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Hi all, I just moved to Raleigh from Texas and I'm looking into starting a baking business. I've found that NC has a home food processor program in lieu of actual cottage food laws, and it looks like they're pretty strict about not having pets in the home to qualify.

I have a couple questions:

1. For those of us with pets, is our only option to find and rent a kitchen space and register as a commercial business?

2. I've seen some folks say the home food processor program is "voluntary"--what the heck does that mean? Is that even true?

I've found some older posts on this from 4 years ago or more, so I'm curious what the scene looks like in 2026. Thanks in advance for any advice or recom

Well, I fell for the apparent Jericho guitars scam. Paid for a guitar a year ago, was strung along for months until Dave stopped replying. Was always “a few more weeks”, until total radio silence. Trying to find a way to get my money back through the bank.

Do not order from them.

I’m really struggling with my manager. Some context: Last summer, I joined a smallish company and a small design team of less than 10. I joined as a Lead Designer, a role I’ve successfully performed for a few years now in my career.

We clicked through the interview process and they were super personable and transparent about some of the challenges at the company. I thought it was great and thought this person would be a supportive manager who doesn’t bullshit around.

So I get there, and very quickly I see the reality:

• Micromanagement: wanting every single design from all designers to go through their personal approval instead of the team leads: which in itself is an impossible task when

Hey group, I’m a 13 year UX vet that’s mostly worked at enterprise level companies of varying maturities. I’m looking to switch up my work quite a bit and I have a potential opportunity at this IT consultancy in my town. They have enterprise level clients and are about 150 employees big. However they have 3 designers that kind of rotate around clients.

I’ve never worked at a consultancy like this before. I do see the lower design maturity as a red flag, but they seem interested in developing it. I take that with a grain of salt.

But what else should I look for when interviewing? What are some good consultancy specific questions to get an idea of what my life might be like there in a UX r

I saw a meme earlier that very concisely illustrated an ethos I feel like I see a lot working with software engineers and executives who don’t see the value in what we do. The meme was basically illustrating engineers as carrying the company on their backs, with PMs (and implying other roles like UX) just sorta hanging on them demanding sprint updates and agile rituals.

On one hand, I absolutely get why we need additional roles with engineering to help with customer discovery, product design, prioritization, etc… it would be ridiculous for anyone to think a software engineer can do all of that at once and do it well.

On the other hand, if one day all the software engineers simply got up a

Hey everyone, I wanted to share something that might hopefully help others that are going through the same thing as I am today. I'm overwhelmed.

New Years has always been this weird thing for me. I'm both excited and optimistic about all of the new possibilities for the year. It has this energy to it where change is possible, and I can make it happen. But.. because I have ADHD, all of these possibilities are overwhelming and daunting. I can't tell you how many times I've made goals and resolutions and almost instantly abandoned them, only to fall into the same habits through the year that burn me out or prevent me from making any progress in things I had hoped.

So, I'm taking a different a

I work in a fairly large enterprise in software. I make good money. I actually like my manager and my team overall. But I’m feeling more and more angry with the overall company and their bullshit, as well as the overall condition of work in the US.

Tightening resources, not backfilling important roles, forced attrition via RTO, badge scan tracking, and the lack of spine of any of our leaders to defend us, etc etc… I don’t mean to take up this whole thing with the issues.

Every company has been proving to be the same. Workers are treated as cattle. The overall condition of work in the US has made it such that even switching companies doesn’t really solve the problem for the individual.

I’m a lead product designer and we have a couple of PMs where the lines of who does certain things is getting blurred. For example, AB testing and content writing. I’ve always considered those to be under the UX umbrella, but as I’m learning more about the PM field I’m seeing more and more overlap with UX in terms of expectations and duties.

Just curious, do you find yourself sometimes bumping into your designers in terms of duties? How do you sort that out?

Thanks!

Hey there. I’m a 13-year UX practitioner, but I’ve been doing digital design in some form for over 20 years. I’ve been evaluating my career next steps and thinking maybe I don’t want to be a “designer” anymore, but instead something adjacent.

I’ve fallen in love with facilitating things like design sprints, workshops, creating custom workshops, rapid prototyping and testing. Limited scope engagements. Stuff in that realm where you’re exploring ideas, trying stuff, leading groups of people to work together to get shit done. I wanna do that more, I’m burnt out on design execution and working with IT teams on infinite projects.

So I’m redoing my website, and I’m wanting to try to lean into

Hey all. I need some advice or encouragement. I work in a large company and I’m on a team of designers. We have a project manager and a few junior designers.

While we all get along great personally, I’m getting more frustrated with a couple folks as coworkers. I’m a lead on the team, and we all share the same manager. My role is to help move projects along with stakeholders and help our junior designers move along in their work. But I cannot do any disciplinary things.

One, who we will call Beth, is totally disengaged and is generally a poor performer. But she’s been this way forever but like… also doesn’t leave and won’t get moved or let go? We try to send her work that’s in her interes

Doing a little research for myself. I’m a guitar player and over the years I’ve built up a little home studio that I can use to do almost anything I need. I think a lot of us here have basic home studio setups as well.

But let’s say you don’t. You have a laptop, a phone, a 2 channel interface, and Reaper. No mics. No budget to pay for a studio. You wanna write and record some stuff with your awesome drummer friend, but want to get the best sound as possible. What would you do?

Just curious!

I’m middle of the road, I guess it’s called an ambivert. I need alone time to recharge and generally like doing things alone. But I also like doing things with people and going into high energy situations sometimes. I like the variety.

For context, I work in software on a design team. I work with painfully dysfunctional introverted people, and I’m starting to hate it. They are damn near useless. They don’t speak up in meetings to add anything of value, they don’t do anything to learn or better their craft, they’re not proactive about anything and just wait around to be told to do something. I swear if no one made them do anything, they’d decompose waiting for someone to tell them what to d

Been thinking about this on and off for awhile, but curious how others approach it. I’m a guitar player and I write progressive black metal kind of stuff.

I want to get experimental with the moods by using different modes for a section of a song.

Is it pretty common to achieve a modal sound by playing in parallel modes, like for example going from D aeolian/minor to D Lydian?

Or do you modulate keys to the relative mode and go from something like D minor to A dorian?

I get that both approaches are valid, but just curious what we tend to see more within metal, if there is one?

Thanks!