I'd be careful looking for jobs while at work, especially on a work computer. That's a great way to get let go if they notice you doing it.

As far as the search itself, you currently have more leeway because you've got a job - you don't need something tomorrow, so you can take more time. Start by talking to any friends or friendly acquaintances you have in the same field you're looking to work in. Ask about their current workplaces, their former workplaces, etc. to see if any stand out as places you'd also like to work.

Once you've spoken to any people you know, consider companies you've heard good things about. Check sites that share employee reviews like Glassdoor, look them up on LinkedIn, etc. Your goal should be to get a sense of average employee tenure as well as potential pain points. Two big things to keep in mind as you do this:

1. No workplace is perfect. Every job is going to have its flaws, so you're looking for one with flaws you're okay dealing with in the mid- to long-term. If you're looking for perfection, you'll never find it.
2. Employees who post reviews tend to feel very strongly about their employer, and those feelings trend negative. That doesn't mean you shouldn't trust the reviews, but it does mean you should take them with a large pinch of salt and look for trends rather than specifics.

Once you've found companies that you think might be a good fit, try reaching out to employees at those companies via LinkedIn (or some other site where they congregate) and asking for a brief chat. You don't want to take up a lot of their time, but a quick "I'm thinking of applying to X and would like to hear what working there is like before I do" should hopefully get you some firsthand information. It may also get you a referral, which is a big bonus when applying.

Even after all of this, it's important to remember that you still probably won't have all of the information you'd like to be able to make a confident decision. That's unfortunately just not how it works most of the time, which is why so many people choose the devil they know and stay instead of risking going elsewhere.

I remember seeing your earlier post about escalating your situation, so I'm referencing both when I speak here. Also, please keep in mind that I live in the US and don't work in healthcare, so my experiences are all from that angle.

That clause in your contract is totally normal.

I've had a version of that same clause for every role I've worked - it's a catch-all for "we might ask you to do a thing not listed, and when we do you need to do it." Some places are more reasonable in their requests than others, but basically all of them (that I know of) have it just in case.

Your previous post mentioned that you would receive requests to help out other nurses when you had downtime between patients. That too is normal. Every workplace has its own norms and social standards, but a fairly common one is "if you have time to help others who are busy when you aren't, do it." That support is meant to swing both ways, but if a person routinely has a lot of downtime while others don't, they may feel they've been unfairly targeted for extra work while others may simply see it as evening out the workload.

At the end of the day, your workplace is unlikely to change. It's unfortunately going to come down to what you want to deal with:

1. Accept the norms at your current role and work within them, even if personally don't like them. (Otherwise known as "suck it up and deal.")
2. Find a role with norms that fit your working style better. (Knowing that this attitude is common, so you may be looking for a while.)
3. Do the bare minimum until you're grudgingly accepted or forced out. (Leaving you either ostracized and with little chance of future promotion or fired with a reason that may make finding another role difficult.)

I share your dislike of having more work assigned to you despite it not really being yours to do, but I've also chosen to just accept that this is part of working. An annoying part, but one I've learned to deal with.

One last thing from a fellow "please just leave me alone to do my work" person: I've found that if I occasionally volunteer to help someone in my downtime, they're more likely to leave me in peace when they either see I'm actually busy or when I tell them I've been working all day and just need a few minutes to chill. That bit of proactive busyness on occasion has gotten me more downtime in the long run than trying to hide it ever did. (Just my experience, though. You do you.)

This has been surprisingly useful. I went in expecting "LinkedIn but better formatted" and actually found a site that does what I need it to do (unlike LI). And with fewer scams and third party recruiters too.

I will say that anyone using it should check the current list of companies first. Because they're scraping individual company pages, they may not have a company on their list that you'd like them to check - if so, there's a form linked at the top of the page where you can drop the company's URL to get them added.

I've done remote call center work in the past and have friends who've worked for a few others, and they were all technical support rather than sales work. Granted, some may want you to try to upsell services as you're troubleshooting, but it's not a true sales role.

As for the insurance places - yeah, those are basically all sales from what I understand. I've never worked for one myself, though, so I can't confirm what the experience is like.

If neither of those options appeal and you don't like the variability of the others I listed, I'd recommend searching for "remote entry-level work" and seeing the types of things that pop up. I personally prefer sites like Hiring Cafe over places like LinkedIn or Indeed for searching because there aren't as may scams, but make sure to check the company out thoroughly before you apply regardless of the platform you're using.

While karma might help spam/bots in some ways, I feel like it would also lead to karma farming, which I'm personally happy to not have here. Maybe they could instead allow communities to set requirements for minimum time subscribed or minimum interaction (voting, commenting, etc.) before people could post? I'd prefer that be set per-community, though, and not a site-wide mandate.

