NOT A CONFESSION! SEEKING ADVICE HERE

I know therapy is useful. How do we get most out of our therapy sessions?
How do we track or monitor the progress with therapy?
(FYI - I have always been a nerdy kid pressurized by parents. I am finding it a little difficult to maintain and handle friendships. I have realized that dealing with emotions is important. My manager from previous company was toxic. I had a recent break up. My grandfather died last month. Recent events have taken a toll on me)

What’s something you were literally unable to do while pregnant? I apparently forgot how to drive. Literally every time I get in my car it’s some kind of issue. Typing this as I wait for my boyfriend to come get me off a curb 😩

Wife had a new job opportunity appear while on maternity leave. she may not return to her current employer. Anyone hear of F500 or consulting firms clawing back parental leave benefits/pay? Advice?

Planning a baby moon in august, I’ll be 22 weeks. We wanted to go to Scandinavia or Iceland but looking at the news and all these nightmare airport stories has us thinking about road-tripping instead. Anyone travel to Europe recently?

Is it in poor taste to utilize a paternity leave policy in the first year of employment at a new job?

M, 44. After 21 years of marriage, my wife and I signed divorce papers with no contest. We have two adult daughters together, 18 and 21 So no child support, no alimony, and I make $170k at 44. I recently moved out of the marital house into an apartment,m. What should my next steps look like at this point? Do I need counseling?

Ladies how long does it take to get pregnant the second time. I know if totally depends from person to person. Just curious to see where people have landed. Looking to plan for my second one soon.

I'm currently working as an HR Director for a New Jersey non-profit of about 165 employees. I have been with the company 7 years and have a total of 10 years in the HR world. I have my Master's in HRM, my SHRM-CP, and am currently making $87k yearly. I have 7 weeks PTO, flex scheduling, and the ability to work remotely at my own discretion.

My father in law thinks I'm worth at least $40k-$50k more than I'm being paid currently. I don't know if he's right. What do you think?

Has anyone used the "reduced work hours" during busy season (Jan) after parental leave? How hard was it to discuss with the team?

Just going to whinge a bit because I've got no one to talk to. My parents have always been terrible with money. As a kid, when I couldn't help, my mom just beat me, so I learned to get useful quick. Since I was 12, I've worked to help support my family. I feel like I've lost my youth. Sometimes I want to just walk, but that'll leave my siblings holding the bag. They're much younger, so they never saw my mom at her worst. She's pretty normal when times are good.

I have got an offer based in Boblingen, Germany with 60k euro as fixed. Will it be enough for a couple with a 3 year old kid ? My major expense would be accommodation, groceries, kid’s school and transportation. Please do let me know your valuable inputs. TIA

Covid finally nabbed me, despite taking lots of precautions and evading it for the last 2.5 years. Super bummed. My doctor told me to start a baby aspirin regime, and to take Tylenol for any fevers that develop. So far, my symptoms have been pretty rough and I’ve been monitoring temp (fever did occur), blood pressure (normal), heart rate (high - 108 at one point), and blood oxygen levels (97%). Has anyone gone through this and have any other advice to monitor and manage symptoms?

16 weeks and so worried all of the stress I’m under is going to hurt the baby. Between work, my own scary (non-pregnancy) health stuff, the pandemic, my mom (who is a widow and lives alone, basically isolated by choice due to covid) is having health issues, and pressures to keep billable hours up, I’ve been having complete breakdowns. Today I spent almost the entire day crying and now have to make up the billable time this weekend. I really worry abt what effect this will have on the babe.

How are Bain’s maternity benefits? What’s the parental leave like? Do you have to have been working there for a certain amount of time to be eligible for benefits?

I am wondering how you are getting your toddlers to socialize during Covid? I have a toddler and she’s the only kid in my family. I just moved to California so I do not have any friends with babies. She goes to the park with the nanny, but doesn’t play with other kids. I would typically sign her up for song circles, but things are closed because of Covid and I have to be very careful because my husband works in a hospital. I’m worried about her lack of interaction with kids. Any tips?

5 mo. before my maternity leave I was offered a Sr position. A couple of days after I left I found out the position was given to a peer. Once I was back my boss told me that there is another SR position open, and I should be getting it soon. I’ve been looking options elsewhere and I got an offer that is $1 less/ HR that what I’m currently making. My pay increase with my promotion will be about $3/ hr. Today I found out that my the promotion won’t happen till March. What would you do in my shoes?

Registry tips: Baby monitors. Tell me what’s your fave and why? What are its downsides? Please mention if you’ve had multiple and returned one - would love to know your comparative experience.

My billable hours bonus requirement/target is 1900. Unless I pull a 300 hour month in December, I won’t be hitting that. The reason being is that in June, I had a parent pass which required me to travel overseas to take care of arrangements. I also had another family emergency in October that also required me to travel overseas. Do you guys think the firm will take this into consideration?

How do you cope with being the primary income and not home enough? I enjoy having a career, but my 3yo behavior declined due to my long work hours. She’s an emotional mess with transitions and attention seeks. She is loved and snuggled at home daycare, loves preschool, but needs the time and attention from family to feel her best. I quit my job and took a few weeks off - start date tmrw for new job. In the few weeks home, she’s been like a different kid and 10x happier. I feel so guilty 😭

Just had a triplet birth in our unit, completely successful and mother and kids doing great! Such a nice gift right now

Hi - My offboarding is this week. Looking to join a project (Test Quality IGNITE - Test Specialist) with remote work / WFH as I have an ailing parent at home with no other caretakers.

