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I like my tutor, she's friendly and we get along (been working with her for about half year). However, I feel like she's kind of leaving it up to me to come up with topics to talk about in class. Initially I didn't mind as much, and used it as an opportunity to do some studying in between classes and it helped me to have a few talking points prepared, but now I find it takes up a fair bit of mental energy for me to decide on the topic, and end up kind of dreading it.

I understand Preply is likely more affordable than what I would pay for a private class elsewhere (specifically, I pay ~37€ per class, 1 per week for 50 minutes), but still don't know if this is the expectation and not sure if I should raise this concern with my tutor, or try other tutors.

How does it work for you? What topics are prepared for the class and how does it work? My goal was to have conversational classes and focus on speaking, but I did expect a bit more structure I suppose. Should I bring up more specific goals, I am kind of not sure how to even approach this subject.

Hey everyone, was thinking about trying the Grounded Connections app (available in the UK and Ireland) to meet outdoorsy women in my area.

Did some due diligence before signing up, and noticed some online reviews linking the founder to an MLM/high-ticket affiliate coaching business. The app is about €12 a month, paid quarterly. I don't mind risking €30ish just to give it a shot for three months, but I really want to avoid awkward sales pitches, it happened to me before with another community-like group and I am a bit wary.

Has anyone here used the app? Does that business coaching stuff bleed into the actual friendship groups, or is it strictly just for finding walking buddies?

Numbers are in:

- My da owns 74 (doesn't wear all of them but they may be needed one day!!)
- My mam 42
- Brother 39
- The husband has 53
- I have 59

I wonder if those numbers are normal or do we own way too many socks 😄

Thanks in advance for your participation in this vital research

After months of looking, the husband and I found a house in north Co. Dublin that looks promising, but it's built in the ~80s and needs a fair bit of work. We're thinking of going the fixer upper route, but we have virtually zero experience with any of this beyond listening to other people's horror stories. 😰

We're trying to sanity-check our (very rough) estimates of the work we'd need to do before moving in, to see if it even makes sense to engage with the prospect and make an offer:

(all mid-spec, size: 110sqm before any extension)

- Extension (~20 sqm: €70–90k)
- New kitchen: €20k
- Wrap insulation (current BER is a D 😭): €15k (with the grant)
- Flooring: €10k
- Bathroom: €10k

Total ballpark: €125–145k

Has anyone done similar work in the area? Are these numbers remotely in reality, or are we being optimistic? Any red flags we should know about? We're learning as we go, so any advice welcome. 🙏

When I saw the LinkedIn InMail, I couldn't believe it's the same ClickUp that announced layoffs only 2 weeks ago. I couldn't resist from replying and pointing it that out (I didn't ask if they'll offer me million-dollar band though).

Super tone-deaf.

>I'm on the recruiting team at ClickUp and your background caught my eye. We're building the everything app for work, and right now we're deep in shipping AI-powered features at a pace that'd make most companies nervous 🚀
We're looking for senior and staff engineers ....

Looking for a sanity check from anyone who's been through a pension transfer here.

I've been in the process of transferring my pension after changing jobs for about 3-4 months now. The whole thing has been painful: endless chasing and very manual processes, but the money finally landed with my new provider about a month ago (and I only know that because I chased for an update and they confirmed they received it).

Since then: nothing. No idea where it's sitting, it's clearly not invested, and I've had to chase three separate times. Each time I get a useless apology and a promise it'll be sorted in the next few days, and then it isn't.

From what I can tell from reading online, there's no hard rule that they must invest it within a set number of days, but they are supposed to act on my instructions in a timely way. Entering week 5 now, and I'm at the point where I can't tell if I'm just being impatient, or if this genuinely isn't acceptable and I should be putting in a formal complaint.

Has anyone dealt with this? Is more then a month of the money sitting un-invested after it's been received normal, or am I right to escalate with formal complaint? Cheers!