I had several careers doing vastly different jobs - both white and blue collars - in seven countries. I can tell you what I did to land my jobs, but bear in mind that I’m close to retirement, so what I did back then may not work anymore, as the job market was probably more more open when I started out.

I basically applied for jobs being brutally honest about what I could and couldn’t do, about my flaws and my strenghs. For instance, one of the things I always said during job interviews was that I’m terminally lazy, and that’s why they should hire me because I will work long hours to put something in place that will allow me to not do something repetitive more than once. Turns out, this line was both true and the thing that sold my application for most of my employers.

Also, when I changed jobs completely - for example when I went from computer programmer to CAD designer - I applied for a job at small companies that didn’t necessarily have the money to pay seasoned engineers and told them I was a fast learner, and proposed a big pay cut for 6 months until I proved that I could do the new job I had no experience in. A few key employers took a chance on me, allowing me to change career. And of course, once I had experience doing whatever new thing I set out to do, I could apply for another job in that field and claim experience.

Finally, I did not hesitate to find employers abroad. If I saw a company I liked that offered a job in another country, I applied, flew over to the interview, and if my application was selected, I relocated. I did that 6 times. It’s not for everybody, but if you’re mobile - or extremely mobile in my case - it increases your chances to find your dream job.

Of course, as the years passed, I accumulated quite a resume with an eclectic variety of jobs I held, and places I lived, and my resume spoke more and more for myself as a proof that I could do all those things, so I had less and less trouble finding jobs with employers that knew just by reading my resume that I can adapt to anything.

Would this work today? Maybe. I know the job market is a lot rougher than when I graduated. So don’t necessarily take what I did as something to follow verbatim today. But maybe some of the things I did would work for you too…

I’ll have to reuse that one.

The best commentary I’ve ever heard on privacy was from the Girl in the movie Anon:

“It’s not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see.”

This to me encapsulates perfectly why everybody should want privacy.

Are we sure the reporter heard Putin right?
Maybe he was saying “Give up, dumbass.” to Trump…

I’m close to retirement and my Mom regularly tells me I shouldn’t drink a beer after work so often because I might “turn into an alcoholic” 🙂 When I point out that I’ve been doing that for decades and I’m still not an alcoholic, she says “Oh yeah, you’re all grown up now I guess…”

You’ll always be your parents’ baby boy or girl. They’ll stop being overly protective and giving advice to you when they pass away, and then you’ll miss it.

Has he been ordered to come report back to his handler?

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

The “DPR” lol

Take your Russian propaganda elsewhere dude…

What do you mean “concerns”? Everybody with a working brain knows his ain’t ticking right.

No but… Would you want to be known as the owner / inhabitant of Epstein Island? Would you enjoy staying there knowing its past?

The island doesn’t give a shit. But you and other people might.

280000 square meters of prime real estate, with palm gardens, mountains and tropical climate.

and bad memories, bad reputation and generally bad juju.

If I owned the place, I’d sell it quick: I just don’t know how I could be there and enjoy it, knowing who was there and what they did.

How about the Epstein files?

My answer to this is: don’t clean and organize anything. Wherever my wife lets me get away with it, it’s been working great for me for the past 35 years.

The bee took one for the team.

With any luck, there’s a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.

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This is suspiciously specific 🙂

Even if it was open source (it isn’t, because no model is really open source ultimately) and even if it let you review what it says it’s gonna do, AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.

Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn’t…

I look forward to not installing it.

Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I’m still playing the latter many times a week.

Stop using the internet.

Or participate in whatever underground mesh networking replacement crops up to replace it.

I live way up north in the boonies. My first neighbor is 5 miles from my place. Our sky is perfectly clear with zero light pollution. We get all the stars and the northern lights too.