City : Kolkata
YOE : 8Years+ (All IBM)
Band : 6B, confirmed for 7A with PeM approval this cycle.

Any leads would be helpful.

I’m applying for admission by motion in NY and they require all law employment to be affirmed by the employer (basically, they have to fill out a form that says you were employed in a law capacity). This includes all law employment (including unpaid internships, externships, etc.). I’m concerned that I may not be able to get a response from some employers because they have moved or folded. Has anyone had experience with this, and what did you do? Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks!

What is third party risk management? What does one do in that field? How is it different than IT risk management?

I received my PR and want to start looking for jobs in Canada. Don’t want to transition to current company’s Canadian office as I have burnt bridges here. US Mid tier MBA + 2 years in Consulting contd

My first two jobs in accounting ended up in lay offs/firing..should I just give up on this career

Current: Deloitte C - 105k Base, 25k API (FY21), up for promo FY22. Got an offer at PWC Senior Associate: 125k Base, 15k sign on (repay within 2 years if I leave), eligible for API up to 20%. Thoughts?

Although summer vacation is about over for some of us, what do you do as summer jobs (to get by when school is out)?

Is it OK to leave the company right after receiving a GC? Anyone who did this? I’m tired of consulting

Could anyone provide some insights about Oracle Hospitality BU ?
Product : Opera Cloud
How’s WLB? and yearly hike for this BU?
How’s the learning opportunities?
TIA

Looking for a Remote Job. What are the best companies?

Hi All,

Can someone refer me for one job in Accenture?
Let me know, i will share the job id & my resume.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,
I have a 4-year background in Consulting now (specifically on IT for finance projects) + 2 years in Accounting and a Masters in Corporate Finance.
I'm 30 years old now and have worked in 4 different countries.
I'm interested to turn my career over to M&A and enterprise valuation, do you have any advice? What are the must-have skills and knowledge required?
Anyone available to discuss further on the topic?
Thanks

Today while making anti-bullying posters in class 1 idea seemed apt for this site as well. Before responding to other people’s posts: THINK! is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind? Thanks!

What is your process for getting clients to provide thorough and actionable feedback on creative deliverables?

Is it okay to ask my assistant to scan the handwritten notes to PDF?
When reading statutes, I need to print them out and read line by line, but it would be nice to have the handwritten notes in the electronic version.

Hi Microsoft Fishes,
I am not getting responses on my applications on jobs in Microsoft.

I have more than 5 years of experience into development with Python and Ruby.

They don't like application of professional worked on these ?

What kind of roles should I apply for at Microsoft?

Someone gave me hope with Diclegis after vitamin B6/unisom were not helping. But this doesn’t help either. Hope Zofran helps, please send prayers my way.

I have gone down the rabbit hole of Google Slides and all of the possibilities! It's going to make assigning work so much easier. A bit of work up-front, but I prefer it to laminating and velcroing!!!

I’ve only consumed nicotine and water today 😊

Job application: Please indicate how many years of working experience you have using this software.
Me: I just started learning how to use this last month so… 1.

Do the women here generally like a beard on a man? Trying to decide whether to keep mine or not

Just going to whinge a bit because I've got no one to talk to. My parents have always been terrible with money. As a kid, when I couldn't help, my mom just beat me, so I learned to get useful quick. Since I was 12, I've worked to help support my family. I feel like I've lost my youth. Sometimes I want to just walk, but that'll leave my siblings holding the bag. They're much younger, so they never saw my mom at her worst. She's pretty normal when times are good.

For the people who took Steve Kerr’s impassioned speech (which I admire tremendously) and used it as a LinkedIn post to talk about “what leadership looks like in the workplace” - seriously consider rethinking your priorities in life. Not everything is an opportunity to spout off about what “leadership” is and turn it into professional advice (I realize not everyone did that or may not have seen it as much as I did in my feed, but had to vent about it).

People with a naturally loud voice, how do you keep it low in regular conversations? PEOPLE THINK THAT I’M YELLING WHEN I’M SPEAKING IN MY NORMAL VOICE, AND PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. But when I yell, that’s obviously earth shattering. The number of times I’ve told my wife I wasn’t yelling is too high.

Had a great date with a guy last week and he mentioned going out again soon. Neither of us texted after and have had busy weekends. Do I text or would he have texted if interested?

What are the main differences between atheism and agnosticism?

Going to the grocery store in my husband’s hometown in Ohio was an unexpected confidence booster. May all of you experience a nice little boost if you are visiting family over the holidays!

I’m at dinner and I’m 99% positive the table next to me is on date 1. It isn’t going well. Do I step in to help?🤔🧐

I’m excited to announce that today feels like Thursday.

How do you feel about women not wearing panties? Hot or not

I lost the opportunity to maintain a relationship with my ideal mentor. Just looking for advice from anyone that can relate to such a situation. I know I will eventually come across another that will captivate/motivate at a similarly high level at some point, but, having worked closely with various high-performers over the past few years, it seems to be quite rare. 🥲

A former 'friend' who I havnt talked to in 7 years after we had multiple falling outs sent me a Facebook friend request.

Like dude, you are toxic. And if you are going to ask for an add send a message don't try and do it blindly

I have this weird huge anxiety around sending out emails to my BU. Personally, it’s because I’ve received feedback that I’m not concise or clear in my written communication. I’m trying to be patient and gracious with myself, & have been reading books to improve my vernacular. I also send my email drafts to my manager first, & she’s been supportive and improving them for me. Which is great! But I feel a tad embarrassed. Any tips on how to regulate that feeling, & improve written comm?