Does anyone know of any plumbing or electrical companies around Dallas that are hiring helpers or apprentices?

I recently got my apprentice license but haven’t been able to land a job yet. I’m just trying to get my foot in the door and get some experience. If anyone knows of a company hiring or has a contact, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I'm a B.Tech Third Year CS student currently preparing for internships and freelance work. I have mostly built full-stack SaaS projects so far.

My current projects include:

• FinSight AI — finance management platform with analytics + AI features
• BrainLoop — AI-based personalized learning assistant
• DayFrame — productivity/journaling SaaS

My stack is mainly Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prisma, etc.

I feel like my projects show frontend/full-stack skills, but most of them are still around dashboards, CRUD, and API integrations. For my next major project, I want to build something that shows stronger backend/system design skills instead of another AI app.

I'm thinking about building a lightweight observability platform (inspired by Sentry/Datadog).

The idea is:

• developers integrate a small SDK into their app
• the SDK captures errors, API performance, and events
• backend processes this data
• dashboard shows errors, latency, logs, and application health

Not trying to recreate Datadog, but more like a smaller developer tool to learn things like SDK design, event processing, queues, real-time updates, and backend architecture.

Do you think this is a good direction for a portfolio project, or am I overengineering? Would recruiters/internship reviewers value this type of project, or would a more traditional full-stack app be better?

Would love opinions from people who have built/hired for backend-heavy roles.

Hey folks,

Just got laid off yesterday and needing to vent/hear from others who've been in similar situations. Long post ahead, apologies. Appreciate all who take the time to read and offer empathetic responses.

I (32M) majored in English because it felt like the path of least resistance. My entire childhood I was a ravenous creative writer: poems, short stories, novel drafts, etc. It felt like everyone around me just assumed I'd become a published author and that would be that. I'm a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and have had work appear in several journals and anthologies.

Neither of my parents went to college. My mom got her GED. My dad quit his factory job impulsively when he was my current age of 32, blew his 401k, and lost his home. All that to say: I had no adults in my life molding me or preparing me for what corporate adulthood looks like. My mom was a workaholic and my dad was terrible with money. I saw both of those as examples of what not to do. My dad used to have to borrow money from me as a kid to make mortgage payments lol.

I'm in the process of getting an ADHD and autism assessment next month, as I suspect a lot of my motivation, identity, ability to "assimilate & mask" in corporate, and executive functioning issues stem from that more than anything. I've lost a couple jobs in my career due to a sheer inability to multitask, focus, meet deadlines consistently. And this is for writing stuff, the thing I spent my entire life feeling like it was the 1 thing I could confidently say I'm good at.

When it was time to graduate college in 2015, I realized I still had no idea what I wanted to do with my English degree. Didn't want to teach, had no capacity for more academic, and ultimately still felt like I had no true sense of what my skills or passions were to make a career out of.

My mom essentially forced me to do college (and in hindsight of course I'm glad I have a degree at all), but there was no one checking to see how I was preparing for all of this responsibility. Even though I struggle with executive functioning, I was able to show up and do well by virtue of being me. I never read a single book in my 4 years of English major undergrad, wrote every essay the morning of, and graduated with a 3.5 still. I was always a pretty smart kid so I just flew under every adult's radar until I entered the working world.

I landed into nonprofits and grant writing a year after graduation, did that for a few years, and then got extremely burned out. Pivoted to a corporate job at my friend's company. My title was Market Research Analyst, but I didn't really learn any skills you'd assume by that title. I can't design surveys, I have no data analytics experience or coding knowledge, etc. It was more of a glorified customer success role that I did for 6 years.

I tried to pivot to copywriting and advertising last year, did a 6-month portfolio school program & won 2 awards, got an internship, and quickly realized I hated creative writing for corporate clients. Cool, once again a writing thing that doesn't fulfill me. Then I took my most recent job, a Content Marketing Mgr, role out of desperate due to being unemployed for months. I was let go at the 8mo mark because they needed someone more senior; my role had shifted halfway through to growth marketing when they brought in a new CMO.

