Thoughts on first job while injured.

I have my first job interview tomorrow at a PVC Windows manufacturing facility that spans around 420000m².

I have a Masters that I got in 2023 and along with some circumstances and military service, I only recently managed to get an interview through a referral.

Thing is, the role I'll be given is a Supervisor, which in comparison to the role I'm supposed to get with a Masters (smth like a Safety Engineer) is lower in pay and, will have to get me on my feet a lot rather than being more on the compliance and office type job.

I got a meniscus injury that I am treating conservatively after my doctor told me to not get surgery and not overthink it too much and to only seriously think about surgery if it gets way too severe. Thing is, with the least amount of effort my knee (or rather, both knees lol) act up when I do more effort than necessary.

So now I'm both excited for my first opportunity and scared I might not be able to handle it.
I would have declined but getting a job is already hard as it is over here with all the nepotism (as is the same everywhere) and while having no experience.

Should I mention it? what if it works against me if I mention it? What are your thoughts, how long would I need to walk around and stuff? Should I ask for a higher price considering my diploma as well?

One more thing that comes to mind, is that my referrer told me I'll probably be working under the HSE Manager directly so idk if that's a good thing or not lol.

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u/9reyJ — 4 days ago
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Help choosing OBD2 for starting an Automotive Diagnostic Business?

Hello! Just as the title says, I want to start an auto diag business. I took a small training a year ago (Which I didn't learn much from because duration was small) that gave me a certificate allowing me to start a business on that (couldn't start right away as I had to go for Military Service for a year).

My thing is, that I honestly suck at car mechanics, let alone electrical stuff.

So my idea was to get a diag tool and help out at a car repair shop to learn mechanics while using my diag tool to learn the best of both worlds, if possible for an auto repair shop to even take me in for that pretext.

I would love to start with something small, something under $150 (or euros).

Tools I found include: Xtool A30M, ThinkScan Plus S7 (This was the one used to teach us actually), Launch CRP129 EVO, Thinkdiag 2.

I am from North Africa so most cars here are european and/or chinese (a LOT of chinese cars imported last few years).

One more thing is that I was trying to steer away from tools that require a recurring subscription but then I realized maybe those are the best ones lol. The thing about diagnostic tools used here, and I'm not entirely sure, is that people use cracked software a lot, like the Delphi, AutoData and stuff for Laptop and the Diagzone subscriptions. People even use these as Digital Products on TikTok or whatever.

I appreciate any help, Thank you!

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u/9reyJ — 8 days ago

Has anyone had an Incomplete Capsulomeniscal Seapration repair or heal on its own?

25M, chronic left knee pain after injury \~11 months ago during mili service training. Original MRI suggested possible medial meniscus horn tear/radial tear, but re-read + arthro-CT now show a small incomplete medial capsulomeniscal disinsertion (\~13 mm) of the medial meniscus body, with no major meniscal tear otherwise, no ligament damage, and no cartilage damage.

Symptoms are medial pain (a little to the left), sharp pain with walking/stairs/overload, currently worsened by prolonged walking and boots (pretty much police boots but not as comfortable).

Report conclusion: Small focus of incomplete capsulomeniscal detachment of the middle horn of the medial meniscus involving the lower third of the capsule extending over 13 mm.

No other meniscal lesions.

Has anyone had a partial meniscocapsular/capsulomeniscal separation treated conservatively vs surgery, and what was recovery like?

If it took you long to discover/fix, how did the pain flare-ups feel when they happened?

I would appreciate any and all experiences on this matter, as this has significantly impacted my life this past year and I need to do something about it... thank you!

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u/9reyJ — 3 months ago

25M, chronic left knee pain after injury ~11 months ago during military service. Original MRI suggested possible medial meniscus tear/radial tear, but re-read + arthro-CT now show a small incomplete medial capsulomeniscal disinsertion (~13 mm) of the medial meniscus body, with no major meniscal tear otherwise, no ligament damage, and no cartilage damage. Symptoms are medial pain (a little to the left), sharp pain with walking/stairs/overload, prior intermittent locking early on, currently worsened by prolonged walking and boots (pretty much police boots but not comfortable).

Conclusion: Small focus of incomplete capsulomeniscal detachment of the middle horn of the medial meniscus.

No other meniscal lesions.

Has anyone had a partial meniscocapsular/capsulomeniscal separation treated conservatively vs surgery, and what was recovery like?

Did you need arthroscopy despite small lesion in red zone? and is it even in the red zone?

If it took you long to discover/fix, how did the pain flare-ups feel when they happened?

Edit: Apparently they're called Ramp Lesions? Not sure what this classifies as so... Hoping for the best.

After asking ChatGPT I realize they're not ramp lesions since those tend to be acl related etc.

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u/9reyJ — 4 months ago

Hello! I just recently that I have a torn meniscus in my left knee through an MRI (Medial Meniscus, Grade 3 Radial Tear and Grade 2 Posterior Horn Tear). [M/25]

I've definitely been injured for around 10-11 months now and couldn't really get any medical care and since symptoms kinda went down with time I didn't give it much attention, especially after 2 doctors I visited kinda said I have either something else and the other said I probably have nothing and its just through the intense running with heavy boots i've done at that time (ifykyk, service).

Heck even my right knee hurts just as bad now lately, probably due to overuse and limping all the time, trying to keep pressure on left knee low but now both hurt...

My question is, I don't trust the doctors here to do a repair since I don't want it to get trimmed and increase my risk of osteoarthritis... so I'm looking for great doctors that could help fix my knee up. If anyone knows someone who had similar symptoms and had success on a repair please let me know! Either in Algiers/Bejaia would be even better I guess, since I live in bejaia. but Algeria for possibly better quality? idk lol

P.S. If by any chance you're an imaging specialist or orthopedic doctor/surgeon and can spare some time to check my MRI just in case the imaging center I went to missed something please let me know, I'll send you my MRI right up, I have the contents of the CD on a drive folder.

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u/9reyJ — 4 months ago