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Hey ppl! Im a 22yo guy and im kinda losing hope. I currently work a job for $19 and hr and stay with my mom. I do help w bills and pay for my own expenses but, despite not having any “real” bills, I always feel strapped for cash. I want an actual long term job. One that at least allows me to be comfortable even if im still living with my mom. Does a job like this exist without needing a degree?
I don’t have anything against college but I just have very low hopes of paying off serious student loans(If i could afford it at all). Right now I do video editing on the side and lots of successful online people have said to me “being an editor is good because everyone is looking for one rn” but thats kinda just untrue. I basically work for pennies too. $40 for an entire heavily edited video, condensing a 4 hr stream. And yet, I get almost no work. I also have vehicle mechanic experience but ive come to terms that that’s not a lucrative career path (not that money is ALL i care about).
The part that kills me is I’m a genuinely hard worker and I’ll be fine doing ANY job whether i love or hate it but getting a job is impossible rn. Any advice or job recommendations or networking opportunities at all are greatly appreciated.

I was born and raised in DeKalb (mostly Decatur area), moved back after college, and I’ve been going to the DeKalb Farmers Market for my entire life. I have many fond memories of dropping off presorted recycling there with my dad - back before the county offered curbside recycling - and grabbing food in the cafeteria afterward (RIP). I still visit regularly.

Everyone I know in the area just calls it “the farmers market” or if we need to be specific, “DeKalb farmers market.” But on Reddit I constantly see people referring to it as “YDFM.” The first few times I saw that acronym, I had no idea what people were talking about, lol.

So now I’m curious: is “YDFM” mostly a Reddit/internet thing, or do people actually say that in conversation? What do you call it in real life? Maybe it’s an area specific thing?

Hi All,

Just moved to the Buckhead/Sandy Springs area from South Atlanta. I still have a ton of cardboard/moving boxes that I can’t just give away and my apartment complex has a trash chute that doesn’t take cardboard!

If you live up here, where do you go to get rid of your cardboard? Only thing I see is maybe the Emory Recycling Center that is 30 minutes away.

Any ideas welcome!

Why is it that restaurants can serve booze at 11am Sunday’s but I can’t purchase it in a store until 1230?!?

It makes no sense to me.

I have a temporary dental bridge that is scheduled to be replaced with a permanent one on Tuesday. Well, last night the fucker cracked and fell out of my mouth. I look like the bride of deliverance without it. I’m able to keep it in my mouth as long as I don’t eat or drink anything or breathe too hard or sneeze 😒

I searched the sub and the last recommendation was from two years ago so I wanted to check and see if anybody had any recommendations for an emergency dentist who could get me in like today or at the very least tomorrow morning (except I’m legit scared it’s gonna fall out in the middle of the night and I’m gonna swallow it. )

I called one place and had a appointment scheduled for 7 PM tonight, but they just called me back six hours after I made the appointment to tell me that they can’t just temporarily glue it back in they have to give me an entirely new bridge. I said no, bc it’s a multi hour process and I’m already getting a new one on Tuesday. I just need them to glue this in long enough to get to my appointment which will probably be tomorrow now because they’ll want to do it as quickly as possible.

Any recommendations are much appreciated so thank you in advance!

Lived here a few years but was partnered the whole time and basically never went out, so I'm weirdly clueless about my own city's scene. Recently single and trying to find my footing.

For anyone who spent time in DC, is there an Atlanta version of JR's? For those who don't know it, it's a Dupont Circle bar with a laid-back, after-work energy. Professional guys in their late 30s and 40s stopping in straight from the office, cocktails, somewhere you can actually hear yourself talk and meet a more professional crowd (lawyers, office types). Upscale but not pretentious, if that makes sense. Polished but still easy to just walk in and talk to people. That's always been my speed. I'll still dance if there's a chill area to step away, but what I'm really after is that upscale cocktail/lounge vibe where the 35-50 crowd actually connects.

Woofs is great for the sports-bar side of me, but it's a different vibe than what I'm after here.

Where does that crowd land in Atlanta?

I ran the Peachtree road race 6 to 8 times in the late 90s and early 2000s. Does anyone remember personally seeing or hearing of a woman who woluld dance naked in one of the hotel room windows visible from the starting line of the race in Buckhead? Seemed to be happening yearly for about five years there, at least. I can’t say I ever saw it personally for sure, but I remember the stories. Can anyone corroborate?

Hey! Been trying to figure this out. I wasn’t able to get Ariana Grande tickets to any of her nights but I’ve seen online how people were able to get box office tickets the day of by showing up super early and lining up (for other locations). I called State Farm Arena the other day and they said they had completely sold out, but I was wondering whether anybody else has tried this before and whether their ticket availability is purely based on Ticketmaster? I thought that more tickets would open up the day of so they can’t tell whether everything will stay sold out but I’m not sure, this’ll be my first time attempting this sort of thing. I got parking on Spothero anyways because I am desperate lol

What's on your mind, Atlanta?

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• How To Meet People

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Just had to flee the stadium while watching the fireworks display in Avondale Estates because of suspected gunshots. Anybody else experience that? Anybody know if they were actually fireworks or gunshots?

I've never heard fireworks like this before ans I've lived here my whole life

I simultaneously love and hate you. Malört is awful but the wretched taste provided a good distraction from the suffocating weather. Thanks to you two dudes and to everyone else who came out to cheer, the race was a hot, suffocating, soaking wet bucket of fun. The crowd support makes this race great.

I know this is maybe stretching things, but, to me, the PRR is the perfect case for why rail transit would be a slam dunk.

As it stands, you have ~55,000 exhausted people dumping into Piedmont Park, and then just kinda scattering. There are MARTA shuttle buses to Lindbergh, which you will be waiting on in a line, but it's good they're there. You can also go to Midtown, but then you have to walk an extra mile and a quarter back up the hill along a non-closed 8th St., so you're fighting cars there the whole way. Seriously, this is what I do every year and it's the worst part

The other options are basically to wonder into the surrounding neighborhoods until you can get to a place where someone you know, or a ride-hail, can pick you up, but even then you're fighting traffic for a mile+ in all directions around the race area.

But... like... the Beltline is right there. If we had transit in place, both north and south, a big chunk of people could hop on the train at Piedmont park to ride north to Lindbergh that way, or south to either a transfer to the Blue / Green Lines, go into Downtown to Peachtree Center, or just keep riding south if that's an option. Even better if we also had, say, North Ave. BRT in place giving more options for people to get out of the park and to transit without crowding out Midtown Station or waiting on the bus shuttles.

This is a long-term thing, sure, and given the way summers are going, who knows if we'll even still have the PRR by the time routes are built out, but even if we were just talking about Streetcar East being able to divert a portion of people away from the Midtown Station Crush, then that'd be something. Not to mention there're all those other events in Piedmont Park that also bring thousands and thousands of folks in for, and for whom Beltline Transit would benefit.