Hello from the Local Boys—your weekly newsletter with fresh career advice, job musings, and who's hiring in tech + web3.

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Let's dive in:

• 🔥 Freshly Posted Jobs

• 🎯 How to Talk to Strangers

• 🔮 WTF is happening Reads from the Week

• 🌱 Startup Funding (aka Who's Hiring Soon)

Waiting to hear back from recruiters like:

FRESH JOBS 

Open roles that dropped this week (remote-based unless otherwise noted).

😎 Content Writer 💸 $50k, StashX → Content writers looking for a side-gig rejoice. If you have 3+ years experience, CMS and SEO in your back pocket, work with StashX to educate and inform. Option to get paid in crypto.

🌍 Chief of Staff 💸 $90-120k, Ante Labs → Looking for an Ops pro who's ready to mesh with a small web3 founding team in order to automate monetary peace of mind for the world. Casual.

🎨 Design Lead 💸 $80k-200k, Offchain Labs → Build a suite of scaling solutions for Ethereum with a company that raised a cool $100 million in 2021. Job emphasis is on art direction and graphic design for marketing materials.

🥳 Customer Support Director 💸 $120-150k, Chainstack → Lead the team that ensures unified, user-friendly access to all prominent web3 protocols for developers.

🚢 Security Researcher 💸 $60-150k, ConsenSys → Help keep users safe across MetaMask, ConsenSys, and all those DeFi protocols you've been trying to yield farm.

🌞 Customer Success Agent 💸 $45k-150k, IOV Labs → Perk your ears Bitcoin lovers. Join this team and provide world-class support for the RSK Blockchain, a Bitcoin merge-mined smart contracts platform.

💽 Technical Recruiter 💸 $Unknown, WellSaid Labs → Build the team expanding text-to-voice technology to enable accessibility for a plethora of digital experiences (audiobooks, employee training, and more).

👾 Associate Product Expert 💸 $90k, Yipit Data → Become a domain expert in capital markets while building out your experience in product, marketing, and research. ICYMI Yipit is valued at 1B+. Equity plz.

🏆 Product Design Lead 💸 $100k-220k → Have experience designing complex products (think fintech, enterprise, SaaS), strong HCD skills, and passion, yes pasión, for creating intuitive experiences? Will sponsor H1B... Reply to this email with "Product Design Lead" if you're interested in learning more. Include your resume and LinkedIn profile link.

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HOW TO TALK TO STRANGERS

We've put together the secret sauce that takes you from LinkedIn connection to bestie in less than 10 minutes. 

Bonus: We cover top questions like what skills you need to get a job in web3.

Click the vid for the inside scoop👇

READS FROM THE WEEK

1️⃣ Over the last half century worker productivity has risen 246%. Wages on the other hand have only gone up 115%. TLDR traditional work has failed us—but there's a way forward. Read.

2️⃣ A violin teacher possessed by the Devil and her martian lover who owns a donut-shaped donut shop in LA become entangled. We're low-key obsessed. Read.

3️⃣ Grab this novel for the holidays. It'll break your heart and then put it back together again. Read.

4️⃣ 10,000 hours? There's a better way to gain mastery... Read.

5️⃣ Extra time on your hands? Check out the 100 must-read books of 2022. Read.

It's always...

FUNDING SZN

Every week we give you a rundown of companies with recent investment activity. Why? Because $$$ means growth and growth means jobs are coming soon. Hop into this list and do some outreach. You might nail a job that's not yet posted.

That's a wrap for today. Stay strong out there and see ya next Wednesday! If you want more, be sure to follow our Twitter (@LocalBoys_xyz).

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