u/ladygesserit

I have a job interview next week for a really great opportunity at a startup. I enjoy talking about my job and how I approach it, but the past few years at my current position have been such a dumpster fire that I’m worried I won’t have anything to show or speak confidently about. I joined this company as an entry-level writer on a team that originally had 7 people, and the first year or two I got to work on a lot of great projects where my skills grew a lot. Over the past 3 years though, all but me and one other writer have been gradually laid off and we have basically just been keeping our heads above water and my team lead has not been receptive to trying to improve the situation. We’ve been struggling just to maintain our doc set, much less engage heavily with new features and tech. I have a few larger, recent projects I can share, but with all the pressure and workload, I’ve never really been able to do the full doc process as I would like and am not sure I can really speak on it. For example, more often than not I don’t get an opportunity to actually interview an SME or collaborate on a cross-functional team. It’s just “hey we need this, just get it out ASAP please, we don’t have time for all that”, and my attempts to solicit useful feedback are usually ignored. There was a lot of structure and process at the beginning of my career, but between the company no longer prioritizing docs and my team lead’s inability to chart a course for us, it’s all kind of fallen apart.

It’s hard because I do think I’m good at my job, especially given the circumstances, and I’ve tried to make it work and have learned to be adaptable. But I don’t know how I actually demonstrate that in an interview. I’m might be overthinking it, but I’m been spending hours each evening trying to prep and trying to think of how I would answer any possible question they could ask, wanting to be able to explain everything perfectly and just right. I’m feeling so discouraged and overwhelmed, any advice?

I bought a car in North Carolina the other day for my father for $5,000. The title is from Florida, so it was not required to have the title notarized. However, I realized after the fact that the price written on the title is $3,000 (they had filled out their details prior, including the price). I have the purchaser's copy of the cashier's check that shows the full amount that was paid, and we have no intention of trying to evade taxes. When my dad and I go to register the car, can we just tell them that the actual paid price is higher than what's on the title? Is there any potential for legal issue to come out of this?

My dad is convinced that we got scammed, but I think this is a pretty insignificant issue? The car matches everything that the seller described, we paid with a cashier's check and verified the seller's identity, we searched the title number and all of the details we saw matched the title we have. It's just the price discrepancy on the title itself.