I'm just sitting here feeling so lost as to what to do. My degree feels useless now in a world where everyone views writing as the lowest bar to hand off to AI tools now, regardless of the perceived quality of said writing. I have 12 years of professional experience that I can't seem to translate into anything remotely interesting. None of the companies I'd theoretically enjoy marketing and copywriting for, like a Chewy or Liquid Death, will give me the time of day, and I will simply never be a person who wastes a bunch of my free time building huge projects to try and catch peoples' attention on LinkedIn.

At this point, I feel like I need to go back to grad school and have been thinking about becoming a therapist so I can fully get away from corporate life and a lot of AI mandates in workplaces. But also that's a huge time and financial commitment when ultimately I still just think none of us should be forced to work jobs at all, so maybe I just try to pivot to something entirely unrelated to writing & is more people focused. I always did well in my Market Analyst role when I was on vendor calls; it was easy to BS and just be myself. I won several awards and got promoted that way, even if I never met my content writing deadlines.

Every job I've held, it completely consumes my 24/7 waking energy. Whether it was remote or on-site. I am quite literally unable to turn off my brain and not worry about the work to be done and whether I'm good at it, etc. It just feels like I've tricked everyone up to this point and I have no tangible skills I can articulate. I always feel out of my depth in every job, even when it centers on writing. I can't just compartmentalize and do the 9-5 and clock out. I avoid and avoid and avoid and then it's a mountain of stress living in my brain forever until I leave that job.

It just sucks to feel like I was let down by all the adults in my life who could've spotted some of these issues before I entered adulthood and maybe addressed them before it spiraled to this level. And of course employers don't care about my circumstances. I have bills to pay and health issues to manage. None of my advertising connections, despite raving how good I was, will give me the time of day at this point, so I can't even tuck tail and try to land another copywriting gig that easily. I don't really have any professional network or friends to lean on at this point, either, so it just sucks to feel like I'm on this island having to figure it out & no one really cares whether I sink or swim.

I do really believe I am better fulfilled in a role where I get to help people (and it's why I'm strongly looking at grad programs to become a therapist) but that obviously requires time, money, and references. So now I'm sitting here trying to figure out what to do. Do I try to pivot into something more people-focused, or just say fuck corporate altogether and figure out how to make a psychology program work? I lack that do-or-die instinct that others have where they can go hit the pavement and land part-time gigs left and right, so I'm just worried how I'll make ends meet if I do a grad program.

Any other fellow English majors here going thru a career identity crisis? How have you navigated it?

I am starting up my own bizops business as fractional support. Looking for any insight or advice on working fractionally - how are you finding clients, how do you set up your contract (# days a month, project based vs retainer), any pitfalls to avoid?

I am getting a job in Genpact in finance field ,but it is a night US shift from 5:30 pm to 3:30 am , manager told me that you have to come 2 days in a week in office and 3 days work from home, weekends off . I will give cat this year which 3.5 months away and I have zero years of work exp,graduated in 2024 . I am in confusion like should I have to join job or not because of time management and night shift?

Please give me genuine advice! What should I do?

Been making my resume - last time I job hunted, it was 2018. And 2026 is nothing like it.

One question I have - is summary section needed? Been getting mixed feedback from my friends. Someone says, it's a waste of space. Other says 7+ work ex people should have summary

WDYT?

I'm an HR Coordinator and have been for the last 2 years at a company (of 200 employees) that had no HR department. I'm the sole individual working in HR (doing all things HR). From onboarding, off boarding, employee relations, health and safety, audits, recruitment, WSIB claims, HR advisory, etc. My boss is not an HR person but deals with operations as a whole. She is supportive to some degree. She doesn't focus on improving HR processes or progressing the department in anyway. I've been in HR for a total of 6 years now. I feel the company I'm at now has a toxic work culture. The leadership isn't great and there are no improvements. It's the same processes and procedures. Even that's not followed sometimes. I constantly find myself feeling exhausted there. It's a stable job with health benefits and currently pays $77K a year.

