u/thesecondfire
I'm surprised and a little disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a visible No on 7 movement in STL, haven't seen any signage (haven't seen anything for 7 either). I'm going to a Halloween party tonight and would love to bother people with a little handout about why it's a BS amendment.
"Hey wow that's a scary costume but you know what's really scary? Corrupt state politicians strangling meaningful election reform in the cradle. Here check this out."
I've seen a couple posts in r/LGBT like this one and a gif from the VMAs as well.
Is it something literal? Is it a reference to something?
So I just moved to a new city, and I'm looking for ways to meet new people and all that. I come across this really big group bike ride happening last night (Friday). I show up alone and While folks are gathering I amble up to a couple of random people talking to each other, introduce myself we chat. We end up meeting a couple other folks before the ride starts; and the first couple stops of the ride we keep talking and getting to know each other.
I'm thinking "Heck yeah I'm killing this." These people seem a lot cooler and hipper than I but it's everyone's first ride with the group so we're all just happy to connect. And we all say that's not an easy thing to do nowadays.
About 90 minutes
Hi, I've just moved to a new city for work and wanted to use the opportunity to start biking to work more. I've been a casual bike rider for the past 5 or 6 years, mostly around cities and occasionally on paved trails. I have an old hybrid bike that I got used, cheap from a friend about 5 years ago. This is a fairly hilly town and I hope to bike commute most days, so I think I'm ready to invest in something a little nicer and more efficient. But I'm not a super serious cyclist and don't have a big budget to draw from. When I told all this to the guy at the bike shop, he recommended from their selection a Kona Dew (https://www.konaworld.com/products/dew). Now, I know nothing about bikes and t
Take this down if it's too specific for a post, nut since this is for a soccer team in St. Louis I figure someone here will know. I'm moving to St. Louis this week and am hoping to find somewhere to watch Tottenham play this Sunday. Figure it's also a good way to meet people. Is there a Spurs bar or general soccer bar that is likely to have the game on? Thanks for any advice!
Hi folks, I'm moving out of my apartment next month and want to get my kitchen and bathroom cleaned really thoroughly. I've never hired a cleaner before and I don't know what makes for a good one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good cleaning service that they've used before? I live near Humboldt Park if that helps.
Hi yall, I'm taking a job at a university soon (advancement/fundraising, not an academic job), and among the many benefits is that I can take/audit one class for free per semester. This is a world-class university with a lot of offerings, it appears. Because it's been a slow climb to this point professionally and I eventually want to work in a different/better-paying field than higher education advancement, I want to make the most of this opportunity.
I was a history major (in other words, not much interest in STEM/business at the time), tried to be a high school teacher, but eventually ended up in nonprofit administration.
Professional interests/vague curiosities to this point have includ
I'm considering a job at WashU and trying to figure how I feel about living in St. Louis. I've mostly lived in larger cities but I've visited STL a few times and enjoyed it. I've heard that folks who grew up there are quite friendly but that it can be hard to break into a friend group since they're satisfied with what they have socially. Which I get, and I've experienced in another city I've lived in. I don't want to discount STL natives of course (and maybe I've been given the wrong impression), but I'm already in my early 30s and want to find the "curious" spaces that have people who might be in a similar situation. I'm wondering if there are other transplants here who have any advice or p
Lesson learned -- as soon as I start engaging with a potential employer in any way, I need to have an expected salary ready to give them.
I applied for a job that I didn't really know if I was qualified for, but heard from a supervisor asking if I had time for a sort of preliminary interview just with her. I figured we would both just be "feeling each other out" but at some point she asked what desired salary would be. I wasn't prepared, but I knew that the job description listed the pay range as $57k to $90k, so I stumbled and said $60k.
Now I have two interviews with their hiring committee this week, and I feel like I shortchanged myself. $60k is actually a pretty decent starting salary
Quick career recap -- history major, thought I wanted to teach but didn't like it, slid into a career in nonprofit fundraising, now am the operations manager for a university advancement office, where I do all the backend stuff for fundraising: managing the CRM database, data entry/hygiene, creating and improving processes, and writing instructional documents for team members about how to properly use the software.
I realize that I'd like to spend more time on that last bit. I like learning about a new process or software and making it useful, understandable, and accessible for others (maybe it's the wannabe teacher in me). So I look around and am attracted to technical writing.
I'm at a d
I'm not trying to sound flippant. I subbed here like last week because I saw some interesting question in r/a that made me think, Hey, I'm an adult now, maybe r/adulting is for discussions about the practical challenges and joys of growing up. But it seems like just about all of the posts that come up are from depressed people asking how do you cope with life being meaningless and why am I supposed to have a job and whatnot. Which is fine but it's not really what I'm looking for (feels like only hearing these things would just make me depressed myself). Is there a sub for adults that has a somewhat different bent to it?
Hello, I hope my post is okay if it's in English (I only know just enough Spanish to get by as a tourist). My brother and I are visiting Madrid next weekend (it's my first time, his second time), and I'm looking for things to do. We know all the museums and parks, et cetera. I thought it might be a fun experience to go to a La Liga match. I follow football but do not follow La Liga closely. He has zero interests in football or any sport but he is an open-minded person. So I might buy us tickets to the Atletico game.
Now, we do not speak Spanish (just English and French). We are both perfectly functional adults, so I'm sure we're very capable of navigating around the city, and so on. But I d
Anyone who has traveled with something fragile who can offer advice or tips?
It's my granny's birthday, and we are all going to her home in France to celebrate, and bringing little pieces of art that we made, in her honor.
I, not being an artist, might have gotten slightly ambitious with what I'm trying to bring -- essentially a collage with multiple layers, each on its own glass pane. As a result, it's heavier than a typical painting of its size, and a bit more fragile. So I'm trying to figure out how to bring it on a plane and train while keeping it safe.
