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  • Tips for first real job search?
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    A few tips:

    -get your resume in order so that you can easily tailor it to each job.
    -check out cover letter writing tips.
    -be prepared for a long search. Like a really long search. My high-qualified, degree-wielding friends have had job searches of over a year for their first "in industry" job.
    -Check out college job boards (as in jobs working for UW/community colleges) and city/county job boards- it seems like they usually have engineering jobs open.

    Good luck!

  • Favourite knitting patterns, general or hat?
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    Oh god- join Ravelry immediately! It's the most comprehensive pattern database on the planet, complete with user forums and finished object areas. I recommend Koolhaus as a Brooklyn Tweed pattern, if you haven't made it already. Anne Hanson (my favorite pattern designer ever) has some amazing hat patterns too at Knitspot.com.

  • Quit a Job, due to a hostile work environment. recourse?
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    Echoing everyone else! You almost always need an established history of complaints against someone and proof the employer did nothing/not enough to address those complaints to prove a hostile work environment.

  • How does Bumbershoot stay so affordable and fun?
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    It doesn't. Bumbershoot hasn't been affordable since 2004, and the fun comes and goes, depending on the bands you like.

  • What do I do with old laptops?
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    You can drop them off at the University Book Store in the tech center and they will be donated to Interconnection (no cost to you).

  • Best portable hard drive?
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    I love the LaCie Rikiki drives in a way that is probably not healthy. A couple reasons why I love them so-

    They are:

    - small. The entire drive is easy to pack and carry around, and it sits comfortably on the palm of my hand.

    - solid. When you pick the drive up, it has a definite heft to it, and the case feels nice and tough.

    - backup software. You can take it or leave it, but the backup software the company pre-loads is pretty decent. (Reformat the drive if you hate it though).

    - warranty. Something like 2% of external drives will fail within the first year or two you own them, and if you are in the unfortunate 2%, LaCie is really good about warranty service. Just make sure to register your product with them online.

    - relatiely inexpensive. LaCie lists them starting at $70 for 250GB and you can find them on sale at different websites.

  • Decent Android Tablet?
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    I would wait, if at all possible. There are a handful of tablets on the market right now but all of them have issues; some serious and some just nit-picky. The next two quarters of releases (so right up through holiday and getting into next year's CES show time) will be big releases. You will see some crowd favorites- like the Notion tablet, which looks very lovely- plus the big manufacturers will have something to show off, too.

    If you have to have one right now, I would check out the Archos tablet and the Velocity Micro tablet (out in August, I think).

  • How can I figure out the best price for my handmade crafts?
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    I would do a lot of research in your market (other sellers with similar products) to see what the prices are for the items that are selling right now. If you can safely fit somewhere in the range they are selling at, do so. If you need to mark things up a little to make whatever your target profit margin is, well, that is just the ways things are sometimes (though it may be worth looking at reducing your costs per item to bring your pricing in line with what the market will bear).

  • How good a resource for sales is Etsy, really?
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    Etsy can be a very powerful tool for selling to people who value the handmade community. First off- don't worry about making the distinction of selling to non-crafters. I say that because the Etsy community of crafters/sellers is easily its largest community of buyers, as well. Think about it- you're there, you're doing research, maybe, on what's selling or not selling, what you like and what you don't like, and you see something cute. Small, maybe inexpensive, not even what you're researching. before you know it, yu've checked out through Paypal and the item is on its way to you.

    Here are the strengths I've found in Etsy:
    1) It's almost certainly the largest handmade community most people are aware of and that drives traffic you might not see otherwise.
    2) Etsy has an excellent interface for buyers- you can heavily customize the way you want to search for your item or you can be as general as you want and you still have results.
    3) It's inexpensive to start selling on Etsy. If you are starting out, building a website from scratch AND updating it AND marketing yourself can be daunting. Etsy has a small listing fee, small sold item fee and then you end up paying Paypal a bit to receive your payment. Etsy also has flexible, inexpensive advertising slots you can purchase for extra "foot" traffic and visibility.
    4) If you want to analyze your shop traffic, Etsy and Google analytics work really well together. When you factor in the tags you put on your Etsy listings, this collaboration allows you to see what's working and drawing people and what is failing.

    Etsy weaknesses, in my opinion:
    1) It's huge. This is both a strength and a weakness, because you can list an awesome, unique item, and the sheer volume of item traffic will bury it pages deep in a short amount of time.
    2) It is Paypal-dependent for all intents and purposes. Great if you like Paypal, difficult if you detest it.
    3) If you are selling something high-volume, a must-have item, and everyone is trying to buy it at once, it is always first-come, first-serve; a customer can not put the item in their cart and have it saved there- it can be purchased out from under them in a matter of split-seconds.

    I hope this helps! Etsy is a great tool for selling your wares- you just have to figure out a way to market yourself.

    Infinity.etsy.com (closed to restock at the moment)

  • where do drag queens get that lipstick?
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    You can always try this, from a Vamp store:

    http://www.vampfangs.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=88240&click=3826

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