u/QuantumQuack0

Beste Delftenaren, ik zou graag horen waar jullie een goede bikefit ervaring hebben gehad.

Voor de lange afstanden zit ik niet lekker op mijn fiets: na een klein uurtje beginnen delen van mijn handen gevoelloos te worden of krijg ik pijn in m'n rug. Volgens mij is m'n zadelpositie wel oké, maar ik kan qua stuur niet echt een goede positie vinden.

Ik ben geen prof ofzo, niet eens lid van een vereniging, dus ik vind het een beetje zonde om er € 300 aan uit te geven. Maar ik weet niet of je degelijk advies krijgt (ver) onder dat bedrag. Heeft iemand goede ervaringen?

I've been eyeing AMS-KTM flights in October for a while and suddenly I noticed the cheapest class is sold out and tickets are now WAY out of my budget.

Is it normal that it sells out 4 months in advance? Or will they "release" a new batch later or something?

I've been eyeing AMS-KTM flights in October for a while and suddenly I noticed the cheapest class is sold out and tickets are now WAY out of my budget.

Is it normal that it sells out 4 months in advance? Or will they "release" a new batch later or something?

The obvious answer would be "leave ASAP", I guess, but (1) I do like (most) of the people here, (2) I'm in Europe and have 2 calendar months mandatory notice, (3)... I'm a bit at a loss what to do career-wise.

So, this company is not doing well. We have a bad track record of taking on way too many projects, and after trimming down a lot this year, it's still too many. We're heavily understaffed and have no hiring budget. But the biggest problem is: our current product was architected and designed by a relatively small amount of people with short communication lines, and this company never learned how to scale and how to do proper system architecture.

We sell hardware products that contain embedded software, and provide "driver" software and some application library on top. Those last two have historically been just an afterthought. No architecture, no one in the company who really cared, just one team (us) doing our best to make "something".

We're now somehow in the middle of the "next generation product line" project, and I can find barely any system architecture. And people are already diving head-first into hardware implementation. And here's my challenge: with how understaffed we are, this team seems to be eyeing me as the person to do the software architecture.

I have roughly 3.5 YoE in this role. My previous role was "a bit of everything" (optical/electrical/fpga/software) at a very early startup. I have a physics background. I know python really well, picked up some system engineering in my previous job, and people generally like my work, but otherwise I feel horrifically underqualified.

How do I not make this a complete disaster and burn bridges? I tried to bring up my doubts and was mostly met with incredulous stares and an attitude of "you've been working here for 3.5 years, you know plenty!" I mean, I have been working here for that time, yeah, but as a result of the software team being left to their own devices I have learned very little.

Any words of advice? Words of encouragement or tough love?

As my friends from uni have now all moved away, I'm actually now in the situation that I barely know anyone in this town anymore. So I thought, let's find an activity where I can meet more people. I am also looking for a sport to do when the weather is bad, and a new bouldering gym just opened up in town, so I thought "great, let's check that out!"

.... and it turns out I just can't. Like, my brain won't fucking let me. It's like it's physically rooting me to the ground for no reason whatsoever. I'm not really noticing any thoughts associated with it, my brain just goes "nope, we're not doing that" "Why?" "Because I say so."

The only thing I can think of is that it's maybe some deep-rooted social anxiety? I used to have that quite a lot, but it felt different and I thought I learned to deal with it by now. It honestly leaves me more confused than annoyed as to why I can't do something so simple.

Is this recognizable to anyone? Any strategies to get past it?