I need to start applying for jobs but I'm scared! And idk what a chill way of taking time off my internship to go interview is!!!

But like they haven't made me an offer sooo

If it makes you uncomfortable to say that you’re interviewing, I’d say I had a doctors appointment or something and needed the time off LMAO

catsuki: Yeahh I'm torn between doing that so it's not weird and being up front about it like "yeah I'm an intern and if you want to hire me you should know you're not my only option and make the offer accordingly"

Not that interviewing is synonymous with having an offer....or that I even have any interviews lmao

hmmmmm

I wonder which is better.. how long have you been interning there?

ughhh good luck regardless. Job hunting is the worst

like i’d hope that wherever you’re interning understands that like.... at the end of the day...... you are there to get experience for a job

you’re not a teenager, you’re not there to like.. hang out

if they haven’t made you an offer, its understandable you’d need to look elsewhere. You have a family, etc

Yeah, and they've made sounds like they're planning on making me an offer but especially coming from a boot camp into a pretty flat hierarchy I'd really like to be able to at least be able to add some perspective to an offer if they do make it?

Like tech money is going to be incomprehensible to me no matter what but I'd like to know that what I'm being offered isn't like "boot camp woman makes way less than CS degree male peers"

I think like Glassdoor or something has salary comparisons you could check out!

(hi I'm back) catsuki glassdoor is hard for me coming from a non-traditional background because companies have an excuse to pay me less?? Since I don't have a computer science degree

So I know what they'd pay someone else but don't necessarily have an argument for myself

Also my company has an artificially flat hierarchy where people with different levels of experience make different amounts of money BUT have the same title