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I don't understand how an experienced technical contributor who can speak five languages ends up sleeping on a factory floor unpaid in China. I don't mean to de

I don't understand how an experienced technical contributor who can speak five languages ends up sleeping on a factory floor unpaid in China. I don't mean to demean your story, I only mean very literally that I don't understand it. How did you end up in such a situation? You were in California, Switzerland, Vancouver....how did it get to this point?

r_singh 8y ago
Exactly, I would never think something like what the OP above said could be true
bmn__ 8y ago
> I don't understand it. How did you end up in such a situation? mental illness
- hitekker 8y ago
  I would have disagreed with you, if I hadn't read the top-level comment author's posting history. Yikes.
  - r_singh 8y ago
    I went through the above OP's comment history as well, very peculiar.
  - aerovistae 8y ago
    I don't see what you're seeing. Nearly all the comments and submissions I see are discussing technical matters, or policy. There's some portions that are a bit whiny, argumentative, or ungrateful, but I don't see anything implying mental illness. Can you point out what I'm missing? I'm really interested.
  - peterburkimsher 8y ago
    Perhaps there's some emotional issues I have right now. But please don't mistake cause and effect. I didn't lose my job due to mental illness. I feel very discouraged because I've failed to find a job, and now I'm physically separated from my girlfriend and other friend groups. I'm trying to make new friends, but my parents keep moving me around (Geneva, now UK, next Germany). Instead of teaching me how to get a job, people just tell me my résumé is awful, as if that would help.
    - aerovistae 8y ago
      I think if you are clever enough to figure out how to create all the many things you have created, you are clever enough to look at a range of successful resumes and emulate them. This is a much less involved task than any of the projects listed on your website.
    - WhitneyLand 8y ago
      >>Instead of teaching me how to get a job, people just >>tell me my résumé is awful, as if that would help. Hey full eempathy and encouragement for you, but you’re making a mistake here. First, yes a resume is a small thing but unfortunately they can matter and can influence your succces so flip that bit in your thinking as soon as possible. Secondly some could interpret the comment as attitude of being ungrateful or low motivation. Forget whether or not you meant it, just think about how it can be heard. Yes we’re all friends here and honesty is good. But still, however much it sucks for you now, still gotta lead with your best foot. Sometimes a friendly community is also one with people who may offer help or offer suggestions, in proportion to how well your message comes acrosss.
    - exikyut 8y ago
      Mental illness can catalyze the cause->effect cycle when it comes to perception/internalization/response however. For what it's worth, I was diagnosed with autism just over 10 years ago, and I perceive a lot of the areas I still trip over as having a strong emotional component and/or basis. Autism is generally recognized as a cognitive (ie, logical) developmental disorder, but emotional processing is also heavily impacted too, and I don't think there's as much recognition or acceptance of that - which is very unfair, since good emotional equilibrium is fundamental to being able to manage things with happiness and confidence. Also, social skills such as communication have a strong emotional foundation, and trying to teach such skills as pure logic is unbelievably confusing :/ As a (kind of obvious, but still possibly useful) aside, I go completely emotionally off-kilter when my nervous system is overloaded, which happens all too easily for me due to thyroid issues. That's just me though. (Currently looking for alternatives to thyroxine, which once you start you can't safely stop!)
    - mastazi 8y ago
cyberpunk0 8y ago
Quite easily? People don't hire you because of what you know. Most people get hired through connections or nepotism

r_singh 8y ago

Exactly, I would never think something like what the OP above said could be true

bmn__ 8y ago

> I don't understand it. How did you end up in such a situation? mental illness

hitekker 8y ago
I would have disagreed with you, if I hadn't read the top-level comment author's posting history. Yikes.
- r_singh 8y ago
  I went through the above OP's comment history as well, very peculiar.
- aerovistae 8y ago
  I don't see what you're seeing. Nearly all the comments and submissions I see are discussing technical matters, or policy. There's some portions that are a bit whiny, argumentative, or ungrateful, but I don't see anything implying mental illness. Can you point out what I'm missing? I'm really interested.
- peterburkimsher 8y ago
  Perhaps there's some emotional issues I have right now. But please don't mistake cause and effect. I didn't lose my job due to mental illness. I feel very discouraged because I've failed to find a job, and now I'm physically separated from my girlfriend and other friend groups. I'm trying to make new friends, but my parents keep moving me around (Geneva, now UK, next Germany). Instead of teaching me how to get a job, people just tell me my résumé is awful, as if that would help.
  - aerovistae 8y ago
    I think if you are clever enough to figure out how to create all the many things you have created, you are clever enough to look at a range of successful resumes and emulate them. This is a much less involved task than any of the projects listed on your website.
  - WhitneyLand 8y ago
    >>Instead of teaching me how to get a job, people just >>tell me my résumé is awful, as if that would help. Hey full eempathy and encouragement for you, but you’re making a mistake here. First, yes a resume is a small thing but unfortunately they can matter and can influence your succces so flip that bit in your thinking as soon as possible. Secondly some could interpret the comment as attitude of being ungrateful or low motivation. Forget whether or not you meant it, just think about how it can be heard. Yes we’re all friends here and honesty is good. But still, however much it sucks for you now, still gotta lead with your best foot. Sometimes a friendly community is also one with people who may offer help or offer suggestions, in proportion to how well your message comes acrosss.
  - exikyut 8y ago
    Mental illness can catalyze the cause->effect cycle when it comes to perception/internalization/response however. For what it's worth, I was diagnosed with autism just over 10 years ago, and I perceive a lot of the areas I still trip over as having a strong emotional component and/or basis. Autism is generally recognized as a cognitive (ie, logical) developmental disorder, but emotional processing is also heavily impacted too, and I don't think there's as much recognition or acceptance of that - which is very unfair, since good emotional equilibrium is fundamental to being able to manage things with happiness and confidence. Also, social skills such as communication have a strong emotional foundation, and trying to teach such skills as pure logic is unbelievably confusing :/ As a (kind of obvious, but still possibly useful) aside, I go completely emotionally off-kilter when my nervous system is overloaded, which happens all too easily for me due to thyroid issues. That's just me though. (Currently looking for alternatives to thyroxine, which once you start you can't safely stop!)
  - mastazi 8y ago

cyberpunk0 8y ago

Quite easily? People don't hire you because of what you know. Most people get hired through connections or nepotism