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Edit: I’m a dual citizen, US/UK. Right to work, sponsorship, relocation are not required.

Thanks for the help so far.

I'm sure I have some of the wording wrong, trying to understand how easy it is to move professional jobs in a short time.

I have an opportunity to transfer US to UK with my company. One way they may get me over would be for me to quit the US company and hire on with the UK company (I’m a dual citizen). I'm generally fine with the terms of this offer, but I'm not aware of labor laws that might impact my giving notice and leaving after only a few weeks. Desk would be in Wales, home office in England, if that matters.

There's also a possibility of a similar job in Scotland.

Neither of these are firm offers yet. I'm not sure yet which I'd prefer. Neither are offering relocation or otherwise making an investment that would tie me to them for a period.

So, if I start a job in Wales, then the next week, Scotland calls with an offer, am I stuck with a 3 month notice period or something else that would make the move difficult?

Coming from the US, Texas, non-union, I can walk away from a job today, and be working or the competition tomorrow. Our two week notice is courtesy only in almost all cases.

I’m an American/UK dual citizen, currently in the US, worked in Spain, France, Morocco, Texas, Louisiana.

I have a few questionable leads, but I’m looking for a more active recruiter/placement company/talent management company. Willing to pay for the service, but I’m not sure who’s legit and who’s just taking my money and offering live laugh love quotes.

I’ve primarily worked EPC scheduling, turnaround and capital projects, and projects construction management. Current job construction manager is similar role to a project manager at a lot of places.

I’ve talked to MGroup and Murphy, and I have calls with Hays and Ineos next week, but I’d really like to have someone there who knows the industry and the wording better than I do - a Bid Schedule in the US is a Tender Programme in the UK. A recruiter dropped me for no planning experience when I have 19 years across 6 clients scheduling.

So, is there a service worth paying for, or do I just keep leaning on friends and family and stalking recruiters across linkedin and facebook and hassle them on whatever platform I can get through?

Not a “please find me a job” post, please let me know if this isn’t allowed.

I have a job transfer mostly lined up, but it keeps getting delayed. Just in case it falls through, I’ve been casually applying, but ramping it up now.

Most applications ask for an address. That’s fine, I’ve got family I can use their address. Many ask if I’m willing to relocate, so applying to Scotland from a London address shouldn’t be an immediate delete.

A lot also ask for a phone number. This is a bit trickier, I don’t think I want my elderly aunts taking calls, if I get that far. Is it worth setting up a UK number? Or is it not such a red flag putting a US number in? CV calls out whatsapp/facetime over this number, but quite possible they aren’t getting that far.

I’m also fully aware I’m looking at a major pay cut. When I have no insider advice on a role, so far I’ve been putting half my US salary. When it also asks for current, maybe better to put something closer to what I’m expecting?

Stalking recruiters is certainly helpful, but some places they hide pretty well.

Any other advice?

Any recommendations on an upholstery shop for a headliner? 2014 Audi A4, prefer southeast/Clear Lake/La Porte/Deer Park/Pasadena area.

I can pull it and clean it, assuming that saves money and time, just want someone to foam and fabric. I’ve messed them up before.

Anyone have anywhere to recommend, prefer Southeast side/Clear Lake/Pasadena etc?

Happy to pull it my self and drop off, but I want someone else to do the foam and fabric.

I mostly play offline, backing up mornings and evenings and any time I’m going to do something dumb.

This weekend I passed my world around a few different devices, as usual, put it up on my realm, played with some friends.

Getting ready for the week, I went to grab the latest version, and it’s half the size. 60mb. My world is 140mb. I was trimming some edges last week. I know what it should be. Checked Unmined, yup, the main areas I’ve been playing the last 5 years, a big blank stripe wiped out down the middle.

So I’ll be going back to Friday evening. I’m losing maybe an hour on my megabuild dig, and some exploring with friends. No biggie.

Back up your world. Cloud, hard drive, phone, server, flash drive in your safe deposit box, CDR and mail it to your self.

Put your archive somewhere you can’t accidentally delete it.

Zip your worlds so they aren’t showing up on your playable worlds.

Whatever you do, do it more often.

In the Best Transmissions post currently rolling, someone mentioned Lambos with direct/linkage free transmissions.

Toploader is a Ford thing (I’ve driven Mustangs and Fairlanes of the era) and apparently Sunbeam Tigers (not yet, on the list).

Direct Shift leads to DSG, which is not what I’m looking for.

So, help me google, or tell me about your un-googlable transmission.

Edit: I tried converting Bedrock to Java with Chunker, then feeding that to MCA Selector, but it appears the world is basically brand new when it gets converted. MCA Selector seems to show everything as inhabited less than 5 minutes. I did also open the world in Java, just to sit in a few spots for a few minutes, so I'm aware of what the filter looks like.

Seems like a more general area by area inspection for now.

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I’ve been poking around my world for at least 5 years. My kids have done some pretty significant builds that I’m not necessarily aware of, and I’ve done some builds that I don’t remember

I’d like to trim the world down and update to bring in some pale oak near my spawn, but I don’t know how to filter for chunks that haven’t been modified.

Do I have to go through area by area, layer by layer with Unmined and fly around in spectator mode?

Or is there a program or function of Amulet or Unmined that can tell me which chunks haven’t been modified?

My world is only 150mb, but I know there are pretty significant areas I’ve only flown through to gather materials and hurry home.

I need a battery.

I live around the corner from a VW dealer, an hour from the Audi dealer.

VW dealer doesn't recognize the part number written on the battery (VW 000915105dl). They don't have Audis in their system to look it up.

Audi dealer gave me the 000915089K part number, which VW also shows unavailable, superseded.

Is there a part number I can ask for at VW to get a battery for my A4, or do I just have to go to the Audi dealer (and buy a battery with VW stamped on it)?

6 customers in line. One red shirt testing a battery. One red shirt running the register. 4 gray shirts standing around the computer in the corner just looking and pointing.

This specific location used to have at least 3 people at the counter at busy times - one gray and 2 red, so there would be someone to explain how to recalibrate your flux capacitor while the other two ran the register.

So, gray shirts, do you have some job in a walk in branch that doesn’t involve walk in customers?

I asked the red shirt selling me a battery if those guys ever help customers, and he sort of umm err ahhed. Which probably answered the question.

I don’t have any kind of HA at the moment, but I’ve done some temperature/humidity/contact/light sensing and data collection projects.

Are there any commercial or DIY ways to report when a device is running without messing with the wiring? My current idea is an accelerometer to be triggered by vibration, but if there’s an electrical solution that doesn’t involve leaving a clamp attached, I’d be interested.

This is specifically different than using a smart plug to monitor, because something like HVAC is hard wired.