I feel like I made the wrong decision on my career early on and am looking for advice. During college I did 3 years of d2d pest control sales. Though I’m outgoing and friendly I hated it. Did some high ticket coaching sales also. Graduated in mechanical engineering but when ai first came out I started working on building a software and have been for the past 3-4 years.

I am now a graduated mechanical engineer with no job experience except for programming which is now taken by ai and by people with deeper software background than me. My background is all over the place with sales, mech engineering, and software development.

Now I would love to get back into more engineering roles but have also considered sales engineering but it seems over saturated with all the engineers that have been laid off due to ai. Everyone says I would be an awesome sales engineer but after a few interviews I guess I am not good enough? I would fit in sales engineering with a mechanical engineering role or software engineering sales role.

Question 1: For any sales engineers in here, does anyone that was previously in a more creative/hands on job regret going the sales route? The reason I became an engineer is because I love building things but maybe I just save that for hobbies…

Question 2: If you were me, would you go into tech or mechanical sales engineering or a dedicated mechanical engineering role?

Question 3: What salary should I be looking for in mechanical engineering or sales engineering with my experience (or lack thereof) since I haven’t had a dedicated mechanical engineering position or actual sales engineering position?

Question 4: Are there even any jobs? Unfortunately we are limited to remote or St. George or Phoenix with my wife’s business (she’s making more than me so it doesn’t make sense for her to drop her businesses to move somewhere for my job.) but I have been having a hard time landing anything since searching.

Tia for you input!

I feel like I made the wrong decision on my career early on and am looking for advice. During college I did 3 years of d2d pest control sales. Though I’m outgoing and friendly I hated it. Did some high ticket coaching sales also. Graduated in mechanical engineering but when ai first came out I started working on building a software and have been for the past 3-4 years.

I am now a graduated mechanical engineer with no job experience except for programming which is now taken by ai and by people with deeper software background than me. My background is all over the place with sales, mech engineering, and software development.

Now I am looking back into sales engineering but it seems over saturated with all the engineers that have been laid off due to ai. Everyone says I would be an awesome sales engineer but after a few interviews I guess I am not good enough? I would fit in sales engineering with a mechanical engineering role or software engineering sales role.

Question 1: Does anyone that was previously in a more creative/hands on job regret going the sales route? The reason I became an engineer is because I love building things but maybe I just save that for hobbies…

Question 2: If you were me, would you go into tech or mechanical sales engineering roles?

Question 3: What salary should I be looking for with my experience (or lack thereof) since I haven’t had a dedicated sales engineering position.

Question 4: Are there even any jobs? Unfortunately we are limited to remote or St. George or Phoenix with my wife’s business (she’s making more than me so it doesn’t make sense for her to drop her businesses to move somewhere for my job.) but I have been having a hard time landing anything since searching.

Tia for you input!

I rode a rocket 3 a while back and loved it. I love the look of the new generations, but the older ones are what fit in my budget. Anyone have any 1st gen’s with mods done that would be willing to share pics? Not seeing too many older bikes modified.

Religious reasons? Conscience ? Broken relationships? Build self worth? Just curious is all, for me it’s religious, but if I weren’t I probably just keep going with the flow. Maybe y’all are better than me lol

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Downloaded Mac OS 27 to try it out, then realized xcode 26 wasn't compatible on Mac OS 27 so I downloaded xcode 27 beta. Worked on an update for my app and now I can't submit it. What would you do in my situation to get this app update pushed out? I don't think I can just downgrade my OS back to 26 right? TIA

Anyone know of a free (or really low cost) tool to create good app demo videos with smooth scrolling/tapping etc? Looking for something similar to ScreenStudio but for mobile. Screen recordings look tacky. Doesn't have to be anything super fancy.

Anyone know of a free (or really low cost) tool to create good app demo videos with smooth scrolling/tapping etc? Looking for something similar to ScreenStudio but for mobile. Screen recordings look tacky. Doesn't have to be anything super fancy.

Anyone know of a free (or really low cost) tool to create good app demo videos with smooth scrolling/tapping etc? Looking for something similar to ScreenStudio but for mobile. Screen recordings look tacky. Doesn't have to be anything super fancy.

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Looking for input on our pay scale. It is a B2C business. It is a new company and we don't have a large marketing budget so we will be targeting influencers that are willing to do a monthly profit share model rather than payment per post.

Details:

• Average subscription price is $7.70/mo after apple tax.
• Tiered commission plan based off how many subscribers they get.
• Plan is retroactive for the year.
• They will create their own posts/stories and have the freedom to post as much as they want.
• Commission only no upfront payment.
• Commission only paid on first 12 months of customer revenue.

Dont have a ton of data on LTV, but estimating 3 months-8 months depending on the customer.

Obviously 1000s of subscribers from one individual is probably a little far fetched, I just don't want to put a pay scale of 50 people and only show $70 as that doesn't look very motivating to me. Getting paid thousands looks more enticing.

Also how do you guys track brand deals? Do you just use a campaign link from apple or do you give them a link to your landing page and track it through there?

Let me know what your thoughts are on this or if I am missing anything. Thanks!

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Looking for input on our pay scale. It is a B2C business. It is a new company and we don't have a large marketing budget so we will be targeting influencers that are willing to do a monthly profit share model rather than payment per post.

Details:

• Average subscription price is $7.70/mo after apple tax.
• Tiered commission plan based off how many subscribers they get.
• Plan is retroactive for the year.
• They will create their own posts/stories and have the freedom to post as much as they want.
• Commission only no upfront payment.
• Commission only paid on first 12 months of customer revenue.

Dont have a ton of data on LTV, but estimating 3 months-8 months depending on the customer.

Obviously 1000s of subscribers from one individual is probably a little far fetched, I just don't want to put a pay scale of 50 people and only show $70 as that doesn't look very motivating to me. Getting paid thousands looks more enticing.

Also how do you guys track brand deals? Do you just use a campaign link from apple or do you give them a link to your landing page and track it through there?

Let me know what your thoughts are on this or if I am missing anything. Thanks!

Trying to navigate phone use for my kids. I didn’t get a phone until I was a senior in high school but it doesn’t seem like that’s a possibility nowadays. All the kids in high school have phones and need it for after school activities. My main concerns are social media. To much content I don’t want my kids viewing on there but that’s the main reason they want a phone. I get Apple has screen time capabilities but I don’t think that’s enough. I also want more than just a website blocker/monitor. Also is it better to put hard restrictions on the device or will that just make them want to be more secretive and bypass it more? Let me know what apps/tools you guys use and if you have any advice.

There are so many new tools coming out every single day it feels impossible to keep up with them. I know there are subreddits about ai tools but it seems like even those are too much to keep up with. I feel like I could spend half my time building and half my time researching new tools. How much time do you guys spend learning about new ai tools vs just building? I feel like I’m so behind. All I have been using is codex and Claude in my ide. I also feel like it’s hard to sift through what is helpful vs what is just some ChatGPT wrapper that people are trying to self promote. Sort of a rant, but also just wondering how you guys do it.