Not sure where to post it so I'm just going to post in here, but I hardly see anything going on in this platform. Maybe a few new posts every day. Also I would like to make my own posts, but no matter how many comments I make or shares I do I can't seem to gain a dot. Any advice would be appreciated!
Welcome! Things have slowed down here as the holidays have approached. It's a good crowd, and activity waxes and wanes. I tend to log in, click on "Chatter" and see what people are talking about. Then click on the name of the post they are commenting on, and work "backwards" from there. Comments > Post > Article, rather than the other way around. One thing to note: The people on Hubski are pretty tight. Many of us have met in person. So we tend to take every post/comment with about a pound of salt. When someone says, "Listen fucker, you are wrong because..." it isn't someone being an Internet Asshole... it's a friend poking another friend in a harsh tone to emphasize a point... not to belittle or anger the other person. You literally haven't arrived on Hubski until Kleinbl00 has thoroughly torn you a new hole for making a comment that is not based on good data or rational thinking. His first tear-down is a badge of honor we all wear proudly. :-) Welcome!
It can get slow sometimes... but I assure you, there's likely more content already here than you could read/experience in years. Check out badged content (click on "badges" up above) or if you'll forgive a little self-promotion, check out the TNG Podcast https://hubski.com/posts/TNGPODCAST?time=all if I remember correctly, the ability to post comes after some thoughtful interaction on the site. It's one of the many anti-spam tactics. And welcome! I hope you like it.
I'm no longer a college student, I'm now unemployed graduate!
Thanks! Public health. It's not a Master's degree which is the big problem. Every public health job wants a Master's or equivalent experience which is two to four years depending on who would be employing me. I would love to not get my Master's for a bit but that's looking less and less likely unfortunately.
Maybe you could intern somewhere that would pay for you to further your education to be employed there. Don't rush it, the real world isn't all that it's cracked up to be. If I wasn't in so much student debt already, I'd go back in a heart beat. Never stop learning!
Enjoy the holidays and the peacefulnessstay offline as much as possible, maybe even go sit on top of a mountain and watch a sunrise if I get the time
Tin-Can is near done. My morning started with slacking with the dev in Slovenia. The best app dev team I know is in Slovenia. I’m headed to SF tomorrow, then red eye to Miami, then home Friday night. No hotel room needed. :/ I’m really looking forward to Christmas. Grandma died this year, and the family basically decided to cancel extended family Christmas. I went rogue and invited everyone over our house on the 26th. Based on evite, most everyone is coming. I think we initiated a very big change at Forever Labs today. It should be good. Still trying to grasp it. I legit happened upon an article today that regards blockchain enthusiast’s interest in life extension on Twitter in which I have some quotes: https://breakermag.com/the-bitcoiners-who-want-to-defeat-death/
Last Saturday I told the neighbor kid he couldn't play with my daughter because it was pouring down rain and she had a cold. He retaliated by cutting up my Christmas lights with a pair of scissors. I discovered it sunday and brought a snippet over; he opened the door, his eyes got big and he said "I don't know what happened!" his grandmother asserted he couldn't have done it because he'd been with her all day but when I mentioned he'd been in my yard Saturday she yelled at him. And most likely commenced beating him. I asked the police about it. I explained that I don't want to escalate things with my neighbors but I'm pretty sure they've got guns over there and besides, the kid's eleven now and puberty is around the corner. They mentioned there was really nothing they could do until he turned fourteen. I asked a social worker friend who fosters. She said there wasn't anything that could be done except to cut off all contact between my daughter and the kid, which might cause him to lash out, but since he's basically a write-off anyway and destined for a life of crime and addiction the best thing was to not get any on me. Then she mentioned that her adoptive son (whom my kid plays with) needed to say goodbye to his mommy because a drunk driver plowed through her encampment at 3am and put her in a coma but he didn't know her well anyway because she's a homeless paranoid schizophrenic with PTSD and a meth problem. My kid probably won't see that much of him anymore because he's having a hard time with executive function due to some in-utero methamphetamine exposure so the last time he threw a rock in class and broke a window they decided maybe they didn't really want him around school in the afternoon anymore. I'm resentful of the fact that the last project I will ever work on as an audio post guy has a track labeled "bitchface" because the lead actress sucked so hard and another labeled "stam" because the lead actress sucked so hard she called him "Stan" and "Sam" and sometimes "Stam." I'm good at this shit, goddamn it, but the people who I got work from were either so smart they got the fuck out of the industry or so stupid they clung on for dear life making garbage so awful and cheap that they long for the days of Stam. The proliferation of content has not led to a proliferation of jobs it's led to a dilution of funding whereby every fucktard with two semesters at Full Sail is now cutting bullshit Netflix shows in Premiere CC and they all suck. Fuckin' Altria is paying $10b for a third of Juul and Fuckin' Pinterest thinks it's IPOing at $12b. The guys who sell cigarettes for a living think that Juul is worth more money than Ford. Meanwhile a google search of "stupid things Softbank has bought" gets you this link. But there are cookies in the kitchen. There's a Porsche in the garage. The neighbor-kid has not yet shot, raped or overdosed my daughter. And if the cameras provide enough evidence for his grandma to beat the shit out of him should he venture onto my property again, it's possible we'll keep the peace long enough for the housing market to capitulate back down to sensible levels. And nobody here has to say goodbye to anybody in a hospital because some dumb shit drives through a homeless camp in the middle of the night.
Year's coming to a close for me - last day at the office today, sone wrap up from home tomorrow and our bigass company Christmas party on Friday. Everyone can bring along their +1's, there's a hotel booked for all of us and we're supposedly dining on a boat with plenty of booze. I asked my RPS to save the date a long time ago. She also went along to our little family weekend last week - my parents are married for 30 years so we spent the weekend on a cold and windy island in December, because why not. It was great, we played some board games and the dogs got to go to the beach for the first time. Gf and I had one of those precious talk-until-3AM-nights-talking-about-what matters that life sometimes gifts me with. Through no fault of her own, it was the first time sister got to meet my girlfriend. They went along well with each other and I feel all the happier because of it. I for one am looking forward to Christmas. For both of us it's our first Christmas with someone, so it feels extra special. And I can rent an electric car through work for cheapsies so it's gonna be like a mini electric roadtrip those Christmas days.
Checkin in. Work meeting wherein people voted for "bacon" as the snack... behold 12 lbs of bacon cooked to order for my team meeting: Bagels thrown in for good measure... I mean.. just bacon felt... weird. Otherwise, life is fine. Family is healthy (thank you healthcare system for the tens of thousands of dollars in bills and premiums this year). Work is stressful in lots of good ways. Crypto markets are in the bloody toilet - and I'll admit to letting that get me down a bit. I've got a date with a singer/songwriter that I'm hoping to collaborate with on a project. I'll post that here when it's done. I love you all.
First! So... ummm... hi, 'ski. I'm just gonna go with a shitpost today. Not much to say, other than I am going to Victoria, BC this weekend for a Seattle Seawolves rugby game. Gonna take the Victoria Clipper, and sit in the new fancy upstairs section! Whee! Anyway. Bye Hubs!
One more day at the office to go - I took a stroll into campus for lunch this week and snapped this https://imgur.com/a/EEjOQdl Outside the old clocktower where all the Finances/Student Records work takes place. Built in the late 1800s. Looks super nice in spring with the blossoms, or winter all covered in snow. Over the years I see a lot of people discussing having Christmases by themselves which is kind of saddening. I don't think I've ever had a Christmas away from my rather large and boisterous family - this one will be the first my partner attends as she was in Englad last Christmas. I hope we don't overwhelm her..