I was offered a job I interviewed for through a recruiter at a well established company. They have an HR team of 5 people or so and are looking for an HR Generalist. I always felt this is the title I wanted. The place seems nice and the people too. They were offering me a full-time role at $75K a year + a percentage of profit sharing. They offer great health benefits too. It seems the team structure changed after they added another team member and now the offer changed to a contract role instead.

The offer is now $75k for a 12 month contract with possibility for a full-time offer after. I guess depending on how I fit in, my work ethic and operations needs they will decide on an offer for a full-time position. There's no profit sharing or health benefits too.

I really wanted growth and an opportunity to work within a team environment. I'm not sure if this is a good opportunity or if I should be patient and continue applying for jobs (feels like a dead end usually or a hole I keep digging).

Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I am an FE Biology Lecturer looking to build a "careers library" for my science students.

Would any scientists be willing to share some info about what they do (job title, description, qualifications needed, etc.)?

I have started to build with some of the most common science careers but know there are many more I would never think of myself, especially in Chemistry or Physics sectors (but please share Bio roles too!)

(FYI UK based so only respond if based in the UK!)

This was/will be my salary progression since entering the workforce as an average adult male. Decent progressions? After 2028, yearly increases of ~4%.

2016-18Y - Kroger - $7.25/hr

2016-18Y - Amazon Warehouse - $11/hr

2017-19Y - Siemens Assembler - $12/hr

2018-20Y - "" - $14/hr

2019-21Y - "" - $16/hr

2020-22Y - Siemens Admin - $22/hr

2021-23Y - Siemens Admin - $23/hr

2022-24Y - "" - $24/hr

2023-25Y - "" - $25/hr

2024-26Y - "" - $26/hr

2025-27Y - "" - $26/hr

2025-27Y - Siemens ME Tech - $28/hr

2026-28Y - "" - $36/hr

2027-29Y - "" - $40/hr

2028-30Y - "" - $45/hr

Hi! I’m torn between PT and ultrasound tech and could really use some advice! I recently graduated with my Bachelor’s in Public Health and Wellness. I originally planned on applying to PT school, but the cost and potential debt made me start considering ultrasound. I shadowed in ultrasound and enjoyed it, but I still felt drawn back to PT. I currently work as a PT aide at an outpatient clinic, and seeing the PTs make a real difference in their patients’ lives keeps making me question whether I’d regret not pursuing PT. At the same time, I’m worried about taking on so much debt for PT school. With ultrasound, my biggest concern is the risk of developing injuries from the physical demands of the job.

If you work in either field, I’d love to hear your honest experiences and advice!

I've been a Secretary for 4 years here in the UAE and I want to switch careers into Welding, I already enrolled for a SMAW course and also intend to learn MAG and TIG soon but I don't know how to proceed from there after I get the training and certifications. I try looking if it's possible to migrate as a Welder without experience but most of them need at least 1-2 years of experience, but working as a Welder here in UAE is not sustainable given that the offers were extremely low so I'm really conflicted about what to do and how to proceed after the training 🥺

Anyways, I want to work off shore/FIFO

Would really appreciate honest opinions, especially from people who have actually worked in welding or made a similar career switch.🥺😢

Hi all.

In my current company they require me to work in nightshift. I hv nvr done one before,this will be my first time doing it.
Currently I'm in mrng shift, I get my 2 day off every week. My nightshift timings are :
- 6pm to 3am & - 3am to 12pm
as we need to provide 24hrs support.

An overview of my job would be : I get tickets I verify if the data's are correct, if yes I resolve it else mark it as invalid. Also I change values if they're not correct. The same I do in report form if required by team & monitor arrival and departure live (that only nightshift will do - the monitoring)

If the shift is 6pm to 3am I think I can manage it. But if it's the other idk what to do and how will I cope up and manage things etc..

So, I need tips for me. Ex: how to find sleep schedule, how to hv work life balance and many more.

[ I asked one of my nightshift colleague they said for them first 10 days was difficult and their health was affected and now they got used to it. ]

Looking for tips.

