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Dry-Reality4707 t1_j9amo0q wrote

Reply to DC Real ID by Bdubbs987

I just went last week, I just used my lease, passport, and wifi bill. On the application you put your social security number and that's it.

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Herculian t1_j9amnqp wrote

Reply to comment by CheapDeparture8834 in Taking the 11 year old to DC today and tomorrow (Presidents’ Day) for birthday trip - what are must dos for the young one? by jornor

You overly romanticize books just like men in their 50s and hipster wannabes overly romanticize vinyl records. If you think a child would rather see stacks of books they don't have time to read and can't checkout over the Natural History or Air and Space museams, you're an idiot.

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ulukmahvelous t1_j9alohu wrote

Reply to comment by BansheeLoveTriangle in Do you all have stories of people who quit the typical DC corporate/political career and pursued something else? by [deleted]

customer success - so for those who are unfamiliar (sorry in advance for the block of text), in software there’s generally pre-sales and post-sales:

  • pre-sales includes business development representatives (cold calling, email outreach, trying to get prospective customers - prospects - to move forward in the sales cycle to ultimately buy the product), account executives (sales folks who close the deal), sales engineers (more tech-y people who demo the software), revenue operations (maintaining processes and tech used for sales), and marketing (straddles both pre and post sales).
  • Post-sales generally includes customer support, customer success (managing existing customers and renewing their contracts or selling them more stuff), customer success ops (managing the tech we use and training), and maybe other code-friendly people (sometimes called solutions architects, onboarding experts - don’t always need code) who help train customers.
  • Separately you have product and engineering, who are the coders and backend infrastructure folks standing up the software.

And ofc there are deviations within these generic roles based on company goals, software focus, business model, maturity, etc. in tech regarding different levels of roles you hear a lot about “individual contributors” (ICs), then there are managers to VP to C suite.

I was able to use my relationship building, communication, and general “account management” skills to shift into customer success as a customer success manager (CSM). I worked for the govt for over 3 years and it was rly hard to give up the career ladder and my path that I’d worked so hard to get on (and studied for). However, I love my new role because I’m negotiating and figuring out value for my partner (customer) and I get to lead them to success while helping my company’s business (mission). I work for a company that helps patients in the end so I feel connected. I also like that it’s more nimble and fun as a workplace. Happy to say more!

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hexesforurexes t1_j9aldfz wrote

Reply to Advice: Seeking a Museum Job in DC by afloatingpoint

It’s a shit show here too. I worked in the field for over a decade and got out because I was tired of being gaslit about COLAs/how racist and toxic it can be. The people that thrive in this industry are generally a certain type of privileged person who has a partner that is bringing in the money. People stay at their jobs for decades. He’s not going to have an easier time here unfortunately. One of my pals has similar qualifications, graduated at the top of her class, and only got a full time position after six years.

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nakoros t1_j9afqlq wrote

Reply to DC Real ID by Bdubbs987

I think I forgot my SS card when I went. I remember freaking out, since this was back when it was hard to get an appointment, but the guy didn't care. I may have had my passport, though (plus 2 bills showing my address). Honestly, I did this twice and am still confused. The first time I'd just moved (within DC) and thought I needed the real ID so I went in person. She didn't look at any of the documents, but my license had a star on it. The second time I got an email telling me I had to go in, and at the end of the appointment he told me I could have done it online.

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flanneljack1 t1_j9aegl6 wrote

Reply to comment by TheLeviathanX in Do you all have stories of people who quit the typical DC corporate/political career and pursued something else? by [deleted]

Yeah. It was kinda an accident. I took an office job for a white hat NGO stopping human trafficking on the recommendation of a college bro. But I kept getting projects in former Soviet states doing research, marketing, and very little anti-human trafficking work. After a few months I realized anti-human trafficking was just a smokescreen for a bunch of mercenaries trying to get their small PMC off the ground. I quickly left that company and became a tour guide to pay bills. Almost joined the navy but had a bad car accident and needed to switch career paths. 2011-13 was a wild couple years for me.

Edit: the PMC even sent me to the Hill to get money to “save girls” that was totally going to be used to buy airplane tickets to “security” projects. Thank goodness I was bad at my job.

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rbur70x7 t1_j9aef5e wrote

Reply to DC Real ID by Bdubbs987

Whatever you do don’t use an enhanced ID which is the same as a real ID because the DMV can’t fathom it because it “don’t have the star”.

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LLDN t1_j9ae91r wrote

Reply to comment by Coastal_Elite410 in Do you all have stories of people who quit the typical DC corporate/political career and pursued something else? by [deleted]

Totally this! Republic Restoratives is the go to example for getting out of politics into a successful gig outside of it. I believe Pia used to work for Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (you can see her staffing the congresswoman in the latest documentary “Won’t Back Down”).

Here’s a podcast talking to her when Republic first opened.

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CheapDeparture8834 t1_j9acrj4 wrote

Reply to comment by Herculian in Taking the 11 year old to DC today and tomorrow (Presidents’ Day) for birthday trip - what are must dos for the young one? by jornor

What the hell is wrong with you? I literally have vivid memories of going to huge, beautiful libraries as a kid and they were some of my favorite memories. I loved books. I loved Harry Potter. Little bookworm kids would DIE for giant libraries and if you think otherwise, you’re an idiot.

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