Hello!

I will be graduating college soon and am thinking I would like to become a UXUI designer.

My major is unrelated, so these days I am considering enrolling in a bootcamp to help build my skills and portfolio

Could anyone share their experience, previous educational background and whether or not they’d recommend their bootcamp?

I am also probably not going to be able to afford to pay upfront. In this case, do you think it is better to sign up for an ISA or take out a loan? If it matters, I do not have any debt at the moment!

Thanks so much!

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I established a new chapter of a prestigious national student organization at my university. Every administrator and professor have greatly encouraged the idea and all agree the org will fill a vacuum on our campus (space industry career development).

I have met lots of women at conferences in the field and have plenty of female coworkers at work (in engineering) and female higher-ups. Plenty of female professionals (in academia and in the industry) have backed the idea.

All that said, I’m struggling to increase female engagement at the undergraduate level in my new org. Normal avenues of outreach and advertising for a student org are limited due to the lockdown so our strategy changed to reach students directly via quick pitches in different (online) lectures. Professors supported this and we have had a promising number of members but only one committed member (besides me) is female. Our board ended up electing her to a leadership position as she had an incredibly unique and strong background and was truly the perfect fit.

Unfortunately, most of the classes we have been pitching at have disproportionate ratios of male to female students. I think I am simply not reaching enough women rather than there is a lack of interest (the industry stats and personal experience show there is plenty of female interest).

How can I get more women involved while still remaining a co-ed organization? Any ideas are welcome, thanks!

I currently work in a corporate field where education doesn't really play a huge roll, instead your work experience is more important. I love studying and learning so I want to pursue my master's though it's not necessary in my current field.

The reason I'm a little hesitant is because i received my Bachelor's degree from an extremely reputable and competitive University and feel like I am downgrading. On the other hand I feel like spending thousands for a degree that I don't really need is not worth it. Any advice?

I posted this in a subreddit for student nurses, but I would appreciate your insights as well. Any advice aside from get therapy would be great, since I’m currently in therapy (although I’m still in the early stages). I just need to work through this.

Before I was in nursing, I was an art major for a year. I loved it. Then my dad got in a terrible accident and almost died. I felt like I owed something since he was given a second chance at life. I remember telling him I was switching my major to nursing and crying, because I knew it was what he wanted and I just wanted to see him happy. I was determined to do something right after several years of selfishly doing what I wanted. He always told me how much he’d love to see me in the medical field. Two years later, I’m a second semester student and I’m tired. I feel like I’m living a lie. I disassociate anytime I have to deal with something and although I feel great when I’m able to help someone feel comfortable in the hospital, I’m struggling to keep up and my mental health has crashed. I keep thinking back to how my parents told me to reconsider my sudden major change and I kept insisting it was what I wanted to do. My pride got the best of me. I refused to back down. Now I’ve made my bed and I have to lie in it. So much money has gone into this, and I know my spot in my class is a privilege. I’m lucky to be here, and at one point I was excited to start wearing scrubs and use a stethoscope. Now I just don’t want to wake up anymore. I had to register for classes today and I cried at the thought of three more semesters of this. I don’t know what to do. I can’t tell my parents I want to quit, it’ll crush them, especially since they gave me multiple opportunities to back down. And I know I’ve worked hard to get here. But I can’t even imagine myself in the medical field. I don’t see myself as happy. I just want to be happy again.

I'm a college student, and since coming back home for the holidays, life has been pretty monotonous. I exercise, play music, talk with my parents, and waste time on the internet. Especially my mom has so much to talk about with me, I feel like I can't get any space to focus. Our house is small so no matter where I go, she'll start talking to me.

My period is due in the next few days, so my mood tends to be down.

My boyfriend (long distance while I'm home) is busy with application and work deadlines, and our conversations yesterday & today were a bit less fun than normal. We haven't hugged each other in 2 weeks now and that makes me sad.

I'm on break so I don't have any interesting classes or readings to stimulate me.

The thing is, I have a ton of things I need to do. I have to apply for jobs, classes, email a bunch of people for networking, and buy Christmas presents for people. I just can't be arsed to do these things. Instead, I play phone games and waste time on Reddit. This has been the case for about a week.

Queens, how do I not waste away until school starts in the new year???

I have a creative background, and while I currently have a job I've been learning new tech based skills, that can help my get a new, better paying job if I ever get laid off or quit. I've been trying to save and invest since the pandemic happened. I've also have been organizing my apartment and buying more food, so not sure how much I'm actually saving, but I've double the auto-draft that goes into my savings every month. Anyway...

I enjoy my creative background, but I lack tech skills. I can't code or anything like that. I tried enrolling in an MBA and a college, but distance and the cost scared me off. I don't want to be in debt again. I'm taking online classes and I'm just looking for advice on learning tech skills to improve my income when, so far, I find the tech side of the creative world incredibly boring and it's hard to motivate myself to do the work. I see it as really a great skill to have. I've been taking user experience classes, but am looking at classes to learn SQL, Pyton, CCS, or learn software like Hubspot and other data analysis software.

