u/jp2k27

Before I was OE, I attended a conference at J1. Met Person A talked for about 30 mins added each other on linkedin never spoke again (around mid 2025). Person A works for a company that my J1 partners with and I have syncs with their partnership team once every 3-6 months.

Person A only knows 1 person in that partnership team I work with that I very rarely interacted with. The company has over 85,000 employees, odds are they don't communicate often I hope.

Got J2 in Nov 2025, deactivated LinkedIn since everything has been smooth J1 is a ghost company pretty much and nobody suspects a thing at J1/J2 cause of performance. However, I was forced to cover another coworker at a conference for J1 (I demanded I no longer go to these things for obvious reasons), but J1 didn't give me a choice this time. Ran into Person A again for 3 mins barely talked just shook hands. (March 2026)

Recently Person A quit that other company and joined my J2. He is in my department but different market segment which I also never work with or interact with in a daily basis. Should I be worried? It's been making me anxious all week.

I’m super strict on my LinkedIn, it’s completely deactivated. J1 and J2 are gold mines for OE compatibility. TC is 330k.

However got an interview for J3 but they won’t set up a call without me providing a LinkedIn, what to do?

Hi all, I have been OE’ing for about 4 months now. J2 is the epitome of a perfect OE job. Fully remote, no management watching over me, 1 meeting per week. I can go all day without doing anything and no one will notice. However the company is failing financially so Idk how long it will last.

J1 is full remote and I have meetings from 9am to 2pm and I’m done for the day. Will keep this job as I have been giving a large amount of RSUs and they will have a strong IPO soon.

TC: 230k. + bonuses.

However prior to OE. I was in financial ruin, family needed support and I was barely scraping by every paycheck even having as low as 0.02 in my account going to work. I gave my parents all of my savings (30k). Now I have about 35k in debt with 0 savings.

Should I save as much as I can and pay minimums in my debt? Or clear my debt as fast as possible and then start a savings? I would tackle both at the same time but I still have fixed expenses costing me about 3-4k a month. (Rent is 2.7k and groceries / utilities). Im a very frugal person and don’t care about lifestyle upgrades. I’m always in fear of my OE income falling apart and I naturally just want to acorn as much money as possible.