u/gorcetesque

I applied to 487 jobs in 3 months as a freelancer and got offered 83% of them after interviews. AMA!

edit: 83% offered me the position right after the interview and 17% rejected (with interview)

Hi! I'm a 19F who spent the last 3 months putting myself through a personal challenge: applying to different jobs across multiple niches. Why? Boredom and I want to build something in the future so i put myself as a test subject lol.

I'm currently a signed COO in a US company while being a full-time comp sci student soon taking litigation or patent law. I know I have more years to grow and test myself even more but I'm sharing my knowledge for free to help people out too.

I've always been that student who couldn't pick just one thing, so instead of choosing, I studied everything that genuinely interested me. Ecommerce, beauty, tech, AI, marketing. I went all in.

Now I want to give back. Drop your questions below!

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u/gorcetesque — 5 days ago

Finally got my first AC! Kolin. Can anyone give me tips to save energy?

As the title suggests, I bought the 1HP Kolin Certus Series (KSM-IW10-WCT10M1M32) and I wanna know your guys settings when it comes to saving energy! It really means a lot. Thank you!

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u/gorcetesque — 12 days ago

Finally trying to get back my shi together in terms of finances! 🥹 From a retired shopaholic

19F | I pay for everything in my own life but I have an addiction in buying branded clothes and shoes but when adulting finally hit me and more opportunities arises like opening up banks, debits and credits, and more that made it more interesting than shopping around.

Shopping was my way to cope with a rough environment and stress and kahit I earn so much for my age, I feel like sayang rin kasi napupunta sa luho. It's my first time thinking about my future too!

There's no parental figure (because they abandoned me when I was 13 lol) to give me an earful about finances etc kaya I didn't know any better but I think umabot 7 digits ++ but okay lang kasi sakin naman galing lahat ng yon, not from my parents 🥲

I hustle and work hard but lahat napupunta sa shopping spree not because I deserve it or ano pero they're just pretty. It's my 2 weeks salary and I didn't spend anything pa sa mga luho 🙌

I tried budgeting and living healthy too like hindi na puro take outs!

Is it hard? ABSOLUTELY!!!! But thinking of retiring early is the way to go tapos doon na lang ako mag spree (Yes sorry I still have savings to spend on useless stuff but I disciplined myself pag ka retire ko na)

u/gorcetesque — 13 days ago

I tried outsourcing this one job I have and they earn almost 6 digits per month, but even after training them on one of the simplest LOBs out there, they couldn’t understand anything and they still need a proper guide to do most things.

I’m only fresh 19 and I’m handling someone twice my age and they still need to be bossed around. I tried confronting them saying they shouldn’t be spoon-fed when I already trained them 36 hours per week for 2 weeks but they’re still acting so oblivious and ignorant to most things. We're genuinely fast paced (company's nature rin) and my boss didn't even train me and I have to learn everything on my own before but they said na they wanted to get the gist of it faster so I offered training them even tho I had to work overtime.

As someone who really prioritize work-life balance with strict schedule, this was such downside sakin kasi pati off days ko she keeps on begging me to train her.

Their basic errors were wrong sheet formulas and wrong data input but it was highlighted on their resume as an EA that they were very experienced in it. I'm not talking about once or twice but 78 wrong inputs in a span of 5 HOURS! 🥲

I’m sorry for venting but they were so confident in their interview saying they can do my stuff much better and I laughed it off. Sana doon pa lang nalaman ko red flag.

I also heard from my colleagues that they’re trying to badmouth me whenever that person tries to send weekly reports, not knowing na signed COO ako ng company, so it was just really so frustrating to hear that because I made them grow so much and ganon yung return.

Whenever I try to send an email firing them, they’ll say a bunch of accidents happened and they keep begging and spam my calls.

My colleagues said it’s completely up to me if I’ll fire them. They produce good results on other small projects and tasks but when it comes to the most important tasks, I have to nail it down kahit nakailang meetings na kami and I gave them every SOP and workarounds and hacks and I’m honestly so exhausted.

If you were in my shoes, would you pursue firing them? Even if they produce good results but need to be micromanaged? Idk it'll feel like a lost pero parang mas burden pa to train them rather than to handle the tasks on my own 🫠

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u/gorcetesque — 15 days ago

hello! i dont know if my recent posts can be seen here but my client wants me to find an EA and shopify VA (experience in meta ads too) for their other business ventures but i dont know how to outsource people im just a newbie 😭

is outsourcing the right path for this or should i encourage them more to find the right person themselves? they said they have trust issues and im the only one that stayed loyal 🫠

as much as i want to upskill and take up the role, i think i wont be able to handle it. please help!

edit: i work in back end sales and also a dm closer but now integrating to shopify and i dont have any experience ++ meta ads specialist

++ edit: they're the ones who said i should find people and they'll pay me the whole salary and i'll just pay the people i "outsourced"

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u/gorcetesque — 24 days ago