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Hmm, let's see what keeps me up all night. * Unemployed for 2 years * 35, single due to unemployment * I feel lucky; no kids to torture with this misery

Hmm, let's see what keeps me up all night. * Unemployed for 2 years * 35, single due to unemployment * I feel lucky; no kids to torture with this misery * Mortgage ~= 209K euros * Thinking of ways to make a living * Companies avoid hiring me for some reason and they simply reply back with an "overqualified" email. * If I was given the opportunity to change profession, what would be the ideal job for me? * OCD, Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), introvert by nature. Now that's a deadly cocktail! * Have zero friends to go out, plus living in the mountains with parents (thank you financial recession) * Bloody vampires (mosquitoes) around the room, they are everywhere! * Remembering things I did when I was 6 or 7 years old and feel embarrassed now. It happens all the time...

ddorian43 9y ago
Damn dude, that's messed up (sorry). Assuming you're a programmer, can't you make a `incremental persistent improvment` program ? Like fixing stuff 1 by 1. Let's start: Do you train ?
- stephen82 9y ago
  My major is Computer Science, but my professional experience is around Technical Support. I was never given the opportunity to master a language and I have been experimenting with programming since 2003, always at an academic level. On the other hand, as I say "what you know or think you know, has nothing to do with reality". When you say train, you mean exercising and such? No, the only thing my body can handle is walking. When I exercise or do any other form of physical activity, I get sick easily and takes me a whole week to recover. Now about incremental persistent improvement, I do my best to improve myself. To give you an idea, I was surrounded by negative people and decided to cut ties with nearly all of them to save myself from pessimism. I still have a long way to go, but I'm getting there.
  - ddorian43 9y ago
    Yes I meant exercise. Have you checked with a doctor about your issue ? Can you swim (should be best for body&mind) ? Do you eat healthy food ? Do you get enough sleep ? Do you know python (or some other lang) ? Can you check projects on upwork (or similiar) and start from the bottom and work your way up (what I did) ? Can you do a program where you list all your issues and beneath them list several optional things that you think you can do/try to improve them, put them on a todo-task-list and try to work on them everyday (by marking) and doing/checking some stats ? (is there a program for this, kinda want it for myself too) Where do you live ? Have you tried checking meetup.com or similar sites for activities/events to do (..hard in mountain I guess?) ? Any drugs ? Like, do you smoke ?
    - stephen82 9y ago
      > Yes I meant exercise. Have you checked with a doctor about your issue ? Can you swim (should be best for body&mind) ? Yes, my doctors told me that my system is such that is vulnerable to excessive exercise and sudden weather changes. > Do you eat healthy food ? Yep, Greek food all day and all night. > Do you get enough sleep ? Like a good looking princess. > Do you know python (or some other lang) ? Yep, I know Python (Django is sexy!), C, C++, PHP, JavaScript - Node.js (ES2015 / ES6), some Perl / Lua, etc etc. > Can you check projects on upwork (or similiar) and start from the bottom and work your way up (what I did) ? I have tried remote jobs and could not compete with Chinese, Indians, and Pakistani developers. They offer cheap labor and a rich portfolio, whereas I was not given the slightest chance to compete; so I gave up on that. > Can you do a program where you list all your issues and beneath them list several optional things that you think you can do/try to improve them, put them on a todo-task-list and try to work on them everyday (by marking) and doing/checking some stats ? (is there a program for this, kinda want it for myself too) Being an OCD person obliges you to be organized lol, so yeah I have done my TODO list and I have it right in front of me right now to be honest with you. Comparing my past self with the present one, I have improved by orders of magnitude. > Where do you live ? Have you tried checking meetup.com or similar sites for activities/events to do (..hard in mountain I guess?) ? In Cyprus. As an introvert, I can't stand being surrounded by people. It exhausts me within minutes and I need to get back home, to get in my room to recharge. Some times I get so exhausted that I need vitamin support to heal; it sucks -_- > Any drugs ? Like, do you smoke ? COFFEE! LOTS AND LOTS OF COFFEE!

ddorian43 9y ago

Damn dude, that's messed up (sorry). Assuming you're a programmer, can't you make a `incremental persistent improvment` program ? Like fixing stuff 1 by 1. Let's start: Do you train ?

stephen82 9y ago
My major is Computer Science, but my professional experience is around Technical Support. I was never given the opportunity to master a language and I have been experimenting with programming since 2003, always at an academic level. On the other hand, as I say "what you know or think you know, has nothing to do with reality". When you say train, you mean exercising and such? No, the only thing my body can handle is walking. When I exercise or do any other form of physical activity, I get sick easily and takes me a whole week to recover. Now about incremental persistent improvement, I do my best to improve myself. To give you an idea, I was surrounded by negative people and decided to cut ties with nearly all of them to save myself from pessimism. I still have a long way to go, but I'm getting there.
- ddorian43 9y ago
  Yes I meant exercise. Have you checked with a doctor about your issue ? Can you swim (should be best for body&mind) ? Do you eat healthy food ? Do you get enough sleep ? Do you know python (or some other lang) ? Can you check projects on upwork (or similiar) and start from the bottom and work your way up (what I did) ? Can you do a program where you list all your issues and beneath them list several optional things that you think you can do/try to improve them, put them on a todo-task-list and try to work on them everyday (by marking) and doing/checking some stats ? (is there a program for this, kinda want it for myself too) Where do you live ? Have you tried checking meetup.com or similar sites for activities/events to do (..hard in mountain I guess?) ? Any drugs ? Like, do you smoke ?
  - stephen82 9y ago
    > Yes I meant exercise. Have you checked with a doctor about your issue ? Can you swim (should be best for body&mind) ? Yes, my doctors told me that my system is such that is vulnerable to excessive exercise and sudden weather changes. > Do you eat healthy food ? Yep, Greek food all day and all night. > Do you get enough sleep ? Like a good looking princess. > Do you know python (or some other lang) ? Yep, I know Python (Django is sexy!), C, C++, PHP, JavaScript - Node.js (ES2015 / ES6), some Perl / Lua, etc etc. > Can you check projects on upwork (or similiar) and start from the bottom and work your way up (what I did) ? I have tried remote jobs and could not compete with Chinese, Indians, and Pakistani developers. They offer cheap labor and a rich portfolio, whereas I was not given the slightest chance to compete; so I gave up on that. > Can you do a program where you list all your issues and beneath them list several optional things that you think you can do/try to improve them, put them on a todo-task-list and try to work on them everyday (by marking) and doing/checking some stats ? (is there a program for this, kinda want it for myself too) Being an OCD person obliges you to be organized lol, so yeah I have done my TODO list and I have it right in front of me right now to be honest with you. Comparing my past self with the present one, I have improved by orders of magnitude. > Where do you live ? Have you tried checking meetup.com or similar sites for activities/events to do (..hard in mountain I guess?) ? In Cyprus. As an introvert, I can't stand being surrounded by people. It exhausts me within minutes and I need to get back home, to get in my room to recharge. Some times I get so exhausted that I need vitamin support to heal; it sucks -_- > Any drugs ? Like, do you smoke ? COFFEE! LOTS AND LOTS OF COFFEE!