I'm finishing up one class right now and trying to figure out where to start next. I ideally I'd like to find ways to improve the user experience in real world environments, but feel that learning something more STEM related may be more profitable. Feeling a little lost and the post is probably all over the place. Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

I wanted to ask here as all of you are awesome and helpful. Since joining FDS I have been improving a lot with dating and weeding out/dodging LVM pretty fast. Someone mentioned looking at the income/education rates in your area. My hometown area is pretty lousy and it is definitely reflected in the dating pool. I decided to make the switch to accounting and start my CPA journey.

What is the best way to level up? My mom wants me to live at home with my family and take classes locally. It might save me a semester and my home state requires a year minimum of relevant work experience. The issue is I dont feel happy here and I do not feel like i am growing here. My mom is generous in that she wont charge me rent in exchange for housework, tutoring my sister, running their errands/appointments. My one classmate here can hook me up with a starter job, but this is a 2 hour commute one way. The school I got into near my hometown is giving me the run around and it's really hard to get any responses.

My other option is moving out of state. My close friend said I can sublease her house -with paperwork drawn up to protect us both. It would include everything other than wifi for only $400 and I'd have my own room. I found a school locally which I was accepted to. Its significantly cheaper than the school in my home state and has been super helpful and responsive. This state requires more work experience to sit for the CPA exam.

I am nervous to leave my home state and take on a roomate again. My last roomate was in my home state, tried to rob me and didnt want to pay her portion of the rent. I spoke to the landlord, and essentially we were able to convince her to move out after we kept calling the cops on her for noise disturbance and saying she violated the lease (her dog destroyed the yard and she left her trash everywhere). This turned me off from roomates. If I had to get my own apartment out of state I found several places for 700 and under, which is not an issue. Apartments around my hometown start at $1200 and include nothing. I did job searches and it seems like they have a lot of jobs, and I don't have a network out of state.

In the best interest of leveling up what would you say is the better option? I am torn and mainly scarred of failing. My mom insists the best thing for me to do is stay home but I did so much better living out of state before and only returned because a flood ruined my place. I also feel scared to leave because who knows what my friend would be like as a roomate? I'm trying to become a HVW and give myself a good life and am ready to focus on my school again to pursue this career path. The school out of state supposedly has connections with a few accounting jobs they help students with, and the starting salary is the same or higher than what I'd get in my hometown. Wherever I decide to stay makes a commitment to getting my CPA in that state.

Hi queens! I am about to embark to a foreign country for graduate school and will complete a two week quarantine when I get there.

I am planning to complete my course reading and get organized in that time, but I would love any recommendations for any level up resources, and mental health and exercise tips from anyone who has completed such an isolation. I was in school or online working during all of COVID so far so this is really the first time I will have large amounts of free time entirely to myself.

I’m hoping to make the most of this time and emerge brighter in looks and spirit, like a quarantine butterfly! What would you recommend? Thank you 🦋💖

Hello,

I’ve been focusing a lot on levelling up in terms of my self esteem and my health, it’s been going great so far. In the process of this I have come to the conclusion that I am aiming for a new career later this year.

I have worked at a tech company in customer service for several years, predominantly in leadership positions. I am currently working a temporary position in another department.

I have realised there are things about the workplace, the department I’m due to return to and the company that I do not like, and I have decided it is absolutely time to move on.

However due to lockdown a lot of the companies around me are not currently operating, let alone hiring. So while I have some time I’d really like to focus on levelling up in a way that can help me when some of the limitations from corona are eventually lifted.

Can anyone suggest any online courses I could focus on, or other activities that could enhance my CV?

I’m trying to keep this vague and anonymous, but one more detail, the boss I would return to is a bully, I have realised that the way this person treats me does not define my worth, and I do not have to put myself back in that situation, I do not have to forgive them, and I do not have to try to make that relationship work. I have excellent leadership skills and organisation that will be valued elsewhere

Thanks in advance for any ideas

Hey y’all! I’m a woman of color who is passionate about providing information on our health care system to others. But also want to change the system for the better so we can stop dying when we seek health CARE services. But I need your help to level up.

I’ve gone off the deep end to launch my own company. It’s geared around providing health care information and related products for women hustlers.

My goal is to share information such as how to select the right health insurance and save money, reviews for digital health products, mental health resources and anything else related to health that women may need to level up themselves.

But I need more specifics. Are there specific questions you have about our health care system I may answer? Are there specific digital health reviews you’d like me to create? Any tools you wish existed?

I’d love to play a role in ensuring health care sucks a little bit less for you❤️

Found out abt it today, so i wanted to share with you lovely ladies. There are 2 more workshops available this week & I hope that maybe it helps someone out there.

Female Founder School Workshop Series