u/Lassie-girl

I took my dog to a nearby dog park today that’s a bit tucked away, near some woods and where the garbage trucks usually park. When I pulled in, I didn’t see anyone inside the park but there was a car parked against the tree line and I could see an older man standing outside of his passenger door near the trees.

I got my dog out of the car and went into the fenced in area and could hear he was walking over. He had a bit of a hobble to his step and he said hi and asked if he could come into the dog park to pet my dog.

I instantly had a weird feeling. I said, “Oh, do you not have a dog with you?”

He said, “No I used to but he passed away a few years ago, so I like to come here sometimes and pet the dogs.”

The bad feeling got worse. Who waits outside a dog park for someone to come so they can pet their dogs? I didn’t want to be trapped inside a fenced in area alone with this man so I just said “Uh….”

He then said “it’s alright if you’re not comfortable” and went back to his car. It took him a few minutes to get in and actually drive away and I barely moved until he was out of sight.

He could have had totally innocent intentions, but I’m a woman alone with a slender 40-lb dog and I didn’t want to take any chances. There are other places you can go to pet dogs. Also, Ted Bundy faked his injuries too.

Was I mean for how I reacted or was that justified?

With the Disney visa you get six months 0% APR on Disney vacation packages, meaning purchasing theme, park tickets and hotel rooms together.

I am planning to purchase a Disney annual pass later this year, but was wondering if I would be able to buy it as the “ticket” part of a vacation package in order to get this 0% promo period as well?

I’m not talking about the women who were super excited to move in with their significant other and couldn’t wait. I’m talking about the ones who were feeling nervous about it because they knew how big of a lifestyle change it was going to be, especially if they lived alone for a certain amount of time beforehand.

My boyfriend and I are choosing not to live together yet and a lot of people know that it’s been hard for me to do by myself and are always pressing me about why we don’t just move in together to make costs easier. I just don’t want that to be the reason to move in.

I do really enjoy living by myself and getting to kind of be the one who makes the rules about my living space and what not so I am a little bit nervous about how that adjustment is gonna be once it eventually does happen.

And to clarify, it’s not my boyfriend that’s making me feel this way. I’ve notoriously had tough times living with people in the past, especially if we weren’t on the same organization level and what not.

I work in a pretty small, niche, but competitive industry and I’ve been trying to leave my current position for a while now, but the opportunities are pretty few and far between.

There’s a particular person that I used to work with, let’s call them Taylor, that is pretty well known in our industry and is about 20 years older than me. They used to work with me at my company, but then left the year. I started and went on to do their own thing.

There’s been a handful of times that Taylor has reached out to me about potential opportunities to do projects with them, but it never amounted to anything. The last time I saw them at an event they asked me if I had thought about what I wanna do next, but I was a little nervous to tell them too much because they still speak with my managers pretty regularly.

I’m getting so desperate to advance and actually take the next step in my career, but there are only like a handful of people that know that I’m trying to leave because I’m worried about it getting back to my managers. But I’m getting to the point where I feel like more people need to know that I’m looking for something so that they can help recommend me for it and keep an eye out for it.

I kind of want to reach out to Taylor and see if they’d be down to meet up for coffee or something soon to give me some guidance and advice on what to do, but I’m worried about it getting back to my current employer or if that even matters. Is it worth the risk or do I have to just keep silently trying on my own?

I’ve been working toward becoming a Media personality for around a decade now. I actually was fortunate and landed a journalism job in the entertainment industry less than a year after I graduated college in my preferred niche and so I felt like I was on my way.

Seven years later, no title change and still only making enough money to make ends meet, and I’m getting desperate to get out of it. The media landscape has changed so much since I started and people are becoming more successful making content from their bedrooms.

My company is a sinking ship. That’s been downsizing slowly over the last few years and just makes all of its remaining staff absorb all the responsibilities of the people that they laid off. They don’t care about career growth for anyone, nor do they care about brand presence and staying relevant. They only care about profits so they’re not sending us to events and they’re not letting people move up despite all the extra responsibilities everyone has had to take on.

I started applying for jobs both inside and outside of my industry over two years ago and have been through about nine multi step interview processes with other large media companies, but I’m always rejected for someone else during the later rounds. I have connections at a lot of of these big companies that are trying to help me and it’s not working.

There’s nothing else that I can think of that, I would feel passionate about or interested in enough to pivot too, and I don’t even know if I’d be able to if I tried. I can’t just pause working and go back to school because I live by myself and support myself. I feel so stuck and stagnant.

I know this has been posted before but I got some random ideas I thought would be fun for a non-princess Disney collection, since the latest is Star Wars and NBC is rumored to come later.

Scents based on classic movies, such as:

Bambi: Floral and woodsy

The Lion King: Some kind of jungle scent, maybe aquatic, since it would be hard to come up with a pridelands scent

Ratatouille: Gourmand, obviously!

Dumbo: Maybe some kind of circus food scents like cotton candy and caramel apples

Frozen: Some kind of wintery pine or frosted snow scent

Alice in Wonderland: Tea party, pastries

Aristocats: Powdery, France-inspired scents (base it on Marie)

Lilo & Stitch: Hawaiian tropics

What else could work?

Just thought yall should know.

I currently am a gig Rover sitter and do boarding in my home because I work full-time from home. I have been trying to get a new job for quite some time because I’m in a very dead end position and there’s a chance that my next position would require me to be in office every day.

I know that dogs are fine being left alone while their owners that are at work. I grew up with a dog who was alone every day while I was at school and my parents were at work, but I feel guilty that I may be changing up my current dogs routine so much because I got her as a puppy and I’m with her almost every day unless I’m away.

I would plan to hire someone to drop in and take her out to pee once a day and hang out with her for a little, but I guess I’m just feeling guilty that her quality of life might go down not being with her person every day anymore? I know I obviously can’t stop progressing in my career over this, but I guess I’m just looking for reassurance from owners who had to make the same decision.

I have the first round interview today for a role at a company I’ve already interviewed at. I made it all the way to the end of the process last year for the other role, but they picked someone who already worked for the company.

The third person I interviewed with during that process told a contact that I have at that company that I was great and he really enjoyed our conversation. I’m almost positive he would be part of the process for this role too and was wondering if I should try to mention that I had a really enlightening conversation with him during the interview process for the other role today.

I was particularly thinking of mentioning him when they ask me why I wanna work for the company and what interests me about it. I would say something along the lines of “I actually interviewed for another role here last year and so and so told me how collaborative the work environment is, and how much room for growth there is which made me very excited.”