I mean I have not researched but I tried pretty hard to jump off the ground and will myself up so I could fly like my dreams and I think that counts.

Find a dive bar and go at the same time/times every week for at least 8 visits. You’ll know it’s a dive bar if it smells like the beer has soaked into the walls and floors and someone offers you a bump of coke in a bathroom that’s too small for two people. You will absolutely make friends but they might not be the best influences on your life. They’ll be really loyal and probably kinda funny though.

Giving a small group of people guns and putting that group in charge of enforcing a set of rules (that they’re not even required to know) for everyone else seems like an approach that totally lacks common sense in the first place imo.

I do an egg sandwich (English muffin toasted, egg whipped and then fried in an egg circle, cheese). My trick to continually enjoying my sandwich is that I buy fancy chedder for it from the cheese store. I usually put a little Italian dressing on the English muffin for flavor.

I met my partner in school, which is supremely unhelpful for people outside of school!

If I were you I’d keep doing similar things. Join an exercise group, a hobby meetup discord, a volunteer project. Go to the bar at the same time every week. Meeting people through doing things weeds out all the app drama.

Great job scoring an interview! Having worked in HR plus had a couple jobs, here’s my advice:

1. look at the tasks you’ll be completing if you get the job and think about any experience you have that would help demonstrate that you’re experienced and able to do that thing. Think outside the box! Your examples don’t need to come from the workplace if you use clear reasoning. Interviewers love examples.

2. Pull a sample interview of common questions offline and write down how you’d respond to each question.

3. Don’t take things personally if things don’t go well. There are SO many reasons that you might not get a position that have absolutely nothing to do with you. One big one is that companies often already have someone internal in mind but have to meet certain job posting requirements. Just keep trekking and the chips will fall your way eventually.

I upvoted and boosted you arbitrarily because everything is fake anyway!

From reading an earlier thread, I believe the boost feature makes more sense when you think about federating with Mastadon which has a reblog thing going on. So you’d get a boost to your rep if someone shared your content on mastodon.

Additionally, Kbin is planning to change the rep system to be based on up and down votes instead—it just isn’t a priority right now. Something something check the GitHub for details.

My friends seem to have no issue sharing their wins, but when I want to celebrate meeting a personal goal etc. I always hesitate to share because I don’t want to seem like I’m belittling anyone or behave like I’m better than anyone. I’m curious what others do to strike a balance.

I had a friend in high school whose dad was big into Bluegrass. Are fiddle jokes still a thing?