JBlue42

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by JBlue42 8y ago
Not the person above but doing some thorough searching through the subreddits below might be helpful. Quite a bit of DevOps/AWS Cert discussion on /r/ITCareerQuestions. https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQu
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by JBlue42 8y ago
Same for the last two normal jobs I've taken. I was surprised to also be presented with an arbitration agreement when visiting a new doctor for the first time. I think it's become quite standard since no one is really able to stan
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by JBlue42 8y ago
Yup, without tacking out taxes. More like $410 I think when taxes are taken out. Luckily, the State doesn't tax it as well. I learned when looking more deeper into it that some states will do so. I think it's kind of shitty that i
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by JBlue42 8y ago
California they have to pay out PTO, that is, if they actually earned those benefits. When I worked in vfx, very few people were 'staff' and most were 'contractors' so basically W-2 with no benefits charging hopefully hi
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by JBlue42 8y ago
That's an interesting point. Made me think of my friends compared to my parents. I'm 35 - pretty much everyone I could think of my age or slightly younger has run their vehicles into the ground before getting or new one or had to
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by JBlue42 8y ago
I got on the 710 once heading south and it was a whole different world in which it felt like there was an unbreakable chain of trucks. It also felt extremely dangerous since they really didn't care about breaking that chain to let you
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by JBlue42 8y ago
For some reason, your post reminded me of this bookmark I go back to: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/09/daniel-pink-drive-r... "In Drive, Pink goes on to illustrate why the traditional carrots-and
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by JBlue42 8y ago
I kind of did the same thing though with slightly different results. I suspect it's probably down to timing as well as skill level (and what those skills are in). Throughout my early 20's I bounced between service jobs, saving, th
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by JBlue42 8y ago
How was the parent comment not similar? How is anything politically-related on this forum, supposedly for discussion of startups, not in some way inflammatory? What about the post itself? Not to mention that I and another user backed up my
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by JBlue42 8y ago
You're welcome. And I think the California government and many of its supposedly liberal citizens could do more as well. "Screw you, I got mine" applies to both sides. Even better, we as a nation should be implementing all th
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by JBlue42 8y ago
As well as: https://www.apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the... https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017&#x2F
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by JBlue42 8y ago
We do. We send our tax dollars to help support the impoverished red states. ;-)
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by JBlue42 8y ago
I used to opt out until feeling pretty violated from the enhanced pat-down a year or so ago. I've been patted down for weapons in many countries across the world and it wasn't necessary for those folks, or anyone in the previous 1
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by JBlue42 8y ago
>Maybe I'm not picking a good term / elucidating properly, but the second type of "social credit" is the fostering of a favorable view, building good rapport with your manager. Your manager does not put you in a meeti
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by JBlue42 8y ago
Off-topic: Are you still a practicing monk? What brought you to HN?
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by JBlue42 8y ago
Unsolicited advice: Not everyone is into sacrificing money to avoid bullshit security theater that has been going on for 17 years. Trains have the beauty of being able to go to the station, hop on the train, hop off. No wait or lines. I&#x2
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by JBlue42 9y ago
I'm not sure we're disagreeing here. Maybe I read some of the thread wrong - most of them seem to be saying "you have money - you have options. take a break, do something else, etc". Then there are the FIRE people kinda
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by JBlue42 9y ago
The other advice is rather sensible but I'll go ahead and support this point. I'm at a $22/hr help desk job on the phone for 90% of the day and every morning pray that I don't end up getting killed by a moron on the free
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by JBlue42 9y ago
It depends on if you gain that 'freedom' by choice or not. The latter, if especially unexpected, can be troublesome. Even more so if you have those that depend on you.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>Again, in my view (based on several years as a support monkey at the beginning of my career), desktops/laptops should be named based on their asset tags, LT891334 or DT993115 etc. That way, when you ask the user 'what's t
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by JBlue42 9y ago
>They're also unpronounceable - you can't communicate them to other people verbally quickly or reliably. This is my recent life as I started a (hopefully temporary) phone support role and the place I work has desktops with name
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by JBlue42 9y ago
That's really cool of you. And, parent had a good point to. The one time I asked for feedback and received it, I did react the same way (Them: We didn't see this; Me: But I have done that!). I figured while I had their attention t
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Um, is it really that hard to fire someone in CA? It's an at-will state and you can get rid of someone that day for any reason under the sky (that isn't 'discriminatory'). Firing doesn't seem hard but I think your p
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Yes, not exactly the same but more so on the note of our societal chase for those reality bucks/YouTube views and their sometimes deadly consequences.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
When it happened: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40438207 Now in jail: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Not just programming. There are many industries that feed on the young and unencumbered. I've seen it in visual effects, architecture, etc.
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Reminded me of this article that just came out: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/t-magazine/art/artist-day...
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by JBlue42 9y ago
See my prior post but don't sell short the usefulness of that business degree. If there are aspects of it that you like, talk with your professors and see how you might best choose how to direct your course of study and electives. I ha
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by JBlue42 9y ago
You're 18 (I'm assuming based on first year at uni) and have no idea what you really want. Experiment a lot and see what works. Have you ever actually worked for someone for money? Work hard at your studies, take a part-time gig i
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by JBlue42 9y ago
Seems similar to the one who shot and killed her boyfriend (husband?) in front of their kid for a YouTube prank.

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