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Got back into fishing after 20+ years because my kids wanted to go, but we usually get night crawlers each time we go out. I am having a blast and decided to go all in on an Ultralight setup and got some trout magnets along with some other stuff.

Can my kids catch fish with the trout magnets under bobbers just like a night crawler? It would be nice not to have to get night crawlers every time we want to fish a little.

Edit - We are mostly fishing for Bluegill on lakes/ponds

My first Bambu printer is a shiny new X2D with AMS 2. I have built a couple Vorons in the past and regularly switch between PLA, TPU, ASA, and PETG.

i always purged my nozzles with PLA after using a different material, so if I didn’t print for awhile I would know that I could load any material temperature into the nozzle and not worry about jamming.

Should I continue to do this with the X2D, or does Bambu keep track of what was in there. Or do people keep separate nozzles for different materials since it’s easier to change nozzles?

Anyone every get a job where they were highly qualified, good career progression, pay was good, but thought the product(s) was unnecessary crap?

Did your mind change after joining the team? Were you able to otherwise overcome your negativity on the product? Did you get found out in the interview process about your lack of enthusiasm for the products?

I've been in and out of the startup tech world for the last 20 years, either working for startups or working for design firms contracted to help make products for startups. These are mostly bootstrapped and/or have small rounds of funding, or some larger companies using us as experimental R&D, not the Silicon Valley type where the whole business model is to survive to the next round of funding.

I would say that 50-60% of the things I've worked on have never made it past the prototype phase, and only ~5% have made it to production and survived being in the market for more then 2 years. Most issues stem from bad business decisions outside of the quality of the product I worked on. Either the founders never understood the customers they were selling to, had a solution looking for a problem, or mismanaged badly and ran out of funding. Early on in my career it didn't bother me because I was learning something new and adding tools to the tool belt, but now it all just feels like a waste of time.

I find myself again part of a startup that is doomed to fail. I must have lied to myself thinking I could help them out since they seemed to need my expertise, but I underestimated the Ego on one of the co-founders. I only do the minimum because I don't want to put in extra effort for the company to go under 6-12 months later. I am looking for a new job but my Jadedness has carried over to the job search where I don't even apply or sabotage interviews because it feels like I'm going to get in the same situation.

I'm too far away from retirement, how do I stop feeling negative about everything job related and feel excited about my career again? Anyone have personal experience with breaking out of a jaded funk?

Quick question, do you answer your phone when its a number you don't know?

I'm an elder Millennial and basically grew up with all these phone scams and spam, so I never answer a number I don't know. I figure if they needed something they would leave a message and I would call back. Today I got a phone call from a number twice in 20min and googled it and it came back as a recruiters linkedin profile. They never left any message or tried to contact me in other ways, so it got me wondering if I am missing opportunities because I don't answer the phone.

If you are looking for more senior positions does that change the math on if you answer strange numbers? Is there a perception that if you are a Director and up you always answer the phone if you can?