u/Historicaly-Low-Mood

I only use epic as a way to get free games and due to life stuff I don't actually get time/energy to play the games I do get (especially any mmo types). I don't even have my account linked to anything or mention the username (which is different than all other accounts, like steam). That's all to say that functionally I don't exist on epic outside of a username, regardless I keep getting random friend requests. Today I logged in to seven new requests.

Is there an explanation for that outside of bots or scammers searching random usernames?

Obviously I'm not going accept them, but I'm curious since the only threads I can find with a similar issue were 4+ years old or mentioned being active in a game.

This is for my Mom (65), her upper back gets really dry and itchy sometimes and menopause dialed up those issues, especially these last few years. Putting lotion on it helps, but she really struggles with applying it due to arthritis and limited mobility. She doesn't have anyone to help her, except for me (I have no issues with it, but she hates asking for help), so I was wondering if someone knows of some sort of easy to use self-applicator that would help her.

We've both tried looking up solutions a few years ago, but the only ones we could find were DIY like putting lotion on the back of a shower brush. There has to be something better by now, right?

I'm sorry if this is the wrong sub, not sure where else to ask this

I'm not sure how to word this, so sorry if it's kind of weird.

There's been a lot of talk about how employers are no longer looking to train future employees and instead want to wait for their competitors to do that so that they can headhunt already trained people, but it's leaving a sort of void where NO ONE is being trained for lower levels. I don't actually know how true that is, but I've been seeing this to a degree where I keep finding upper level jobs, not even major upper level, but literally nothing from the bottom. Those work your way up jobs.

It seems like the advice coming from other people looking for jobs is "apply anyway," which is fine, I guess. However, I don't exactly trust advice of employment from someone who is also unemployed and obviously not at that job/location/career and doesn't have the background or firsthand experience to be so confident.

SO I want to know how applying to those jobs actually look like from the hiring side of things?

For both blue and white collar jobs, just how much is the 1-3 years experience actually a deal breaker? Do you actually have that "they have potential" talk? What qualities would make you do that? If you knew someone who wanted to apply to the job, lacked experience, and had no connections within the industry, would you say "try anyway"? Is there better advice?

I've tried looking for this online off and on for a while, but I haven't found anyone who describes it that same way so I'm a bit stuck.

Sometimes when my heart beats, I get this sort of long suction feeling. The closest way I can describe it is like when you swallow something too large, or something like a big gob of peanut butter and your throat develops that kind of suction feeling until it makes it down low enough to breath again, except in this case it's not the throat but more heart-area related. Saying it feels like "squeezing" isn't accurate, since I've had that particular feeling before and it feels different. When this suction sensation occurs it feels like my heart isn't beating, probably the normal beat skipping, but it's hard to check because the sensation causes me to flinch bad enough I can't check my pulse until after the sensation passes.

Likely related: Last year I was diagnosed with tricuspid insufficiency (moderate regurgitation, small amount of dilation, sorry don't remember other specifics atm). I'm going for in for my yearly checkup echo next week, and the follow-up with the doc in July.

I was supposed to get a referral to see an ENT for possible asthma, but haven't had that luxury yet. So I'm not sure if it's me just being hyper-aware of my heartbeat, something to do with possible asthma/breathing issues, or something else I need to bring up during the follow-up in July.