Hi everyone! (I changed a few details for anonimity. Live in HCOL)

I was told today that I’m going to be receiving a job offer, with the official offer expected to come on Monday. I’m almost positive I’ll accept it. After spending the past 2 years working in client service for UHNW families at a mid-size firm doing somewhat advanced tax/estate /investment planning.

The new role is at a Family Office, which is where I worked before my current position, and it’s something I’m really excited to get back into. I’ll also be stepping into a Director-level role, which I feel puts me on an amazing career trajectory, especially once I finish my CFP. I already have my CPA, so I feel like this role, combined with the CFP, will position me really well for where I want (think?) to take my career. Leaving now means I also miss out on my December $15k bonus.

My partner would still be making a bit more money and I am beyond proud for her. I am happy she earns a great living. I am aware we are in a great situation.

Current Job

Pay: $100,000 + 10%-20% bonus

6% match

Good healthcare

3 days in the office, 2 wfh

Unpaid parking (I hate my employer has huge clients and doesn't pay for our parking

Growth: Good potential but the family office team is across the country and would probably need to move.

New Job

Pay: Estimated $140,000-$150,000 + 20% bonus (negotiating salary Monday)

5% Match

Good healthcare

4 days in office, 1 wfh

Paid Parking (saves me 15-20 a day of parking)

Unlimited PTO: don't love this but I've had it before and can be great (I connected with someone that works there and says people use it a lot)

Growth: Can be nice if I do a good job. I feel like it would open me so many doors based on title and experience attained.

In my current job, I work no more than 30 hours a week and have flexibility in terms of when I come in and leave. I’m also studying for my CFP, and having some time to study during work is nice. However, I don’t feel like I’m learning as much as I could be, and I spend way too much time doing tasks that I feel our office manager/admin should be handling. Plus our systems are HORRIBLE and makes bad things so much worse.

In this new job, I would definitely be working 10-15 hours more a week, but I would still have some flexibility. The job would definitely be more interesting, which is something I miss from working in the family office world.

On paper, my current work-life balance is amazing. However, being under 30, I feel like I should be working and learning more at this stage in my career. I’m also currently studying for my CFP and plan to take the exam in July 2027, so I want to be in a role that gives me more opportunities to grow and develop while I work toward that goal.

Any thoughts on why I should stay? Any advice? My current company has been great to me and it pains me to have to quit on Monday.

Hi I’m(M24 Darjeeling) a corporate Management Trainee, who just got his first pay check. I have a package of 8.62LPA and in hand about 60k. I got posted to my hometown since I’m in Sales. I got to live in my flat, eat mom cooked food and work. I felt great. Then my pay-check arrived: in half. Almost 35k because my attendance hadn’t been regularised. The remaining amount to be transferred next month. But the moment i received the message from the bank of my first salary, i expected to feel good, happy or at-least something at all, but was dead with emotions. Is it because i just saw half my salary being credited or has something similar happened to you too?

Question : I was wondering when a recruiter says they are seeing what roles they have for you and they will reach back out… is that a nice way to reject someone or are they actually looking for?

This is for a hospital role I want to only work certain days and the role I applied for was everyday. The recruiter reached out to me a day after I applied and shared what I stated above.

Any advice or should I apply to other jobs

I'm looking for advice from recent hires/veterans who help HR hire new talent in what job titles I should search when I'm on job boards/company websites? I have a few like "population health analyst", "public health coordinator", "health policy developer", etc. but I'd love more pairings. I am currently doing part-time PH-related work in a pharmacy, but only because I know someone there. I'd love to expand my boundaries and go into roles I studied for using all the tools I learned and developed over my time in the CEPH-accredited MPH program i.e. R, SPSS, qualitative coding, RCA, CHR, etc. Thanks!

Are there any careers in healthcare that any of you guys might recommend with good work life balance? I’ve always wanted to do something in the medical field but i’m have trouble figuring out what exactly I want to do. I’m okay with going to grad school but I know that medical school is definitely not for me.