u/gfunk5299

After two weeks of no reserved blocks and no offers, suddenly this week is back to normal. Being offered early morning blocks every day of the week.

Here is my theory based on reading this sub. I suspect Flex deliveries are the most unreliable method of delivery and Amazon doesn’t want a stain on prime week.

As soon as it’s over they go back to their he cost benefit analysis and offer more deliveries to Flex drivers.

When I am actively looking for a job, I subscribe to LinkedIn premium.

One thing I have noticed is I get a handful of hiring managers searching my profile from jobs that I don’t even get a screening call.

I wonder how many hiring managers search LinkedIn before selecting candidates to interview and why. I would assume if they have my resume, they don’t need to see my LinkedIn profile.

Any thoughts as to what’s going on here and how to manage this? I have everything disabled from my public profile that I can and I have a generic skillset profile statement and that’s it.

But I wonder if that’s also an OE tell that our profiles are heavily redacted…

My doctor and insurance approved an implant. I am still a bit reluctant but the idea keeps growing on me. I haven’t scheduled yet.

My doctor is a high volume top coloplast surgeon, but he’s about 6-7 hour drive away

I am wondering about logistics from anyone who has done this before. He does surgeries on Wednesday. The nurse I talked to thought it would be good to stay in a hotel for the first few days but said they wouldn’t be concerned driving home and driving back for the first checkup.

Also I will need to bring someone with me to drive me back to the hotel if I stay there.

There seems to be a lot of discussion on how to stay comfortable the first few days and if I’m at a hotel I won’t have a lot of options for comfort if I don’t bring it with me.

If you have seen my other posts, I was laid off from J2 about a month ago for being remote and they wanted as many staff in home office as possible.

I just landed a new J2 as contract to hire but contract is only through October and funding isn’t approved yet to go full time.

I still have some interviews pending so I am going to let those play out and see what happens.

For me this round was easy, I put J1 end date as J2 start date and I had a good explanation for J2 laying me off. I also have two glowing references from colleagues at J2.

But it got me thinking, how to people handle references when your J1 and J2 are both current. I can ride my previous J2 references for a few months but sooner or later, it might be hard to use J2 as a reference when I hadn’t worked there for 6+ months.

Ive had four interviews so far and 2 of the 4 wanted references.

This morning was my 3rd block. I was scheduled from 3:15 - 6:45.

I arrived at 2:55 and by 3:00 there were four cars in line. The doors were all closed for pickup.

Around 3:10, they opened and closed each door one at a time then after the last door closed, they stayed closed. No one came outside at all.

At 3:10 or so, more cars started showing up, I assume these were the people signed up for 3:30 block.

I had already clicked I’m parked and took the photo verification. At 3:13 I contacted driver support via chat and they asked if the station was closed. O said I don’t know. They said they raised a ticket and I could go home and I would get paid.

I’m not sure if I did the right thing or the wrong thing. The other three that were waiting with me kept waiting.

My assumption is that they were just going to have the 3:15 block rolled in with the 3:30 block.

When I left and on the drive home, my app was still saying continue with pickup, so the app wasn’t aware and still waiting.

Any advice from the longer term drivers? If station is closed at the start of your block, do you wait for the next block or contact driver support and go home?

I just started searching for a new J2. I was let go a few weeks ago from my previousJ2. My résumé looks really nice right now it lists my J1 as ending in December 2023 and at lists my previous J2 from January 2024 to May 2026 but most of my recruiters are reaching out to me from LinkedIn and right now my LinkedIn profile just list my J1 and it still has me there to present. J2 is not on my profile.

I need my LinkedIn profile to be open to work for recruiters to find me, but I have a gut feeling that there’s a mismatch right now between my profile and my résumé and I think that might be popping up as recruiters start digging into my profile a little bit I’ve had four really good candidate positions. Where was a strong fit in the recruiter seemed really anxious to present me and then they just went dead silent and then didn’t say why.

I don’t think I can flat out hibernate LinkedIn because I don’t think recruiters will be able to find me and I don’t think there’s a way of disguising or hiding job start dating and end dates. Maybe I’m just overthinking this one of the things I’m considering is listing J2 on my profile with the real starting end dates but instead of putting my title down basically saying something like I’m a consultant there or was a consultant there. But that still doesn’t match my end date being incorrect on my J1 profile.

I’m not the first to post something like this. Two years into OE, J2 is letting me go for more junior staff that are onsite and local.

I was brought on as a remote contract position when they urgently needed IT support. I helped build out and grow the IT team. They wanted me to relocate to their home office and I said no, I wouldn’t consider it until my daughter graduated.

My paper shield supervisor quit a few weeks back and I knew my days were numbered. I thought about starting to apply for J3, but my workload was relatively small with J2 but required frequent traveling, so I thought J3 would be complicated getting started while traveling a few days every month.

Anyway, not a lot of lessons learned, more a repeat of what most of us all know already.

Having 2+ jobs makes losing a job not very stressful.

Remote work is always going to be a challenge to retain unless organization truly embraces remote work.

If you are ever on the fence about J3, start looking sooner than later on bringing another J into the fold.

I’ve worked over a he past two years to minimize my financial obligations, but I’m still not at the point I can easily live off of J1. I will still need to supplement my income in the short term.