something obvious here. is it actually worth spending hours checking like a dozen different airline websites just to maybe save a few thousand points or is the portal fine for normal people who dont want this to be a second job

feels like theres this assumption that transferring is always better but so far it just seems way more complicated for not much benefit. or maybe im just looking at the wrong programs idk