Sync! It's what I used on Reddit, and having it here made switching platforms so much smoother.

It's definitely still chugging along, although I will point out that the sub numbers now include not only modern WoW players but also Classic players. If the 7 million number is accurate, that's 7 million across all WoW versions, not just modern WoW.

Not necessarily dumb, but I had a harlequin rasbora that loved to lay down on anubias leaves. Like, fully horizontal. I can't tell you how many times I thought it was dead and went to remove it, only for it to swim off when I got close with the net.

It wasn't sick. It didn't have any swim bladder issues. The little jerk just spent years pranking me for seemingly no reason.

Still one of my favorite fish.

In recent years there's been a shift from "white/black list" to "allow/block list" in an effort to avoid the stereotypes associated with those terms. I wouldn't say it's the new norm yet, but it's slowly becoming more popular.

There currently isn't a way to see upvotes and downvotes separately in Sync like there is in some apps like Jerboa (I was wondering the same thing a few days ago), but it's listed as an enhancement request on Sync's GitHub so hopefully it'll be added at some point!

My biggest feature request is an option to view upvotes and downvotes separately rather than as one combined number. Ideally the current combined method would remain an option as well.

I haven't tried Boost, but I swapped over to Summit and have been pleased with the experience. The thing I liked most about Sync was the amount of customization; Summit fills that space quite well.

While I enjoy some Reddit drama every now and again as much as the next person, this article had a plenty of words but very little substance. A few former mods are concerned that new mods don't have the proper knowledge and background to moderate effectively (but with no concrete examples of a post's misinformation directly leading to harm), and researchers are worried they may no longer be able to use Reddit data for their studies (although Reddit has a policy around research-based access and is working with Pushshift to improve access).

These examples feel cherry-picked, and the article itself says that it's too soon to say whether or not content quality was impacted by the API changes and mod replacements. Without actual data - or at least many more examples of specific concerns that weren't present before the changes - it doesn't do much other than say "a few people are worried that something bad might happen."

I have no concrete answers, but this was fairly common with the Sync for Reddit app as well. We'd go several months without updates before they'd resume for a while and then drop off again.

I'm relatively confident the same will happen here, so updates will probably return soon^TM .

If you click on Sync Ultra in the left bar menu, it gives a list of everything currently included as well as a few features coming at a later time:

Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling, why do you assume that that immediately makes them a negative to society? Is a person's entire value predicated on their ability to earn money?

This sparks a few different thoughts for me:

1. I believe there are a few Lemmy instances that don't have downvotes enabled. (Beehaw might be one of them, but don't quote me on that.) If downvotes are a stress point for you, you could try joining one of those instances.
2. I personally find both upvotes and downvotes to be useful as a way for me to quickly see the community's reaction to a piece of content. If I'm scrolling through my feed and see a post with many downvotes and few upvotes, for example, I know that post is unlikely to interest me and will move on. Conversely, a highly upvoted post or one with a mix of both upvotes and downvotes is more likely to have a good conversation in the comments in my experience.
3. If I make a post that receives a large number of downvotes - or if most of my posts tend to be downvoted - that's a signal to me that I'm either not communicating my message well (confusing, passive aggressive, etc.) or that my message itself may not be welcome (hate speech, misinformation, etc.). In either case, I use that as a mental trigger for me to reflect on my posts rather than a reason to become unhappy with the community/platform as a whole.

Applying for jobs can often be a numbers game, but if you're not reaching the interview stage at all you may want to have someone review your resume for you. It might be that you're not highlighting your skills and experience in a way that the systems will pick up on - every industry seems to have it's own buzzwords - or you might also have a resume format that the ATS can't parse correctly.

As someone who uses gold to buy WoW tokens for both game time and shop credit to make other Blizzard purchases, I have a hard time getting upset over this. I've been playing the game without spending money for years, and tokens are also how I buy both WoW expansions and other Blizzard games. Asking me to pay money for a month of sub time every few years seems reasonable, especially if this change makes it even the slightest bit annoying/harder for bot accounts.

You make a fair point - there are plenty of free apps for Lemmy with no ads or purchases at all. For me personally, I use Sync (and paid for no ads) because I used it for years on Reddit and struggled to find a Lemmy app that worked/looked exactly how I wanted.

The price is on the high end, imo, but I don't consider it unreasonable given that I would've wanted to donate to the creator of whatever app I settled in anyway in order to support their work. The only difference to me is that this was a one-time upfront payment rather than a monthly donation on Patreon.